Quotes Tagged "reading"

I never used to resort to quotations very much but in these past months I have read like a convict—yes, a convict, that’s the word. I have also realized that being good with quotations means avoiding having to think for oneself.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Loyalty is usually a vice when it comes to things such as beliefs.

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!

Self-help books help you to become a better version of your present self.

Reading, literacy and learning are fundamentally important to establishing strong and stable democracies. Visit your local public library and expand your mind.

Hard life... write more! Life sucks... write more! No matter what don't stop. Keep to the grind and don't let up. Somewhere out there is your ramp to success. Forget about the exits or the shortcuts along the way. Stay on the highway and when the ramp comes... take it and go!

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.

A relationship is very likely to initially make us pretend we are someone we are not; a friendship, to eventually make us pretend we are still someone we used to be.

It's marvelous to know another person's entire literary canon by heart. It's like knowing their secret personal language.

We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.

I think men that read books are the most attractive kind.

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

Reading is refreshing rest for the mind.