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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6160154 | How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them! | Agatha Christie | ||
| 8372681 | I suppose next time I come home I shall find you wearing false moustaches--or are you doing so now?' Poirot winced. His moustaches had always been his sensitive point. He was inordinately proud of them. My words touched him on the raw. 'No, no, indeed, mon ami. That day, I pray the good God, is still far off. The false moustaches! Quelle Horreur!' He tugged at them vigorously to assure me of their genuine character. 'Well, they are very.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| b893a73 | But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn. "She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed. "Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette." | poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| 2230eb6 | Death was for-the other people. | Agatha Christie | ||
| dc4e4c5 | I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back--that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it? | Agatha Christie | ||
| b5343ca | Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage." "To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does." "Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 64a6757 | There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 87628f6 | I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 9aaa716 | If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical an.. | knowledge university | John Henry Newman | |
| 7247b43 | A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| af4f05b | The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street, their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| 7f54efa | It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt." | corruption power | Frank Beddor | |
| 9de63c4 | A Glass Eye leaped out from behind a parcked smail-trasport, blocked thier way. "Did you drop something?" Dodge asked the assassian. "Caus I think I see you..." he unheathed his sword and swung, decapitating the Glass Eye in one blow, "...head over there." | Frank Beddor | ||
| f6c5c21 | And darkness. You can't see it no more than you can see air, but when it's all around you sure enough know it. | Ron Rash | ||
| ef7dc38 | Oh! sad is the night-time, The night-time of sorrow, When through the deep gloom, we catch but the boom Of the waves that may whelm us to-morrow. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 120a169 | Yet is was very difficult to seperate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 42e9747 | We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection of a thousand slighted opportunities of fulfilling the wishes of those who will soon pass away from among us: and do they ask us for the future happiness of our lives, we lay it at their feet, and will it away from us. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f88b4ae | Oh!s little bird told us,' said Miss Browning. Molly knew that little bird from her childhood, and had always hated it, and longed to wring its neck. Why could not people speak out and say that they did not mean to give up the name of their informant? | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| a9a50ca | Come poor little heart! be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate. | north-and-south | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| d987709 | I've got two neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, "that can't be right, can it?" "Aaaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical whisper, "when two neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry..." Seamus and Dean, who were working nearby, sniggered loudly, though not loud enough to mask the excited squeals from Lavender Brown- "Oh Profe.. | harry-potter humor ron-weasley | J.K Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | |
| b9b1f35 | because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. | faith inspirational | Rob Bell | |
| 911db3f | So what is the best vegetable? Well, we all know that: it's the potato. The vegetable you can't screw up. You can throw a potato , run away from it - and, an hour later, it's turned into a meal. Try doing that with broccoli, or a trifle, and it will laugh in your face. | potato vegetables | Caitlin Moran | |
| 0f9777e | A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself" | growing-up inspirational women | Caitlin Moran | |
| 69020c5 | If you would feel comfortable going around to someone's house at the end of a long day saying, "I'm just going to take my bra off," you know you are intimate friends." | humour | Caitlin Moran | |
| a0f11fa | The real problem here is that we're all dying. All of us. Every day the cells weaken and the fibres stretch and the heart gets closer to its last beat. The real cost of living is dying, and we're spending days like millionaires: a week here, a month there, casually spunked until all you have left are the two pennies on your eyes. Personally, I like the fact we're going to die. There's nothing more exhilarating than waking up every morning a.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| b679a38 | This is the terrible thing about learning everything from books--sometimes you don't know how to say the words. You know the ideas, but you cannot discuss them with people with any confidence. And so you stay silent. It is the curse of the autodidact. Or "autodidiact," as I said, on the same shameful day. Oh, that was a conversation that went so wrong." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e57df90 | When the subject turns to abortion, cosmetic intervention, birth, motherhood, sex, love, work, misogyny, fear, or just how you feel in your own skin, women still won't often tell the truth to each other unless they are very, very drunk. Perhaps the endlessly reported rise in female binge-drinking is simply modern women's attempt to communicate with each other. Or maybe it is because Sancerre is so very delicious. To be honest, I'll take bet.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| f81025b | Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 2bf193b | A fast didn't go fast; it was the slowest thing there was. Fast meant a door shut fast, firmly. A fastness, a fortress. To fast was to hold fast to emptiness, to say no and no and no again. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 1c6b2bf | Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 6c78822 | Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing. | love-loss | Emma Forrest | |
| fc21a34 | Destarte! How musical! What does it mean?" "You can't say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn't what it means, either. Indian words are more than just that. They also mean the feel and the sound of the name. It means like Crack of Dawn, the first bronze light that makes the buttes stand out against the gray desert. It means the first sound you hear of a brook curling over some rocks-some trout jumping and a beaver croonin.. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 9e10ef9 | Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. | crushes fablehaven grip humor mull plague shadow | Brandon Mull | |
| 0a34d60 | Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from each other. Puffing hard, Rondus cut through a gazebo and started down the stairs to the field. Only a few steps behind, Doren went airborne and slammed into the heavyset satyr. Together they pitched violently forward into the grass, staining their skin green. | Brandon Mull | ||
| fd99255 | The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 7d31dc0 | No one gets left behind, you know that. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 7cde228 | Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster. | economics law | Lawrence Lessig | |
| fc395b4 | But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment. | hope | Anne Brontë | |
| 19d3f58 | I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold -- but not our brother-men -- not even the best and kindest amongst them. | Anne Brontë | ||
| ebe7988 | Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it. Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT. | nighteyes sharing-pain | Robin Hobb | |
| 4e2bec8 | There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones. | bad choice choices decide decision evil good reality truth worse worst | Robin Hobb | |
| 876c9c1 | One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0d07c4f | Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f650165 | You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us." He shook his head, slowly this time. "History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along." He smiled enigmatically. "The future is another kind of history." | Robin Hobb |