Top 1200 Power Of Now Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

As we heal, the Earth Mother feels our joy. We are like cells in and on her body. The power of love, the power of healing, the power of compassion, the power of unity, and the power of knowing are our abilities. These are the gifts our Earth Mother seeks to share with us at this time. Through reconnecting to the celebration of life we are able to let go of our grief and fear. When we Walk in Beauty, we acknowledge every aspect of the Self. The Power Places of our planet are those that have seen the joy of our Earth Mother when her children have grown toward wholeness, celebrating life.

Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.

Comic book characters are characters who wear costumes. They're not necessarily different than other characters. The trend I think that you're seeing are comic book movies, at least the ones that Marvel makes, don't have comic book stories. They have dramatic human stories.

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.

I read a book on candles and got curious. I followed it up by taking a course with famous London-based candle maker David Constable. And now these have become the passion of my life.

The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.