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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c2d6d63 | Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!! | John Adams | ||
| 69d019c | It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| 3843d5a | There is no escape if love is not there | Elizabeth George Speare | ||
| d3d1a88 | A novel is an impression, not an argument. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| f05f385 | Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die... | Thomas Hardy | ||
| a7fcf0e | In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 260f57a | When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover. | relationships women secrets | Thomas Hardy | |
| 796b4c9 | Bless thy simplicity, Tess | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 506dbd4 | It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn't the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn't we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed? | Graham Greene | ||
| 752a08f | There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. | Graham Greene | ||
| c97dd3b | People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren't reasonable, are they? | love reasonable | Graham Greene | |
| c6a6d5a | As long as nothing happens anything is possible... | Graham Greene | ||
| 9f2e427 | It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. | Graham Greene | ||
| 3f6f9f4 | People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. | misery | Graham Greene | |
| defdfda | You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more. | Graham Greene | ||
| 40da3f9 | If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it. | Graham Greene | ||
| f91c2dc | They don't believe in anything either. You and your like are trying to make a war with the help of people who just aren't interested." "They don't want communism." "They want enough rice," I said. "They don't want to be shot at. They want one day to be much the same as another. They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want." "If Indochina goes--" "I know that record. Siam goes. Malaya goes. Indonesia goes. What does 'go.. | Graham Greene | ||
| aff433a | Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive...He never does the unexpected thing, he never surprises me, he never takes charge. Every other character helps, he only hinders. And yet one cannot do without him. I can imagine a God feeling in just that way about some of us. The saints, one would suppose, in a sense create themselves. They come alive. They are capable of the surprising act or w.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8dae2d4 | You should dream more. Reality in our century is not something to be faced. | Graham Greene | ||
| 7494111 | You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace. | theif | Graham Greene | |
| 3577d97 | You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences." -- | Graham McNeill | ||
| a2fc575 | The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 9b77b13 | GK Chesterton once said that to criticise religion because it leads people to kill each other is like criticising love because it has the same effect. All the best things we have, when abused, will cause bad things to happen. The need for sacrifice, to obey, to make a gift of your life is in all of us and it's a deep thing. In the Islamic world today, people are trying to rejoin themselves to an antiquated and ancient faith and the result i.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 9826aec | Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of our imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you. It is like a book on a shelf. But, .. | prayer faith | Peter Kreeft | |
| 804ee9a | I learned that effective communication starts with the understanding that there is MY point of view, (my truth), and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak THE truth are very silencing of others. When we realize and recognize that we can see things only from our own perspective, we can share our views in a nonthreatening way. Statements of opinion are always more c.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e47bb9d | M'sieur, I am as a slave to my wife." He kissed the tips of his fingers. "I am as the dirt beneath her feet." He clasped his hands. "I must bestow on her all that she desires, or die!" "Pray make use of my sword, " invited his Grace. "It is in the corner behind you." | satanas wit | Georgette Heyer | |
| 75d7ce1 | Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me. | love | Georgette Heyer | |
| e3be00c | Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix's eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. | shock smile | Georgette Heyer | |
| 0ba7c24 | This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6d4722c | Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin. | fear-of-man sanctification | Edward T. Welch | |
| f5116a7 | Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 9fb033c | I could fall in love with Dallas Winston," she said. "I hope I never see him again, or I will." | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 2e29eea | Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that is is the task of women of Color to educated white women - in the face of tremendous resistance - as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival... | white-feminism ignorance oppression sexism | Audre Lorde | |
| 50860f4 | What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny? | feminism empathy compassion intersectionality self-reflection oppression | Audre Lorde | |
| dd102c8 | You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving. It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched. | innocence | Audre Lorde | |
| 3bd861f | Our emotions | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 39588e8 | Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 33a1d17 | I wasn't reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A-Z. But this was different. I read [in, by T.S. Eliot]: I started to cry. (...)The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day, and the things it made bearable were another failed family--the first one was not my fault, but all adopted children blame themselves. The second failure was definitely my fault. I was confused about se.. | reading poetry power-of-words | Jeanette Winterson | |
| ee3a5aa | I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again! | Amy Hempel | ||
| cc24931 | The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them. | persuasion | Max Barry | |
| a1ba1d8 | For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 00c70b6 | You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? | Bram Stoker | ||
| 0568c09 | When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them. | Anna Maxted | ||
| b4e9a24 | We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never do. Let's never get married. Let's never get fat. Let's never sleep with a married man. Let's never stop being students, even after we graduate. Let's never get dull-eyed and ironic. Let's never get stuck in a rut-- or trapped in a life we didn't choose. Let's never grow bitter." -- | Danzy Senna |