Quotes about boo
book school boys
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial? John Perry
book dark thinking
I think it’s time to open the books, on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs, it’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there. We ought to do it because it’s right, we ought to do it because the American people, and people around the world quite frankly can handle the truth, and we ought to do it because it’s the law. John Podesta
book gone forgotten
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT! John Piper
book godly levels
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
book men doctors
The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day. Martin Luther
book teaching writing
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.
book light evil
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.
book communication heart
There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.
book writing names
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.
book cities shadow
From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all There was to it. Mark Strand
book views reader
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
book self media
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs — not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom. Mark Steyn
book reading play
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! Mariella Frostrup
book writing thinking
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Marilyn Hacker
book able email
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
book writing ideas
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. Nick Cave
book reading school
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
book fall hands
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
book museums pages
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. Nicholas Lea
book reading matter
The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will. Nancy Banks Smith
book weather water
What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books. Nancy Horan
book silence months
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book. Nana Mouskouri
book dust return
...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Moses
book return doe
...he who goes down to the grave does not return.
book great-book
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. Mortimer Adler
book way great-author
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
book heart car
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
book light proportion
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
book reading order
If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.
book reading sleep
The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is inadequate enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for nightfall. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time
book
It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.
book ideas telephones
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
book reading giving
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.