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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 87c88e0 | I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. | books writing | Sarah Vowell | |
| e2879b2 | My lips are chapped from the winds of change. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 0af9221 | The newly dubbed General Lafayette was only nineteen years old. Considering Independence Hall was also where the founders calculated that a slave equals three-fifths of a person and cooked up an electoral college that lets Florida and Ohio pick our presidents, making an adolescent who barely spoke English a major general at the age I got hired to run the cash register at a Portland pizza joint was not the worst decision ever made there. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 1cf9063 | quoting Kipling, "I never got over the wonder of a people who, having extirpated the aboriginals of their continent more completely than any modern race had ever done, honestly believed they were a godly little New England community, setting examples to mankind." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| f6e611a | There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: "It was on this spot..." My fantasy is to one day become a docent." | history retirement-dream tourism | Sarah Vowell | |
| 90b335c | After Dickinson and Adams had it out over the Olive Branch Petition, Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that he and Dickinson "are not to be on speaking terms." How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheers me up? If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along?" | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 547112a | So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 712bd1e | Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what's left. | usability webdesign writing | Steve Krug | |
| 3d407bf | And not just the right thing; it's profoundly the right thing to do, because the one argument for accessibility that doesn't get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some people's lives. How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people's lives just by doing our job a little better? | design ethics | Steve Krug | |
| 49924a2 | the more one respects Jesus, the more one must be brokenhearted, embarrassed, furious, or some combination thereof when one considers what we Christians have done with Jesus. That's certainly true when it comes to calling Jesus Lord, something we Christians do a lot, often without the foggiest idea of what we mean. Has he become (I shudder to ask this) less our Lord and more our Mascot? | Brian D. McLaren | ||
| d56a178 | But simple as the Sign of the Cross is, it carries a brave weight: it names the Trinity, celebrates the Creator, and brings home all the power of faith to the brush of fingers on skin and bone and belly. So do we, sometimes well and sometimes ill, labor to bring home our belief in God's love to the stuff of our daily lives, the skin and bone of this world -- and the Sign of the Cross helps us to remember that we have a Companion on the road.. | catholic catholicism christ christian christianity creator cross faith god god-s-love holy-trinity jesus jesus-christ love prayer religion sacramental sign-of-the-cross trinity | Brian Doyle | |
| 9ee8f6a | Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor. | christianity discipleship jesus love | Brian Zahnd | |
| 25b20d9 | Tako obichno biva. One koje zhelimo da vidimo ne dolaze u chasovima kad na njikh mislimo i kad ikh najvishe ochekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njikh. I nashoj radosti zbog ponovnog vidjenja treba tada vremena da se digne sa dna, gde je potisnuta, i pojavi na povrshini... | Ivo Andrić | ||
| da0abd1 | Sigurno je da mnogi ljudi cijelog svog zivota i ne slute kako nesrecnih ljudi ima na svijetu. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| b3fec46 | Ja sam vidio u cemu je takozvana borbenost nekih ,,borbenih" ljudi. Oni izmisle svoju ,,borbu", na silu joj nadu razloge, nadjenu ime, i bore se, bez rizika i rezultata, bore se - samo da ne bi morali misliti i raditi." | Ivo Andrić | ||
| a41dac1 | Misli dobro, pa ce dobro i biti. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 6b86a34 | Neka ti nije zao rad samoce i sutnje sto je oko tebe. Mozda udes dobro misli s tobom, mozda je to stara necija molitva koja te okruzuje tisinom kao zastitom, mozda u tvom cutanju leze pokopane rijeci koje nose nemir i nesrecu. U samoci je brod tvoj miran, desnu ruku drzis na kormilu. - Ludo srce, zar ti nije zao da te ne vitla bura bespucem? | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 22251b6 | Budenje u zoru! Oduvek je bila navikla da u to vreme resava sva pitanja za koja ni dan ni noc nisu mogli da nadu resenja. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 41c9e92 | Mislim da ste i vi uvideli kako je tesko sagledati i najocigledniju istinu, kako covek, uopste, sporo uci i kako skupo placa to malo sto u svom kratkom veku nauci. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| d65c800 | After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence. | Alan Brennert | ||
| 80fc66a | Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them. | death life | Alan Brennert | |
| 2fa4433 | Sometimes I have these premonitions and I don't forget them, so I will be prepared when they happen. | premonition | Isabel Allende | |
| 34a0b2f | hkdh hw lmnf~, yqdhf blns m` lryH l'rb` wySbH mn lS`b b`d dhlk lmW shml lmtfrqyn. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 1e706c7 | lqd Sr ldyn trykh mshtrk, ymknn lnZr l~ lmD wrwy@ 'Hdth l'ym lty `shnh m`an, wHsb l'Hzn w l'frH, hkdh ySn` lHb, dwn tsr`, wywman bywm | Isabel Allende | ||
| ca053cc | El mundo es violento y predatorio, regido por la ley implacable de los mas fuertes. La seleccion de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espiritu. A la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha. | Isabel Allende | ||
| e85876c | Los hijos, como los libros, son viajes al interior de una misma en los cuales el cuerpo, la mente y el alma cambian de direccion, se vuelven hacia el centro mismo de la existencia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4599688 | However, in those last months of riding across the golden landscape of California she felt she was flying free, like a condor. She was awakened one morning by the whinnying of her horse with the full light of dawn in her face, surrounded by tall sequoias that, like centenary guards, had watched over her sleep, by gentle hills, and, far in the distance, purple mountaintops; at that moment she was filled with an atavistic happiness that was e.. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 3d301b8 | 'Hynan, `l~ lmr 'n ykwn mst`dan ll`ysh klklb, l'n tklyf lHy@ bhZ@ jdan. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a41a2b7 | ywm akhr mn lntZr, wywm ynqS mn l'ml. ywm akhr mn lSmt, wywm 'ql mn lHy@. lmwt ymDy Tlyqan fy lmmrt wmhmty mshGlth Ht~ l yjd lTryq l~ bbk. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 321268e | lqd mDyt Twl Hyty mjdhf@ b`ks tyr lnhr bjhd wHshy, w'n lan mt`b@, 'ryd 'n 'ltf nSf dwr@ w'trk ltyr yHmlny brfq l~ lbHr. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 1341c86 | lwfr@ fy mtnwl lyd, dh 'Hsn lmr l`thwr `lyh. | Isabel Allende | ||
| d5ba984 | We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love. You need to love yourself as I do, as all those who know you do, especially Alma's grandson. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 39afc4c | Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 22c4672 | She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of 'beauty' and 'twilight' and cloaked herself in it. She made her living selling words. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4d08895 | Todos tenemos demonios en los rincones oscuros del alma, pero si los sacamos a la luz, los demonios se achican, se debilitan, se callan y al fin nos dejan en paz. | Isabel Allende | ||
| db96485 | Cada uno escoge el tono para contar su propia historia; quisiera optar por la claridad durable de una impresion en platino, pero nada en mi destino posee esa luminosa cualidad. Vivo entre difusos matices, velados misterios, incertidumbres; el tono para contar mi vida se ajusta mas al de un retrato en sepia... | Isabel Allende | ||
| b5df2ef | fy hdhh i lHaya@ l ntwjWh l~ 'y W makan, mahm 'sr`n, bal nmDy, khuTwa@ f khuTwa@, naHw lmawt . | Isabel Allende | ||
| 66f8527 | l 'jd fy nfsy `ywban sw~ kwny mr'@ , whdhh tbdw jrym@ kfy@ . fnHn lmthmt bshbq lrjl . wlkn , 'lyst lkhTyy'@ mn msw'wly@ mn yrtkbh ? flmdh `lyW 'n 'df` thmn khTy lakhryn ? | novel women | Isabel Allende | |
| 046c4a1 | I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5514f74 | Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another. | Yann Martel | ||
| cd4ea05 | I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. | life-and-living life-lessons | Yann Martel | |
| 2f8608f | My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions. | Yann Martel | ||
| 2dd913f | In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the streets. Which is to stay, stab his heart and it would bleed French, slice his brain open and its convolutions would be lined with English and German, and touch his hands and they would feel Spanish. | Yann Martel | ||
| e788953 | It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. | regret saying-goodbye | Yann Martel |