Consequences Quote by Jim Mattis

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as…

— Peter R. Mansoor

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

— Alan Bennett

Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

— Nick Hornby

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

— Janusz Korczak

To read without writing is to sleep.

— St. Jerome

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

— Michel Houellebecq

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

— David L. Ulin

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

— Albert Einstein

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more…

— Manuel Puig

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

— Anonymous

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

— Confucius

For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in…

— Jon Lee Anderson