Quotes of: Worth-reading Keyword

Sometimes you just don't know what's going to happen, exactly. And that's because sometimes you just don't have control over circumstances in your life. The amazing thing is that— it is during these times that we free-fall through the sky! All we h...

C. JoyBell C.

The American writer and dilettante Logan Pearsall Smith once said: 'Some people think that life is the thing; but I prefer reading.' When I first came across this, I thought it witty; now I find it—as I do many aphorisms—a slick untruth. Life and...

A Life with Books

The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great figures in history, narratives that stir our spirit,...

The Quotable Book Lover

You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a point which is that a used book, unlike a used car, hasn't lost any of its initial value. A good story rolls of the lot into the hands o...

What is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes

Tyler Durden: Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a b...

Fight Club

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Irish

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Conspiracies

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

In the Cities of Coin and Spice

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Eeeee Eee Eeee

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Eleanor & Park

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

The Exploration of Space

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.

Froi of the Exiles

Sometimes it is worth taking a risk, no matter what the consequences.

The Gemini Effect: Deception: Book Three

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Gustave Flaubert

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

Richard Eyre

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.

The Invaders

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

The Indigo Spell

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Meditations

Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.

L.A. Candy