Thomas à Kempis Quotes
Everywhere I have sought peace and not it, except in a corner with a book.
Thomas à Kempis
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
Gail Sheehy
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
Oliver Tambo
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
Kate DiCamillo
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
Madeleine L'Engle
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Ornette Coleman
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
Ralph Steadman
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
Vicky Hartzler
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Every time I'm in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace.
Duane Allman
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
Ibrahim Babangida
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I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.
Phil Klay
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No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.
H. L. Mencken
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He said that, uh, there is an allegation that you have won elections on a communal card. I said, there are so many media persons here, they are not noting, but now they've started. You see, this is the tragedy of the country. Because when I was talking about development, they were not ready to note even! Now do you understand why I love Cho?
Narendra Modi
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Everywhere I have sought peace and not it, except in a corner with a book.
Thomas à Kempis
