The best Book Quotes

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

A wise man knows his limitations. And a bold one seizes opportunities.

In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

Nothing, it seemed, lived longer than a perverse idea.

Chavez here, I just dropped two. The excitement of the moment masked the shame of how easy it had been. This was pure murder.

John Clark: "You get a nap. The rest of the team arrives in about half an hour."
Ding: "The rest of what team?"
John Clark: "Everybody who can move and shoot, son."

There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country - that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work.

Popov: "I told them to feel free to rob the bank as a cover for the real mission -"
John Brightling: "Which was?"
Popov: "To be killed."

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Life is but a moment,
but so is death!

RIngs make marriages,
And rings make chains aswell.

Wait too long and warn your enemy.

Every street leads to the end of the world.

He who is born on a mountain isn't scared by it.

The strong one is most powerful by himself.

"Do you intend to destroy this world?"
Trazyn dismissed the phos-glyph panel of research notes, folded his hands and looked at the diminished librarian.
"That's what you want to know?"
"Yes, it would make my mind easier."
"Let me put it this way. I was here when this whole island was forest. When waves lapped on what is now Embassy Row. A time before pollutants hazed the air and monsoon rains came naturally, not via cloud-seeding." He paused. "So when you ask whether I intend to destroy this world, my question to you is: do you truly need the help?"

"Trazyn. Our ships are without atmosphere, unpressurised," Orikan said. "Do orks… breathe?" A pause. "They have lungs." Prepare to repel boarders, Orikan signalled. In case.

I dream with my eyes open.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning... and let anything better come as a surprise.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store
What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!

But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

Welcome Christmas. Bring your cheer,
Cheer to all Whos, far and near.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born.

Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.

And that is best of all, Ceddie, it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived - even ever so little better, dearest.

It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.

To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience.

She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.

When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president.

He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.

Everything was not as picturesque when seen near by, as it looked from a distance. She had found idleness and poverty and ignorance where there should have been comfort and industry.

Dreams were a treacherous ground on which to build.

Pain was as much a part of knighthood as were swords and shields.

I am going to clout you in the ear so hard your head will turn around backwards, and you'll spend the rest of your life looking at where you've been.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword.

Better a beggar than a thief.

All men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.

Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he'd think himself an apple and we'd all be a deal safer, but there you are.

Why give a horse to a man who cannot ride?

A Hedge Knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other Knights serve the Lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every Knight swears to protect the weak, but we keep the vow the best, I think.