Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Thomas Hardy Quote: 'No one can read with profit ...'

Related Quotes

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca West
Tags: About Which He
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Alvin Toffler
Tags: Future Who Know
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus
Tags: Nature Out Which
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
Tags: Future Life Will
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
A. A. Milne
Tags: More Which How
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Jim Bishop
Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read.
Standing Bear
Tags: Work Things He
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.


Ken Jennings
Tags: Would Read Knew
As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.
Henry B. Eyring
Tags: Work God Truth
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Tony Robbins
Tags: Change Truth Our
dolomites mountains lake italy
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.


Mark Twain
Tags: You Things Way
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
Jacob Epstein
Tags: Good Best Who
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece
Tags: Work Who Than
peach tree fruit peach nature
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.


Ambrose Bierce
Tags: Which Us Along
sea beach horizon coast landscape
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.


William Morris
Tags: You Love Real
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
Marilynne Robinson
Tags: Real Read Took
tree landscape horizon sky scenery
Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.


Judd Nelson
Tags: Work Just He
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
Tags: God Change Love
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Tags: Work Who Go
dolomites mountains italy
It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.


Yanni
Tags: Music Me Been