Quote From a Book

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officerripley

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I stole this idea from another site. Got any quotes from books (or articles, etc., anything you've read) you'd like to share? (No politics, remember.) Here are a couple of mine:

"All those people out there, millions of them, billions, and not one of them knows or cares about him."
~~from Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

"Intelligence and compassion are the heart of what it means to be human. Help others where you can. This is clear enough. But a Creator may well want us to open our eyes, as well. If there is a judgment, God may not be particularly interested in how many hymns we sang or what prayers we memorized. I suspect He may instead look at us and say, “I gave you a brain, and you never used it. I gave you the stars, and you never looked.”
~~from Firebird by Jack McDevitt
 

"Great minds discuss Ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it."
Goethe

"Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to take rank
with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much, because they live
in the gray twilight that knows not
victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

"What you are stands over you and
speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say
to the contrary."
Emerson
 

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"...the people in charge don’t have a great track record for solving problems. Most people are B and C students. There are a few brainiacs...but they’re generally not the ones in charge. Think high school. The jocks ran the show. Same thing now. Get a bunch of people together to solve a problem and it’s not the smartest guy who does the talking. It’s the loudest."
~~from This Plague of Days - Season One by Robert Chazz Chute
 
The opening words of a Tale of Two Cities by Dickens

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ~ A Tale of Two Cities

Also a quote from the end of the book

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” Sydney Carton, as he nobly takes the place of another man at the guillotine.
 
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, and the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable: they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
- "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway"
 
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officerripley said:
"...the people in charge don’t have a great track record for solving problems. Most people are B and C students. There are a few brainiacs...but they’re generally not the ones in charge. Think high school. The jocks ran the show. Same thing now. Get a bunch of people together to solve a problem and it’s not the smartest guy who does the talking. It’s the loudest."
~~from This Plague of Days - Season One by Robert Chazz Chute
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If this isn't the ever-loving blue-eyed truth, I don't know what is.
 
"The black hole is nature’s ultimate assault on the notion of a reasonable, friendly universe. No advantage can be extracted from its existence. It adds nothing to the majesty of the natural world. And if there is evidence anywhere that the cosmos does not give a damn for its children, this is it."
~~from Coming Home by Jack McDevitt
 

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