"To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily."

-- Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#Book Quotes #Wells Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
“Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.”
“Marriage is a gift from God to us; the quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.”
“The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.”
“If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.”
“He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.”
“There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.”
“I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not. I've heard arguments from both sides, but I do believe in protecting our environment, but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency ...”

Source : "Braley, Ernst tear into each other" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. August 28, 2014.

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