Reading Assessments Quotes & Sayings

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless. — Karen MacNeil

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday. — Howard Zinn

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine. — John Muir

Did all of Singer's efforts to discredit mainstream science matter? When asked in 1995 where he got his assessments of ozone depletion, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, probably the most powerful man in Congress at the time, said, "my assessment is from reading people like Fred Singer."93 — Naomi Oreskes

Let it go, just let it go, but if I set down that weight what will show my arms they are strong? — Tyler Knott Gregson

You have to forget about people when you can't have them anymore. That's the only way to be okay. — John Corey Whaley

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening. — John De Ruiter

Cars for me are like a piece of art. — Afrojack

Art must be nourished by faith, the faith of an equal. — May Sarton

He was to be a nice sheep-farmer, and one evening, as he was riding home, he was to see the beautiful heiress being carried off by a robber on a black horse, and give chase, and rescue her. Of course, she would fall in love with him, and he with her, and they would get married, and come home, and live in an immense house in London. Yes, — Oscar Wilde

Simon: You always were wise beyond your years.
Cassandra: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive. — Dodie Smith

Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest? — Kazuo Ishiguro

Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was itself enhanced if it were not totally taken for granted. Perhaps it was something to do with the whole philosophy of the world into which we were born. If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one's fireside after being among enemies. Unless there was contrast there might be satiety. — Winston Graham

You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon. — Joyce Meyer