The best Quotes by Margaret Walker

The best Quotes by Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.
Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2
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"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
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If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.
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I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
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If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.
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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
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Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
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Never memorize what you can look up in books.
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Jeod: "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."
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I'm sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
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If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.
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No amount of money ever bought a second of time.
Iron Man in The Avengers - Endgame
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Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
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Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
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Who needs wealth when you can make a woman laugh?
Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 5 Episode 3
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.
Mister Spock in Star Trek - Season 2 Episode 1
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Don Lucchesi in The Godfather - Teil 3
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Money is the McMansion in Sarasota, that starts falling apart after ten years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.
Francis Underwood in House of Cards - Season 1 Episode 2
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Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?
Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
To build a friendship takes so much time and so many years. To ruin it, just seconds.
The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.
Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only the lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.
A heart makes a good home for the friend.
...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
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I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.
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If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.
Thumper in Bambi
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Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
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Your kindness warms my heart more than the brightest flame ever could.
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

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