Quotes About Reading War And Peace

#1. I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference ... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

Madeleine Albright

#2. This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

Oscar Robertson

#3. Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

Dorothy Allison

#4. Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

Charles Koch

#6. When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

Marti Melville

#7. He shuffled through the list of messages, prioritizing them into three piles: now, later, and some other time.

Kenneth Eade

#8. Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

Karl Marlantes

#9. To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

John Bayley

#11. I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

#12. On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

Vikram Seth

#13. My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

#14. I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times ...

Maxwell Perkins

#15. The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.

Deepak Chopra

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Mark Shuttleworth

#17. A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#18. Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#19. I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book.

Charles Bukowski

#20. I read 'War and Peace' in 20 minutes," he says. "It's about Russia.

Woody Allen