top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."
War
"An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth."
Change
"I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs."
Society
"My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me."
Time
"Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it."
Success
"Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty."
Time
"Partisan politics has no place in the classroom."
Politics
"I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research."
Government
"Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is."
Nature
"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."
Reading
bottom of page