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book reality diaries
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Alexandra Fuller
book becoming wonderful
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
books both longer people skin
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books. Cory Doctorow
books grew invisible life reflected totally
I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading. Malorie Blackman
books creative kinds poems responses starting stories tapping teenagers teens themselves using
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
book dream forgotten heart human king message pages powerful reading required
Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity. Oprah Winfrey
books god man none quest stars turn
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man Johann Kaspar
book ending life page writes
Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.
books skilled
Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.
responsibility animal opportunity
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence. Albert Schweitzer
responsibility
No one showed leadership, responsibility or accountability for us on the floor.
responsibility
I know I have a responsibility to the fans. Jackie Chan
responsibility world kind
In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't. Dick Van Dyke
responsibility men tenacity
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.
responsibility self discipline
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.
responsibility joy want
There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy. Diane Lane
responsibility consciousness awareness
Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility. Dennis Weaver
responsibility men civilization
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. Dennis Prager
men united
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
men thinking matter
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
men problem great-men
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
men thinking evil
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.
men thinking bears
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
men doe musician
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
men thinking giving
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
men destiny humans
The destiny of man is to be more and more human.
men perfection personality
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.