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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c56c22d | Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf. | Jules Verne | ||
| 5587d72 | Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better to spare it, in the interest of science. Ned Land: Perhaps it will be better to hunt it, in the interest of the kitchen. | Jules Verne | ||
| af55fc8 | He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9fc784b | A minimum put to good use is enough for anything. | possibility precision | Jules Verne | |
| 27431b6 | Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic competition that a participant who breaks the rules will triumph--at least in the short run--over more ethically sensitive competitors. | Tony Judt | ||
| 8180a29 | We no longer have political movement. While thousands of us may come together for a rally or march, we are bound together on such occasions by a single shared interest. Any effort to convert such interests into collective goals is usually undermined by the fragmented individualism of our concerns. Laudable goals - fighting climate change, opposing war, advocating public healthcare or penalizing bankers - are united by nothing more than the .. | Tony Judt | ||
| 8fdf72b | The moral courage required to hold a different view and to press it upon irritated readers or unsympathetic listeners remains everywhere in short supply. | Tony Judt | ||
| e63aec0 | Tick is a humble genesis, tock a feeble apocalypse; and tick-tock is in any case not much of a plot. We need much larger ones and much more complicated ones if we persist in finding 'what will suffice.' And what happens if the organization is much more complex than tick-tock? Suppose, for instance, that it is a thousand-page novel. Then it obviously will not lie within what is called our 'temporal horizon'; to maintain the experience of org.. | Frank Kermode | ||
| 87c8481 | Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. | Nathan Englander | ||
| 9e10917 | Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is. | John Bunyan | ||
| d3465f6 | Mr. Worldly-Wiseman is not an ancient relic of the past. He is everywhere today, disguising his heresy and error by proclaiming the gospel of contentment and peace achieved by self-satisfaction and works. If he mentions Christ, it is not as the Savior who took our place, but as a good example of an exemplary life. Do we need a good example to rescue us, or do we need a Savior? If | John Bunyan | ||
| e272f00 | The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue. | law power sin soul | John Bunyan | |
| 2f0910b | She's their secret weapon! They call her Trasha, and she's eight years old. I hear they discovered her at the Pacific Mall arcade, playing Drum-Mania. She has so much A.D.D., it's not even funny. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 41fa0dc | If we think of belonging only as membership in a club, organization, or church, we miss the point. Belonging is the risk to move beyond the world we know, to venture out on pilgrimage, to accept exile. And it is the risk of being with companions on that journey, God, a spouse, friends, children, mentors, teachers, people who came from the same place we did, people who came from entirely different places, saints and sinners of all sorts, tho.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| fa19915 | Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it. | Timothy Findley | ||
| be254ff | I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America. | government pakistan politics terrorism united-states war | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 065fee6 | Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a h.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| cc84703 | But mostly there was little to report, just the day-to-day goings-on of countless people working and living and aging and falling in and out of love, as is the case everywhere, and so not deemed worthy of headline billing or thought to be of much interest to anyone but those directly involved. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 961b4fa | You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich. | crime life politics poverty rights stealing wealth | Mohsin Hamid | |
| da76797 | It seemed to me then--and to be honest, sir, seems to me still--that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority.... Such an America had to be stopped in the interests not only in the rest of humanity, but also in your own. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| d3db1cb | When my turn came, I said I hoped one day to be the dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability; the others appeared shocked, and I was forced to explain that I had been joking. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 72293cf | But surely it is the gist that matters; I am, after all, telling you a history, and in history, as I suspect you--an American--will agree, it is the thrust of one's narrative that counts, not the accuracy of one's details. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| a469c37 | A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human equality, and for civilization instead of savagery. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 96a04f3 | When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to ackn.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 48cd8b4 | In the history of the evolution of the family, you and the millions of other migrants like you represent an ongoing proliferation of the nuclear. It is an explosive transformation, the supportive, stifling, stabilizing bonds of extended relationships weakening and giving way, leaving in their wake insecurity, anxiety, productivity, and potential. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| a0f1d30 | Thirty years will pass before I remember that moment when suddenly I knew each man has one brother who dies when he sleeps and sleeps when he rises to face this life, and that together they are only one man sharing a heart that always labours, hands | Philip Levine | ||
| e489965 | His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see. | Richard Bach | ||
| ebdea71 | For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do... | Richard Bach | ||
| 2c75e12 | We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else. | Richard Bach | ||
| 0b4d9ce | Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there? | Richard Bach | ||
| 74638ef | Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back. | Richard Bach | ||
| b4c8f3d | Right at the beginning, before the pianist could get her wheels up and fly into that storm, she was hit with a con brio, which I figured meant she had to play either with brightness, with coldness, or with cheese. | Richard Bach | ||
| 2c3e0df | Oh, Fletch, you don't love that! You don't love hatred and evil,of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and help them to see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. It's fun, when you get the knack of it. | Richard Bach | ||
| 77b073f | Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself. As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits. | Richard Bach | ||
| a179189 | He opened the door wider. "He's waiting." He gave me what was probably meant to be a significant wink, but a corner of his mouth moved more than his eye did and the result was a fairly startling face." | humor wink | Dashiell Hammett | |
| 5710482 | I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble. | mystery-classics sam-spade whodunit | Dashiell Hammett | |
| 2947e13 | But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 9374729 | We found a table. Nora said: "She's pretty." "If you like them like that." She grinned at me. "You got types?" "Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws." "And how about the red-head you wandered off with at Quinns' last night?" "That's silly," I said. "She just wanted to show me some French etchings." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 1b0bc5f | time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning | Norman Maclean | ||
| 31cf302 | I was raised by a woman who knows her own worth, and her daughters firmly believe that life is much better for a woman when a man has to work really hard to get her. It's human nature to take better care of something you've worked for, whether it's a car or a wife. | Linda Howard | ||
| b5fb69c | By morning, she was raw and sore, and knew walking would be an effort. By morning, she could barely remember what it had been like to not know his body, not to have felt him inside her and held him in her arms and absorbed the power of his thrusts as he came. By morning, she was his. | Linda Howard | ||
| 58f87ec | He whirled her against the refrigerator, his hands hard on her waist. Startled, she dropped her purse and keys to the floor and looked up at his set face and narrowed savage eyes. "Don't ever do that to me again," he said with clenched teeth. She didn't have to ask what he meant. Those moments when Pavon's pistol had been trained directly at her head had been long and terrifying. "I stayed in the--" she began, but he cut her off with a kiss.. | Linda Howard | ||
| c65f03e | But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her l.. | steamy-heat-of-summer | Linda Howard | |
| 012ee55 | Just as he'd done to her, she slowly moved up and down, caressing him with her body, drawing out his response. He ground his teeth together, fighting not to come when she was just as determined he would. Frustrated, she wondered why he was holding back--until she heard herself moan, and realized the friction was working on her, too. The battle there in the shower was in close-combat conditions. With the clinging grip of her body she tried t.. | Linda Howard |