Books Quote by Lawrence Sondhaus

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my…

— Stendhal

I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General…

— Kris Kristofferson

“Armies have spent a lot of time and effort training their soldiers not to think of the enemy as human beings. It’s so much…

— Orson Scott Card

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

— Floyd Cooper

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

— Aesop Rock

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer