[As one highway engineer put it,] We were going by the book, but the damned mountain couldn't read. ... Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
THOMAS CARLYLE Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a perso...
WILLIAM SANDERSON So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! We...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
GEORGE GISSING Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
C.S. LEWIS I've read every oyster book there is, and I always look at oysters first on any menu.
JON DIEBOLD For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
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THOMAS CARLYLE Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonder...
FRITZ ZWICKY I couldn't believe they were going to let us read something like that. At first, I didn't want to re...
CANDICE WILLIAMS The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH You are a book being read every moment,
By someone or the other,
Though only in parts! <...
LUKHMAN PAMBRA 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to d...
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS During the past 24 hours, we were moving from one mountain to another and then we were put inside a ...
MAURA TONETTO I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo...
JACKIE COLLINS There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you ca...
THEO JAMES We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least o...
AVI When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. AUDEN A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W.H. AUDEN It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midn...
ROB BELL In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover u...
MARYROSE WOOD I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your m...
MICHAEL PHELPS I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.
JIMMY FALLON We use the road as a highway. How many fatalities are we going to wait for? One is already too many.
JOE LONGO Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it wo...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventua...
TONY CARDENAS I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was signific...
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ELAINE STRITCH At Home at the Carlyle.
ELAINE STRITCH We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is...
EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE We think this is a good title for our first read because it has such a broad-based appeal. And becau...
MATT WILLIS To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second t...
SELWYN CHAMPION There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, the...
JAMES HUDSON TAYLOR The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter.
We therefore deemed it meeter...
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK I was given the book to read first of all and I found it totally inspiring, arousing and very moving...
JULIE WALTERS Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery wa...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The...
PHILIP ROTH Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. B...
GALILEO GALILEI Impossible is impossible. It is the only one-word oxymoron. But you need at least two words for that...
R. N. PRASHER It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people deter...
WALTER LIPPMANN There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new...
ANNA QUINDLEN Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read A...
JOAN DIDION We work on our free throws every day. I don't know, I guess free-throw shooting is boring. But I hav...
LONNIE BARTLEY Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if so...
CORNELIA FUNKE When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book a...
DODIE SMITH If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A ...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes hims...
C.S. LEWIS I have found there are three stages to every great work of God: first it is impossible, then it is d...
J. HUDSON TAYLOR If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book...
BEVERLY CLEARY Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities woul...
TIMOTHY SNYDER When we first got into foster care we said there was no way we were going to adopt. We told all of t...
CRAIG MOORE As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. Wh...
WILLIAM SANDERSON It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, un...
RACHAEL WADE At one point in the fourth quarter, I thought we were going to do it, but then they got some easy ba...
MARTHA ALTMIRE I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.
MANOJ ARORA We found that one over on (Highway) 90, but it's going to take a crane to get it out,
JASON GREEN It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have r...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA First and foremost the highway is needed for safety, but then we started looking at the economic dev...
LARRY GRAHAM People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then i...
J. HUDSON TAYLOR At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onw...
OTTO HAHN Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the har...
DENISE JUNEAU There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and inv...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I feel like I keep reading a new book, but the ending is the same every time. We play great in the f...
LARRY VIEIRA It felt like, 'Oh my gosh, this is going to be impossible.' But then we were able to do it.
JENNA LEHMANN By some miracle of the stars, everything came together and we were able to spend two weeks on the mo...
BRUCE BEEHLER I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as t...
HELEN KELLER The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
BLAISE PASCAL I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
LORRAINE TOUSSAINT We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR. We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT It'd be damned nice if we knew what case we were going to try. We have no idea what the government i...
MICHAEL RAMSEY We didn't hit it as well as we thought we did in the first round. We were kind of shocked, but we we...
KRISTIN WOOD This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read ...
ROBERT CORMIER When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that ...
R.L. STINE We have been battling since the very first day of the project to build this job with the documents t...
WILLIAM HALL The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
HARPER LEE . . .There is nothing to complain of. . .we had a gorgeous day for the climb, almost windless and br...
HOWARD SOMERVELL We read every newspaper article printed on that team. We knew they were a second-half club, so at no...
DAQUAN GIBSON Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't...
DONALD MILLER
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THOMAS CARLYLE The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The heart always sees before than the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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