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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f010c0a | But if I could do anything? Maybe you would want to be able to save the world, the Voice said. Did you ever think of that? No. I frowned. Leave that to the grown-ups. But grown-ups are the ones destroying the world, the Voice said. Think about it. | James Patterson | ||
| bad3cb4 | So you have your price. Your soul for a cookie. | funny humor | James Patterson | |
| fda58e3 | But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works | James Patterson | ||
| 254f8da | Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 1d8454a | No time like the present | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 6fb2847 | You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 4733099 | Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us. We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired t.. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 14a20a6 | There was a possibility that God really did love me, me Maya Angelou. I suddenly began to cry at the gravity and grandeur of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything. For what could stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes the majority? | Maya Angelou | ||
| 1900f58 | Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily | maya-angelou-quote mom-me-mom | Maya Angelou | |
| 9ccace7 | Live as though life was created for you. | Ronda Buckley | ||
| aed928a | lfqr wljw` wlmrD .. hdh m yrbHh lns mn `mlhm . kl shy yqf Ddn , wywm b`d ywm nGrq fy l`ml Twl Hytn , nGrq fy lwHl wlkhdy`@ , fy Hyn ytkhm lakhrw@ .. wytmt`wn `l~ Hsb shqy'n wbw'sn, wysbqwnn klklb fy qbD@ lqyd wljhl@ , l'nn l n`rf shyy' , wysbqwnn fy qbD@ lr`b l'nn nrhb kl shy .. n Hytn hy llyl ... wl`mry nh llyl Hlk lZlm@ | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 196d9d6 | the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist of our self-sufficiency, and persuaded of our universal impeccability, do not understand this. | prejudice superficial | Maxim Gorky | |
| f1991eb | Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 71ee545 | If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action? | benefit shades-children garth-nix majority minority shade morals | Garth Nix | |
| d2ea5cc | They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 44c6589 | This? It's a feather-coin. I made it.' 'What is it for?' 'It isn't for anything. It's a toy.' 'It's for annoying people,' said Mogget from Sam's pack. 'If you don't put it away, I shall eat it. | Garth Nix | ||
| b9ae8ef | I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh... | Garth Nix | ||
| 072999f | He growled and grimaced as they came to him, and clenched his fists in pain and anger. "Unusual name," commented Mogget. "More of a bear's name, that growl." | Garth Nix | ||
| c7795ca | A passion thwarted will often go astray. | Garth Nix | ||
| 0f228a5 | They could argue for hours on almost any subject; they usually agreed on broad conclusions, but disagreed on almost every detail. | dewarren-dynasty detail disagree conclusions | Brenda Joyce | |
| 7687b54 | It may have been the light at 5:36 on a June evening or it may have been the smell of dust combined with sprinkler water or the sound of the neighbour kid screaming I'll kill you but suddenly it was like I was dying, the way I missed her. Like I was swooning, like I was going to fall over and pass out. It was like being shot in the back. It was such a surprise, but not a very good one. And then it went away. The way it does. But it exhauste.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 8a87a38 | Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| f2e8ce2 | A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings." -- | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 484b48c | Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past? | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 642ad6e | Then Lymond's voice, the chill gone, said, 'Don't be an ass, Jerott? You know I can't do without you.' It was an obvious answer. But it was also something Jerott had never had from Lymond before: an apology and an appeal both at once. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 7330f37 | I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 915ebc3 | I am telling you now that you did right with Robin Stewart and I am telling you that the error you made came later, when you took no heed of his call. It was too late then, I know it. But he should have been in your mind. He was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader--don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?--And .. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 5eee22f | The Seven Da Vincian Principles are: Curiosita--An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning. Dimostrazione--A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and a willingness to learn from mistakes. Sensazione--The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to enliven experience. Sfumato (literally "Going up in Smoke")--A willingness to embrace ambiguity, par.. | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 53e24e4 | I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's? | world people stories | Charles de Lint | |
| b63cd23 | I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us. | stories | Charles de Lint | |
| f3c0cc0 | Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are. | Charles de Lint | ||
| cd543aa | By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves. . . . We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. --CHARLES V. WILLIE | James W. Loewen | ||
| 084fc7a | It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 0a3c3bd | How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 5e5e2f3 | The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. -Cyrin | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 5ed0338 | But dear, you hate to sew. I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard. | marriage needlework sewing | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 9357057 | My Sihaya,' he said as he held her, 'I have loved you for five thousand years. | herbert dune paul | Brian Herbert | |
| e66e1c9 | Can you love someone you don't trust?" "Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| c35d98f | L'histoire de ma vie n'existe pas. Ca n'existe pas. Il n'y a jamais de centre. Pas de chemin, pas de ligne. Il y a de vastes endroits ou l'on fait croire qu'il y avait quelqu'un, ce n'est pas vrai il n'y avait personne. >> | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 78958e2 | She lavishes pain with generosity. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 8f9627b | Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it." ( )" | paris | Marguerite Duras | |
| 3028aac | Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 694b884 | It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| bfe0b05 | One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle." | Robert Louis Stevenson |