Every accepted public quote

“Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.”

“Work is of two kinds: first, altering a position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant...”

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”

“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, t...”

“His dear face, dear to her, dearer still. how could she love his face more for its damage? What kind of person saw someone's suffering and felt her heart crack open even wider, even more swe...”

“There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.”

“She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits...”

““My proud soul! You are the traveler, and this world is a desert. Your impotence and poverty have no limit, and your enemies and needs are endless. Since it is thus, take the name of God and...”

““Everything is difficult until you know how to do it.””

“If a person lacks an imagined goal, or if he forgets it or pretends to forget it, his thoughts will perpetually revolve around his ‘ego’.”

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose it...”

“Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn’t like the weather, you didn’t rush into the storm—you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep f...”

““Our hopes rest with you, Mister Brekker. If you fail, all the world will suffer for it." "Oh, it's worse than that, Van Eck. If I fail, I don't get paid.””

“Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not always be possible, but as it’s the way towards the desired societ...”

“Claiming all power for the purpose of prosperity and justice in society is conflicting to its own cause, rather authorizing individual authority is the just way toward a better society, beca...”

“"You’re hopeless,” he says, and it is so strange and horrible and utterly lovely how the way that he’s looking at me makes me want to both back away and throw myself upon him.”

“Ja, wir könnten jetzt was gegen den Klimawandel tun, aber wenn wir dann in 50 Jahren feststellen würden, dass sich alle Wissenschaftler doch vertan haben und es gar keine Klimaerwärmung gibt...”

“How you carry yourself, what you stand for -- that’s how you gain respect. But, little one, ain’t nobody’s respect worth more than your own.”

“There are things you can’t back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it’s up to you to decide what them things are.”

“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying...”

“I don't even listen to peoples' music… I'm really in-tune with my craft, I listen to me all day long.”

“When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to ‘em. You've got to force it on ‘em.”

“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.”

“Education is a huge priority, and that’s just the best.”

“Illiterate is not only if you didn’t go to school. Illiterate is when the lecturer teach you and you didn’t understand his formula of teaching. That’s also an illiterate”

“Education is not only the ability to read, but also the ability to sequester what’s worth reading and what’s worthless.”

“‎Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In...”

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatowpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft wit...”

“Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)”

“There is a sort of busy worm, That will the fairest book deform. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet, patriot, sage or saint, Nor sparing wit nor learning. Now, if you’d know...”

“I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.”

“when I die, do not waste a minute mouring me. I may go, but I will leave behind all my thousand & one lives — a bookmad girl never dies.”

“The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”

“I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…”

“The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”

“I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.”

“I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

“Freud described three great historical wounds to the primary narcissism of the self-centered human subject, who tries to hold panic at bay by the fantasy of human exceptionalism. First is th...”

“Humans don’t have programming.” “Yes you do. You have too much of it. Conflicting programs, none of it interfacing properly, all calling different functions at the same time—or the same func...”

“Religion deals with the heart (feelings/emotions) while science only focuses on the mind (increasing the intellectual)—However, we need something that can link the heart and the mind at the...”

“I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees. But under me, directly under the weight of my body on the grass, are other creature...”

“I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it c...”

“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna...”

“The Universe is continuously emerging as a fresh creation at every moment. All point to this same, extraordinary insight. The Universe is not static, nor is its continuation assured. Instead...”

“The intimate sense of self-awareness we experience bubbling up at each moment is rooted in the originating activity of the Universe. We are all of us arising together at the invisible center...”

“The greatest material gains and achievements in the world are not good or bad, or right or wrong—they’re just not enough. Like the toys we quit playing with as children, we simply lose inter...”