1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 397a569 | I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| e25694f | I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I did so love being a star!" "Yyouu are sstill verry yyoungg," Mrs Witch said, her voice faintly chiding. The Medium sat looking happily at the star-filled sky in her ball, smiling, and nodding and chuckling gently. But Meg noticed that her eyes were drooping, and suddenly her head fell forward and she gave a faint snore. "Poor thing,.. | stars | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| c571eaf | Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down his face, that he might be spared the terrible cup ahead of him, the betrayal and abandonment by his friends, death on the cross. Because Jesus cried out in anguish, we may too. But our fear is less frequent and infinitely less if we are close to the Creator. Jesus, having cried out, then let his fear go, and m.. | fear jesus | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7ed0dcb | Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts... | artist career creative creativity life living vocation | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 55ef91f | But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want, | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 99fe1ec | It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning." | sacrifice-for-gain stars | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 401a88a | But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1cfbfd1 | The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath choses the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And bade things of the world, and things which are despised, hath Go.. | religious | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 941cc8c | Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f9a64df | Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9f95e87 | We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the museum and look at all the pictures on the walls. Instead of feeling my own insignificance I want to go straight home and paint." A great painting, or symphony, or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of creation behind the universe. This surge of creativity ha.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 60028b7 | I have a bed and enough to eat and kind people about me. God is still with me. For these things I am grateful and have no reason to complain | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 834ac0b | My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 09428ea | There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind, which was so clear and buoyant that he asked himself why he wanted to do it at all. And he said to himself that he wanted to do it because he was evil, thoroughly evil. And he smiled as he said it and was content. He looked quite innocent, like any happy person. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| f5d2534 | We don't like to think of ourselves as prey--it is a lessening thought--but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals--sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few--perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, p.. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 8183b21 | Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fc6ec2e | On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God. O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts. | god muslim | Khaled Hosseini | |
| def5993 | She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answer may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0ce0036 | n nshr '`mlk `l~ lwH@ `lnt hw 'mr khTy , nh 'mwr yqwm bh lnsn bSmt , bkrm@ .. lHsn ly`ny twqy` lshykt llns `l~ lml' ! | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| dfc5e0a | Mariam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3110bc2 | But now I'm beginning to care again--a little--and it hurts--it's really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears. | James Hilton | ||
| fc556c3 | If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| df423bc | When I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are -- more real than the schoolroom. I feel as if I were all the people in the story -- one after the other. It is queer. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 07d3aff | I know you by heart. You are inside my heart. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ac4a373 | Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible. | politics | Thomas Sowell | |
| be4bf6f | Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or whee we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 4f1ea5c | However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution. | civil-rights racism | Thomas Sowell | |
| b3c572d | Invalidating a woman's life choices by saying things like, "Oh, but you'll regret it if you don't have kids," or, "I didn't think I wanted kids either until I had one," is like me going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and telling the newly sober that eventually when they grow old, they'll want to take the edge off with a little gin and tonic and that if they could only just be mature enough to control themselves, they could go on a fun w.. | comedy funny kids women | Jen Kirkman | |
| d563034 | If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck. | inspirational spirit | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| ea7905b | Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair. | soul | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| 1ee18ca | Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. | life | E.M. Forster | |
| 791d7fc | Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls. | women | E.M. Forster | |
| ab6a3c3 | It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 8699d4b | He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . . | E.M. Forster | ||
| a9daaa1 | Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart. | heart love romance | E.M. Forster | |
| 14f112f | I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don't care a straw about, but somehow, I've not been able to begin." "You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure." | money motivation occupations | E.M. Forster | |
| 2d935f9 | It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 5a676a9 | When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. | E.M. Forster | ||
| cab5a7f | It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper. | love | E.M. Forster | |
| 024a26e | I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale. The old trouble; things won't fit." What things?" The things of the universe. It's quite true. They don't." Oh Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?" In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "'From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of lif.. | knot life rejoice tangle | E.M. Forster | |
| d4ba8cb | Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| dc7a44c | In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan. " | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 0d3e7a4 | Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer." | equalizers jonah-wizard nellie-gomez the39clues | Gordon Korman | |
| 8efaaf0 | They've got these things called lockers," I raved on. "The Halls are lined with them. And you won't believe what they're for! They're for locking stuff away-so other people won't steal it! Why can't everyone share?" ~ Cap" | Gordon Korman |