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| b6ad4d5 | was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to because he used his matchless power for the good of man. | courage eulogy good goodness greatness honor ingersoll love memory power praise respect robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll tribute | Clarence Darrow | |
| f6f1821 | Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say 'I want mine now,' you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it. | human-beings potential shortsightedness society truth | Mitch Albom | |
| 20a7e50 | I think people expect too much from marriage today" he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment should be a bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience. Like Sarah says, twenty good minutes here, forty good minutes there, it adds up to something beautiful. The trick is when things aren't so great, you don't junk the whole thing. It's okay to have an argument. It's okay that the other one nudges you a little, bothers .. | Mitch Albom | ||
| d3862d2 | I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose." | Mitch Albom | ||
| c554efe | Consider the word "time." We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything chang.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f71298b | Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be? | questions success | Mitch Albom | |
| 04741f0 | Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 572f8e7 | No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy. | inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| f0fae2c | A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| edc551e | Now constipation was quite a different matter...It would be dreadful for the whole world to know about troubles of that nature. She felt terribly sorry for people who suffered from constipation, and she knew that there were many who did. There were probably enough of them for a political party - with a chance of government perhaps - but what would such a party do if it was in power? Nothing, she imagined. It would try to pass legislation, b.. | politics | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 6e45bc9 | We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b4bc493 | But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| bee43f1 | n bldn fy Hj@ l~ jr`t qwy@ mn ql@ l'db Hyl lmlwk Ht~ tfyq mn Gmy'h lTwyl | kings rudeness wake-up | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| a594df2 | He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| df00333 | expectation isn't the same as desire | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 46bc524 | All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. | stories writing | Margaret Atwood | |
| 65bf0e4 | I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long.. | groups heinrich-mann identity individuality john-dos-passos mob orgone peers subhuman upton-sinclair | Wilhelm Reich | |
| 86b899e | Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. | life-and-living life-experience life-lessons philosophy | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 45f76a2 | Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not. | love | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| fa85998 | Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care. | Charlie Huston | ||
| a144c94 | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. - Thorin | middle-earth the-hobbit tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6616f8f | I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowl.. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 1d957f9 | It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do. | life parents providing | Jeannette Walls | |
| 1c3aa97 | You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 923f07d | I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 9e9159f | Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family. | family good nately | Joseph Heller | |
| d806d60 | Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence." | Heller Joseph | ||
| f69842e | Art is as useful as bread. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 05f17a2 | The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark. | Michael Crichton | ||
| af0f06c | Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c7cc3ba | God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us. | Alice Walker | ||
| 2028542 | One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 797d846 | I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that somber city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 853413c | The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial. You know? We've sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities." | Richard Bachman | ||
| e2de053 | Peccato che non avessero niente di piu preciso da esporre, come ad esempio un cartello con la scritta : RALLENTARE! PAZZO IN CORSO. | Richard Bachman | ||
| b1a4722 | Ain't none of you ever been stuck in the mud and needed a push? I won't ask you how you can be for this and still call yourselves Christians, because one of you would have some kind of answer out of what I call the Holy-Joe-Do-It-My-Way Bible. But, Jeezly-Crow! How can you read the parable of the Good Samaritan on Sunday and then say you're for a thing like this on Monday night? | Richard Bachman | ||
| a02e92d | This," I said pleasantly, "is known as getting it on." | Richard Bachman | ||
| 58ab846 | If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier. | Richard Bachman | ||
| d488159 | He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| f3ccffe | You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 15c2090 | God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 4139a02 | Talking about my fears to others feeds it. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 76af4a6 | Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| cc63552 | In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. | museums objects time | Orhan Pamuk |