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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1238c94 | Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends. | gardening | Julie Andrews Edwards | |
| a3246be | Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made. | Julie Andrews Edwards | ||
| 200b2a1 | No, Billy, not every time. He only answers the ones that are said from the heart. You have to be sincere and believe in Him. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 19e0708 | Before one is afraid, one sees clearly; while one is afraid, one sees double; and after being afraid, one sees dimly. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9d828c1 | On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 7d621dd | D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 22a9ab1 | il n'y a ni bonheur ne malheur en ce monde, il y a la comparaison d'un etat a un autre, voila tout. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| ff8ce4f | Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts;" and Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very popular at the time, --" | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| b6dd9bf | You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| cdff1c1 | You are my son Dantes! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free | alexandre-dumas captivity count-of-monte-cristo edmond-dantes emotional father free freedom monte-cristo prisoner sad | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 1194ccb | Come here, Grimaud," said Athos. To punish you for having spoken without leave my friend, you must eat this piece of paper: then, to reward you for the service which you will have rendered us, you shall afterwards drink this glass of wine. Here is the letter first: chew it hard." Grimaud smiled, and with his eyes fixed on the glass which Athos filled to the very brim, chewed away at the paper, and finally swallowed it. "Bravo, Master Gr.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 3393ed0 | To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings .. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| f2ac518 | Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossi.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 711d22c | His eyebrows arched under a single, pensive line and his eyes themselves were imprinted with deep sadness, behind which from time to time could be seen dark flashes of misanthropy and hatred. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2af41ce | Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope. | wisdom | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 64d8c23 | fkWr kwrnylyws: " whkdh ynthy kl shy. ln 'stTy` mnH smy l~ Tfl 'w l~ zhr@ 'w l~ ktb, w hy thlth@ 'shy yudhkr bh lmr." | الزنبقة-السوداء the-black-tulip | الكسندر دوماس | |
| e077544 | What, no wine? | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a4656c1 | Something as trivial as a little gift of candy to medical residents improves the speed and accuracy of their diagnoses. In general, positive emotion enables us to broaden our understanding of what confronts us. This | Barry Schwartz | ||
| f03232d | Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing companies such as Coca-Cola took a wisdom forged by years of experience; even then, there was a highly subjective element. A Berkshire stockholder once complained that there were no more franchises like Coca-Cola left. Munger tartly rebuked him. 'Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well two .. | investing warren-buffett | Roger Lowenstein | |
| 6552bc0 | During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing, in fact, that I learned in the entire four years. | Walker Percy | ||
| 40e5a7f | Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr harr. | Walker Percy | ||
| 737abe9 | Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book or How you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and more while knowing less and less about yourself, this despite 10,000 self-help books, 100,000 psychotherapists, and 100 million fundamentalist Christians or Why is it that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest or Why is it possib.. | existence self self-help | Walker Percy | |
| 39575a8 | Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor? The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a self in a world are not necessarily the same as the impoverishments and enrichments of an organism in an environment. | Walker Percy | ||
| 6acb429 | the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out. | Walker Percy | ||
| d4bc672 | Imagine you are a member of a tour visiting Greece. The group goes to the Parthenon. It is a bore. Few people even bother to look -- it looked better in the brochure. So people take half a look, mostly take pictures, remark on serious erosion by acid rain. You are puzzled. Why should one of the glories and fonts of Western civilization, viewed under pleasant conditions -- good weather, good hotel room, good food, good guide -- be a bore? No.. | parthenon | Walker Percy | |
| 8ba6e03 | School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of rendering both dull. As every scientist and poet knows, one discovers both vocations in spite of, not because of school. It takes years to recover from the stupor of being taught Shakespeare in English Lit and Wheatstone's bridge in Physics. | Walker Percy | ||
| f94e1cb | I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all. | Walker Percy | ||
| f827043 | But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy.. | crime degrade fear hatred oppression plantations racism rape satan southern | James Lee Burke | |
| e9c68b1 | All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no explainable origins. The fear is not necessarily self-centered, either. It's like watching someone point a revolver at his temple while he cocks and dry-fires the mechanism, over and over again, until the cylinder rotates a loaded chamber into firing position. | James Lee Burke | ||
| aeb84ed | Seja como for, as pessoas dedicadas a religiao nao querem reconhecer a realidade que contradiz o seu conto de fadas. Se realmente vivermos num universo sem Deus, elas perdem o emprego. O fluxo de dinheiro estagna. Por outro lado, ha pessoas que escolhem viver a sua vida de uma forma completamente egocentrica e homicida. Essas sentem que, se nada importa e elas podem fazer o que querem sem sofrer consequeencias, vao faze-lo. Mas tambem podem.. | humor inspirational meaning-of-life | Woody Allen | |
| ec0f1c4 | It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again." | creativity creativity-work grit imagination success work | Jonah Lehrer | |
| d4a171f | To paraphrase Woody Allen in Annie Hall, love was too weak a word for what I felt for that tiny crying creature who had my eyes, my mouth, my hair. I lurved my daughter, my Ava. I looved her. I lurfed her. | father-s-love love | Melissa Senate | |
| 46d2ad6 | It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better [...] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. | irony-of-life | Woody Allen | |
| 4ef5080 | Ojala sea asi... Y que todo eso suceda gracias a un tio estupendo de sonrisa arrebatadora y un cuerpo que quite el hipo, en fin, una mezcla entre Clive Owen, Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, Ashton Kutcher y Woody Allen... -?Woody Allen? ?Y que tiene que ver Woody Allen? -!Bueno, no me negaras que si, despues de un buen polvo, el tipo incluso te hace reir, es que has llegado al cielo! | Federico Moccia | ||
| d7b8e44 | Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina's native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that "the country will be in the hands of white Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians. The former being a little superior in education, as they are inferior in every moral virtue." -- | Jon Lee anderson | ||
| c44782d | An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems. | afghanistan folklore proverbs saying sufis sufism wisdom | Tahir Shah | |
| 4f9dff9 | These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy. | work-ethic | Tahir Shah | |
| 5d6a90e | The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates. | doubt quest search success | Tahir Shah | |
| c5a9ba0 | There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information. | luck quest search | Tahir Shah | |
| 7ebe116 | A little imagination goes a long way in Fes. | morocco travel | Tahir Shah | |
| b6910eb | It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid. | fire guest host travel | Tahir Shah | |
| 6b162eb | For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories. | stories | Tahir Shah | |
| 1c7c24c | She started converting objects of beauty into objects of value. | Steve Martin | ||
| 96f3855 | To Mirabelle, the idea of being an object of obsession is alluring and represents a powerful love. She fails to understand, however, that men become obsessive over beautiful women because they want no one else to have them, but they fall in love with women like Mirabelle because they want a certain, specific part of them. | Steve Martin |