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The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
~ Cotton Mather
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books -- but it is terrible when one has to live it. It is almost impossible to sleep for more than twelve hours a day, and the remaining twelve hours have to be filled in somehow.
~ Jean Anouilh
I think the Moslems have gone beyond the ethic and traditions of the Koran. But in spite of that, the Koran is still a great book, one that's read by Moslems and non-Moslems alike.
~ Jean Genet
Lydia knows a little about las colonias of Tijuana because she's read the books, because Luis Alberto Urrea is one of her favorite writers, and he's written about the
~ Jeanine Cummins
and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.
~ Alfred Jarry
With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts.
~ Alice Kaplan
She would live now, not read.
~ Alice Munro
It's encrypted," Bex hissed in frustration. "We risked our bloody necks and we can't even read it. I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
~ Ally Carter
Occasionally, patriarchal blessings will warn of certain weaknesses we have that might threaten our salvation. Thus, one reason to regularly read your blessing is so that you can avoid these dangers or pitfalls.
~ Alonzo L. Gaskill
They went on to support their thesis by citing authors with esoteric names, whose works they themselves had not read, a fact which enabled them to speak about them penetratingly.
~ Amelie Nothomb
L'avez-vous rencontré ? - Non, j'ai fait beaucoup mieux : je l'ai lu.
~ Amelie Nothomb
The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.
~ Rasika Dugal
Passion isn't something you work on. It's more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.
~ Xabi Alonso
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
~ Jackie Collins
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
~ Nick Davies
There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.
~ Pete Hamill
You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it.
~ Corey Hawkins
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.
~ Mary Antin
Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.
~ Shannyn Sossamon
An intense, peculiar exhalation of light and colour emanates from these fantasies of mine. I start with surprise as I note one good thing after another, and tell myself that this is the best thing I have ever read. My head swims with a sense of satisfaction; delight inflates me; I grow grandiose.
~ Knut Hamsun
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
~ Joanna Trollope
A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
~ young brigham ii
I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.
~ zamyatin yevgeny iii