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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bdd6b7e | The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 02f087b | The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 489bf6c | B]elieving, was her own true, promising friend once more. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| c7f1ce2 | God, could that dopey girl dance. Buddy Singer and his stinking band was playing 'Just One of Those Things' and even they couldn't ruin it entirely. It's a swell song. I didn't try any trick stuff while we danced--I hate a guy that does a lot of show-off tricky stuff on the dance floor--but I was moving her around plenty, and she stayed with me. The funny thing is, I thought she was enjoying it, too, till all of a sudden she came out with t.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| c00050a | Tia gotvi s'nishcha s fide i p'rzheni v'prosi. | James Krüss | ||
| bff1664 | The Cosmic Director has written His own plays, and assembled the tremendous casts for the pageant of the centuries. From the dark booth of eternity, He pours His creative beam through the films of successive ages, and the pictures are thrown on the screen of space. Just as the motion-picture images appear to be real, but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusive seeming. The planetary spheres, with the.. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 84bb30f | Actually, Paul sometimes directly contradicts Jesus. Compare what Paul writes in his epistle to the Romans--"everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved" (Romans 10:13)--to what Jesus says in the gospel of Matthew: "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 7:21)." | Reza Aslan | ||
| e168922 | The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. | religion | Reza Aslan | |
| 2a115c9 | The overwhelming consensus is that the traditions contained within the epistle can confidently be traced to James the Just. That would make James's epistle arguably one of the most important books in the New Testament. Because one sure way of uncovering what Jesus may have believed is to determine what his brother James believed. The first thing to note about James's epistle is its passionate concern with the plight of the poor. This, in it.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 3beac0b | This myth called bravery, which is half-panic, half-lunacy (in my case, all panic), pays for all; in England you can't be a hero and bad. There's practically a law against it. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| a7d3d0d | The judge arrived half an hour later with the file he had collected from his office on the way, signed several papers, had Sam sign them, the matron witness them; Josh cried, Norm cried, she cried, the judge grinned, and Timmie waved his teddy bear at the judge with a broad grin as they wheeled into the elevator. "So long!" he shouted, and when the doors closed, the judge was laughing and crying too." | Danielle Steel | ||
| 513b1bc | She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a world of extraordinary-looking people for so long, and hers was a life of the mind rather than the beauty of face and body. She never thought about it, which somehow made her even more attractive. | Danielle Steel | ||
| dd45567 | Her father said, whenever the subject came up, that if she'd lose some weight, she'd find a boyfriend. She knew that wasn't necessarily the case, since plenty of girls who had perfect figures and were half her size couldn't find a boyfriend. And other girls who were overweight were happily married, engaged or had significant others.Romance, she knew, wasn't directed tied to your weight, there were a lot of other factors. | Danielle Steel | ||
| d9b9cb9 | Feelings aren't sensible. always," her mother said gently. "Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones" | Danielle Steel | ||
| 534cc1e | May the surprises in your lives always be good ones. And may the people in your lives treat you kindly and fairly. And may the choices and sacrifices you make in your lives be the right ones for you. May you be blessed in every way, and happy in your lives. | Danielle Steel | ||
| bfe4347 | I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| ba2420c | This didn't make me sad exactly - it was more a feeling that my own world was too simple, too smooth, too boring and worthless. The most I could do was have another name, Ninna Hori. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| cd325b5 | And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely. | japanese | Natsuo Kirino | |
| 07ac995 | The woman had gasped beneath his heavy body. He rubbed against her, lubricated by the warm, sticky liquid, but as her body gradually grew cold, he felt as though they'd been glued together. She seemed to be see-sawing between agony and ecstasy, but finally Satake pressed his lips over hers to quiet the groans-of pain or pleasure-that were leaking from her mouth. He found the hole that he had made in her side and worked his finger deep into .. | gore murder rape sex | Natsuo Kirino | |
| 143abbd | They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn. | destiny future-plans pride | Esmeralda Santiago | |
| 8c107f8 | tTl`t Hwl~ b`yd `n mwq` nhyr lbrjyn f~ jrwnd zyrw twjht bbSr~ l~ shwr` nywywrk lb`yd@ `n mwq` lnfjr wlt~ `dt ln l~ Hyth lTby`y@ tslt `m n kn lns ldhyn ysyrwn f~ hdhh lshwr` yfkrwn f~ kl hdh lys fqT f~ tdmyr lbrjyn lkn yD f~ mzr` lrmn lt~ dmrt wf~ lrb`@ w`shryn lf ldhyn ymwtwn jw` kl ywm tslt dh knw qd fkrw f~ hdhh lmwr ywm m wdh kn bws`hm n ySrfw tfkyrhm b`yd `n wZy'fhm wsyrthm lnhm@ llwqwd wmkfat `mlhm wlw lftr@ tkf~ ln ytdbrw mdh sytrkwn .. | John Perkins | ||
| 163d5e5 | n ldh ldhy ttsm bh hdhh lmbrTwry@ lHdyth@ ytjwz kl m Sn`h frsn lrwmn wlGz@ l'sbn wqw~ lst`mr l'wrwby fy lqrnyn lthmn `shr wlts` `shr. fnHn qrSn@ lqtSd `l~ drj@ `ly@ mn lHtrf, dh nn w`yn drws ltrykh. nHn lywm l nHml sywf wl nrtdy drw` w mlbs t`zln `n Gyrn. ffy bld mthl lkwdwr wnyjyry wndwnsy nrtdy mlbs klty yrtdyh lmdrswn lmHlywn w'SHb lmHl ltjry@. wfy wshnTn wbrys nbdw kmwZfy lHkwm@ wlbnwk mtwD`yn w`dyyn, nzwr mwq` lmshrw`t wntsk` dkhl lq.. | John Perkins | ||
| a85d547 | So let the way wind up the hill or down, O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. | Henry Van Dyke | ||
| e805f2a | The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane, Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main, It drives me in upon myself And to the fireside gleams, To pleasant books that crowd my shelf, And still more pleasant dreams, I read whatever bards have sung Of lands beyond the sea, And the bright days when I was young Come thronging back to me. In fancy I can hear again The Alpine torrent's roar, The mule-bells on the hill.. | books rain reading traveling traveling-through-books travels-by-the-fireside weather | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| 6b1af7f | And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. | O. Henry | ||
| 88619dd | Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, & war & murder's endless rage." 0, let them cry. To them that ne'er have striven The 'truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word's right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so true, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I.. | John Henry Mackay | ||
| 08f015d | Of cats' first disobedience, and the height Of that forbidden tree whose doom'd ascent Brought man into the world to help us down And made us subject to his moods and whims, For though we may have knock'd an apple loose As we were carried safely to the ground, We never said to eat th'accursed thing, But yet with him were exiled from our place With loss of hosts of sweet celestial mice And toothsome baby birds of paradise, And so were sent t.. | humor milton paradise-lost | Henry N. Beard | |
| eaca0ad | The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written. | chaos henry-miller music reality reality-of-life silence time tropic-of-cancer | Henry Miller | |
| 08a5db8 | One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about. | Henry Miller | ||
| 059536f | The task of genius is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and more miraculous, to swear allegiance to nothing, but live only miraculously, | Henry Miller | ||
| bdb1394 | For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe, "and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth." | Henry Miller | ||
| 1b2d695 | No matter what you touch and you wish to know about, you end up in a sea of mystery. You see there's no beginning or end, you can go back as far as you want, forward as far as you want, but you never got to it, it's like the essence, it's that right, it remains. This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can't grasp it. And it's meant to be that way, do y'k.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 7f89934 | In the beginning was the Word... Whatever this was, the Word, disease or creation, it was still running rampant; it would run on and on, outstrip time and space, outlast the angels, unseat God, unhook the universe. Any word contained all words - for him who had become detached through love or sorrow or whatever the cause. In every word the current ran back to the beginning which was lost and which would never be found again since there was .. | Henry Miller | ||
| f950901 | Estoy muerto espiritualmente. Fisicamente, estoy vivo. Moralmente, soy libre. | Henry Miller | ||
| cc55c2b | I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me hack again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past. | Henry Miller | ||
| d12d77c | Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. | Henry Miller | ||
| e38a506 | I am fucking you, Tania, so that you'll stay fucked. | Henry Miller | ||
| e42ef7d | And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation. | Henry Miller | ||
| 8aa6520 | yjb 'n 'jls hn fHsb, l~ 'n ykhym llyl. Hyn yTl` lqmr kl shyin sykwn fy mknh. | Henry Miller | ||
| 9a7d1fe | I had the misfortune to be nourished by the dreams and visions of great Americans -- the poets and seers. Some other breed of man has won out. This world which is in the making fills me with dread. I have seen it germinate; I can read it like a blueprint. It is not a world I want to live in. It is a world suited for monomaniacs obsessed with the idea of progress -- but a false progress, a progress which stinks. It is a world cluttered with .. | Henry Miller | ||
| 269f301 | ydhmn ly's fntHwl l~ lktb, wnD` thqtt fy lmw'lfyn, fnlj' l~ l'Hlm. | Henry Miller | ||
| 481bd9a | For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. | Henry Miller | ||
| ecbaf15 | Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a potent, cumulative effect. I am tomorrow what I chose to be yesterday and the day before. It is not possible that tomorrow I may negate and nullify everything that led me to this present moment. | inspirational writing | Henry Miller | |
| f8412c6 | and with that he began to laugh, not a laugh either, but a cackle, a hideous cackle like a rooster with its head on the block. It got him so badly that he had to stop and hold his guts; the tears were streaming down his eyes and between the cackles he let out the most terrible heartrending sobs. | Henry Miller |