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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe6ed2e | For all evils there are two remedies--time and silence. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| eb6935e | Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. | god hope | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 124268a | I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.' 'Why?' 'Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| f89dc4a | Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves! | humanity inspirational selfishness | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 8c91d55 | He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds. | navigation seafaring-souls wanderlust | Alexandre Dumas | |
| fb6ae04 | The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all. | murder politics the-count-of-monte-cristo | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 4b273d9 | Na tozi sviat niama nito shchastie, nito neshchastie, ima samo sravniavane mezhdu edno s'stoianie i drugo. Nishcho poveche. Samo koito e izpital bezgranichna zlochestina, mozhe da izpita bezgranichno shchastie. Chovek triabva da e pozhelal da umre, za da razbere kolko khubav e zhivot't. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 548e9d6 | Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| e1305d5 | That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate? | fate fortune life | Alexandre Dumas | |
| d0d16f5 | Misfortune does not help us to believe. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| bb8136e | Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle. | humor waffle | Simon Schama | |
| 4cfef86 | Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our d.. | Walker Percy | ||
| c746bf0 | What do you seek--God? you ask with a smile. I hesitate to answer, since all other Americans have settled the matter for themselves and to give such an answer would amount to setting myself a goal which everyone else has reached--and therefore raising a question in which no one has the slightest interest. Who wants to be dead last among one hundred and eighty million Americans? For, as everyone knows, the polls report that 98% of Americans .. | Walker Percy | ||
| 6a73d64 | Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. | Walker Percy | ||
| e69e867 | It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh. | Walker Percy | ||
| 6a8b32b | Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home." "Is everything going to be all right?" "Yes." "Tell me. Say it." "Everything is going to be all right." | Walker Percy | ||
| 0ffb396 | zndgy hmynh dygh! mthl qmrkhwnh my mwnh. my bry , my bzy. wly akhrsh hmyshh qmrkhwnh s khh brndh nhy'yh w yn m`ny sh yn nyst khh bh tw khwsh ngdhshth. | Woody Allen | ||
| 7059c18 | One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't want to go on living. Now I happen to own this rifle, which I loaded, believe it or not, and pressed it to my forehead. And I remember thinking, at the time, I'm gonna kill myself. Then I thought, what if I'm wrong? What if there is a God? I mean, after all, nobody really knows that. But then I thought, no, you know, maybe is not good .. | existentialism nihilism suicide | Woody Allen | |
| 234bb96 | Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 0a85094 | She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn't even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life's happiest days. | Steve Martin | ||
| 1ce4d87 | a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs. | Steve Martin | ||
| 38a01f2 | The Transformation from Chrysalis can take weeks, months or even years- mine took one year. And although I have become this person, I'm still in the midst of a Larger transformation, one that I won't recognize until I look back at me now and say"who was that girl?" We are constantly evolving; I suppose I have always known that, but because I always knew that, I feared stopping, and it is Ironic that it was only when I finally stopped that i.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 6d2e66b | Ruby: Oh, you know... you wait and wait for years for him until you finally give up and move on with your life. You eventually decide to marry Greg and weeks later, Alex splits up with Sally. You know, you two have the worst timing ever. When will you ever learn to catch up with each other? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bd1d79e | all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8b45f19 | the thing about love - no one is untouchable. It's as wild as that, as raw as an open flesh wound exposed to salty sea water, but when it actually breaks, it's silent. You're just screaming on the inside and no one can hear it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f690c97 | There are so many other wonderful things that eyes could see if they really focused. Life's kind of like a painting. A rally bizarre abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is is a blur. And you can continue living your life thinking that all it is is a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. That painting could be of the sea, the sky, peop.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1a41c6c | oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you've been given it, I'd as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift. | inspirational life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| b9799de | I suppose it's easier to see the way out of anything when you've found your way out of that maze. When you're stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it's difficult to make any sense of anything. | life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 249a28c | I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ceaec67 | There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too. | language precision vocabulary | Chris Gardner | |
| 5ace587 | Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 07ce6f6 | There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 23048db | Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2264ad3 | Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 853f724 | It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3b7b8e7 | Does fate ever play by the rules? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 06dc288 | the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together. | salem-falls | Jodi Picoult | |
| 62e0ca8 | it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoul.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 764a6ac | It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 77eeabc | What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b92d905 | There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones. | dark story | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7ff3e4f | one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man. One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 91cb314 | The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean something else, no innuendo. Wolves fight for two reasons: family and territory. Humans are driven by ego; wolves have no room for it and will literally nip it out of you. For a wolf, the world is about understanding, knowledge, respect - attributes t.. | civilization incompatibility nature wolf | Jodi Picoult | |
| 573f979 | The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter. | light love self | Jodi Picoult |