"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."

-- Leon Uris

#Book Quotes #Battle Quotes #Nine Quotes

“The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.”
“I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.”
“As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.”
“When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.”
“Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.”
“Never allow the cross to lose itâ€™s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.”
“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”
“You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.”

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