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Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people

Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking.

For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Ann Patchett, quote from State of WonderīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, It would have been an incalculable blow to science, all in the name of saving the stupid.” If he had made them his responsibility, either by dissuading them from their ambitions or by bailing them out of their folly, the greatest botanist of our time would have been reduced to a babysitter. He hadn't rescued them! He hadn't been their father and mother! I will tell you, none of that troubled his sleep. They couldn't slander him as a scientist but they said no end of scurrilous things about him as a man. Then they changed their tune entirely, then they said Dr. People were quick to accept these terms until they themselves were weak. They had chosen to get themselves in and they would simply have to figure the means to get themselves out. He would not ferry back the weak and the lame. He remained beautifully consistent: he was to work and he would continue to work. Some took a day, two days, others were gone in a matter of hours, and Dr. Once they were out on the trail they fell like flies. But what I quickly learned was that their tenacity was for going, not for staying.

All of the energy they could have put into their intelligence they had used to develop their tenacity. He didn't waste his time discouraging them because frankly there was no discouragement they could not withstand. He made his policy clear: he was not responsible for their food, their shelter, their safety, or their health. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest dropouts who fancied themselves explorers.