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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c2a8a64 | God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 344e594 | She was held in the tension just before movement, about to walk back toward the house. Later she would think, If I had turned away, I'd have missed the moment he fell in love. He would not remember it that way. What he experienced was not so much the beginning of love as a cessation of pain. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| a0de8a1 | The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 0c21c34 | God will break your heart. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| a6a997f | Abandon a dachshund and upon your return, you may well be confronted with a small token of her displeasure. This, for the dachshund, is an undignified but necessary form of training. Eventually, you will learn your lesson, which is to take you with her everywhere. When you have finally accepted this, you will be generously rewarded for your good behavior by a jaunty, joyful companion. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| f33982b | If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed!" (Buck, 65)" | silver the-good-earth work-ethic | Pearl S. Buck | |
| d4801e9 | To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 4dcdcf4 | You must set forth and find the center of your interest. You are a creator, but you must find your interest and then dedicate yourself to that interest--not to the act of creativity. Merely to want to create will make it impossible for you to do so. You must find an interest greater than yourself--a love, perhaps--and then the power to create will set you on fire. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| bd76d42 | If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured? | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 6ef0852 | Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. | destiny education fate ignorance self-determination understanding | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 04caf3e | If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own! You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable. | Rick Warren | ||
| 8fe70c3 | Put Jesus Christ in the driver's seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel. | Rick Warren | ||
| 5a2c38a | Knowing your purpose prepares you for eternity. | Rick Warren | ||
| 343fb48 | Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye... | eternity time | Rick Warren | |
| 90a25af | Without God's glory, there would be nothing. | Rick Warren | ||
| a2d7626 | Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe. | Rick Warren | ||
| f362555 | Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless. | Rick Warren | ||
| ab4681d | A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 9a2cedc | I felt heat and my body trembled and forces beyond my control pulled me to him as the music ripped through our bodies | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 0dc1aed | Love is the answer. Not fear. | love | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 5da16c6 | Sounds awful." "No, it's wonderful. And it's just for one year. Let's take a break. Blair's not here. she'll be back next year and we can jump back into the Christmas chaos, if that's what you want. Come on, Nora, please. We skip Christmas, save the money, and go splash in the Caribbean for ten days." "How much will it cost?" "Three thousand bucks." "So we save money?" "Absolutely." "When do we leave?" "High noon, Christmas Day." They stare.. | John Grisham | ||
| 142dc19 | You count the years until you get a varsity jersey, then you're a hero, an idol, a cocky bastard because in this town you can do no wrong. You win and win and you're the king of your own little world, then poof, it's gone. You play your last game and everybody cries. You can't believe it's over. Then another team comes right behind you and you're forgotten. | John Grisham | ||
| 000670f | When you have no future, you live in the past. | regret | John Grisham | |
| a117f09 | Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| afcd764 | The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you," he said. "The most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say." | negotiation | Robert A. Caro | |
| 0ec54fc | When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs--even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 0a00316 | A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt, | Michael Lewis | ||
| 56748e8 | If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. | individuality motivation | Michael Lewis | |
| e170bb9 | Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer] | sports statistics | Michael Lewis | |
| d29aca1 | But wouldn't it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We'd spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about; | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| de9dc4a | When the solution to a given problem doesn't lay right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no solution exists. But history has shown again and again that such assumptions are wrong. This is not to say the world is perfect. Nor that all progress is always good. Even widespread societal gains inevitably produce losses for some people. That's why the economist Joseph Schumpeter referred to capitalism as "creative destruction." But human.. | incentives | Steven D. Levitt | |
| b918d5c | Turns out that a real-estate agent keeps her own home on the market an average of ten days longer and sells it for an extra 3-plus percent, or $10,000 on a $300,000 house. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| cec4476 | All human societies contain inventive people. It's just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do other environments. | Jared Diamond | ||
| c8b92d2 | I have often asked myself, "What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it?" Like modern loggers, did he shout "Jobs, not trees!"? Or: "Technology will solve our problems, never fear, we'll find a substitute for wood"? Or: "We don't have proof that there aren't palms somewhere else on Easter, we need more research, your proposed ban on logging is premature and driven by fear-mongering"? Similar questi.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 2b234bd | On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:) Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed. | genocide rwanda tutsi war | Jared Diamond | |
| bf1b2e2 | Some people just need killing. | vigilante-justice | Barry Eisler | |
| 27b8fcc | Joe asks how long they've been there one of them says fuck off another says a week a third calls him a drunk homeless fuck and tells him to go away. Joe asks how long they will wait the singular answer is as long as it takes and somewhere inside the house five-day-old children sleep under siege because their mother has a nice smile and beautiful hair and can recite lines on camera. | James Frey | ||
| 42af1dc | Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains. | James Frey | ||
| 6acab27 | Faith is the fool's excuse. | James Frey | ||
| 7a73254 | A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center. | James Frey | ||
| f79d57f | On the left side of my cheek a row of crusted scabbed stitches hold a deep 1 inch-long gash together. My nose is bent and swollen beneath its bandage and red lines streak from my nostrils. There are black and yellow bruises beneath both eyes, there is blood both wet and dry everywhere." (James Frey)" -- | James Frey | ||
| dd717c5 | When misunderstandings arise, remember that we speak different languages; take the time necessary to translate what your partner really means or wants to say. This definitely takes practice, but it is well worth it. | John Gray | ||
| da5b76b | If there is anything unique about the human animal it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. | John Nicholas Gray | ||
| 50c13ec | Love is magical, and it can last, if we remember our differences. | John Gray |