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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 48abcf7 | Good grief. Are you flirting with me?" "Honey, my intentions are way past flirting." "Your intentions could get you a knee in the groin." Nick grinned. "At least your mind's on the right body part." -- | flirting | Janet Evanovich | |
| 4217580 | Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a72d8a1 | In my father's scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 15b4797 | I figured I'd embellish the truth a little, since the police might not be up on the finer points of bounty hunterism and might not understand about commandeering. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 15a058f | I'll take a donut over a man any day of the week. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 3793002 | I kicked my shoes off, shuffled out of the black jeans and carted an armload of food into my bedroom. I switched the television on and crawled into bed with the channel changer. Do I know how to have a good time, or what? | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 3db9e36 | It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of Titanic". "Didn't you enjoy Titanic?" "I was relieved when the ship went down"." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 5577bc6 | I'd kiss you, but you smell like a gym bag. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 30f21f7 | Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I'm serious." "What about the one time when you're not?" "I'm asleep." | Jayne Ann Krentz | ||
| d520d53 | I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective. | Jayne Ann Krentz | ||
| 3ca50e5 | For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know. | Jayne Ann Krentz | ||
| 5e7ea91 | We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| c7cd837 | The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: 'you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and .. | humility jesus love the-cross | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 8923e45 | Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for property as a prolongation of one's ego is a natural right sanctioned by natural law. A person is free on the inside because he can call his soul his own; he is free on the outside because he can call property his own. Internal freedom is based upon the fact that "I am"; external freedom is based on the fact that "I have." But just as the excesses .. | greed lust property sex | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 7777a01 | Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing to us, not those who are hateful. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| fe235c3 | Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say, "I am too great a sinner to change," or "God would not want me." God will take anyone who is willing to love, not with an occasional gesture, but with a "passionless passion," a "wild tranquility." A sinner, unrepentant, cannot love God, any more that a man on dry land can swim; but as soon as he take.. | sin | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 83c2855 | Deep sorrow does not come because one has violated a law, but only if one knows he has broken off the relationship with Divine Love. But there is yet another element required for regeneration, the element of repentance and reparation. Repentance is a rather dry-eyed affair; tears flow in sorrow, but sweat pours out in repentance. It is not enough to tell God we are sorry and then forget all about it. If we broke a neighbor's window, we woul.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| b41da09 | The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul... | god liberalism liberty | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 6581ce0 | The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The same sun shines upon mud that shines upon wax. It hardens the mud but softens the wax. The difference is not in the sun, but in that upon which it shines. The Divine Life which shines upon a soul that loves Him, softens it into everlasting life; that same Divine Life which shines upon the slothf.. | hate love | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 0d6ef3b | Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction. | science | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| e21abbf | In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders of science, and forget that I am the Author of the Universe and its science. Your scientists are the proofreaders, but not the authors of the Book of Nature; they can see and examine My handiwork, but they cannot create one atom themselves. You would tempt Me to prove Myself omnipotent by meaningless tests... | christianity jesus miracles satan temptation | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| d059e54 | Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less facade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic loyalties; it will revive shepherds who shepherd rather than administrate, reverse the proportion of saints and scholars in favor of saints, create more reapers for the harvest, more pillars of fire for the lukewarm; it w.. | hardship suffering | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 620b06a | Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual's conversion. Not only does it prevent him from realizing his desires; it even reduces his capacity for sin, his opportunities for vice. In that enforced detachment from evil, which is a Mercy of God, he has time to search himself, to appraise his life, to interpret it in terms of larger reality. He considers God, and, at that moment, there is a sense of duality, a confrontin.. | hardship illness illness-and-hope suffering | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 087b7fd | Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left. | giving self-sacrifice | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| d0d47c9 | lst`mr lwDH ybtrk dwn tnkr: ymn`k mn lklm, w mn lf`l, 'w ymn`k mn lwjwd. 'm lst`mr llmry'y, `l~ 'y Hl, yqn`k 'n lqn`@ hy qdrk w l`jz Tby`tk: yqn`k 'nh lys mn lmmkn lklm w lys mn lmmkn lf`l, w lys mn lmmkn lwjwd | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 327052d | No athlete, no scientist, no musician ever got better without focused practice, and there is no program you can download for that. It has to come from within. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| c65bbe2 | The principal factor promoting historically significant social change is contact with strangers possessing new and unfamiliar skills. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 21b3dfb | We go to school for twelve or more years during our childhoods and early adulthoods, and then we're done. But when the pace of change gets this fast, the only way to retain a lifelong working capacity is to engage in lifelong learning. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 89a11c2 | Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 41517f8 | We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. | l-m-montgomery wealth youth | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 9aa6bd7 | He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri", the little girl continued. "I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees." -- | god humor | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| b25f581 | It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| f013d90 | She felt a small shudder of fear. Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. There was fear of cold, of sickness and hunger. There was fear of beasts. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 1140900 | The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past. | Lois Lowry | ||
| e41130d | But how did you know? How did you know the pilot was lost?" "I didn't. I used my wisdom, from the memories. I knew that there had been times in the past--terrible times--when people had destroyed others in haste, in fear, and had brought about their own destruction." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8c98ab0 | It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating what you're leaving. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 3851b75 | you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do. | challenges difficulty downfall experiences life pain reality | Lois Lowry | |
| 4e4b2ac | He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility. | Lois Lowry | ||
| fae33a1 | But to be furious, murderously furious, is to be alive. No longer young, no longer pretty, no longer loved, or sweet, or lovable, unmasked, writhing on the ground for all to see in my utter ingloriousness, there's no telling what I might do | Claire Messud | ||
| f98a4b1 | As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar. | Claire Messud | ||
| ee7b620 | Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally. It is a spectacle we immortals enjoy, this minor daily resurrection, often we will gather at the ramparts of the clouds and gaze down upon them, our little ones, as they bestir themselves to welcome th.. | John Banville | ||
| 4ac988a | It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love. | Zadie Smith | ||
| bf40eb9 | The fear was respect, the respect, fear. If you didn't have the fear you had nothing. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 1ff251c | If someone asked her just then what memory was, what the of memory was, she would say this: the street you were on when you first jumped in a pile of dead leaves. She was walking it right now. With every fresh crunch came the memory of previous crunches. She was permeated by familiar smells: wet woodchip and gravel around the base of the tree, newly laid turd underneath the cover of soggy leaves. She was moved by these sensations. | Zadie Smith |