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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1cb46d8 | Myths have a very long memory. | Bryan Sykes | ||
| e52bda8 | We're going to bash them birds, Them rat-feathered birds. Them bad-butt owls ain't never heard 'Bout Gylfie, Soren, Dig, and Twilight Just let them get to feel my bite Their li'l ole gizzards gonna turn to pus And our feathers hardly mussed. Oh, me. Oh, my. They gonna cry. One look at Twilight, They know they're gonna die. I see fear in their eyes And that ain't all. They know that Twilight's got the gall. Gizzard with gall that .. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| e01f07e | Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 9374747 | Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly between the flames and never get singed We plunge through the smoke and never cringe. The secrets of fire, its strange winds, its rages, We know it all as it rampages Through forests, through canyons, Up hillsides and down. We track it. We'll find it. Take coals by the pound. We'll yarp in the heart of the h.. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 0a396c9 | The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 7b76627 | Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people were just the same as they were | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 1514c72 | Isabel had firm views on moral proximity and the obligations it created. WE cannot choose the situations in which we become involved in this life; we are caught up in them whether we like it or not. If one encounters the need for another, because of who one happens to be, or where one happens to find oneself, and one is in a position to help, then one should do so. It was as simple as that. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| eedcaf1 | Io sono vivo, voi siete morti | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a6ac2b1 | The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys); he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the wantads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed i.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| fcc2e24 | life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 41c023d | lmwt yqtl lHy@ blkhwf Ht~ qbl 'n yjyy' | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 6672557 | qlt lh : - lHmd llh, lqd 'dyt rsltk kml@, wblGt b'srtk br l'mn, wntz`t mn wHsh l'ym 'nybh lDry@, fan lk 'n tkhld l~ lrH@ wlskyn@ fy l'ym lqlyl@ lbqy@. - Hdjny brtyb ws'lny : - hl tdhkr 'ymn lThr@ fy lzmn l'wl? - qr't hwjsh fqlt: - dhk zmn qd mD~ wnqD~. - fql bnbr@ `trf : y Sdyqy lwHyd, fy `z lnSr wlrkh, kthyr m bkyt lkrm@ lDy'`@. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5eff780 | wlkny 'Hb 'n 'khbrk 'n lnsn ytHyl `l~ lm`n@ dh tkhTt Hdwdh , w'nh fy '`mq l`dhb ytwthb lTrH hmh bstmrr ystwy 'n t`dh qw@ 'w y's fstslmt llmqdyr wqlt ly't lshyTn n kn mqdwr lh 'n y'ty , wly't lmwt 'yD. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 28db6af | As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 7a400e3 | yndr 'n yurD~ l`ql wlHkm@ TmwH `Tf@ l t`rf bTb`h lHdwd. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 7415904 | m kn ly's l lyzydn~ hym wwl`, wyshb f~ qlb~ 'shwq w'Hzn. m 'sr` 'n ynqlb lHb lyy's thwr@ `l~ lHy@. 'lys mn lhz bn 'n nkhlq lHy@ thm yHl bynn wbynh ? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5f08fd8 | Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 126ad10 | n~ 'Hbk y Hyt~, 'Hbk Hban hw mn '`jyb lkwn kdwrn l'flk sw bsw, wlshd m 'tmn~ 'n 'qwl lk ('Hbk) f~ yqZt~ wlkn~ l 'stTy`, n lkhjl 'bkm y Hyt~, wlfqr sjn shhq ljdrn, wl Hq lmry' l ymlk mn mrtbh l jnyhan wnSf 'n ybwH bHbh lmlk krym mthlk, wlkn~ 'Hbk blrGm mn hdh klh, wl 'Tyq 'n t`rD~ `n Hb~, w'kd 'jn Hyn 'r~ tTl` lrjlyn lthqylyn lyk, fshj`yn~ y Hyt~, 'shyr~ l~, btsm~ f~ wjh~, m f~ dhlk mn b's m dmt mHban Sdqan km lbd t`lmyn, wm dmt `jzan myy'ws.. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5f49e25 | All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words? | Frances Mayes | ||
| 1e2aad0 | Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutt.. | Frances Mayes | ||
| e4ac9d7 | Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together. ~Rev. Mayes | Frances O'Roark Dowell | ||
| ffb5300 | The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c0be49c | Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell. | change compassion conscience conviction guilt hell hunger indifference power rationalization starvation stewardship tolstoy | Randy Alcorn | |
| b883d88 | The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which.. | god heaven inspirational | Randy Alcorn | |
| a03b169 | A habit of solitude in early childhood is not easily broken. Indeed, it may prove lifelong. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| 44657ce | Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. | Epictetus | ||
| e7862d3 | Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can. | Epictetus | ||
| dd882c7 | What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules. And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What woul.. | philosophy | Epictetus | |
| 58b2ca6 | The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see the effect his performance had on his audience. The noise of their laughter roared like the sea in his ears. He wanted it louder and louder; he wanted them to drown out the war with their laughter. If the could should loud enough, they might b.. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 3b41a09 | Friends come and go. But through the thick and thin, the good and bad, you can only ever count on your family. That's the heart of it. Family. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| e86a70f | Have you ever held a gun before?" the lady whom I was meeting with asked me. No, n,: I siad with a little nervous laugh, feeling a little underqualified for the job. "My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything." | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 234f5ae | For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny - but how we relate to what happens. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| 3b5a12d | Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn. | sorrows | Lama Surya Das | |
| ababa7a | Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them: | Mark Nepo | ||
| 8e1f0f3 | The only response to adversity or misunderstanding is to be more completely who we are--to share ourselves more. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 6fab6d5 | those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 279bd9a | He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 2d8263c | It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| ec777bb | Un dia vi ponerse el sol cuarenta y tres veces! | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 3d78a16 | The famous field altar came from the Jewish firm of Moritz Mahler in Vienna, which manufactured all kinds of accessories for mass as well as religious objects like rosaries and images of saints. The altar was made up of three parts, lberally provided with sham gilt like the whole glory of the Holy Church. It was not possible without considerable ingenuity to detect what the pictures painted on these three parts actually represented. What wa.. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| 7601034 | Story of our species," Malcolm said, laughing. "Everybody knows it's coming, but not so soon." | Michael Crichton | ||
| 6c936b8 | The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you. | Michael Crichton | ||
| e97000a | Even if you don't believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious. | Michael Crichton | ||
| d8aa96b | She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist. | life | Michael Crichton |