Quotes of: History-books Keyword

She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

From within the mind we look out and envision, contemplating and interpreting each new challenge and the action we will take.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

True confidence is born of experiencing your hard work and seeing your determination pay off.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Don’t compromise your focus by comparing what you are trying to learn to what you already know. Focus in the moment, on what you are trying to learn now.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing; My fifth — all woman!

Nat Goodwin's Book

Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn’t make you a failure—giving up does.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Life’s best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.

No Regrets, Coyote

I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without judgement and without pity.

Nor Iron Bars a Cage

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

No More Dead Dogs

Concerning the popularity of vampire books: I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality. Live your heart’s song, not its drippings.

Numenon

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is fo...

The Name of the Rose

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

The New York Trilogy

He swatted at her with his book. "Shut up and read, will you?" He lay back down and closed his eyes. Emma glanced over to check that he was smiling, and smiled too.

One Day

I wrote an edible cookbook. The pages are made out of tortillas. It’s also the Book of Love. (Batteries and hot sauce sold separately.)

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.