Quotes - Kendra (kendralou) Showing 1-20 of 20

#1

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”
― Will Rogers

tags: funny, humor, mean

275 likes

#2

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18881 likes

#3

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

6886 likes

#4

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

6212 likes

#5

“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”
― Erica Jong

61 likes

#6

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words

445 likes

#7

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought

806 likes

#8

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29746 likes

#9

“If that's what you believe the Lord is calling you to do, then you can be confident He'll go ahead of you.”
― Cynthia Ruchti, They Almost Always Come Home

tags: kindlehighlight

22 likes

#10

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

13373 likes

#11

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16639 likes

#12

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21522 likes

#13

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

9134 likes

#14

“Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.”
― Carolyn Davidson

tags: reading

7 likes

#15

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

tags: chocolate, strength

2171 likes

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