Quotes from Books

I am here to claim my rightful place in the history of my country.

To be born in the midnight’s hour is to be born into a nation that is born anew.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Bond looked at her. 'You can't be serious,' he said.

We are all just men, but we are not all just men.' – Ian Fleming

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Love is a great beautifier.

It takes two to make a thing go right.

A man who has lived well is not the one who has made the most money, but the one who has lived the most honestly.

The beauty of life lies in the simple moments that we often overlook.

He had been a professor for twenty years, and in all that time he had never once been happy.

The OASIS was the most popular virtual reality software in the world.

You don’t have to be a hero to change the world.

The key to the future is in the past.

If a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them.

There is no room for a man who does not know how to make a home.

The only way to manage the future is to manage the present.

I think we all have a duty to be happy.

There is no such thing as a normal family.

I was a child of the world, not the church.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways.

To me, the greatest achievement is to be yourself.

I am a single man, living in a world full of chaos and disorder.

There is nothing more important than love.

We are all alone, but we can find connection in unexpected places.

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure for those who stand face to face with it.

We are not youth any longer. We are not men. We are too old for that.

The war is not only the battlefield; it is also the minds of those who survive.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I just keep on going. I don't think about the finish line.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins or loses.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22.

In life, you'll meet a lot of people who will tell you that you can't do it. Prove them wrong.

The regime had understood that to be a good revolutionary, you had to be a good liar.

Every revolution is followed by a backlash.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything.

The greatest triumphs of science are the triumphs of human stupidity.

Happiness is never grand.

Community, Identity, Stability.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

The Leopard is a nuanced exploration of the complexities of power and identity.

It is not enough to have the will to change; you must also have the strength to accept the consequences.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

It was not a story to pass on.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

If you had to choose, what would you give up? Your life or your soul?

You can take the girl out of the mountains, but you can’t take the mountains out of the girl.

I had to be braver than I had ever been, because I was not only leaving my family, I was leaving my past.

The thing about a family is that it makes you who you are, but it also can imprison you.

If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.

The most basic way to get someone’s attention is this: Break a pattern.

Stories are the most powerful way to communicate ideas.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

It's like a dream, where you can see the real world, but you can't touch it.

The right stuff is about a man's ability to face danger and accept the consequences.

A hero is someone who is afraid but still goes ahead and does it.

In the end, it all comes down to how much you are willing to risk.

There is no greater love than that which we cannot have.

The heart is a strange thing, it can hold love and hate simultaneously.

We can never understand the heart of another until we understand our own.