Read Quotes - page 95

There towers to the sky a monument of four million pairs of human fetters taken from the arms of slaves, and I read on its little headstone this, 'Sacred to the memory of Human Slavery'. For forty years of its infamous life the Democratic Party taught that it was divine; God's institution. They defended it, they stood around it, they followed it to its grave as a mourner. But here it lies, dead by the hand of Abraham Lincoln; dead by the power of the Republican Party, dead by the justice of Almighty God. Don't camp there, young man. That is no place in which to put your young life. Come out, and come over into this camp of liberty, of order, of law, of justice, of freedom, of all that is glorious under these night stars. (James A. Garfield)
I heard the comments of the crowd in front of the painting of 'Burial at Ornans', I had the courage to read the nonsense that was printed regarding this picture and I wrote this article.. [in Le Messager de l'Assemblée]. View quote
Gustave Courbet
He tried to recall what he had read about the disease. Figures floated across his memory, and he recalled that some thirty or so great plagues known to history had accounted for nearly a hundred million deaths. But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one actually sees him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination. View quote
Albert Camus
When a new book is published, read an old one. View quote
Samuel Rogers
It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you get the page you're readin' done, An' turn another-likely not so good; But what you're after is to turn 'em all. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
She read a little of it. I give her review verbatim:-"Oh, your book? It's all about those how-wid Wajahs. I didn't understand it." View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I once read that there's nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that's lasted too long. I've also heard that God is eternal. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. View quote
Bill Watterson
The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens. I can't explain why the strip caught on the way it did, and I don't think I could ever duplicate it. A lot of things have to go right all at once. (Bill Watterson)
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions. View quote
Robert Fulghum
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. View quote
Isaac Asimov
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. View quote
Isaac Asimov
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Go vegan because you want to change something in yourself or in the world and then do more. Eating a certain way isn't enough; we have to do something about the world we live in. Anyone who wants to be vegan or cares about the earth or the life on earth should read a book called Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization. View quote
Andy Hurley
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. View quote
Agatha Christie
I think perhaps it wasn't a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it's nice and hot by the fire, there's something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep. View quote
Agatha Christie
Our life is ordinary, I read in a crumpled paper abandoned on a bench. Our life is ordinary, the philosophers told me. (Adam Zagajewski)
They say my verse is sad: no wonder. Its narrow measure spans Rue for eternity, and sorrow Not mine, but man's. This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not. View quote
A. E. Housman
Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. View quote
A. E. Housman
"Arrh! Stars and Mud, ever conjugate, a Paradox to consider, - one...for the Astronomer-Royal, perhaps?" His current scheme being, to assail Maskelyne's Sanity, by now and then posing to him Questions that will not bear too much cogitating upon, - most lately, Über Bernouillis Brachistochronsprobleme, 1702 by Baron von Boppdörfer ("Mind like a Spanish Blade. Read it at the Risk of your Self-Esteem.") having almost done the Trick. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
People who are emotionally adapt - who know and manage their feelings well, and who read and deal effectively with other people's feelings - are at an advantage in any domain in life, whether in romance and intimate relationships or picking up the unspoken rules that govern success in organizational politics. View quote
Daniel Goleman