Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wonderful Book Covers quotations
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?
Don't judge a book by its cover
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".
We should never judge a day by its weather.
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.
Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.
A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.
I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life.
My time has always had a tendency to slip away from me and do as it pleases. My life follows it, like a puppy after an untrained bird dog. Come night, my life shows up, usually covered with mud and full of stickers, exhausted but grinning happily. My time never returns.
All that glitters is not gold.
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Open a book this minute and start reading.
Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.
Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
Impute People DO judge a book by its cover.
We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities.
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.
We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised;
we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.
Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.
George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover.
Like people, it is the inside that counts.
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.
I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.
I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!