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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 985d4cf | Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved. | ears love | Mary Doria Russell | |
| f2ff29c | Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| f0322a7 | Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service... | prophet | Mary Doria Russell | |
| f267ef3 | Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon. | funny humor | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 93951e0 | The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment? | charity | Mary Doria Russell | |
| f417be5 | We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage--and indeed perhaps more. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| c2c8c18 | God--if there is a God--would not choose one man above another or one people above another. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 1cde7ae | The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| acf233c | Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation. | inspirational pearl-s-buck the-eternal-wonder | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 01c587d | With his arms outstretched, nailed to the cross, Jesus was saying, "This is how valuable you are to me. I love you this much! I'd rather die than live without you." You are priceless." | Rick Warren | ||
| bda1cfc | Listen: Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go. | Rick Warren | ||
| 64eedb7 | It's not about me. | Rick Warren | ||
| 3f13496 | Knowing your purpose focuses your life. | Rick Warren | ||
| c9968b1 | The way you see your life shapes your life. | Rick Warren | ||
| cdc8f52 | If you don't know how to be happy with what you have, you will never be happy with more. | Rick Warren | ||
| 2aa63f0 | Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 1d5f008 | Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 72d472d | The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| aa0d5b0 | Once again I had asked an innocent question, and because of it, I was banished from the conversation. | John Grisham | ||
| 8533b71 | Life hands us things we don't want. Nasty things. Terrible things. It's how we handle those things that matters. That's all. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 006168d | Anticipation is the best alarm there is, and it shook me awake before my phone even had the chance. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 2dda999 | It brings me back to the moment, and I want to live the moment with everything I've got. | living | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 1d42f25 | His warm voice tiptoes into the quiet room. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 75b942f | Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I don't want it to end. Other times the story pulls me in, and I can hardly read fast enough, the details flying by, some of them lost because all that matters is making sure the character is all right when it's over. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 5f3b1c6 | I talk and cry while Nico sits and listens. Like we've been friends forever. Finally, I use the shirt to wipe the tears and take a deep breath. We're quiet for a long time and then Nico points to a pair of boxer shorts on the floor. "I'm glad you picked the shirt." | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| b5e4ac5 | There was something unfair about a system in which a little kid was brought into a courtroom and surrounded by lawyers arguing and sniping at each other under the scornful eye of a judge, the referee, and somehow in the midst of this barrage of laws and code sections and motions and legal talk the kid was supposed to know what was happening to him. It was hopelessly unfair. | John Grisham | ||
| a607718 | Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done. | John Grisham | ||
| 2e4a572 | The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator. | John Grisham | ||
| d6a53c3 | The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks. | mississippi-authors mississippi-writers | John Grisham | |
| 11d1eb5 | A friendship can't survive on childhood memories alone. We have to create new experiences, or the friendship will shrivel up. | sarah-mlynowski | Sarah Mlynowski | |
| e0b0af6 | I lived here my whole life and I've never been to this neighborhood.' And Big Mike finally spoke up. 'Don't worry,' he said. 'I got your back. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 6b5d744 | What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away. | love-of-god sovereignty-of-god | Michael Lewis | |
| 8a1e306 | I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning. | humor wall-street | Michael Lewis | |
| 29a1ba9 | From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four seconds than to five. and Lawrence Taylor (fearless tackle) WE all have fears, we all have fears!! | Michael Lewis | ||
| 9897085 | Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point. | Michael Lewis | ||
| f16ba11 | Shining a light creates shadows, | Michael Lewis | ||
| 8389c7e | There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral. Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties. Think about the anti-smoking campaign of recent years. The addition of a $3-per-pack "sin tax" is a strong economic incentive against buying cigarettes. The banning of cigarettes in restaurants and bars is a powerful social incentive. And when the U.S. government asserts that terrorists raise money .. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 9c9ca1f | An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 24a1ab6 | One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 741aea5 | at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved... | Anne Carson | ||
| fd43df2 | Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys | the-odyssey | Homer | |
| b54e29a | The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity. | drugs inspirational james | James Frey | |
| 9703fbc | I sit and I listen to John cry and I wish there was something I could do to help him. I sit and I listen and I wish there was some way I could make it better. There is no hope for John, no hope at all. He could go to five hundred Clinics and spend ten years working the Twelve Steps and it wouldn't make a bit of fucking difference. He has been broken beyond repair, wounded beyond the point of healing, abused beyond the point of recovery. He .. | James Frey | ||
| aa38892 | Forty-four. What is more important, fame or integrity. What is more valuable, money or happiness. What is more dangerous, success or failure. If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy. Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you. | James Frey |