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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 169d647 | She looks at her watch - a real one, with arms. Those digital ones came and went, thank God. When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should? | Sara Gruen | ||
| b4e0a33 | I've died before. It was boring, so I stood up. | funny humor comics graphic-novels moon-knight warren-ellis | Warren Ellis | |
| e747f66 | I think the day might come, Bess, when all men will know of Dickon is what they were told by Tudor historians like Rous." "Jesu, no!" Bess sounded both appalled and emphatic. "You mustn't think that. Whatever the lies being told about Dickon now, surely the truth will eventually win out. Scriptures does say that 'Great is truth and it prevails,' and I believe that, Grace." Bess straightened up in the bed, shoved yet another pillow against h.. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 206a4e9 | Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed. | killing theft stealing | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 5efc87b | Ideas are ultimately worthless unless you activate them with focused and consistent action. The best leaders never leave the site of a good idea without doing something--no matter how small--to breathe some life into it. Lots of people have good ideas. But the masters become masters because they had the courage and conviction to act on ideas. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| c1eb54c | You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 3a2e79e | Read regularly. Reading for thirty minutes a day will do wonders for you. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| dd695ac | Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| dea015d | The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| df2af84 | Give a prayer of thanks for all you have. Work on your gratitude list. Listen to some great music. Watch the sun come up, or perhaps go for a quick walk in natural surroundings if you feel up to it. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 6e38894 | Never forget the power of music. Spend a little time with it every day, | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 3f92e11 | Sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart. | Harlan Coben | ||
| b3810a8 | The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 2ebf356 | We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 035a53f | Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once | Harlan Coben | ||
| bc2dd88 | Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 46f8c95 | Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 750ca93 | And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death." | murder death murder-on-the-orient-express myserty | Agatha Christie | |
| 879eab1 | Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. | Agatha Christie | ||
| a5befa5 | That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 9874c4c | I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 161fb21 | He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. "It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a nation.. | humorous | Agatha Christie | |
| fc21bf1 | Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 47aae5a | If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go | Agatha Christie | ||
| ee12e07 | I demand of you a thousand pardons, monsieur. I am without defence. For some months now I cultivate the marrows. This morning suddenly I enrage myself with these marrows. I send them to promenade themselves - alas! not only mentally but physically. I seize the biggest. I hurl him over the wall. Monsieur, I am ashamed. I prostrate myself. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 4c323a5 | One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 6bd3a49 | Diez negritos se fueron a cenar; uno se asfixio y quedaron nueve. Nueve negritos estuvieron despiertos hasta muy tarde; uno se quedo dormido y entonces quedaron ocho. Ocho negritos viajaron por Devon; uno dijo que se quedaria alli y quedaron siete. Siete negritos cortaron lena; uno se corto en dos y quedaron seis. Seis negritos jugaron con una colmena; una abeja pico a uno de ellos y quedaron cinco. Cinco negritos estudiaron Derecho; uno se.. | spanish agatha-christie christie diez diez-negritos español negritos | Agatha Christie | |
| 9b32d63 | It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 738f92d | If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 53e818f | Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. | faith | John Henry Newman | |
| fef39ca | And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser. | words literature reading recognition | Alberto Manguel | |
| 426fafa | fy Hd~ lmnsbt sy'l lHkhm lyfy sHq 'Hd kbr m`lmy lHsydyyn fy lqrn lthmn `shr `n sbb Gyb lSfH@ l'wl~ mn jmy` bHwth ltlmwd lbbly mm ydf` lqry' l~ mbshr@ lqr@ blSfH@ lthny@. 'jb: (`l~ lrGm mn kthr@ qrt lmr, `lyh 'l yns~ 'bd 'nh lm ySl b`d l~ lSfH@ l'wl~ | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 30f7c60 | It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 431d456 | History is the third parent. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| 7550772 | The young everywhere...would prefer to live in houses that consist only of doors. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| 26bff1b | There are no innocent people in a guilty nation. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| 339bbbf | Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| e27a8b8 | The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope. | Ron Rash | ||
| 688be7c | A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world | violence tragedy people places | Ron Rash | |
| cd71e21 | They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, "the man who freed the slaves." He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic-which he was-but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not." | slavery politics politics-of-the-united-states slavery-in-america slavery-in-the-united-states american-civil-war | Shelby Foote | |
| f78b20d | Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me." | marriage singleness abraham-lincoln-quotes | Shelby Foote | |
| 0ce3bb7 | the big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 4fbfcc2 | I think that if advice is good it's the best comfort. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1188069 | Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself. | Elizabeth Gaskell |