We Read Quotes

275 We Read quotes by 226 unique authors

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke… — Unknown Author
How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women. — Toni Morrison
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we… — Lewis Thomas
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel.… — Peter Ackroyd
In the first section of the Doctrine and Covenants we read that 'the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according to his work,… — Mark E. Petersen
The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a… — William Jennings Bryan
I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk so openly about… — Paulo Coelho
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! — Robert Browning
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the… — Ezra Taft Benson
When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of… — Howard W. Hunter
We read to find life, in all its possibilities. — Claire Messud
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we… — Banksy
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word… — George Muller
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We read of no… — William Gurnall
We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention… — Shigeru Miyamoto
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read… — Dermot Healy
We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is… — Charlie Munger
There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways… — John Fund
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. — Samuel McChord Crothers
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of… — Marita Golden
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover… — Victor Cousin
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense… — John Dufresne

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