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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ccc69e2 | You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while I stand behind, guarding your back. Sit at the table before me. Please, sample the tastiest morsels while I sit quietly. My desire is that you go first, in every occasion of earthly life. Only once will I go before you, And that will be at my last moment. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 7331d5d | One withers, another grows. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 42356b1 | But ask yourself this: Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. What if you got it back? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1f419d5 | You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5d4f311 | My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing)... | Mitch Albom | ||
| 384d86e | Lastima que en aquella epoca no se hubieran descubierto los hoyos negros en el espacio, porque entonces le hubiera sido muy facil comprender que sentia un hoyo negro en medio del pecho, por donde se le colaba un frio infinito. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 7d30c9a | Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked and to stand right side up in an upside down world. If we don't do that we'll never be able to escape. We'll never be able to think. And thinking is the only way we'll be able to plan an escape." -Gylfie" | owl stand-out | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 53613ae | Sorry about your sausage dog. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 6f6c1d8 | He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the white sky across the endless, endless bush, and the giraffe that cried, giving its tears for women to daub on their baskets; O Botswana, my country, my place. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 5a898cb | It's hard to sell the official story to people who can see things for themselves. | John Scalzi | ||
| 10afbb7 | The man reached into his coat and pulled out a wallet containing an ID card. "Agent Dwight, FBI. Miss Baker, I need you to come with me. You're in danger here." "In danger?" Robin said. "In danger from what?" "Not from what. From who," Agent Dwight said, and glanced over at Creek. "You're in danger from him. He's going to kill you, Miss Baker. At least he is going to try." | John Scalzi | ||
| f267dd4 | The good news is I peed before going to sleep. | John Scalzi | ||
| 4b4b458 | lkhwf l ymn` mn lmwt wlknh ymn` mn lHy@ | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| a3fb01a | n l'khbr lsw ry'H@ tzkm l'nwf. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| c1cc290 | ld~ Zhwr lnsn n`qdt `lyh aml kbr. 'lm yy'n l'wn l`d@ lnZr?. ry'Hth tfsd jw l'rD wf`lh ynd~ lh jbyn lHywn | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 0c4f3d0 | m 'jml 'n tHl mshkln lkhTyr@ bHb@ b`d l'kl w ml`q@ qbl lnwm! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 618358f | dh lm ykn mn lkrth@ bd fmn lrHm@ 'n tq` sry`. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 00073b3 | mdh nSn` blHb ldhy yktnfn klhw?wl'srr lty tlfHn klnr.wlkwn ldhy yrhqn blrHm@? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| a714c76 | m lbyt bbn w`mr@ whnds@, wlknh brj thbt f~ lzmn y'w~ lyh Hmm ldhkryt, lsj` blHnyn l~ m nqD~ mn '`mrn. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| ec2894b | How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b7d842f | As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. | Frances Mayes | ||
| afb30a2 | Hamlet | Act I, Scene III POLONIUS: Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There, my blessing with thee. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| c41a13e | Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 0d9daaf | A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. 'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There's something mighty queer behind this.' He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it. | fox hobbits | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 96feb78 | What we fear we often rage against. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 3a95e1a | If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. | Epictetus | ||
| 2a9e520 | The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though .. | common-sense daughter farming mother ranch work | Jeannette Walls | |
| dd1db38 | One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 6ce4324 | Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means. | american-history american-revolution history jefferson lincoln nationalism | Joseph J. Ellis | |
| 78df664 | There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian origins. Apply twenty-first-century science, logic, or humanistic reasoning to it and it falls apart. They believe this is why Islam has always relied so heavily on the threat of death. Question Islam, malign Islam, or lea.. | humanism islam | Brad Thor | |
| f1232f1 | With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In doing so, we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe in the moment that is becoming. In doing so, we welcome the person we are becoming. We repeat the process. This is meditation. This is renewal. This is life. | life meditation | Lama Surya Das | |
| 0bd0c17 | life is always where we are. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 75f3793 | The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 6ffbc26 | symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him. | Joseph Heller | ||
| e81b7b7 | Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. The more it rained, the worse they suffered. The worse they suffered, the more they prayed that it would continue raining. All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. All through the day, they looked at the bomb line on the big, w.. | bologna catch-22 funny hope humor inspiration meditation prayer rational superstition war yossarian | Joseph Heller | |
| 4341bd3 | Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 88c6676 | Oh, they're there all right," Orr had assured him about the flies in Appleby's eyes after Yossarian's fist fight in the officers' club, "although he probably doesn't even know it. That's why he can't see things as they really are." "How come he doesn't know it?" inquired Yossarian. "Because he's got flies in his eyes," Orr explained with exaggerated patience. "How can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes?" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5cac2fd | i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 16b64c7 | As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to kill him. There were people who cared for him and people who didn't, and those who hated him were out to get him. They hated him because he was Assyrian. But they couldn't touch him, he told Clevinger, because he had a sound mind in a pure body and was as strong as an ox. They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan.. | yossarian | Joseph Heller | |
| 12adcc3 | Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn't a chance of winning. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 85c73f1 | I really do admire you a bit. 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." - Colonel Korn" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 1ee9c23 | Darling, we're going to have a baby again,' she would say to her husband. I haven't the time,' Lieutenant Scheisskopf would grumble petulantly. 'Don't you know there's a parade going on? | Joseph Heller | ||
| ae50903 | I'm a regular supra man | Joseph Heller | ||
| 527b148 | Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing. | Joseph Heller |