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| fd3c002 | I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of m.. | divorce reflection danger failure journey | Craig Ferguson | |
| 5762a20 | I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 99cb8e7 | We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglas. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 8235477 | And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense--no--but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled wh.. | shells waking-life beach chance | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 709d4a8 | Every step, even a tentative one, counts. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 54d25a9 | Ethan could be frustrating at times. Infuriating at others. But there was no doubt he was a Master among men. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 8fb9dfa | As juvenile as we sound, sometimes the most fun thing in the world is laughing with girls about boys. | friendship | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 5cc5e07 | Why did I have to love him so much if we're not going to end up together? | young-love | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 1ccf629 | This point is often missed by evangelical feminists. They conclude that a difference in function necessarily involves a difference in essence; i.e., if men are in authority over women, then women must be inferior. The relationship between Christ and the Father shows us that this reasoning is flawed. One can possess a different function and still be equal in essence and worth. Women are equal to men in essence and in being; there is no ontol.. | gender-equality | John Piper | |
| b35a078 | Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies. | trivial | John Piper | |
| 79f3daf | we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties. | John Piper | ||
| 81f5ad6 | But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice. | knowing-god | John Piper | |
| 79abd97 | In 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, Grant, aged thirty-nine, with four children at home and scarcely a penny in the bank, had made no mark on the world and looked unlikely to do so, for all the boom conditions of mid-century America. His Plymouth Rock ancestry, his specialist education, his military rank, which together must have ensured him a sheltered corner in the life of the Old World, counted for nothing in the New. He lacked the ess.. | John Keegan | ||
| ab78724 | The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives. | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| 7a895d7 | If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music. | recognition | Guy Kawasaki | |
| b456740 | Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it. | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| be81384 | Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don't make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare. | truth wisdom pimping street-life wisdom-in-fiction | Donald Goines | |
| 504f30e | 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' " - Lib McGovern" | Pat Frank | ||
| 17a482f | Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex." | Christine Feehan | ||
| d05dc80 | You're mine, Isabeau. You'll always be mine. Make no mistake about it. Whether you choose to forgive me and give us a second chance, or you don't, you'll be my only. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 90bb0c0 | The GhostWalker Creed: We are the GhostWalkers, we life in the shadows. The sea, the earth, and the air are our domain. No fallen comrade will be left behind. We are loyalty and honor bound. We are invisible to our enemies and we destroy them where we find them. We believe in justice and we protect our country and those unable to protect themselves. What goes unseen, unheard, and unknown are GhostWalkers. There is honor in the shadows and i.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 5a55396 | Torture can be a two edged sword. | torture | Christine Feehan | |
| 6884400 | No, they would not be happy to take my place at your side, cara mia, because I would promptly end their lives in a most unhappy way.' 'You are such a caveman, Julian. You look tall and elegant and princely, yet you have not matured beyond the cave.' ...'I have no intention of riding above caveman mentality,' he growled in her ear, his breath teasing tendrils of hair and sending little flames dancing through her bloodstream. 'There are so ma.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 43b4702 | One thing about Kane - he never did anything by halves. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 0c72a3b | cell phones have a way of disliking the bayou and the river. It must be water thing." "But what about when you weren't i the bayou? Surely Calhoun gave you a cell phone to keep in touch when you were in town." "I melted two of them. he decided it wasn't worth it." He looked down at her to see if she was teasing him. Her gaze was all too serious. "You melted them?" She nodded. "I melt things. Accidentally." Nicholas wasn't touching that. Con.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| cf416b7 | Sestrilla, hafelina Jue amourasestrilla Awou jue selaviena En patre jue Translation: Beloved one, little cat I love you for all time | love wild-rain forever | Christine Feehan | |
| f945c30 | I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you. | Christine Feehan | ||
| ff48762 | Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 1999659 | The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. At first he only dipped below the surface of sleep, and skimmed along like a salmon in shallow water, so close to the surface that he fancied himself in air. He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sl.. | T.H. White | ||
| e0bb6d9 | In the castle of Benwick, the French boy was looking at his face in the polished surface of a kettle-hat. It flashed in the sunlight with the stubborn gleam of metal. It was practically the same as the steel helmet which soldiers still wear, and it did not make a good mirror, but it was the best he could get. He turned the hat in various directions, hoping to get an average idea of his face from the different distoritons which the bulges ma.. | T.H. White | ||
| 7a20497 | It was Christmas night, the eve of the Boxing Day Meet. You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye, when the rosy barons ate with their fingers, and had peacocks served before them with all their tail feathers streaming, or boars' heads with the tusks stuck in again--when there was no unemployment because there were too few people to be unemployed--when the forests rang with knights walloping each other on the helm.. | the-sword-in-the-stone | T.H. White | |
| 304ba41 | These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The weather behaved itself. In the spring all the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang; in the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed; in the autum.. | seasons winter bucolic old-times spring england summer weather | T.H. White | |
| 8336e29 | If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy. | inspire happiness motivate medications holistic-health passages-ventura substance-abuse passages-malibu self-care self-love balance therapy | Chris Prentiss | |
| b1c8d8e | The way I see it, my job as a manager is to create a fertile environment, keep it healthy, and watch for the things that undermine it. I believe, to my core, that everybody has the potential to be creative--whatever form that creativity takes--and that to encourage such development is a noble thing. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 5fbcaa4 | We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths that lead to who-knows-where. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 07fb45e | It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| f98f8cb | And later that night to be with my family at dinnertime and have things just be like they always were. That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 192ad82 | The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| fc82bda | Si le gusto a alguien,quiero que sea mi verdadero yo el que le guste,no lo que piense que soy | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 92da475 | I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37] | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| c43cea0 | I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. I hope it can be that for him. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d5eac1d | Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. | relationships security | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 8447d36 | I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| edd1027 | Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |