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| 09e413b | House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 5767bfa | Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 72ed3d5 | Your value is not determined by your valuables, | Rick Warren | ||
| 87db160 | Every church could put out a sign "No perfect people need apply. This is a place only for those who admit they are sinners, need grace, and want to grow." | Rick Warren | ||
| 4322eda | Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior. | Rick Warren | ||
| 3235786 | Betsy: You gentlemen stand around and look tough while I do an astral reconnaissance. Fantomex: I confess to feeling inferior in the company of such a gifted telepath. But for you, Warren, to be so.. dependent. It must be emasculating. Warren: Oh yeah, it's a real hardship. Worst part is all the sex it leads to. Terrible stuff to endure. | fantomex psylocke | Rick Remender | |
| c55a850 | Feelings are not always true or logical. In fact, resentment makes us act and think in foolish ways. The psalmist admitted, "When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt, I was as stupid as an animal."14 We all act beastly when hurt." | Rick Warren | ||
| 5657e5e | Betsy: "Do you have daddy issues, Warren?" Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain." -- | Rick Remender | ||
| 56dd350 | You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn't know it's purpose, and the invention itself wouldn't be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner's manual could reveal it's purpose. | invention purpose purpose-driven-life purpose-of-life rick-warren | Rick Warren | |
| bf4b809 | When a worker is injured at an IBP plant in Texas, he or she is immediately presented with a waiver. Signing the waiver means forever surrendering the right to sue IBP on any grounds. Workers who sign the waiver may receive medical care under IBP's Workplace Injury Settlement Program. Or they may not. Once workers sign, IBP and its company-approved doctors have control over the job-related medical treatment - for life. Under the program's t.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| b00403f | Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 78f68fc | He lived. He made it. A second chance, given to one and not the other. And this? This is what he did with it? | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 64d7d08 | What I want is for you to build a bridge. A bridge that connects these two parts of my life so I don't have to choose one or the other I don't want to choose Because the thing about choices? You get something while you lose something else. If you choose wrong you risk losing everything. | inspirational life love truth wisdom | Lisa Schroeder | |
| be7c4cb | Children make lousy clients. The lawyer becomes much more than a lawyer. With adults, you simply lay the pros and cons of each option on the table. You advise this way and that. You predict a little, but not much. Then you tell the adult it's time for a decision and you leave the room for a bit. When you return, you are handed a decision and you run with it. Not so with kids. They don't understand lawyerly advice. They want a hug and someon.. | John Grisham | ||
| 86dec7f | I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams. | John Grisham | ||
| 622a3f9 | How do you survive for years in prison? You don't think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today--how to get through it, how to survive it. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. You realize how tough you are, how you can function and survive because you have no choice. | government-corruption jail life | John Grisham | |
| 062fe67 | Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and larger. Others were pleasant wishes of a rosy future, free of the past. These were rare, Patrick had learned. Life on the run was life in the past. There was no closure | past | John Grisham | |
| 2d81537 | I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do. | John Grisham | ||
| f408fd6 | If you're not nervous, son, then something is wrong. | John Grisham | ||
| a21320e | The president had shifted to the 'we' mode now, something he invariably did when a potentially unpopular decision was at hand. For the easy ones, it was always 'I.' When he needed a crutch, and especially when he would need someone to blame, he opened up the decisionmaking process and included Critz. | John Grisham | ||
| 3ae98f4 | Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will";" | Robert A. Caro | ||
| f5f2ab2 | Harriet: Is it fun being married? Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know. | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| 149fc9f | Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know." | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 8d60287 | That's our story. How we became a we. And that's what we are these day. A we. When you're a group that can hear each other's thoughts, the line between I and We gets kind of blurry. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| ababca7 | Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market. | Michael Lewis | ||
| eefeda7 | We study natural stupidity instead of artificial intelligence. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 1d88c1d | When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That" | Michael Lewis | ||
| 6df3eb7 | What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? | money recession | Michael Lewis | |
| caf1c14 | Parisians take their work quite seriously, but they take their enjoyment of the little moments just as seriously. Sometimes sitting in a cafe with close friends or family and enjoying a shared plate of macarons is just as important as sitting in an office working. You know, some Parisians start their morning with a mug of hot chocolate. Really? Emilia asked, taking a fourth and fifth sip. The chocolate is like medicine to take away your tro.. | paris | Giada De Laurentiis | |
| bc3d536 | The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 3d346a7 | As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 23acd52 | Prediction," as Niels Bohr liked to say, "is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| c04d26d | Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| a3741c3 | The best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India is to pay a bounty on their scalps. Then every patriot goes to raising them. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 69a6d73 | The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. | Jared Diamond | ||
| d2145e0 | neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 89e15fe | For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference. | environment environmental-determinism history societies | Jared Diamond | |
| 836681b | It logical to suppose that history's pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves. Of course, we're taught that it's not polite to say so in public. We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place. We're told that this too is to be attributed not to any biological shortcomings but to social disadvantages and limited opport.. | inspirational | Jared Diamond | |
| 2bed8c9 | The first time I saw you, my heart fell. The second time I saw you, my heart fell. The third time fourth time fifth time and every time since, my heart has fallen. | James Frey | ||
| 5fb6502 | Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place. | James Frey | ||
| 22c0950 | Hope is an illusion a dangling carrot something to keep us going but going towards what | James Frey | ||
| 984a73f | When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true. | James Frey | ||
| 5187c78 | The clock holds me nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. There is nothing else but now and the shifting depth of night. I sit at a table alone smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee and listening and surviving. I should not be here or anywhere. I should not be breathing or taking space. | James Frey | ||
| 878d0f7 | I am as you see me. I am happy and able because I allow myself to be happy. I learned young that being active breeds more activity. That the gift of studying is knowledge. That seeing grants sight. That if you don't feel anger, you won't be angry. Sadness and frustration, even tragedy, are inevitable, but that doesn't mean that happiness isn't there for us, for all of us. My secret is that I choose to be the person that I want to be. That I.. | James Frey |