“High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!”
― Rita Mae Brown, quote from Six of One
“asked Thomas; it’s just him and me and has been for a very long time. We tell each other we are”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“Companies maintain lively web sites to put their view across but entrepreneur-owners have not stepped forward to do the same to help organize the mass of little owners and to provide a way for them to share views. Sure, there are bloggers writing about anything and everything, but there don’t seem to be shareholder-controlled sites to exchange thoughts and ideas about a company that participants own in common.”
― Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, quote from The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
“The world doesn't exist because you gave it permission.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from Pawn
“I could see exactly what must have happened. Insert a liberal dose of mixed spirits in a normally abstemious man, and he becomes a force. He does not stand around, twiddling his fingers and stammering. He acts. I”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Works of P. G. Wodehouse
“asked if you had a hand in this,’ she began a moment later. ‘But I think there was no need. It’s obvious you had a hand in it. It’s obvious you are his friend. And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it’s obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn’t do.’ ‘What could I have done?”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, quote from The Time of Contempt
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
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