Read Quotes - page 6

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. (Fredrik Bajer)
I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. View quote
Beverly Cleary
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. View quote
Brad Thor
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. View quote
Billy Graham
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. View quote
Carol Shields
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. View quote
Groucho Marx
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. (Thomas Jefferson)
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. View quote
James Madison
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. View quote
James Thurber
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. View quote
Umberto Eco
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. View quote
Blaise Pascal
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. View quote
George Eliot
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally. View quote
Gary Gygax
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. (Norman Borlaug)
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? View quote
Robert Jordan
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. View quote
Robert Frost
Read my little fable He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson