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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ec6c04 | It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten. | revenge murder fear graveyards infanticide crime | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 36ae357 | Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine--some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone--but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him. | death 1997 1996 1998 aid famine north-korean-famine kim-il-sung kim-jong-il north-korea propaganda | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 4bcb9a9 | In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work. | Tom Clancy | ||
| 20f5839 | The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one's own conscience .. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| fd1c42c | Bombs and bullets alone cannot destroy India, because Indians will pick their way through the rubble and carry on as they have done throughout history. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| f825618 | Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is more than just to sustain life - it is to enrich, and be enriched by, life. | india life enriching-life | Shashi Tharoor | |
| 5424745 | When you have nothing, everything feels like something. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 608135b | Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting. | chess go games | Trevanian | |
| fcc85fb | has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of takes the form of , it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where emerges .. | Trevanian | ||
| 3a08f04 | Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God! | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 036044a | Parker sat for a long time on the ground in the alley behind the pool hall, examining his soul. He saw it as a spider web of facts and lies that was not at all important to him but which appeared to be necessary in spite of his opinion. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 4676325 | Man's desire for God is bedded in his unconscious & seeks to satisfy itself in physical possession of another human. This necessarily is a passing, fading attachment in its sensuous aspects since it is a poor substitute for what the unconscious is after. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 018088e | Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| d1b6892 | Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any character in a serious novel is supposed to carry a burden of meaning larger than himself. The novelist doesn't write about people in a vacuum; he writes about people in a world where something is obviously lacking, where there is the general mystery of incompleteness and the particular tragedy of our own times to.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 015bab6 | When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| f18243b | Wherever it left us, we were barely learning to live with it when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams to tell us that no one has ever been loved the way everybody wants to be loved, and that's hard. That's hard. --last stanza of How Step by Step We Have Come to Understand | Miller Williams | ||
| c39856f | Aren't you ever satisfied? I swear if I were mortal, I'd be limping from our last go-round. If not dead. We really need to find you a hobby other than jumping on top of me. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b4be737 | Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?" - Abigail "I can roll my tongue." - Sundown "I'm serious, Jess." - Abigail "So am I. Not everyone can do it. It's a genetic thing, you know." - Sundown" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 63c6556 | I don't know. Word around the girls' locker room is that all of you are so hard up, you were cruising the senior center, trying to find a prom date." - Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8899f1b | I'd rather be vindictive than smart. (Solin) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 72904ef | Tell him what? Kat's a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara) Tara! (Kat) Oh, all right. She's so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a45f2a4 | He glared at them while it rang and rang and rang. Grimacing at the delay, Nick glanced toward Kody.) "Do necromancers not have voice mail?" - Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7812212 | Settle down, pup. I ain't had my caffeine yet." - Sundown" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5042b07 | And my mama drowned the dumb ones. I hear everything you're saying. There's a group of Buffys thinking we're the bad guys. Ain't my first rodeo, pup. It's been happening so long, they were called Helsings long before your daddy was a gleam in your granddaddy's eyes. Thank you, Hollywood and Stoker for that. Not like being undead didn't suck before. They just made it worse for us by cluing the rest of the world in that we exist. Now every go.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 636120a | Step aside, boys. I have the evil powers for this." - Abigail "My lady got mad skills." - Sundown" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f86958f | Why'd he call you?" - Sundown "My charming personality." - Zarek" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| bb8d869 | Now, that's my boy you're talking about, and I don't want to get crossed up with you, Sasha. But you keep that tone and attitude about him, and we will." - Sundown "Sorry. I forget you and Ash are weird enough to actually like him. No accounting for taste." - Sasha" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e86a77e | The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have." - Choo Co La Tah "What are you? A fortune cookie writer?" - Abigail" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a84b0e9 | There's always one, isn't there?" Stryker asked rhetorically. In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of the earth was written in the blood of those betrayed by the very people they'd foolishly trusted." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 88dfc14 | I take offense to that. (Pandora) And I take offense to my sudden need for a testicle retrieval. You know, I would have liked to have fathered children one day. (Mike) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0539f6d | Relax, the bad guys don't knock. (Romeo) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9cdc6cc | Just out of curiosity, can an immortal choke to death on a bagel? (Francesca) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c697637 | I take it you didn't get the permits...again. (Brian) What was your first clue? (Geary) Oh, I don't know. That stomping stance as you walked down the street, clenching and unclenching your fists like you're already choking someone, or maybe it's that way you're looking at me like you could claw out my eyes when I haven't done anything to piss you off. (Brian) Yes, you have. (Geary) And that is? (Brian) You don't have a gun. (Geary) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4cc61ea | Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 360d9e5 | Fetch Constantine, or I'll make boots out of your hide, bear. (Arcadian Sentinel) Don't touch me, or I'll mount your jewels to the wall over your head. (Aimee) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 16cf8bf | Well, well, what have we here? A piece of Katagari trash that's taken up refuge with the bears? (Stone) No, just a wolf who's going to kick your ass back to whatever hole it crawled out of. (Fang) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0f0d8c4 | And you don't matter to me, table scrap. (Varyk) That feeling is entirely mutual, bear bait. Hell, I don't even acknowledge you as being here. So get out and take your trash with you. (Dev) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| fd0f66d | I want the tigard. (Varyk) And I want you to leave. Guess who's going to win this argument? And in case you're even denser than you appear, it's not you. (Dev) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 72452bb | Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7cd90d1 | Well, I should like a plan that doesn't result in the death of my heir. (Eli) Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7f46dfd | It looks like a typical voodoo sacrifice. (Fang) Well, slap my ass and call me Sally if you're not bright. (Thorn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5c740b8 | Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1493de8 | Forgotten history. You, however, are my present. (Varyk) Oh, goody. Do I have to wear a bow? (Fang) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1961112 | Cyn like Cynric ?No, S-I-N as in conceived in , born in and lived in | Sherrilyn Kenyon |