It’s a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.
– Jen Selinsky
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- Books allow one to jump into another person’s imagination while also exploring their own! – Jen Selinsky
- If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you’ll find I’ve completely gone insane! – Jen Selinsky
- All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn’t like sad. – Benjamin Alire Senz
- It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m the one bringing sanity to the equation – MA George
- That really was NOT fun, though. Well, the hitting-her-with-a-stick part, that was fun. But crashing into a concrete bear? NOT fun. – Rick Riordan
- Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don’t you think? I mean if you enjoy it. – Peter Heller
- Making a wish is fun to do.Dreaming it out is much fun too.Work, and your wish just might come true. – Richelle E Goodrich
- If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don’t know why you’re sad. Tears start flowing from your eyes. – Ann Marie Aguilar
- Death is beautiful, part of life… No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad. – Harris Wittels
- Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak
- You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose! – Cupideros
- We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people. – Mark Driscoll
- Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else’s creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle! – BA Gabrielle
- State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
- People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives. – Criss Jami
- Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like. – George F Will
- What’s fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa. – Gretchen Rubin
- It’s not about making the right choice. It’s about making a choice and making it right. – JR Rim
- We all are manufacturers in a way – making good, making trouble or making excuses. – H V Adolt
- The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad state of disrepair, it was beautiful. – Brian Selznick
- To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility. – Israelmore Ayivor
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- What’s happened has happened. You can’t change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future. – Jen Calonita
- The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss. – Jen Pollock Michel
- there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. – Nicole Krauss
- That’s something I’ve always fond odd, people smile when they’re sad. There’s no such thing as a sad smile. – Estelle Maskame
- It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it’s fun and games you can’t see anymore. – James Hetfield
- Stop thinking that racism is fun until a racist person get under your skin, that’s when you’ll know racism is not fun. – Werley Nortreus
- Life never be serious with you it always make fun of you so learn to have fun. – Siddhant R Shinde
- Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun. – Wynne Stevens
- Marriage should be about fun. It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. – Jane Green
- The more you focus on fun, the more fun you have. – AD Posey
- It’s hard to keep a straight face when I just wanna smile- Fun. – Fun
- To a man, a woman is fun to be with -¦ until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with -¦ until he loses his job. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent. – George Saunders