Quotes of: Roman-empire Keyword

As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my health justify the risks.

The Rosie Project

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Starfighters of Adumar

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.

The Secret

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too

Straight A at Stanford and on to Harvard

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Silvertongue

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

Silvertongue

They say opposites attract. Nobody ever said opposites live happily ever after.

The Mason Dixon Line

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Moloka'i

she would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.

Moloka'i

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

The Miserable Mill

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Midnight Riot

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

Midnight Riot

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

Moon Over Soho

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Music & Silence

Stop looking for the biggest crowd, and start looking for the right crowd.

One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do