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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0cfddc5 | How the hell do I know what pisses a woman off?...Nobody knows because it can be any damn thing. It's an unsolved mystery. And the next day, that any damn thing is fine, and it's some other damn thing. No man knows. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2c325c9 | There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. | risk work inspirational | Nora Roberts | |
| 502508a | You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat." | humor | Nora Roberts | |
| f74bac0 | That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3daf0f4 | Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 831ef0e | I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room--" "Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together , go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope." | Nora Roberts | ||
| c3066a5 | You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose. | Nora Roberts | ||
| e315bcd | I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 116d324 | There were shadows in the corners and whispers on the stairs and time was irrelevant as honesty. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| b28f2f5 | Love is fragile at best and often a burden or something that blinds us. It's fodder for poets and song writers and they build it into something beyond human capacity. Falling in love means enrolling yourself in the school of disappointment. Being human means failing each other often, and no two people fail each other more than two people who pledge to do things for each other that they'll never do because they are just incapable of it...Tha.. | heartbreak love | V.C. Andrews | |
| d9c35b2 | Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead! | kids youth death life glare glares glaring money-monetary plead buy pleading baby kid cry talk crying talking child children young dead eyes young-adults | V.C. Andrews | |
| 2d8b952 | A part of all I earn is mine to keep.' Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky. | George S. Clason | ||
| 2462753 | In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 6c3fc40 | Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful. | war | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 7c5b81c | At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - " | gamblers texas | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 43928e8 | Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, "Politics, from the Latin. , meaning 'many.' meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards." | politics | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 6f60ca4 | There's a saying in Hebrew, 'No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| cbe3360 | Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 810ccc0 | Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored -- it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. | prejudice empathy indifference race | Pearl S. Buck | |
| d4e40b5 | He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest. | christianity crucifix perspective | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 9826bfd | To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think. | eternal-wonder rann the-eternal-wonder pearl-s-buck quotes-about-life | Pearl S. Buck | |
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| 042aa45 | A public outcry usually masks a private obsession. | social-commentary | Eric Schlosser | |
| b07f9c2 | If music is the story of our lives, what song did they sing for me? | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| b29bc9f | The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others. | people goodness happiness life road-to-happiness purpose | Lisa Schroeder | |
| c1736cc | Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing. | John Grisham | ||
| 2de4e69 | You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war. | John Grisham | ||
| f0ed500 | Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road. | John Grisham | ||
| 25597ff | We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the books of law' - to embody justice and equality in legislation. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 5336e3c | She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on every penny." "Pick that up." She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could." | heart-wrenching drama | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | |
| 2e84cb6 | Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the current financial crisis. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 7410969 | What I learned playing basketball at Ole Miss," he said, "was what not to do: beat up a kid. It's easy to beat up a kid. The hard thing is to build him up." | Michael Lewis | ||
| 4a9688a | No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 11353d6 | The way the creative process works is that you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 93fae9c | Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 2984863 | But as incentives go, commissions are tricky. First of all, a 6 percent real-estate commission is typically split between the seller's agent and the buyer's. Each agent then kicks back roughly half of her take to the agency. Which means that only 1.5 percent of the purchase price goes directly into your agent's pocket. So on the sale of your $300,000 house, her personal take of the $18,000 commission is $4,500. Still not bad, you say. But w.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| c2dd12a | If you really want to persuade someone who doesn't wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| e474299 | My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 2bd9eda | Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. | problems power technology | Jared Diamond | |
| df7a062 | She is becoming what I wanted she the last with the Arctic eyes to become, which is someone who loves me. Simply and truly as I am. It is hard to stare at her because I know she is starting to love me, I am starting to love her back. I don't care what she's done or who she's done it with, I don't care about whatever demons may be in her closet. I care about how she makes me feel and she makes me feel strong and safe and calm and warm and tr.. | love | James Frey | |
| 2f6ae1d | we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love. | James Frey | ||
| 9a32052 | I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more... | James Frey | ||
| 89c0d47 | On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)" | James Frey | ||
| 488cece | I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda. | James Frey |