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In the police’s defense, the Riot aren’t wearing their cuts, but I’m disappointed. The Riot watching the store are big names and we know them by face and road name in order to stay safe. I’d think the police would have done their homework, especially with Violet’s life on the line.
— Katie McGarry, Long Way Home
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You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
A single spear-phishing email carrying a slightly altered malware can bypass multi-million dollar enterprise security solutions if an adversary deceives a cyber-hygienically apathetic employee into opening the attachment or clicking a malicious link and thereby compromising the entire network.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
In this cyberwar, industry is on their own and must combat nation states, cyber mercenaries, cyber caliphate and other actors via layered security laced with intelligent machines.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
In an age of dynamic malware obfuscation through operations such as mutating hash, a hyper-evolving threat landscape, and technologically next generation adversaries, offensive campaigns have an overwhelming advantage over defensive strategies.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Few critical infrastructures need to expedite their cyber resiliency as desperately as the health sector, who repeatedly demonstrates lackadaisical cyber hygiene, finagled and Frankensteined networks, virtually unanimous absence of security operations teams and good ol’ boys club bureaucratic board members flexing little more than smoke and mirror, cyber security theatrics as their organizational defense.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery"James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
If developed and implemented meaningfully, Cyber Shield Act could be a catalyst to incite responsible cybersecurity adoption and implementation throughout multiple manufacturing sectors."James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
The two main problems with signature and heuristic based anti-virus is the mutating hash and the fact that you first need a victim in order to obtain the signature."James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Most IoT devices that lack security by design simply pass the security responsibility to the consumer, thus, treating the customers as techno-crash test dummies.James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
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— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Twenty-three D," he said, as a boarding-pass spooled from a different slot. He pulled her passport out and handed it to her, along with her ticket and the boarding pass. "Gate fifty-two, blue concourse. Checking anything?""No.""Passengers who've cleared security may be subject to noninvasive DNA sampling," he said, the words all run together because he was only saying it because it was the law that he had to.She put her passport and ticket away in the special pocket inside her parka. She kept the boarding pass in her hand. She went looking for the blue concourse. She had to go downstairs to find it, and take one of those trains that was like an elevator that ran sideways. Half an hour later she was through security, looking at the seals they'd put on the zippers of her carry-on. They looked like rings of rubbery red candy. She hadn't expected them to do that; she'd thought she could find a pay-station in the departure lounge, link up, and give the club an update. They never sealed her carry-on when she went to Vancouver to stay with her uncle, but that wasn't really international, not since the Agreement.She was riding a rubber sidewalk toward Gate 52 when she saw the blue light flashing, up ahead. Soldiers there, and a little barricade. The soldiers were lining people up as they came off the sidewalk. They wore fatigues and didn't seem much older than the guys at her last school."Shit," she heard the woman in front of her say, a big-haired blond with obvious extensions woven in.
— William Gibson, Idoru
I believes that economy is some kind of running war and the market is the battle field , So security is mandatory.
— Mohamed Saadi
In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect....
— Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions
Your defeat begins of the exact spot, which you had felt secure.
— kambiz shabankareh
Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you--your relationship with God.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
he needed the security of other bodies.
— William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise
To have paranoia, it's nothing bad it's like your antivurs system on your computer, it makes as much secure as possible.
— Deyth Banger
... security is not having things
—  it’s handling things.
The Sovereign Lord is our secured safety refuge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Real cybersecurity means that your Security Operations team is consistently pen testing your network with the same stealth and sophistication as the Russian nation state, the same desperation as China’s 13th Five Year Plan, the same inexhaustible energy of the Cyber Caliphate and the same greed and ambition for monetary payoff as a seasoned cyber-criminal gang.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
While the Texas prison officials remained in the dark about what was going on, they were fortunate that William and Danny had benign motives. Imagine what havoc the two might have caused; it would have been child's play for these guys to develop a scheme for obtaining money or property from unsuspecting victims. The Internet had become their university and playground. Learning how to run scams against individuals or break in to corporate sites would have been a cinch; teenagers and preteens learn these methods every day from the hacker sites and elsewhere on the Web. And as prisoners, Danny and William had all the time in the world.Maybe there's a lesson here: Two convicted murderers, but that didn't mean they were scum, rotten to the core. They were cheaters who hacked their way onto the Internet illegally, but that didn't mean they were willing to victimize innocent people or naively insecure companies.
— Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers
No matter how much we might wish it, there is no way to build a lock that only angels can open and demons cannot. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant of the mathematics or less of an angel than they appear.
— CGP Grey
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So what is it that you are doing - seeking security in your restlessness? The desire to be secure is one of the most curious things. And that security must be recognized by the world; I don't know whether you see this. I write a book and in the book I find my security. But that book must be recognized by the world, otherwise there is no security. So look what I've done - my security lies in the opinion of the world!...So it means I am deceiving myself constantly.
— Krishnamurti
Wouldn’t be very fair to the rest of them, would it?” Harper asked. “They’re not bad people, most of them. All they want is to be safe.”“Isn’t that always a permission slip for ugliness and cruelty? All they want is to be safe, and they don’t care who they have to destroy to stay that way. And the people who want to kill us, the Cremation Crews, all they want is safety, too!
— Joe Hill, The Fireman
We’re concerned that people are trading security for convenience…People are doing things on free Wi-Fi that are really alarming
— Doug Shadel
To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?
— Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
— Bruce Schneier
The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses
— Nina Easton
The opposite of Insecurity isn’t Security. It’s a Sense of Adventure.
— Brownell Landrum, Five Reasons Why Bad Things Happen: How to Turn Tragedies Into Triumph
In humanity's relentless drive for convenience and economic growth, we have developed a dangerous level of dependency on networked systems in a very short space of time: in less than two decades, huge parts of the so-called 'critical national infrastructure' (CNI in geekish) in most countries have come under the control of ever more complex computer systems.
— Misha Glenny, DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
An age that needs security guards is, of course, without security. What do we have in the dull old days? Old man janitors in the schools; watchmen in the factories, and the watchman was usually the turbanned bearded Bombay armed only with a stick, drowsing on a stool by a gate. How his strong odor remembered now seems the very smell of safety!In his place now lurks the man in uniform, armed with pistol and club and submachine gun: the "security" that stands for the insecurity of our times, being the human equivalent of the iron bars at the window, the barbed wire on the wall.
— Nick Joaquín, Reportage on Crime: Thirteen Horror Happenings That Hit the Headlines
A man in love is cautious with the decisions he makes, words he says and actions he takes, so he never purposefully causes her pain. He believes in her when she struggles believing in herself. He is her foundation, where she feels safe to be her true self.
— Elizabeth Bourgeret
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing more secure in a relationship than a sense of insecurity.
— Amit Abraham
Genuine security an only be obtained by looking inside our oneself.
— Matthew Donnelly
Picking the right security provider can really save your assets.
— CR Risk Advisory
Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain of, certain to the bone, or if you could be that to someone else.
— Tana French, Broken Harbour
In times of long established peace, when the tradition of generations has established the illusion of the profoundest human security, men's minds are not greatly distressed by grotesqueness and absurdity in their political forms. It is all part of the humour and the good-humour of life. When one believes that all the tigers in the jungle are dead, it is quite amusing to walk along the jungle paths in a dressing-gown with a fan instead of a gun.
— H.G. Wells, Joan And Peter
God is the guarantee of our security.
— Sunday Adelaja
It's not real until it's secured" -Greg Turnquist, Devnexus 2015
— Greg L. Turnquist
Underlying all these breaches is a single systemic security flaw, exactly 3.375 inches long. Credit card magstripes are a technological anachronism, a throwback to the age of the eight-track tape, and today the United States is virtually alone in nurturing this security hole.
— Keith Poulsen
We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.
— Joan D. Chittister
I’m not some outdated alarm company, like Muldoon Security, singular. I’m offering a whole new variety of services, plural—water testing, soil graphs, toxic air readings, the security of this century. The security that you aren’t being poisoned in your own home.
— Christopher Bollen, Orient
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.
— Edward Snowden
Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.
— Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both
— Benjamin Franklin
It's proper Netiquette to view in-App webpages in a mobile browser for better security. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.
— Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.
— Kenneth Eade, A Patriot's Act
There are a countless variety of hardships in any life," Kedean answered,"...only the most basic of which can be solved with mansions, gold pieces, and titles of nobility.
— Anihyr Moonstar
Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.
— Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.
— Yasmine Galenorn, Night Vision
As an adult, emerging from the ether's of an abusive childhood, i found myself left with a constant craving for protection, safety and security. I spent many years living my life, waiting for the other shoe to drop. I needed to control everything, in an effort to prevent any harm from coming my way (even though control is an illusion).It took me many years to realize i had to become that safe harbor for myself. And that part of becoming that safe harbor was not about avoiding life, but rather, developing the confidence and coping skills to know that i would have what it takes to find my way through life's inevitable trials and tribulations.
— Jaeda DeWalt
In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.
— George F. Will, One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. In the original and primary sense of lacks or needs, wants tend to structure our vision of government's responsibilities. The quest for security - whether economic, physical, psychological, or military - brings a sense of urgency to politics and is one of the enduring sources of passion in policy controversies. Need is probably the most fundamental political claim. Even toddlers know that need carries more weight than desire or deservingness. They learn early to counter a rejected request by pleading, "I need it." To claim need is to claim that one should be given the resources or help because they are essential. Of course, this raises the question "essential for what?" In conflicts over security, the central issues are what kind of security government should attempt to provide; what kinds of needs it should attempt to meet; and how the burdens of making security a collective responsibility should be distributed.Just as most people are all for equity and efficiency in the abstract, most people believe that society should help individuals and families when they are in dire need. But beneath this consensus is a turbulent and intense conflict over how to distinguish need from mere desire, and how to preserve a work - or - merit based system of economic distribution in the face of distribution according to need. Defining need for purposes of public programs become much an exercise like defining equity and efficiency. People try to portray their needs as being objective, and policymakers seek to portray their program criteria as objective, in order to put programs beyond political dispute. As with equity and efficiency, there are certain recurring strategies of argument that can be used to expand or contract a needs claim.In defense policy, relative need is far more important than absolute. Our sense of national security (and hence our need for weapons) depends entirely on comparison with the countries we perceive as enemies. And here Keynes is probably right: The need for weapons can only be satisfied by feeling superior to "them." Thus, it doesn't matter how many people our warheads can kill or how many cities they can destroy. What matters is what retaliatory capacity we have left after an attack by the other side, or whether our capacity to sustain an offense is greater than their capacity to destroy it. The paradox of nuclear weapons is that the more security we gain in terms of absolute capability (i.e., kill potential), the more insecure we make ourselves with respect to the consequences of nuclear explosions. We gain superiority only by producing weapons we ourselves are terrified to use.
— Deborah Stone, Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
Complexity is the main enemy of security.
— Niels Ferguson
It is terrible to be an unprotected being.
— Colm Tóibín, The Master
Until our hearts find complete security and significance in God's unconditional love, we will never be satisfied.
— Renee Swope, A Confident Heart: How to Stop Doubting Yourself & Live in the Security of God's Promises
In the era of globalization, everything is interconnected. A problem in one part of the world will definitely impact on other parts of the globe. Such phenomenon is also valid for defense and security context. A conflict in a state will bring implications in its neighboring countries or other countries extended in the same region. Therefore, collaborative efforts in tackling common defense and security problems are essentially required.
— Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.
— Jack Campbell, Invincible
Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.
— John G. Hemry
After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...
— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Expecting to receive a rebuke, her heart lifted when she read the words on the page, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, Amish by Accident
Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.
— George Eliot, Silas Marner
Cherishing Jesus as gain above all people, above all wealth, above all powers.
— Mac Canoza
...If we believe that God wants us happy above all else, rather than acknowledging that our role is to serve God, we wrongly believe that God exists to serve us. God becomes a a means to our end: happiness.
— Craig Groeschel, The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist
There should be an absolute discipline in the house of God
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We are called to serve
—  let us make our piety and honor the service! Let us all serve with a good heart and a clear mind
If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Homeless people bear God's image too.
— Philip Yancey
God requires us to give ourselves over fully to serving Him and to do everything to the full
— Sunday Adelaja
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
— Alan Alda
And you find that sometimes you search to fill a void that doesn’t exist until you venture out far enough to create it.
— Liz  Newman
To find new, keep moving forward ...
— Nanette L. Avery
#passioninspirecreate, this is my mantra! Passion inspires creativity!
— Samuel Colbran, Lake Merrin
I would rather make fun of things, and I’m struggling against an inborn fatalism . . . The creative impulse is such a fragile thing, but we have to create now. We owe it to ourselves to do the work. I want to encourage you. If you aspire to write, put aside all the niceties and sureties about what art should be and write something that makes the scales fall from our eyes. Forget the tired axioms about showing and telling, about sense of place—any possible obstruction—and write to destroy complacency, to rattle people, to help people, first and foremost yourself. Lodge your ideas like glass shards in the minds of everyone who would have you believe there’s no hope. And read, as often and as violently as you can. If you have friends, as I do, who tacitly believe that it’s too much of a chore to read a book, just one fucking book, from start to finish, smash every LCD they own. This is an opportunity. There’s too much at stake now to pretend that everything is okay.
— Dan Piepenbring
Don't try to make something that someone has already did. Try to make something different.
— Dr. Hazem Ali
The best part of your story is when it changes.
— Bella Bloom
If there seems no answers then create and apply them.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can only imitate and sell. Middlemen.' He fixed his merciless scrutiny on Frink.'Maybe so,' Frink said.
— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
The presence you create is the presence you command.
— Paul Bamikole
You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.
— Kate McGahan
Creating Habbit reading, if you want to create it should point all genres which you like or you want to be explored... and then to show that it's interesting.
— Deyth Banger
Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
It is what you pursue that gains focus in your life, it is immaterial whether this contributes to your true life path or not. You need to design your life to contain the elements necessary to create the life that you want.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Don’t get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
After six months of building muscle mass I can now confirm that muscle mass creates increased tolerance to biologically harmful radiation sources.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
Everything God created was created in a seed form, small and miniature.
— Sunday Adelaja
Never pursue happiness, just create the happiness inside you.
— Debasish Mridha
Never pursue happiness, just create it inside you.
— Debasish Mridha
Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?
— Debasish Mridha
Act to create beauty without expecting results.
— Debasish Mridha
Go idea machine on your doubts.
— Claudia Azula Altucher, Become An Idea Machine: Because Ideas Are The Currency Of The 21st Century
There's nothing that can defy the law of movement. Everything was created to move including the biggest of our mountains.
— Paul Bamikole
Life is not about finding who you really are
—  it's about creating who you really want to be.
You get in life what you create. Expectation drives the creative process. What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you're thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the results you create in life.
— Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
The external only creates dependency.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The soul yearns for the infinite. Infinite is… create.
— Manuela Nicolini
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— Kamil Ali, The Initiates
To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Craft can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the skill or artistry that has come to be demanded by those who preach craft. Like a good meal, a good Crafternoon shouldn't need much - a few quality ingredients, a couple of good friends, and a little bit of creativity.
— Maura Madden, Crafternoon: A Guide to Getting Artsy and Crafty with Your Friends All Year Long
Crafternoon is about making what you want, how you want it, to the best of your ability. And even if you may not think of yourself as a rock star of creativity, it's there inside you. At Crafternoon, you are a CraftStar.
— Maura Madden, Crafternoon: A Guide to Getting Artsy and Crafty with Your Friends All Year Long
People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.
— Maria Semple
Change is one of the most vibrant elements we can use to create a different tomorrow.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to The Laws of Creation
A warrior always, you lift a hand to create or destroy as you will, and heed no one's call but your own. And all the while, my one breathless thought, repeating as though I know nothing else...Take me with you.
— Donya Petrock, Six Ways from Sunday
I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain
— Christo Vladimirov Javacheff
We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.
— Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative
It's like in someways I've been trying to create without first destroying. Is such a concept possible? For too long I have feared myself, fear what I can create. In essence, I have feared creating myself.
— Jeremy Caldwell
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
— Louis L'Amour
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
— C.S. Lewis
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
I read like the flame reads the wood.
— Alfred Döblin
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.
— Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.
— Félix J. Palma, The Map of the Sky
Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you
— Jack Lasenby, The Shaman And The Droll
The reader became the book
—  and summer nightWas like the conscious being of the book.
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
— Mem Fox, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Antonio-"Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma."Peter-"Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?
— Kelley Armstrong, Bitten
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny...the time of reading, the time defined by the author's language resonating in the self, is not the world's time, but the soul's. The energies that otherwise tend to stream outward through a thousand channels of distraction are marshaled by the cadences of the prose; they are brought into focus by the fact that it is an ulterior, and entirely new, world that the reader has entered. The free-floating self--the self we diffusely commune with while driving or walking or puttering in the kitchen--is enlisted in the work of bringing the narrative to life. In the process, we are able to shake off the habitual burden of insufficient meaning and flex our deeper natures.
— Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.
— Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
— Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
Never read a book that is not a year old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
Why do you want to read anyway – for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn’t make you peaceful, what good is it?
— Epictetus, Of Human Freedom
I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able to reach my dream.
— Haidy Santos
Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn’t make you peaceful, what good is it?
— Epictetus
Never judge a book by its "spine".
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.
— Philip Hensher
I cannot call somebody ‘hard-working’ knowing only that they read and write. Even if ‘all night long’ is added, I cannot say it – not until I know the focus of all this energy.
— Epictetus, Of Human Freedom
Isn’t reading a kind of preparation for life?’ But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he’s not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners.
— Epictetus, Of Human Freedom
If, on the other hand, we read books entitled On Impulse not just out of idle curiosity, but in order to exercise impulse correctly; books entitled On Desire and On Aversion so as not to fail to get what we desire or fall victim to what we would rather avoid; and books entitled On Moral Obligation in order to honour our relationships and never do anything that clashes or conflicts with this principle; then we wouldn’t get frustrated and grow impatient with our reading. Instead we would be satisfied to act accordingly. And rather than reckon, as we are used to doing, ‘How many lines I read, or wrote, today,’ we would pass in review how ‘I applied impulse today the way the philosophers recommend
— Epictetus, Of Human Freedom
Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer …’Well, isn’t it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?
— Epictetus, Of Human Freedom
Just like a constant diet of fast food makes us flabby, so too a constant intake of social media to the neglect of books and thoughtful meditation will make our brains flabby. So if you find it difficult to read more than five pages at a time, or you find yourself falling asleep as soon as you crack open a book, that is a sign that you should be putting in the work that it takes to be an active reader.
— Aimee Byrd, No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God
If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.
— T.A. Uner
Time flies but books are timeless...
— Nanette L. Avery
Good books last longer than blog posts, which fade into cyberspace, hoping that a Google search will bring them to light again one day. And they shape a higher purpose in shaping a reader....Read books!
— Aimee Byrd
I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife
— Wilkie Collins, Poor Miss Finch
I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature.
— Doris Lessing
Books are really places, make no mistake about that.
— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to. It had been startling and disappointing for me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the time and keeps reminding about how to act and react towards things and occurrences’ in life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Gutenberg (hesitantly): Perhaps the book, like God, is an idea some men will cling to. The revolution of print pursued a natural course. Like a river, print flowed to its readers, and the cheapness of the means permitted it, where the channel was narrow, to trickle. This electronic flood you describe has no banks; it massively delivers but what to whom? There is something intrinsically small about its content, compared to the genius of its working. And--if I may point out a technical problem--its product never achieves autonomy from its means of delivery. A book can lie unread for a century, and all it needs to come to life is to be scanned by a literate brain.
— John Updike
The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house.
— Sui Ishida
Never stop reading, Luke. The words from the pages make me feel like I'm right there, like I can smell the sea and hear the wind. It's my one regret that I didn't read much over the years. How can you learn about all the things happening in the world if you don't read?
— Lea Davey, The Shack by the Bay
...reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts
— René Descartes, Discourse on Method
The Need to Read"Reading books remains one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life’s questions, big and small.
— Will Schwalbe
Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I highly recommend re-reading good personal development books. Rarely can we read a book once and internalized all of the value from that book. Achieving mastery in any area requires repetition—being exposed to certain ideas, strategies, or techniques over and over again, until they become ingrained in your subconscious mind.
— Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life
Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.
— Pittacus Lore
And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.
— Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.
— Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.
— Mayra Mejia
Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.
— H.G. Wells, The Secret Places of the Heart
Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.
— Diana Jane Heath
The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking - the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future. And style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics.
— Henry Kissinger, World Order
I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.
— Kiera Cass, The Siren
Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.
— Benito Pérez Galdós
Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?
— Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library
The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.
— Kevin Focke
It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them
—  but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.
There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.
— Bernard Jan
The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.
— Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman
Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.
— Kim Lehman
If your best friends do not read books, they reads you.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
— Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club
Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau
— Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.
— Roger Lea MacBride, In the Land of the Big Red Apple
Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
— Carla H. Krueger
A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
— Richard Flanagan
When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
— Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest
This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
— John Locke, Locke's Conduct of the Understanding
This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading it will reveal another layer, previously overlooked themes, images, and meanings. For within every great book there are several others.
— Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
— Carla H. Krueger
This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!
— Nanette L. Avery
If your best friends do not read books, they read you.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah