We Read Quotes
275 We Read quotes by 226 unique authors
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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
— Judith Butler
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.…
— Anne Carson
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We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
— Francis Bacon
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What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so…
— Samuel Johnson
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History is what we read, write and think about the past.
— Michael Howard
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is…
— Thomas Paine
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Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that…
— Mary Cantwell
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on…
— Margaret Heffernan
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So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch…
— Yaya Han
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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise…
— Sadie Jones
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How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential…
— Alexandra Stoddard
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Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing,…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Having a few companies controlling everything we read, see or hear is destroying our culture.
— Lawrence Blume
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings,…
— Claire Tomalin
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We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as…
— Max Heindel
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I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I…
— Michael Cadnum
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;…
— Harold Bloom
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The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to…
— George Muller
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We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
— Penelope Lively
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
— Colin Greenwood
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Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship…
— John Clayton
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We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
— Billy Bragg
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is…
— Joseph Priestley
Who Wrote These We Read Quotes
226 authors contributed a total of 275 We Read Quotes, led by these top contributors: