Chapters Quotes - Page 3

• Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Book, Life Is Like, Ends

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

  Colleen Hoover

  Life, Ideas, Needs

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Second Chance, Community

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• If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Writing, Interesting

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• It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.

  John Grant

  Depressing, Past, Russia

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• There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.

  Mavis Gallant

  Book, Reading, Waiting

  Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.66, Everyman's Library

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• This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Book, Practice, Numbers

  William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, Lulu.com

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• In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

  Poppy Z. Brite

  America, Netherlands, Firsts

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• Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

  David Simon

  Flower, Loss, Yield

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• On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new tax plan will rate a footnote in the history books and this may have a whole chapter in itself.

  Richard E. Berendzen

  Book, August, Years

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• Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Writing, Murder

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• I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Country, Opportunity, Honor

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• Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Glasses, Age

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• Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

  Marianne Williamson

  Book, Levels, Life Is

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• I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to do. You'll be given books and told chapters to assign the children. Veteran teachers will show you the correct way to fill out forms and have your classes line up.And here's some more good news. If you do all of these things badly, they let you keep doing it. You can go home at three o'clock every day. You get about three months off a year. Teaching is a great gig.However, if you care about what you're doing, it's one of the toughest jobs around.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in this next chapter. Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world.

  Zack Snyder

  Hero, Waiting, World

  "COMIC-CON 2013: Batman and Superman Man of Steel 2 Logo Revealed! Team-Up Officially Announced!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 20, 2013.

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• The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  Aaron Huey

  Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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• A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

  David Mumford

  Children, Hate, School

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• I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Past, Perspective, Historical

  John Lewis Gaddis (2004). “The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and justify our actions. Having seen this in ourselves, let's experiment with doing deeds without any words of explanation whatever. We note our sense of fear that people will misunderstand why we have done what we have done. We seek to allow God to be our justifier.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Done, Deeds

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Schedules

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• The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

  Jim Harrison

  Fun, War, Literature

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

  Xavier Becerra

  Hippie, Unfinished Work, Years

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• Each little chapter has its place.

  Lillie Langtry

  Littles

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• It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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