#reading

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#christian #east #establishing #ethical #ethics

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

#inherently #like #makes #mathematics #me

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#day #i #i quit #never #playboy

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space. ↗

— Henry Reed

#beyond #dimension #humans #legacy #readings

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#everywhere #finds #home #homes #immigrants

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. ↗

— Anne Rice

#about #books #contribution #future #king

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that. ↗

— Mike Ross

#bill #committee #democrat #democrats #envisioned

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#coastline #country #door #ethiopia #few

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#flowers #i #like #listening #music

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#i #i can #i do #know #lot