#ding

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#believe #courage #dangers #darkest #enforce

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#almost #east #fighting #history #i

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#any #conscious #generality #i #i am

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. ↗

— Amos Oz

#every #exception #experienced #i #i can

I recommend the art of slow reading. ↗

— Amos Oz

#i #reading #recommend #slow

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#battle #course #into #men #men and women

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#achieve #acquired #along #amount #effect

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#best #best work #done #droves #ever

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#course #doing #else #keep #might

As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#balance #care #certain #everybody #finding