Quotes and Sayings About Book
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
All I have learned, I learned from books.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
-- Abraham Pais -
One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
-- Abraham Pais -
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
-- Abraham Verghese -
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
-- Abraham Verghese -
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds? So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.
-- Abu Umamah al Bahili -
Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.
-- Achim Steiner -
Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
-- Ada Leverson -
Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
-- Adam Brody -
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
-- Adam Carolla -
As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.
-- Adam Carolla -
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
-- Adam Clymer -
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
-- Adam Clymer -
Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
-- Adam Dunn -
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.
-- Adam Foulds -
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box. Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake. Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.
-- Adam Garfinkle -
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.
-- Adam Grant
