50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Citatsamlingar

Efter Dag Hammarskjölds död i september 1961 fann man i hans bostad i New York ett manuskript med titeln Vägmärken. I ett närslutet brev kallade han anteckningarna för ”en sorts ´vitbok´ rörande mina förhandlingar med mig själv – och Gud”. Dag Hammarskjölds bok är idag en klassiker. Efter utgivningen 1963 har Vägmärken översatts till en mängd språk – och nya läsare finner ständigt vägen till en av den svenska litteraturens mest säregna tänkare. "Leende, öppen, omu...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-02 89,00 kr

Här ryms inte mindre än bortåt sex tusen visdomsord från närapå alla världens hörn, allvarliga och skämtsamma om varandra. Till favoriterna hör La Rochefoucauld ”Alla klagar på sitt dåliga minne men ingen på sitt dåliga förstånd”, Oscar Wilde ”När folk håller med mig får jag alltid en känsla av att jag måste ha fel, Helen Rowland ”När en man gör en kvinna till sin hustru är det den största komplimang han kan ge henne – och i regel den sista”. Svenska ordstäv...

Releasedatum: 2013-09-11 79,00 kr

Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, and even a novel, while his journalism, speeches and broadcasts run to millions of words. From 1940 he inspired and united the British people and guided their war effort. Behind the public figure, however, was a man of vast humanity and enormous wit. His most famous speeches and sayings have passed into history but many of his aphorisms, puns and jokes are less well-known. Thi...

Releasedatum: 2011-06-09 45,00 kr

If you are an INFP, this book is an opportunity for you to learn from some of the most famous and successful people who share your personality type. Indulge yourself in this collection of over 200 fun, inspiring, and thought-provoking quotes from famous INFPs who share the same strengths and weaknesses as you do. Inside you'll find insights into relationships, creativity, work, happiness and money. The quotes are broken into seven categories: -Famous INFPs on Happiness and The Meaning of Life -F...

Releasedatum: 2014-01-26 35,00 kr

Do you sometimes get stuck for the right expression? The situation is not only embarrassing but also undermines one`s confidence! This book is designed to enhance written and spoken English of readers. Besides, the book will be of immense help to almost everyone engaged in the pursuit of knowledge-- schoolchildren, college students, parents, teachers and professionals. The 2,000 phrases and sentences in this book highlight the rich tapestry of expressions in the English language.  Many word...

Releasedatum: 2003-11-25 39,00 kr

This dictionary assembles 2,234 English proverbs and their French equivalents. Equivalent proverbs are those which express the same concept literally, such as “Love is blind” = “L’amour est aveugle” or with completely different words, such as “Every cloud has a silver lining” = “Dans toute chose il y a un bon côté.” The Dictionary is a very useful reference tool for scholars of the two languages, for researchers working in various associated fields such as linguistics, litera...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-29 59,00 kr

STOIC: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOM - GOLDEN QUOTES bring you a compilation of the very best quotes from the world's most iconic humans takes on "STOIC", including: Heraclitus Epictetus Marcus Aurelius Seneca Maxime Lagacé David Goggins Robert Greene Marcus Aurelius Naval Ravikant Paul Graham And Many More! - GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infec...

Releasedatum: 2020-11-16 39,00 kr

The legendary Japanese man, Morihei Ueshiba is greatly regarded as the founder of the martial art form, aikido. In spite of the physical sufferings in his childhood, self-determined Ueshiba trained himself to enroll in military. Relieved from the duties, Morihei devoted his life to favorite martial arts. He developed and polished the now famous, aikido and looked on as “O Sensei" or "The Grand Teacher” of aikido. This book ‘Morihei Ueshiba Wisdom: Quotes from the Founder of Aikido’ have ...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-26 19,00 kr

This collection of quotes, trivia, and exclusive behind-the-scenes material, focused on everyone’s favorite bad guy—the violent, foul-mouthed, and charismatic psychopath Negan—is an essential guide for all fans of both the AMC television show The Walking Dead and the original comic book series. The Walking Dead is a cultural phenomenon that has infected the minds of zombie-loving fans worldwide. Whether you’re familiar with the hit television show, the comic book series, or both, one of ...

Releasedatum: 2018-07-03 125,00 kr

From the bestselling 1001 series, comes a collection of 1001 quotations from numerous brilliant minds of the Ancient World through to the present day. With quotes from everyone including Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu, Shakespeare and Nietzsche through to Ellen DeGeneres, Nelson Mandela, Mark Zuckerberg and Monty Python's Flying Circus, there is an immense range of ideas, witticisms and musings to ponder. The quotations cover a wide range of topics, including art and literature, culture, philosophy, p...

Releasedatum: 2018-03-12 45,00 kr

One of the most inspirational voices in science today, Neil deGrasse Tyson is somebody with a contagious passion for his field of work. Although not as well known outside America, he is one of the few members of the scientific community who is truly able to effectively communicate complex concepts to the common man. This book brings together some of his most interesting comments on a number of different subjects.

Releasedatum: 2014-12-09 35,00 kr

"If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now." Sir Roger Moore is the personification of the English gentleman, renowned the world over for his prominent roles in some of the all time classics, most notably, of course, as the legendary James Bond. As well as his successful acting career, Moore has done much work for charity and his handsome looks and dry wit have charmed many across the globe. This book brings you his thoughts on a number of topics, from his views...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-07 25,00 kr

This book is an anthology of 145 quotes from Socrates and 51 selected by Blago Kirov facts about Socrates. Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle are the main sources for the historical Socrates. Socrates' father was Sophroniscus, a sculptor, and his mother Phaenarete, a midwife. His wife, Xanthippe, bore for him three sons, Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus. His friend Crito of Alopece criticized him for abandoning his sons when he refused to try to escape before his execution. Some sources say th...

Releasedatum: 2014-06-16 Genre:Uppslagsböcker 15,00 kr

A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.

Releasedatum: 2009-10-31 25,00 kr

Finding true joy in life shouldn’t be a treasure hunt. Enjoy this collection of quotes, based on appreciating life’s pleasures and finding happiness. 365 quotes to make you laugh, smile and cry. “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” ~ Author unknown

Releasedatum: 2013-03-30 9,00 kr

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”- Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton “Call me Ishmael.” -Moby Dick by Herman Melville “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking ...

Releasedatum: 2012-02-19 9,00 kr

LOVE QUOTES ULTIMATE COLLECTION “Love is not blind, it sees more not less.” - Will Moss “Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” - Elizabeth Browning Love, the miraculous emotion that touches us, and makes us feel amazing. Do you want the largest collection of beautiful quotes all about this incredible emotion? A collection that can make you feel the wonderful emotion that is love? A collection divided into 20+ easy to navigate categories, such as ...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-03 9,00 kr

Drawing from diverse personages from Goethe to Churchill to Woody Allen, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said is a witty wise quotation collection that deserves a special place on every humor lover's bookshelf. These unique, funny, and outrageous quotations, previously published in four separate volumes, are now gathered together in a seemingly limitless trove of pithy and often irreverent one-liners, retorts, put-downs, jokes, and last words that cover every conceivable subject and will appe...

Releasedatum: 2004-12-27 199,00 kr

On Travel presents a pyrotechnic display of cracking one-liners, cynical wordplay and comic observation, mining three thousand years of global wit and wisdom: from Pliny to Spinoza and from Albert Einstein to Aunt Augusta. Beyond the mad diversity of opinions and ideas, there is a gradually emerging consensus: that other people are crucial to our understanding of ourselves and that there is more than one right way to be. It also offers occasional practical tips to make the most of your trip, ran...

Releasedatum: 2022-10-10 79,00 kr

Timeless in their wisdom, thought-provoking in their message, surprising in their truth and memorable in their originality, the right words can give direction, inspiration, and sometimes a tangible boost onto the right path. For example, Steve Jobs once read “Stay hungry Stay foolish” on the back cover of The Whole Earth Catalog , and those four words came to guide his life. Created by Kathryn and Ross Petras, connoisseurs of quotes, whose books and calendars have over 56 million copies in p...

Releasedatum: 2021-09-21 25,00 kr

Shunryu Suzuki was the most famous Soto Zen monk of the twentieth century and the very first one who popularized Zen Buddhism from Japan to the western world. ‘San Francisco Zen Center’, the first Buddhist monastery outside Asia was founded by him. This Japanese Soto Zen priest is the author of the spiritual classic ‘Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind’. Here in this book ‘Shunryu Suzuki's Words of Wisdom: Quotes of a Soto Zen Monk’, we bring you the finest collection of his quotes that will...

Releasedatum: 2018-10-12 19,00 kr

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the spiritual leader and founder of TM aka Transcendental Meditation was an Indian born foremost teachers of meditation. He was the first to familiarize TM to the west and rose to fame in the 1960’s as the spiritual mentor of The Beatles. Attributed as HIs Holiness by his devotees, he is often named as ‘giggling guru’ for his frequently laughing nature. Maharishi was born as Mahesh Prasad Varma, somewhere in Madhya Pradesh. Completing his graduation, he became an ard...

Releasedatum: 2018-10-06 19,00 kr

Philosophy is the system that makes you think, do reasoning and activate the brain cells which aids you excel in all areas. When we look back to the core of philosophy, three main nations stand as the basal threads. It all started in Ancient India which was later exported to west. When Indus valley civilization was booming, there bloomed another counterpart in the very valleys of the Yellow river. There flourished the ancient Chinese culture which produced many schools of thoughts like Taoism, Z...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-24 19,00 kr

This is a curated and special collection of picture quotes from William S. Burroughs. Motivational quotes, inspirational quotes, and pure wisdom with an occasional joke or funny quote from William S. Burroughs.

Releasedatum: 2018-01-13 55,00 kr

Respected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history’s greatest metaphorical quotations, meticulously curated for writers, readers, and quotation lovers everywhere. In Metaphors Be with You, Dr. Mardy Grothe has created the definitive reference on English’s finest metaphors, sourced from literature, politics, philosophy, Hollywood, religion, sports, comedy, history, re...

Releasedatum: 2016-12-06 109,00 kr

Vintage, pre-1923, edition of the classic reference work.  As explained in the preface: "The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become "household words." John Bartlett (June 14, 1820 – December 3, 1905) was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death."

Releasedatum: 2015-01-17 9,00 kr

People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. Most people are able to experience humour—i.e., to be amused, to smile or laugh at something funny—and thus are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour induced by humour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person finds something humorous depends on a host of variables, including geogr...

Releasedatum: 2014-12-07 25,00 kr

An aphorism is a statement of truth condensed into few words that express much. “Concise, clever, often paradoxical,” says Webster’s Dictionary. In the ancient world, the first aphorisms were inscriptions in verse, carved into the stone of tombs, statues, temples, and triumphal arches. With the advent of paper, they evolved into brief morsels of insight, often witty or satirical. The Quotable Stoic is a new distillation of wisdom in the classic tradition of Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Epict...

Releasedatum: 2014-11-05 9,00 kr

There is probably no comedian so instantly recognisable, either by voice or appearance, than Billy Connolly. His heavy Glaswegian accent, which might have made him a regional figure, has added to the appeal of this multi-talented performer. For over forty years he has both entertained and scandalised with his wit. He has made records as a singer and comic, has become a familiar face through numerous film and television appearances, and has written extensively. In short, he has become a National ...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-23 45,00 kr

Paul Watson is one of the best known environmental activists in the world today. Very instrumental in the early formation of Greenpeace, he has devoted his life to helping protect the environment and in particular animals of the sea. One cannot fail to respect Watson to the major powers he has stood against in his mission to save the sea life (particularly whales), standing up to the likes of Japan and despite his non-violent protests has even spent time in jail for his devotion to his causes. T...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-23 25,00 kr

Vivienne Westwood is, of course, best known as one of the most renowned names in fashion design. Her works in fashion have revolutionised the industry’s landscape and inspired many new trends. Yet there is much more to Westwood than her extensive work in fashion. She is a symbol of boldness and is well known for her strong and outspoken opinions on a number of subjects. This book brings together some of her most notable quotes on a variety of topics.

Releasedatum: 2014-09-23 25,00 kr

One of the best known atheists ever to have lived, Christopher Hitchens was also renowned as being one of the most articulate debaters of modern times. Until his death in 2011 he was regularly quoted in the media due to his controversial views on religion and politics. A much revered character, Hitchens was always one to stay true to his beliefs. This book brings together some of his finest quotes on a range of topics.

Releasedatum: 2014-09-07 25,00 kr

This little book is aimed at taking humour more seriously in order to recognise that luck is granted to those who have a sense of humour. « No other means except humour will provide effective protection for people against a series of venomous characteristics such as vanity, greed, and striving for power. » (Quadbeck-Seeger). In life there is no better weapon than humour and we would be spared some problems if we didn‘t always take ourselves so seriously. "The greatest and only miss...

Releasedatum: 2013-11-11 9,00 kr

Even among the promethean literary figures of the early eighteenth century, Swift stood like a colossus. Neither the clarity and vigour of his prose nor the sharpness of his wit has been surpassed. More than any other writer in the English language, he made irony and satire respectable and formidable. This selection of sayings reveals Swift as a stern and effective moralist, but also as a kindlier and more humorous observer of the human condition than has sometimes been allowed.

Releasedatum: 1998-01-01 19,00 kr

For 150 years people have looked to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for wisdom, inspiration, and pure fun. Here now is an elegant new collection of the best advice ever given, inspiring words from the world's wisest men and women. In 1855, Massachusetts bookseller John Bartlett self-published a small collection of prose and verse quotations. Since then, his volume has been continuously expanded and published to reflect the ever-changing cultural climate. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations remains the...

Releasedatum: 2009-10-31 129,00 kr

The wit and wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein's character, Lazarus Long. "Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world … [Heinlein] remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction."   - Stephen King "There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein." - Dean Koontz "One of the most influential writers in American Literature."  -...

Releasedatum: 2013-08-30 29,00 kr

A good quote can be the heart of a compelling article. Good quotes can help tell a story and enhance the credibility of a press release, an essay, a presentation or a speech. Words that are crafted well can leave a lasting impact on the world. A great quote or proverb used well in the right context can help convey a message to your audience. Whether you are looking for that perfect quote to round off your presentation, ideas or inspiration for a speech - or just want to post that really clever t...

Releasedatum: 2013-08-19 15,00 kr

QUOTABLE THOREAU -- An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotes from Henry David Thoreau -- author of Walden and 'Civil Disobedience' -- covering a wide variety of subjects from Advice to Zanzibar -- a collection of gems of wit and wisdom from a great American writer, essayist, naturalist, environmentalist, transcendentalist, abolitionist and tax resister. Also includes portraits and nature photos. Thoreau is still one of the most quoted, and influential, of American writers. Why not add some of Thor...

Releasedatum: 2013-07-26 19,00 kr

Lee Kuan Yew played the pivotal role in Singapore’s transition from British Crown Colony to independent developing nation, and on to the economically powerful and diplomatically influential city-state it is today. Throughout  this surprising and at times painful journey, he has proved a charismatic and occasionally controversial leader. Lee is a conviction politician whose speeches are unambiguous, characterful and eminently quotable; this collection of almost 600 short quotations provide...

Releasedatum: 2013-05-30 65,00 kr

Афоризм – это краткое изложение мысли, способное проникать глубоко в сердце. Это фраза, которая наиболее точно и ясно, излагает суть. Авицена Аврелий М Абдуррахман Джами Аддисон Джозеф Апшерони Али Аристотель Байрон Джордж Бальзак О Белинский В.Г. Бонапарт Наполеон Буаст ...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-14 29,00 kr

NEW EXPANDED EDITION! A Dictionary of Love with 22 more subject categories and over 50 more authors than the first edition. A Dictionary of Love consists of over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arrange alphabetically in 213 subject categories by more than 350 authors, philosophers and celebrities including Kahlil Gibran, Bertrand Russell, Erich Fromm, Mother Teresa and Zsa Zsa Gabor. The book is arranged for leisurely and easy reading. There is an index in the back listing au...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-16 39,00 kr

For many book Lovers, there is no more pleasing start to a book than a well-chosen epigraph. These intriguing quotations, sayings, and snippets of songs and poems do more than set the tone for the experience ahead: the epigraph informs us about the author’s sensibility. Are we in the hands of a literalist or a wit? A cynic or a romantic? A writer of great ambition or a miniaturist? The epigraph hints at hidden stories and frequently comes with one of its own. The A rt of the E pigraph collects...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-30 139,00 kr

A fresh selection of sharp, witty zingers gathered from both famous and utterly unknown (but very quotable) sources, by the editor of the popular quote collection The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said . Robert Byrne’s quote books are widely praised as authoritative and accessible sources of sayings for any and all occasions. Byrne’s own wit, diligent research, and creativity combine to form a fresh go-to reference that serves readers better than Google—no Wi-Fi required. The 2,548 Wittie...

Releasedatum: 2012-05-01 209,00 kr

More than 1000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world-class curmudgeons

Releasedatum: 2011-07-06 85,00 kr

What Makes a Leader? “Leadership is the thing that wins battles. I have it but I’ll be damned if I can define it.” –General George S. Patton Leadership is often daunting. Because every situation is different, there is no foolproof, one-size-fits-all approach to learning the ropes. Instead there are a dizzying number of competing ideas and theories which you may find contradictory. The Leader’s Mentor offers a guide through the maze … and also offers pointers as you undertake the lead...

Releasedatum: 2005-10-11 109,00 kr