Eileen Acosta > Eileen's Quotes

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it was acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,” wrote Du Bois, “it was good Negro government.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“He couldn’t explain to her that he needed the trees and the quiet as a correction for what he saw on the job, how crossing a bridge and having that physical barrier between him and his beat felt like leaving one life and entering another. In”
― Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

“Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them. You’ve got to make sure they’re surrounded by good things.”
― Catriona Ward, Sundial

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela