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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2368a15 | Bareh tu hazar dafa! | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| f7a6df4 | It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6ae4478 | Mama believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, the sooner you had to tell it. | truth | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 3c58b35 | Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq's father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq's absence or presence. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4c88fea | It's a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e60381b | cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| cff86fe | I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 783cfd6 | Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they.. | and-the-mountains-echoed beauty cruel dreams hope khaled-hosseini pain plastic-surgeon sorrows superficial unfair unfairness-of-life world | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 7896731 | I said to you, "Hold my hand. Nothing bad will happen." These are only words. A father's tricks, It slays your father, your faith in him. Because all I can think tonight is how deep the sea, and how vast, how indifferent. How powerless I am to protect you from it. All I can do is pray." | poetry refugees syria | Khaled Hosseini | |
| d61f069 | It is significant ..... that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers? | James Hilton | ||
| 98c8d10 | If you forgive people enough, you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not - squatter's rights of the heart | James Hilton | ||
| 7f606aa | they didn't think there was anything very odd in anyone being a little odd. | odd | James Hilton | |
| f60eb6e | Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 171e6de | One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| fec56a2 | I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e429830 | Her affection for everything she could love increased. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 03ba53a | It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 69f2db8 | Everything's a story - You are a story - I am a story. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| abf013d | That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 751ec63 | thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9b686cc | You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 262e5a8 | I dare say you could live without me, Sara; but I couldn't live without you. I was nearly dead. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 518b827 | Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the left's denunciations of society. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 0232584 | People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| bf629be | You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he'd been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed. | Kandi Steiner | ||
| 6ef6822 | Like most people who decide to get sober, I was brought to Alcoholics Anonymous. While AA certainly works for others, its core propositions felt irreconcilable with my own experiences. I couldn't, for example, rectify the assertion that "alcoholism is a disease" with the facts of my own life. The idea that by simply attending an AA meeting, without any consultation, one is expected to take on a blanket diagnosis of "diseased addict" was to .. | addiction addiction-and-recovery alcoholics-anonymous alcoholism buddhism na narcotics-anonymous oppression recovery secularism sobriety substance-abuse trauma xa | Noah Levine | |
| a9c6f74 | London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. The sky was a crimson battlefield of spring, but London was not afraid. Her smoke mitigated the splendour, and the clouds down Oxford Street were a delicately painted ceiling, which adorned while it did not distract. | E. M. Forster | ||
| 5da70ec | But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and - which he held more precious - it gave her shadow. Soon he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us. The things are assuredly not of this life; no woman of Leonardo's could have anything so vulgar as a "story." She did develop most wonderfully day by day." | E.M. Forster | ||
| 2f4e27d | What does unhappiness matter when we are all unhappy together? | E.M. Forster | ||
| ef2657a | He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him | E.M. Forster | ||
| 808fb07 | But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 436d814 | He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad...The poem had done no 'good' to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 61ec7d0 | Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 073015a | Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did... | E.M. Forster | ||
| 9cf7a83 | Human beings have their great chance in the novel. | meaning meaning-of-life | E.M. Forster | |
| ec47c18 | Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as it consents to receive, and we are a welcome asset at dinner-parties. Pseudo-scholarship is, on its good side, the homage paid by ignorance to learning. It also has an economic side, on which we need not be hard. Most of us must get a job before thi.. | college economics employment exams faculty falsehood jobs market scholarship university writing | E.M. Forster | |
| d2675f1 | Of the many things Lucy was noticing today, not the least remarkable was this: this ghoulish fashion in which respectable people will nibble after blood. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 5831224 | He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don't know what they like because they feel obligated to like so many different things. They feel they're supposed to be overwhelmed, so instead of looking, they spend their time thinking up something to say, something intelligent, or at least clever. | Robert Hellenga | ||
| 9f1b43e | To Arendt's point about post-revolution stability deriving from pre-revolutionary experience in self government, it's worth remembering that two of Henry's less chatty fellow burgesses became the first and third presidents of the United States. Andrew O'Shaughnessy, referring to the masterminds of the 2013 government shutdown and no doubt alluding to the freshman senator who was its ringleader, told me, "Experience is terribly important. Yo.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| dadd5de | Radio is the playground of coincidence. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 4fa2a68 | Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new crop of buttinskys sniffing out the latest Macedonia that may or may not want their help. | history the-bible | Sarah Vowell | |
| e2f8106 | I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| fac3829 | His boss, Isaac (Robert Guillaume), agrees but tells him to do it anyway "because it's television and this is how it's done." Dan replies, "Yeah, well, sitting in the back of the bus was how it was done until a forty-two-year-old lady moved up front." A few minutes later Isaac looks Dan in the eye and tells him, "Because I love you I can say this. No rich young white guy has ever gotten anywhere with me comparing himself to Rosa Parks." Fin.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 34d745e | History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. | Sarah Vowell |