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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 08cd789 | Who the hell came up with this brilliant curse? (Aiden) It was the best I could manage in a hurry. (Leta) With those kinds of critical assessment skills you should consider running for political office. (Aiden) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ead434a | It's been a whole day since I last killed someone, and I'm getting antsy. (Maxis) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c780358 | You're going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can't get any more of those until you go back to the Sates, right? (Geary) It's for a good cause. We need more addicts. Besides, there's always Grandpa to bail me out with an emergency shipment if I get too desperate. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 15eea82 | Tu aliento se me fue haciendo costumbre, y ahora lo unico que se es que ya no podria vivir sin el; lo necesito junto a mi y para siempre, contra mi propia almohada. En tu casa o en la mia !que importa! cualquiera de las dos puede ser la nuestra. Elige tu. | Alejandro Casona | ||
| d269f81 | Grief is not a pleasure, but it makes me remember, and I am grateful. | Abigail Thomas | ||
| bc68b83 | The Christian community, therefore, is that community that freely becomes oppressed, because they know that Jesus himself has defined humanity's liberation in the context of what happens to the little ones. Christians join the cause of the oppressed in the fight for justice not because of some philosophical principle of "the Good" or because of a religious feeling of sympathy for people in prison. Sympathy does not change the structures of .. | James H. Cone | ||
| 3c64d58 | Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan. | doom | Malcolm Lowry | |
| 36370dd | For a moment in time, a man knew me for who I was and, without reservation, loved me for who I was. How can I now live knowing no one will ever see me again in such a perfect light? Hear me as I wish to be heard? Love me as [he] loved me? | Robin Maxwell | ||
| 34d5715 | You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done. | Sarah Miller | ||
| d17971a | feeling angry signals a problem, venting anger does not solve it. Venting anger may serve to maintain, and even rigidify, the old rules and patterns in a relationship, thus ensuring that change does not occur. When emotional intensity is high, many of us engage in nonproductive efforts to change the other person, and in so doing, fail to exercise our power to clarify and change our own selves. The old anger-in/anger-out theory, which states.. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| 529e876 | Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying. | men prayer women comfort jesus faith god worry decision worrying | Elizabeth George | |
| f70a781 | Have you noticed her name?" Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. "The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?" "Oh, she's not named after Hannah. I hadn't gone ten miles down the river that day before I knew I'd left the real witch behind." | woman love witch | Elizabeth George Speare | |
| 2760542 | That lame man you saw-- is he grateful now? Is it worth it to get on his feet and spend the rest of his life dragging burdens like a mule? . . . It's not much of a world, is it? Is it worth trying to bring Leah back into it?" Thacia stood still in the road. "Oh, Daniel-- yes! If only I could make you see, somehow, that it is!" "All this--" she exclaimed, the sweep of her arm including the deepening blue of the sky, the shining lake in the d.. | Elizabeth George Speare | ||
| 7ce850a | God-confidence comes as the Holy Spirit works in us. As we pray and when we make choices that honor God, the Holy Spirit fills us with His power for ministry. When we are filled with God's goodness, we are confidently and effectively able to share His love and joy. As women of prayer open to the transforming touch of the Holy Spirit, we will find his divine life in us overflowing into the lives of others. | Elizabeth George | ||
| 1fa9a8e | Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears. | thomas-hardy | Thomas Hardy | |
| 0818b6f | She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write... | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 5a6c5a0 | you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 4cde06f | The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars. After such a nocturnal reconnoitre it is hard to get bac.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| f80dbad | I have been thinking ... that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies... | social-constraints | Thomas Hardy | |
| 18ea334 | WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And h.. | observation weather | Thomas Hardy | |
| 6445843 | It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 6a70d91 | Women are never tired of bewailing man's fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy. | love fickleness | Thomas Hardy | |
| 779c504 | You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always | romantic declarations-of-love far-from-the-madding-crowd love-you-forever steadfast thomas-hardy gabriel-oak loyal | Thomas Hardy | |
| d9b94ec | There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 8a9b84a | l'n lrjl mkhlwft Gby@ wmkhlS@! w qd yHwlwn ltGlb `l~ msh`r lHb fy dkhlhm wlkn ljmy` syGrq fy lHzn w lkab@. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| b733b31 | Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not. | Lawrence Block | ||
| edca4aa | We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places. | Lawrence Block | ||
| f79a927 | A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity. | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 945d6ed | I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny." | writing destiny god life chain-of-life the-scarlet-pimpernel god-s-will question | Emmuska Orczy | |
| f23af72 | En la bandera de la libertad borde el amor mas grande de mi vida. | Federico García Lorca | ||
| 3edbd65 | Man made God in his own image, so it's natural he should love him. You know those distorting mirrors at fairs. Man's made a beautifying mirror too in which he sees himself lovely and powerful and just and wise. It's his idea of himself. He recognizes himself easier than in the distorting mirror which only makes him laugh, but how he loves himself in the other. | Graham Greene | ||
| f0b0fed | But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck. | love end-of-love | Graham Greene | |
| 7c951b1 | It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? | Graham Greene | ||
| 7369a0b | It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen in love and he was held to it as though to the scene of a disaster. Time gives poetry to a battlefield. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1c479cd | They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . . | Graham Greene | ||
| 82f05ac | The woman had gone down on her knees and was shuffling slowly across the cruel ground towards the group of crosses: the dead baby rocked on her back. When she reached the tallest cross she unhooked the child and held the face against the wood and afterwards the loins: then she crossed herself, not as ordinary Catholics do, but in a curious and complicated pattern which included the nose and ears. Did she expect a miracle? And if she did, wh.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8a75157 | Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed. | Graham Greene | ||
| a62f620 | The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter. | Graham Greene | ||
| aa25cb3 | People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations. | Graham Greene | ||
| dec775b | A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations. | Graham Greene | ||
| e2fdaad | The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight. | foresight british | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| d7b53c3 | When I was a kid I used to drink from the tap all the time. I'd run back into the flat all hot and sweaty from playing and didn't even bother putting it in a glass, just turned the tap on and stuck my mouth underneath it. If my mom caught me doing it she used to scold me, but my dad just said that I had to be careful. 'What if a fish jumped out?' he used to say. 'You'd swallow it before you knew it was there.' Dad was always saying stuff li.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 95116cb | The police never saw a noun they didn't want to turn into a verb, so it quickly became "to action", as in you action me to undertake a Falcon assessment, I action a Falcon assessment, a Falcon assessment has been actioned and we all action in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine. This, to review a major inqurity is to review the list of "actions" and their consequences, in the hope that you'll spot something that thir.. | policing jargon | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 647801f | The Metropolitan Police has a very straightforward approach to murder investigations, not for them the detective's gut instinct or the intricate logical deductions of the sleuth savant. No, what the Met likes to do is throw a shitload of manpower at the problem and run down every single lead until it is exhausted, the murderer is caught or the senior investigating officer dies of old age. | Ben Aaronovitch |