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| ef99199 | But if I had to choose between where I live and you, I'd rip up everything I own because the only landscape worth looking is the landscape of the human body. I kiss your Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I kiss your Missouri and Monongahela and Susquehanna and Shenandoah and Rio Grande. I kiss the confluence of all those rivers. I kiss your amber waves of grain. I kiss your spacious skies, your rocket's red glare, your hand I love, your pur.. | love | John Guare | |
| cd8cfc1 | If you are nervous about making the jump or simply putting it off out of fear of the unknown, here is your antidote. Write down your answers to these questions, and keep in mind that thinking a lot will not prove as fruitful or as prolific as simply brain vomiting on the page. Write and do not edit - aim for volume. Spend a few minutes on each answer. 1. Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are con.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 841d50a | I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 93fbd71 | Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend,the more you have. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d260018 | As we have taken the circle as a symbol of reason and madness, we may very well take the cross as a symbol at once of mystery and health. Buddhism is centripetal, but Christianity is centrifugal: it breaks out. For the circle is perfect and infinite in its nature; but it is fixed for ever in its size; it can never be larger or smaller. But the cross, though it has at its head a collision and a contradiction, can extend its four arms for eve.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d222f86 | The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| cd1d52a | In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 1c58530 | He stared and talked at the girl's red hair and amused face for what seemed to be a few minutes; and then, feeling that the groups in such a place should mix, rose to his feet. To his astonishment, he discovered the whole garden empty. Everyone had gone long ago, and he went himself with a rather hurried apology. He left with a sense of champagne in his head, which he could not afterwards explain. In the wild events which were to follow, th.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7a99586 | A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as incomprehensible, and then criticise it as if he comprehended it. The very fact of its unfamiliarity and mystery ought to set him thinking about the deeper causes that make people so different from himself, and that without merely assuming that they must be inferior to himself. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 98727d0 | Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2e0530b | America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature. It enunciates that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice, and that their authority is for that reason just. It.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 5a6b823 | The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a new nation literally out of any old nation that comes along. In a word, what is unique is not America but what is called Americanisation. We understand nothing till we understand the amazing ambition to Americanise the Kamskatkan and the Hairy Ainu. We are not trying to Anglicise thousand of French cooks or Italian organ.. | assimilation | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 5f03b54 | What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. | gk-chesterton humility inspirational | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 061d4ee | The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised." The man who expects nothing sees redder roses than common men can see, and greener grass, and a more startling sun. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall possess the cities and the mountains; blessed.. | inspirational surprise | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 82c2be0 | I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person. | faith heaven | G.K. Chesterton | |
| d242588 | Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2d9f296 | If you hang up on me again, I will slice your car into small pieces and hang them on your roof like Christmas wreaths. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 06bf94a | Stop looking at her and you might live longer," Curran said, his voice nice and friendly." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9c27f38 | But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will." | philip-pullman the-amber-spyglass | Philip Pullman | |
| f291aad | There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the migh.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| fcc10af | LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women. | humor mystery romance-novels | Lauren Willig | |
| 6c9a294 | Curran never did anything without a reason he was so controlled, even his one-night stands were premeditated. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a20009c | He looked like he needed some jungle ruins to explore or some bad people to hit with a chair. Trouble was, he was the bad people. | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| e408221 | How long does it take?" I asked. "I'm sorry?" "How long does it take you to get dressed for work in the morning?" "Two and a half hours," she said. "Do they pay you overtime for that?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 73e4609 | If they try, I'll eat them first. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1e15d58 | This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not." | fate-s-edge funny gnome ilona-andrews the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| a5fa322 | Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice." | fate-s-edge ilona-andrews kaldar the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| e4cbbe1 | Audrey turned to him, a sly little spark hiding in her eyes. "THe only man who gets to call me'love' would be waking up next to me after a very, very fun night. "Guess what?" She leaned closer. "You will never be that man." | fate-s-edge fun funny ilona-andrews kaldar the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| ca0c611 | What did you write on here? 'Don't die'?" "No, I wrote, 'Don't be an asshole!'"I headed for the house. "On yours or mine?" "On yours." "Well, in that case, your magic isn't working. I'm still an asshole." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 572d89e | Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e1b83bf | Do you know the runes on your sword are nonsense?" "Yes, but they look mysterious." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 71a3f74 | Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 98bfe18 | The kid was so handsome, he almost looked unreal. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 737c960 | Breathing is like riding a bicycle. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f0606a7 | Please tell me there is coffee." Aunt B grimaced. "They're already crazy. If I let them have coffee, they'd be bouncing off the walls. We have herbal tea," ... I needed to find Julie, find her mom, convince a sociopath to donate some blood for the good of mankind, and deal with a tentacled atrocity swaddled in cloth and his rabid mermaids. I needed coffee." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 50d1c3d | Four shapeshifters are missing, the office smells like blood, you see some weird woman in a transparent gown who clearly shouldn't be in the building, and you run after her?" "It's my job to run after her." "Without backup?" "I the backup." | jim | Ilona Andrews | |
| 118695a | Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you. | cerise ilona-andrews life the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| 32edd47 | We took a right at the fork, heading farther north. The charred houses continued. To the right, a large sign nailed to an old telephone post shouted DANGER in huge red letters. Underneath in crisp black letters was written: IM-1: Infectious Magic Area Do Not Enter Authorized Personnel Only A second smaller sign under the first one, written on a piece of plastic with permanent marker, read: Keep out, stupid. "We aren't going to keep out, are.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b729817 | Bring the ex-Consort to me." "Curran!" I backed away from the railing. "Curran, help!" Laughter exploded in the bedroom. Bastard. *" -- | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 84e9a3d | Will you stop meddling in my love life?" I growled. "I'm not meddling. I'm offering commentary." | kate-daniels magic-rises | Ilona Andrews | |
| 0a38798 | Do they have target priority protocols?" I asked. "Would they be able to differentiate between a high- and low-priority target?" Rogan's face shut down. "No." "No, they don't?" I clarified. "No, I won't let you do this." We stared at each other. The tension in the room was so thick, you could slice it with a knife and serve it with tea. Leon whistled a melody from a gunfighter Western." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1ca1b30 | I didn't say I just wanted sex." "Let me quote: 'Do you want seduction, dinners, and gifts? Seduction is a game, and if you pay enough in flattery, money, or attention, you get what you want. I thought you were above the game.' Did you not say that to me a week before you strolled into my garage to invite me on 'a date'?" "Yes. I wanted to skip the bullshit." "So what happened? You changed your mind and now you want the bullshit?" Rogan's p.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6ce7f72 | How much did you hear?" "Everything that mattered." He nodded, his face unreadable. "It is what it is. All cards are on the table." "Not quite." I sat up. "Oh?" "The real Rogan hasn't asked me." He frowned. "I want the dragon to ask me." "Be careful," he warned. "I know what the Head of House Rogan wants. I heard all of his noble warnings about the future of House Baylor. I saw him told himself in check. I want to know what you want, Connor.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 03cd583 | I could've fallen for someone steady. Dependable. Well-grounded. But nooo, I had to lose my head over this idiot. | Ilona Andrews |