Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
– EM Forster
Related Quotes:
- Wasted laughter. Wasted tears. Wasted love. That’s how badly you felt. And yet, is love ever truly wasted? – Jocelyn Soriano
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. – Anonymous
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- Extreme inequality and financial crisis usually coincide. But the elite who cause it usually come out OK. And they are usually man. – Katrine Maral
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. – Henry David Thoreau
- If you can’t convince you’re normal, convince they’re weird too. – Sarvesh Jain
- Don’t let the time convince you to quit, instead, convince the time to extend with patience. – Nathaniel E Quimada
- A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self. – Charles ens
- If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself. – William Hurrell Mallock
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many. – Megan Whalen Turner
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- When you -˜oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes. – Dada Bhagwan
- Dare to make wishes. The fulfillment of your wishes is possible. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities. – Amit Kalantri
- Our wishes are endless. God gives the best of the wishes. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate. – Shannon A Thompson
- It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. – Robert E Lee
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde
- There are many who wish to be masters over others. Rare indeed is the man who wishes to be master of himself – Radhe Maa
- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
- One becomes bad himself when he sees or calls others bad. When others appear good to him, he will become good himself. – Dada Bhagwan
- World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams. – Richelle E Goodrich
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
- It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
- For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. – Amit Kalantri
- There is no other continent in the world where time is wasted like it is wasted in Africa. – Sunday Adelaja
- If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life. – Sunday Adelaja
- Any time that is spent or wasted is a life wasted or spent. – Sunday Adelaja
- We Have Nothing in Common, So I t would be a wasted life If I’ll ever fall for her. In addition, life is too precious to be wasted in this way. – Sami Abouzid
- Wasting time over wasted time is just more wasted time… – Animesh Singh
- Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old. – SA Tawks
- A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend. – Gabrielle Dubois
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- My mother was an avid reader…She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes… – Adriana Trigiani
- I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. – Lailah Gifty Akita