Quotes from My Favourite Books

Books are not just giving us stories. I believe that a good book should also give us an enlightenment. Here are some quotes from some of my favourite books.

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals"
- Sirius Black, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"
- Albus Dumbledore, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
- Percy Jackson, in The Lightning Thief

"Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face. "
- Percy Jackson, in The Lightning Thief

"In a way, it's nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some divine force really is trying to mess up your day."
- Percy Jackson, in The Lightning Thief

"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."
— (The Lightning Thief)

"According to some*, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking."
* Generally those who don't have to do it. Politicians and writers spring to mind
- Bartimaeus, Ptolemy's Gate

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
- The Alchemist

“When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It’s always a positive force.”
- The Alchemist

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
- The Alchemist

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
- The Alchemist

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Quotes, A Collection

I love quotes. Not only wise ones, but also silly ones, strange ones, anything that I find good enough as a quote. Here are some of them:

* In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them (Johann von Neumann)

* There's a fine line between a genius and an idiot: An idiot has wild ideas;A genius does something with them (Randall Owen)

* In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you (Frank Wilczek)

* This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read (Winston Churchill)

* Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places (W.C. Fields)

* We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up (Phyllis Diller)

* Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted (Unknown)

* Everyone has a photographic memory. Most just don't have film (Unknown)

* If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. (Unknown)

* I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on (Beryl Pfizer)

* The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be (Paul Valery)

* You cannot have everything. I mean, where would you put it? (Steven Wright)

* I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like? (Jean Cocteau )