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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 86fa944 | Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. | american-civil-war-biography experience learning mistakes | Shelby Foote | |
| f4443d4 | Questions of Travel There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of so many clouds on the mountaintops makes them spill over the sides in soft slow-motion, turning to waterfalls under our very eyes. --For if those streaks, those mile-long, shiny, tearstains, aren't waterfalls yet, in a quick age or so, as ages go here, they probably will be. But if the streams and clouds keep tr.. | Elizabeth Bishop | ||
| 3f18e6f | If I - as a beneficiary of that exact formula - will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionately cumbersome burden on women? Such a system demands that mothers become selfless to the point of near invisibility in order to construct these exemplary encironments for their families. And might t.. | sacrifice | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e37c91a | at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 38770ac | If the world was full of perplexing problems she would trust, and only ask to see the one step needful for the hour. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 8a22a51 | If all the world spoke, acted, or kept silence with intent to deceive, --if dearest interests were at stake, and dearest lives in peril, --if no one should ever know of her truth or her falsehood to measure out their honour or contempt for her by, straight alone where she stood, in the presence of God, she prayed that she might have strength to speak and act the truth for evermore. | personal-integrity strength truth | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 09ab2f2 | If you live in Milton, you must learn to have a brave heart, Miss Hale.' 'I would do my best,' said Margaret rather pale. 'I do not know whether I am brave or not till I am tried; but I am afraid I should be a coward. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 96da2c1 | Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth! | prayer religious | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 9e72e55 | She never called her son by any name but John; 'love,' and 'dear,' and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. But her heart gave thanks for him day and night; and she walked proudly among women for his sake. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 614f85e | Charlotte Bronte] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of course. They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, 'I will prove to you that you are wrong; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours. | charlotte-bronte jane-eyre writing | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 1aed8c7 | He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer. I'm not saying he did right, and I'm not saying he didn't wrong. All I say is, may neither me nor mine ever have his sore heart, or we may do like things. | hardship suffering suicide | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| bce3e43 | Once again, God has a purpose. A desire. A goal. And God never stops pursuing it. Jesus tells a series of parables in Luke 15 about a woman who loses a coin, a shepherd who loses a sheep, and a father who loses a son. The stories aren't ultimately about things and people being lost; the stories are about things and people being found. The God that Jesus teaches us about doesn't give up until everything that was lost is found. This God simpl.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 452321f | It's the voices in your head that speak doubt and insecurity and fear and anxiety. Like a tape that's jammed on "repeat," these destructive messages will drain an extraordinary amount of your energies if you aren't clear and focused and grounded." | Rob Bell | ||
| 14e7fed | After all, you can argue - argue until you cry - about what modern, codified misogyny is; but straight-up ungentlemanliness, of the kind his mother would clatter the back of his head for, is inarguable. It doesn't need to be a 'man vs woman' thing. It's just a tiff between The Guys. Seeing the whole world as 'The Guys' is important. The idea that we're all, at the end of the day, just a bunch of well-meaning schlumps, trying to get along, i.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0d324a9 | But if there is to be a fifth wave of feminism, I would hope that the main thing that distinguishes it from all that came before is that women counter the awkwardness, disconnect, and bullshit of being a modern woman not by shouting at it, internalizing it, or squabbling about it - but by simply pointing at it and going "HA!" instead." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| ea1780e | You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you. | doctors helping medical-work sadness | Caitlin Moran | |
| 1e4d767 | I think it's a delightful thing, for a young teenage girl to befriend someone of another generation. She is like a window into the past, I think to myself. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e7b6b38 | The thing is, when you start smoking, you think you've bought a fun baby dragon. You think you've charmed a fabulous beast, as your toy, that will impress all that see it. And then, twenty years later, you wake up with your lungs full of cinder and shite, and the bed on fire, and you realize the dragon grew up--and burned your fucking house down. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| ff26ded | Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 2ad058e | He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game. | the-killer-angels | Michael Shaara | |
| 41833b2 | The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf or a tree. | Michael Shaara | ||
| acd3dff | It's weird to have something that's mine-not-Ma's. Everything else is both of ours. I guess my body is mine and the ideas that happen in my head. But my cells are made out of her cells so I'm kind of hers. Also when I tell her what I'm thinking and she tells me what she's thinking, our each ideas jump into our other's head, like coloring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| f1a11ef | I'd love to watch TV all the time, but it rots our brains. Before I came down from Heaven Ma left it on all day long and got turned into a zombie that's like a ghost but walks 'thump thump.' So now she always switches off after one show, then the cells multiply again in the day and we can watch another show after dinner and grow more brains in our sleep. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 8fb3de5 | Do you realize what a beacon you've become?" "A--I beg your pardon?" "A beacon of hope," says the woman, smiling. "As soon as we announced we'd be doing this interview, our viewers started calling in, e-mails, text messages, telling us you're an angel, a talisman of goodness . . ." Ma makes a face. "All I did was I survived, and I did a pretty good job of raising Jack. A good enough job." "You're very modest." "No, what I am is irritat.. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| f0b8cd1 | Somewhere between good and bad - bits of both stuck together." Ma" | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 0c06078 | Perhaps we get, not what we deserve, but what we demand. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| d5de3d0 | I've been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what's going to hurt. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 9b44c65 | better keep your mouth shut and seem stupid than open it and remove all doubt. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 62b5bd4 | Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live. | life | Emma Donoghue | |
| 8f00564 | And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations? | Emma Donoghue | ||
| b80f51d | I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them. | love | Emma Forrest | |
| 7857bc1 | We broke up in eighth grade when Tara-Mae Forrester offered to let me touch her boobs. And I did. | lawyers sexy stanton-shaw | Emma Chase | |
| 172645c | Men and the pursuit of them are strongly intertwined with my mental health. I would say, in my defensive defense, that the problem with being a serial monogamist is, there isn't anybody random or unimportant: everybody you sleep with really means something, which is to say each of them is on your public record. At some point I wake up thinking, Fuck this! I don't want another man in my bed ever again. What I really want is a cat. | humor love men sex | Emma Forrest | |
| d6e7a70 | When you insult or injure the unfortunate or the unhappy, you insult Christ Himself and He will not forget, for they are His chosen ones. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 06a0fac | May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity. | destruction end hyenas insanity tear | Jean Rhys | |
| cdfc697 | Only seven or eight, and yet she knew so exactly how to be cruel and who it was safe to be cruel to. One must admire Nature.. | Jean Rhys | ||
| e2869d4 | If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.''It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 9b31775 | When I saw him looking up like that I knew that I loved him, and that it was for always. It was as if my heart turned over, and I knew that it was for always. It's a strange feeling - when you know quite certainly in yourself that something is for always . It's like what death must be. | love | Jean Rhys | |
| b2326b9 | Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliche. Everything is born out of a cliche, rests on a cliche, survives by a cliche. And they believe in the cliches - there's no hope. | Jean Rhys | ||
| a5cfb27 | You can't fully prepare. You do your best to acquire diverse skills. You try to learn from your successes and mistakes over the years. You try to assemble a team with varied talents and expertise. Mostly, you strive to stay calm enough to think clearly even under extreme pressure. You try to use the adrenaline for focus rather than panic. You stay on your toes, ready to improvise. And you hope for the best. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 6ebfd14 | This is my risk to take.Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed." "Technically, you can't live if you get yourself killed." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 833b34c | Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay. | Brandon Mull | ||
| ce59b49 | The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. | despair hope | Warren G. Bennis | |
| ab76f7d | The Affordable Health Care for Americans Act, passed by the House of Representatives on November 7, 2009, was 1,990 pages long. You could stand on it to paint the ceiling. The entire U.S. Constitution can be printed on eight pages. That's eight pages to run a whole country for 221 years versus four reams of government pig latin if you slam your thumb in a car door. | P.J. O'Rourke |