#read

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone. ↗

— Samuel West

#bus #day #good #i #left

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#benefits #continue #honor #improve #long

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ↗

— George Orwell

#beds #behalf #men #night #only

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. ↗

— George Orwell

#beds #harm #men #night #our

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

#belong #class #dreadful #feared #further

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ↗

— George Orwell

#constantly #good #good prose #like #nothing

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#criticizing #getting #i #illness #like

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#base #charts #dance #dance music #great

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. ↗

— William Osler

#books #buy #contents #easier #much

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake. ↗

— Sarah West

#challenge #command #definitely #fully #highlight