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Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason ... — Luther Burbank

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. — Tryon Edwards

The most influential books are the ones we read when we are most malleable — S.E. Sever

The more we read, the more we learn. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If we read, we shall renew our mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books can do many things, but not everything. We have to live the important things, not read them. — Nina George

Juliet, none of your margin notes! Sophie, dear, don't let her drink coffee while she reads. And off we'd go with new books to read. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. — Bernie Sanders

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them
l — Arthur Schopenhauer

This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die. — Megan Crewe

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it. — Michael Dirda

We learned about life from the books they told us not to read. — Antoinette Ingoldsby

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people. — T. S. Eliot

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes we chose the books we want to read and sometimes they chose us. — Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Dr.

We exist in the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Before there were books, we read each other. — Lisa Cron

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. — Amy Tan

All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read. — George R R Martin

Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties. — Edward Norris Kirk

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. — Blaise Pascal

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late. — Javier Marias

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books. — Peter Stamm

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them. — Judy Blume

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. — Stephen Chbosky

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books. — Lemony Snicket

And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them. — Ernest Hemingway,

The more we read, the better we are informed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works. — Gabrielle Zevin

Our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read — Harvey MacKay

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about. — Daniel Handler

We really are little book whores,aren't we?Not just in the number of books that we read,but the number of guys we are in love with. — Erin Noelle

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers ... — Anna Quindlen

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan. — Colin Greenwood

Just as we are what we eat, we are what we read. — Jason Merkoski

We live to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we read, the more we discover. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives. — Robert Frost

For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly. — Andre Gide

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most. — Neil Patrick Harris

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle

we became the books we read. — Matthew Kelly

The next day we left for Rome. I had decided to make my books last and read only one book a week, but instead I gorged myself on them. — Jo Walton

We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. — Mary Ann Shaffer

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both. — Andy Miller

read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I — Gloria Steinem

We read books to find out who we are. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves. — C.S. Lewis

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books. — Sara Sheridan

Armies aren't very good about carrying libraries with them. I can't imagine why. We'd fight so much less if everyone would juste sit down and read — Cynthia Hand

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. — Albert Einstein

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs. — Gale Gordon

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it? — Franz Kafka

We encounter great souls by reading great books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.' — Darren Shan

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. — Nick Hornby

We can find the answers will seek in books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. — Ruth Reichl

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read. — Thor Heyerdahl

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are. — Justin Cronin

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company. — Michael Dirda

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not. — Robert Henri

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable. — Benjamin Disraeli

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. — Judith Butler

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. — B.R. Myers

No one was born a reader; we learn to build the habit of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for. — Ron Brackin

With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies. — Candice Patton

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom

I often say that we should only be judged on two things: if we're kind, and if we read books. — Paige Shelton

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures. — Steven Herrick

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both. — Jane Yolen

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce. — Rick Riordan

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

Read and Re-Read
Re-reading, we always find a new book. — C.S. Lewis

Our minds are shaped by the books we read.
Our characters, by the people we meet.
Our spirits by the love we give. — Robin Sharma

'Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it started to kind of drift off; so did we. — Gracie Gold

If we fail to read, we miss the treasure of wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bristling with half-baked knowledge from the books we had read. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Regret piles up around us like books we have never read. — Jack Ryan

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.) — Horace

We become the books we read — Matthew Kelly

Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them. — Donald Sassoon

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit. — Benjamin Franklin

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. — Warren Zevon

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
[Inside Out (VH1)] — Warren Zevon

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there. — Maria Dahvana Headley

We are the books we read and the things we love. — Cath Crowley

We ought to read daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? — Italo Calvino

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. — Bill James

Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read. — Eleanor Brown