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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a2ac270 | Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus. | Connie Willis | ||
| d1c5d04 | History was indeed controlled by blind forces, as well as character and courage and treachery and love. And accident and random chance. And stray bullets and telegrams and tips. And cats. | Connie Willis | ||
| 0aebeba | There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 5fe5487 | You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven... | Colum McCann | ||
| 54f43ba | The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him. | Colum McCann | ||
| ef4cc75 | We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough. | humanity truth | Colum McCann | |
| 3200f3a | He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God. | Colum McCann | ||
| 6e01a86 | I can't be with you. I love Brandon; I'm sorry." No! "Baby, don't say that. I will fight for you, I will. Please just give us a shot." "A part of me will probably always love you, too, but I can't take chances with you, Chase. You'll leave me one day, and it will kill me when you do." "Wha--No! I wouldn't, I swear I wouldn't." | fight promise | Molly McAdams | |
| 9be7fd9 | I do not believe that God has given us this trial to not purpose. I know that the day will come when we will clearly understand why this persecution with all it's sufferings has been bestowed upon us -- for everything that Our Lord does is for our good. And yet, even as I write these words I feel the oppressive weight in my heart of those last stammering words of Kichijiro in the morning of his departure: "Why has Deus Sama imposed this suf.. | doubt persecution | Shūsaku Endō | |
| 708f173 | Personal purity isn't really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse - and persuading others not to support it - is. | Peter Singer | ||
| c1fe76a | As for the cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer who keeps an animal of comparable intelligence in this manner, however, is more likely to be rewarded with a tax concession or, in some countries, a direct government subsidy. | Peter Singer | ||
| b83a17a | Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 68918ee | There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -Avery | Danielle Steel | ||
| e59bc3c | Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| c4216b2 | You know," she murmured, "we're all heading straight to hell." "Yes," said Masako, giving her a bleak look. "It's like riding downhill with no brakes." "You mean, there's no way to stop?" "No, you stop all right - when you crash." -- | hell mistakes regret trouble | Natsuo Kirino | |
| c48dcb0 | Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle. | Henry Miller | ||
| 80437b0 | What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip. | Henry Miller | ||
| a9eec95 | Still I can't get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between ideas and living. A permanent dislocation, though we try to cover the two with a bright awning. And it won't go. Ideas have to be wedded to action; if there is no sex, no vitality in them, there is no action. Ideas cannot exist alone in the vacuum of the mind. Ideas are related to living: liver ideas, kidney ideas, interstitial ideas, etc. If it were only for the sake o.. | Henry Miller | ||
| c7ccba2 | Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7b5f6f1 | Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word, let us say, if I say "I love you," the word is meant to be an indication of the reality which exists within myself, the power of my loving. The word "love" is meant to be a symbol of the fact love, but as soon as it is spoken it tends to assume a life of its own, it becomes a reality. I am under the illusion that the sayi.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9bfa511 | He's never fired a gun in his life," Palamedes said. "He abhors weapons." As Palamedes spoke,the group could see Shakespeare put the tonbogiri to his shoulder,then jerk three times. Two of the attacking vimanas spun out of control,both of them crashing into two more. The flour flaming craft spiraled into the sea. "But then he's always been full of surprises," Palamedes added." | Michael Scott | ||
| c6479db | You can pray to the angels and they will listen, but the best way to call them, I am told, is to laugh. Angels respond to delight, because that is what they are made of. In fact, when peoples minds are clouded by anger or hatred, no angel can reach them. | Michael Jackson | ||
| edebdc5 | I remember going swimming as a child and making a wish before I jumped into the pool. [...] I'd stretch my arms out, as if I were sending my thoughts right into space. I'd make my wish, then I'd dive into the water. I'd say to myself, "This is my dream. This is my wish," every time before I'd dive into the water." | wishes | Michael Jackson | |
| 7aca8d1 | But people like the doll guy who sells women and the dog guy who buys women, and other guys who, say, rape women, or maybe don't go as far as violent rape but treat women like objects instead of people--sure, there's a difference in the level of crime, but it's all the same thing, where women become a canvas for throwing emotional baggage, Jackson Pollock style. | rape violence violence-against-women | Taylor Stevens | |
| 6d702ca | Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." --Pierre-Marc-Gaston" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 46ad00e | Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| dc0bd71 | Americans have a taste for...rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of w.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c055931 | Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, "Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good--" At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the p.. | marriage moral-revolution philosophy politics skepticism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8f84157 | No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| f7d4f37 | And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7f1d621 | We must have several word-signs," said Syme seriously -- "words that we are likely to want, fine shades of meaning. My favourite word is 'coeval.' What's yours?" "Do stop playing the goat," said the Professor plaintively. "You don't know how serious this is." "'Lush,' too, " said Syme, shaking his head sagaciously, "we must have ' lush' -- word applied to grass, don't you know?" "Do you imagine," asked the Professor furiously, "that we are .. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| f9077f0 | Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 3835366 | I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin. | optimism pessimism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| d0afe52 | On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver. She was a person of sixteen or so--alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blond hair that the wind had teased loose. She.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 19cf9e6 | He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed. | fingers gruesome his-dark-materials the-subtle-knife | Philip Pullman | |
| 83c7ee5 | And men my prophet wail deride! | magic prophecy urban-fantasy | Ilona Andrews | |
| 11f016c | The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f0d36b8 | He'd spent the night in the boat. Next to the spaghetti queen. William glanced at the hobo girl. She sat across from him, huddled in a clump. Her stench had gotten worse overnight, probably from the dampness. Another night like the last one, and he might snap and dunk her into that river just to clear the air. She saw him looking. Dark eyes regarded him with slight scorn. William leaned forward and pointed at the river. "I don't know why yo.. | fantasy paranormal romance | Ilona Andrews | |
| 5cc6c4a | How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me? | gunmetal-magic raphael | Ilona Andrews | |
| 9cdff7f | The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a647823 | Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he apears. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1980f15 | Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 45bbc91 | In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| df20f6e | I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses." " 'Panic'?" Gaston asked. "Smile at them or something." | the-edge | Ilona Andrews |