Big Books of Spring

Jacqueline > Jacqueline's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 30
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130427 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135829 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93752 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44346 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
    43707 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
    34053 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
    40779 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life
    3351 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88187 likes

    • like
  • #11
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
    26981 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
    21117 likes

    • like
  • #13
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
    13395 likes

    • like
  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    16987 likes

    • like
  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: god, religion
    4406 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
    12142 likes

    • like
  • #17
    “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-roald-dahl, paraphrase-of-horace, play, relaxation
    1484 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    tags: books, humor, television
    6843 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Cecelia Ahern
    “...God leads you to it and takes you through it.”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
    384 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Cecelia Ahern
    “Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it.

    Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for?

    Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s.

    Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it.”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie
    tags: love, rosie
    192 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
    5876 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
    34483 likes

    • like
  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37066 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    1230 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Jennifer Storm
    “In recovery, it's all about putting one foot in front of the other. As a writer, it's all about putting one word next to another on a page. ”
    ― Jennifer Storm
    11 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    3921 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    152105 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
    20760 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
    6594 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
    5249 likes

    • like
  • #31
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    25538 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Jacqueline’s Quotes

ataraxy
be-yourself
confidence
fitting-in
individuality
misattributed-dr-seuss
those-who-matter
attributed-no-source
books
simile
soul
friends
friendship
misattributed-albert-camus
misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln
misattributed-to-mark-twain
remaining-silent
wisdom
fate
life
misattributed-john-lennon
planning
plans
paraphrased
strength
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
adventure
carpe-diem
enjoy-life
experience
inspirational
live-in-the-moment
purpose-of-life
misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
reading
body-soul
children-s-books
god
religion
believe
glittering-eyes
hidden
magic
secrets
unlikely-places
watch
world
misattributed-roald-dahl
paraphrase-of-horace
play
relaxation
humor
television
love
rosie
do-wrong
trust
wrong
writing
journey
travel