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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e30433c | Artemis turned and stared at his friend with the blue eyes. Holly was staring back, and she was smiling. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| ce5048c | Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| ebf7bf9 | Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 41846a8 | His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 98e9286 | The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. | m-bienvenu m-welcome | Victor Hugo | |
| 91347b4 | For Marius to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. Hard years, and difficult ones; those to get through, these to climb. Marius had never given up for a single day. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. He gave himself this credit, that he had never owed a sou to anybody. For him a debt was the beginning of slavery. He felt even that a creditor is worse than.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a953d49 | He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9bc1460 | No fear, no regrets. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d116b6d | The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows. A burst of laughter starts from a scene of emotion. In a moment of buffoonery, the serious enters. Impulses depend on a chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign. A jest suffices to open the door to the unexpected. They are conferences with sharp turns, whe.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e888b2e | As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, self-sacrifice, confidence, study, and work, filled up each day of his life. Filled up is exactly the phrase; and in fact, the Bishop's day was full to the brim with good thoughts, good words, and good actions. Yet it was not complete if cold or rainy weather prevented.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7660ef4 | Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends.. | morality poverty-alleviation | Victor Hugo | |
| 5c99f97 | Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most beautiful of all your nam.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c94116e | This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3746e6e | The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 992299d | I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul. | frollo hunchback-of-notre-dame | Victor Hugo | |
| b6ec5d9 | Le supreme bonheur de la vie, c'est la conviction qu'on est aime; aime pour soi-meme, disons mieux, aime malgre soi-meme. | love | Victor Hugo | |
| 7aada81 | He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4d70d20 | Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 10c42e3 | All is over...I have nothing but you, remember that." "I can never forget what is my whole life." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| eee033c | He thought of nothing, wished for nothing, but not to be left behind the peasants, and to do his work as well as possible. He heard nothing but the swish of scythes, and saw before him Tit's upright figure mowing away, the crescent-shaped curve of the cut grass, the grass and flower heads slowly and rhythmically falling before the blade of his scythe, and ahead of him the end of the row, where would come the rest. Suddenly, in the midst of .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| cfb17e9 | Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. | goodness truth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| db4dce0 | I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds of love serve a touchstone for men. Some men understand only the one, some only the other. Those who understand only the non-platonic love need not speak of tragedy. For such love there can be no tragedy. "Thank you kindly for the pleasure, good bye," and that's the whole tragedy. And for the platonic love there can be no tragedy either, becau.. | constantine-dmitrich-levin leo-tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| f60a745 | It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession as evil, is ashamed of it. But the contrary is true. People whom fate and their sin-mistakes have placed in a certain position, however false that position may be, form a view of life in general which makes their position seem good and admissible. In order to keep up their view of life, these people instinctively keep to the circle of those pe.. | societal-norms wealth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| d911cf0 | Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be. | respect | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 36e566d | What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, if you love the work, you will find your reward in that. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 719601f | And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever. | sadness-lonelyness | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 00b134b | And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the external law, when they are not in agreement with the divine law of love which he acknowledges (as is usually the case with state obligations), he cannot even recognize the duty of obedience to anyone or anything whatever, he cannot recognize the duty of what is called allegiance. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a66804a | Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them. | daily-life marriage | Leo Tolstoy | |
| abfba38 | In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7f02f11 | Alice knows everything about me, and accepts the fact that we can be together for only a short while. She has agreed to go away when I tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 403e682 | The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 34a4e0c | I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 04d9a68 | When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 56be757 | The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along. | Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason | ||
| 3759d5d | The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work? | Adam Rex | ||
| 925fcc5 | One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Bronte had possessed say three hundred a year -- but the foolish woman sold the copyright of her novels outright for fifteen hundred pounds; had somehow possessed more knowledge of the busy world, and towns and regions full of life; more practical experience, and intercourse with her kind and acquaintance with a variety of character. In those words.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 1bc323d | There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 5a9f8c3 | The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| f97a333 | Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. | nighttime | Charlotte Brontë | |
| a0bc759 | With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not to complain that such an object is too selfish, too limited, and lacks interest; be content to labour for independence until you have proved, by winning that prize, your right to look higher. But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life -- no true home -- nothing to be dearer to me than myself and by its paramount precio.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 6e8fc2d | Never listen to fools who dis as being a story about a girl who gets her mean man. This is a character who gets what she wants and lives on her own terms by having moral fortitude, intelligence, courage, imagination and a will of iron. And that is one hell of a checklist. Imagine Charlotte Bronte writing this book in 1847. What a powerful story for women living at that time! | women-s-strength | Fiona Wood | |
| 076e701 | The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need to try to be attractive. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 246fa33 | And that lack of fear has gotten me into a lot of trouble and cost me a lot of happiness. God intended women to be timid frightened creatures and there's something unnatural about a woman who isn't afraid... Scarlett, always save something to fear--even as you save something to love... | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 9fc50a8 | A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs. | Margaret Mitchell |