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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4e52632 | Why did you come for me?" "You're my wife." "I left the ring on the table! I didn't steal it." "That didn't change a thing. We're still married." "You could've just forgotten about it." He stopped and glared at her. "It's a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It's not an arrangement you nullify when things get a little tough to bear." | Francine Rivers | ||
| 6e0ac61 | For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl. Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't believe in anything, proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 55ec610 | The message of Christ's love is found in Isaiah, chapter sixty-one," the man was saying. "God himself will restore the crumbling foundations of your life. He will give you beauty for ashes. He'll provide redemption, no matter who you are, where you are. . . ." | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 9866aef | A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 3618345 | For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. | influences life thoughts | George Eliot | |
| 9726fc5 | I have never done you injustice. Please remember me," said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob. "Why should you say that?" said Will, with irritation. "As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else." -- | George Eliot | ||
| fd43f47 | Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. Let even a polished man of these days get into a position he is ashamed to avow, and his mind will be bent on all the possible issues that may deliver him from the calculable results of that position. Let him live outside his income, or shirk the resolute honest work that brings wages, and he will presently find himself d.. | human-nature | George Eliot | |
| 765093f | But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. | feeling intimacy love | George Eliot | |
| 0d2babf | In spite of his mildness and timidity in reproving, every one about him knew that on the exceptional occasions when he chose, he was absolute. He never, indeed, chose to be absolute except on some one else's behalf. | selflessness | George Eliot | |
| b910c55 | True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions - does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread. | George Eliot | ||
| 2515097 | In the checkered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the winepress. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields. | George Eliot | ||
| 7a296aa | I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not wi.. | marriage | George Eliot | |
| d8454c0 | If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment. | George Eliot | ||
| 2a209a9 | But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong. | writing-advice | George Eliot | |
| a1ffc96 | No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another. | George Eliot | ||
| 8ca5b26 | It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feeling; but then, such feelings continually come across the ties that our former life has made for us -- the ties that have made others dependent on us -- and would cut them in two. If life were quite easy and simple, as it might have been in paradise, and we could always see that one being first towards whom -- I mean, if life did not make duties for us before love comes, .. | George Eliot | ||
| c5410e8 | There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy. | marriage meekness patience | George Eliot | |
| 897933d | One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. | George Eliot | ||
| d88a955 | Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear. | speech | George Eliot | |
| 525d2bd | When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritorious, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune. | George Eliot | ||
| 3f96cf5 | I think I shall trusten till I die. | George Eliot | ||
| bcb01f9 | Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes. | George Eliot | ||
| 2c287d5 | I will wait till after Christmas." What should we all do without the calendar, when we want to put off a disagreeable duty? The admirable arrangements of the solar system, by which our time is measured, always supply us with a term before which it is hardly worthwhile to set about anything we are disinclined to." | George Eliot | ||
| 024df0c | Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances. | George Eliot | ||
| 62ebaea | We are all of us denying or fulfilling prayers - and men in their careless deeds walk amidst invisible outstretched arms and pleadings made in vain. | George Eliot | ||
| f524fd1 | It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us - that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory. | George Eliot | ||
| 2be159b | All choice of words is slang. It marks a class." "There is correct English: that is not slang." "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets." | George Eliot | ||
| 679506f | You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that--if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it.. | George Eliot | ||
| 0134f59 | Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| ade4d05 | I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary." | epitaph humor irony | Tobias Wolff | |
| c1dcc31 | The bullet is already in the brain; it won't be outrun forever, or charmed to a halt. In the end it will do its work and leave the troubled skull behind, dragging its comet's tail of memory and hope and talent and love into the marble hall of commerce. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 776fe97 | Like Leontius, the young Athenian in Plato, I presume that you are reading this because you desire a closer look, and that you, too, are properly disturbed by your curiosity. Perhaps, in examining this extremity with me, you hope for some understanding, some insight, some flicker of self-knowledge - a moral, or a lesson, or a clue about how to behave in this world: some such information. I don't discount the possibility, but when it comes t.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 450194f | Anyhow, he say, you know how it is. You ask yourself one question, it lead to fifteen. I start to wonder why us need love. Why us suffer. Why us black. Why us men and women. Where do children really come from. It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ask why you here, period. So what you think? I ask. I think us he.. | Alice Walker | ||
| 3404e3c | Even as I hold you I think of you as someone gone far, far away. Your eyes the color of pennies in a bowl of dark honey bringing sweet light to someone else your black hair slipping through my fingers is the flash of your head going around a corner your smile, breaking before me, the flippant last turn of a revolving door, emptying you out, changed, away from me. | loss love poetry poetry-quotations | Alice Walker | |
| 0d9c692 | I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently | Alice Walker | ||
| 2cdf590 | Shug: More than anything God love admiration. Celie: You saying God is vain? Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it. Celie: You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible? Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do ev.. | Alice Walker | ||
| 4492402 | Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you. | Alice Walker | ||
| 1806206 | She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next. | Alice Walker | ||
| ca2c814 | If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too. | Alice Walker | ||
| 3a26410 | We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own. | inspirational life vincent-van-gogh | Alice Walker | |
| 07dc040 | The good ones who listen to women to children and the poor die too soon, their lives bedeviled by opposition: our hearts grieve for them. This was the world my father knew. A poor man he saw good men come and mostly go; leaving behind the stranded and bereft. People of hopes, dreams, and so much hard work! Yearning for a future suddenly foreclosed. But today you write me all is well even though the admirable Hugo Chavez has died this aftern.. | Alice Walker | ||
| 883b80a | It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are? | Melody Carlson | ||
| 3ce6996 | One thing should be clear to you now. Money-making is aggression. That's the whole thing. The functionalistic explanation is the only one. People come to the market to kill. They say, 'I'm going to make a killing.' It's not accidental. Only they haven't got the genuine courage to kill, and they erect a symbol of it. The money. They make a killing by fantasy. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 8d6b985 | Theirs was not a marriage that could last. Madeleine had never loved him. She was telling him that. 'It's painful to have to say I never loved you. I never will love you, either,' she said. 'So there's no point in going on.' Herzog said, 'I do love you, Madeleine.' Step by step, Madeleine rose in distinction, in brilliance, in insight. Her color grew very rich, and her brows, and that Byzantine nose of hers, rose, moved; her blue eyes gaine.. | Saul Bellow |