Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you're already going to like.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say'… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“I can’t go as far as Barthes in killing off the author, but I’m with him on the importance of the reader.… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment!… — John Green Copy Share Image
The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn… — Matt Cullen Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' was published while I was trying to work out how to… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“I look forward all day to evening, and then I put an "engaged" on the door and get into my nice red… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies at all. And actually, one of the genesis points for… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
In reading over the Constitutions of all fifty of our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“From Tudor to eighteenth-century England, there are many instances of women writers with no place or room of their own. The life-story… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
“People don't read anymore. And, when they do, they don't read books like this one, but instead read books that depress them,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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