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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c5040a6 | Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose such a wonderful machine. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 023bcc0 | I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition. | life-philosophy | Ian Fleming | |
| aa76172 | I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 7a4bb78 | If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome? | P.D. James | ||
| 56158c4 | If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. | P.D. James | ||
| 0ec0fa8 | I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature. | P.D. James | ||
| 16d61a6 | It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us. | intelligent-life pessimism | P.D. James | |
| fb37c81 | An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 22bbe11 | Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 348cbc4 | I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 5e63b28 | Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder. | funny muder | Bill Bryson | |
| 2531a13 | Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as "so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror." | Bill Bryson | ||
| c1eb2c9 | Equally arresting are British pub names. Other people are content to dub their drinking establishment with pedestrian names like Harry's Bar and the Greenwood Lounge. But a Briton, when he wants to sup ale, must find his way to the Dog and Duck, the Goose and Firkin, the Flying Spoon, or the Spotted Dog. The names of Britain's 70,000 or so pubs cover a broad range, running from the inspired to the improbable, from the deft to the daft. Almo.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 5046657 | So, if people didn't settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea - or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don't know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, o.. | humor life sedentary | Bill Bryson | |
| c10c87d | So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may no.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 40e79fb | When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 86340b1 | and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. | life ordinary | Bill Bryson | |
| 2ce8d06 | This was 1990 the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one .. | greed communism | Bill Bryson | |
| 664545d | About Uluru] I'm suggesting nothing here, but I will say that if you were an intergalactic traveler who had broken down in our solar system, the obvious directions to rescuers would be: "Go to the third planet and fly around till you see the big red rock. You can't miss it." If ever on earth they dig up a 150,000-year-old rocket ship from the galaxy Zog, this is where it will be. I'm not saying I expect it to happen; not saying that at all... | Bill Bryson | ||
| 9f19d53 | Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating. | spirituality life | Karen Armstrong | |
| c256b23 | Sol wanted to know how any ethical system - much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it - could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter his son. It did not matter to Sol that the command had been rescinded at the last moment. It did not matter that the command was a test of obedience. In fact, the idea that it was the obedience of Abraham which allowed him to become the father of.. | god ethics obedience | Dan Simmons | |
| 8970ea8 | Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this. Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind. Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why. | men reading inner-world melancholy | Dan Simmons | |
| 6f06bf8 | just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 67269bc | And that was when you realized the fire was inside you all the time. And that was the miracle. Just that. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 2532245 | Fuck what is written," Landsman says. "You know what?" All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption. "I don't care what is written. I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat fo.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 585035a | But there was always a shortfall, wasn't there? Between the match that the Holy One, blessed be He, envisioned and the reality of the situation under the chuppah. Between commandment and observance, heaven and earth, husband and wife, Zion and Jew. They called that shortfall 'the world.' Only when Messiah came would the breach be closed, all separations, distinctions, and distances collapsed. Until then, thanks be unto His Name, sparks, bri.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a00f1fd | Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman. | Michael Chabon | ||
| d3b445f | The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c22ea3c | The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint. | spiritual-growth | Max Lucado | |
| 77d29c4 | Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out? | Max Lucado | ||
| bc1f346 | Part of you is broken, and the other part is bitter. Part of you wants to cry, and part of you wants to fight. The tears you cry are hot because they come from your heart, where there is a fire burning. It's the fire of anger. It's blazing. It's consuming. Its flames leap up under a steaming pot of revenge. And you are left with a decision. "Do I put the fire out or heat it up? Do I get over it or get even? Do I release it or resent it? Do .. | Max Lucado | ||
| 79ffe1e | Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children & battle addictions & as a result, face fears. Its not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm; an unstirred Christ. | Max Lucado | ||
| 0121890 | There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter." ~Deidre O'Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)" | disciple edde teacher | Paulo Coelho | |
| e981126 | wqd ykwn lHb tjrb@ mkhyf@ 'kthr mn lwqwf 'mm jnwd (akhb) , w'Hdhm ySwb shm l~ qlbh , l'nh dh m 'Sb lshm qlbh fsymwt wsytwl~ lrb lbqy , 'm dh 'Sb lHb qlbh fswf ytHml wHdh tb`t dhlk. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f29354c | Feeling that the simplest of tasks requires a Herculean effort. Being riddled with guilt because you have no reason to feel like this when there are so many people in the world who are really suffering. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d7c2794 | ndm yrHl 'Hdhm, fdhlk l'n 'Hd akhr `l~ wshk lwSwl | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1fcc601 | She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized. | mary | Paulo Coelho | |
| a2e4745 | One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b7cb8d7 | t`ml m` `thrt lHy@ bnfs lTryq@ lt~ tt`ml bh m` `thrt lTryq fbdl mn n tl`n lmkn ldh~ tq` fyh ..Hwl n t`rf wl sbb wqw`k ? | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c9d7735 | wlkny mthl kl lakhryn , f'n 'r~ ldny `l~ nHw m 'rGb fy 'n tkwn l km hy `lyh blf`l | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4db096c | ql 'Hdhm dht mr@ n ldmw` dm lrwH. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8853e23 | I know how you must be feeling," she went on. "Sometimes we set off down a path simply because we don't believe in it. It's easy enough. All we have to do then is prove that it isn't the right path for us. However, when things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3701395 | Jika kau menginginkan sesuatu, maka seluruh alam semesta akan bersatu membantumu. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 76f22c5 | Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains. | Paulo Coelho |