Quotes with well-read

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 1813.

  • St. Thomas Aquinas Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Bill Dedman Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • André Gide What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Barry Eisler What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Roland Barthes What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Bob Kane What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Nicholas Boileau What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Louis Dudek What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
    Louis Dudek
     
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  • James T. Mccay What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
    James T. Mccay
    American author
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  • Samuel Johnson What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John McEnroe What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
    John McEnroe
     
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  • Paul Auster What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
    Source: The Book of Illusions (2009) 32
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
    Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales
    Member of the British royal family, first wife of Prince Charles (1961 - 1997)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Wallace Stevens What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brit Hume What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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