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| 7491740 | In this case," said Randall unpleasantly, "it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed." "Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it!" "What a pity!" said Randall." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3efa88b | With Philip's departure had come a void which only could be filled by Philip's return. | georgette heyer | ||
| 8b4ea82 | Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.' Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6a1bec2 | I said, Quiet!" Tiffany was so much startled by this peremptory reminder that she gasped, and stood staring up at the Nonesuch as though she could not believe that he was speaking not to his cousin, but actually to her. She drew in her breath audibly, and clenched her hands. Miss Trent cast a look of entreaty at sir Waldo, but he ignored it. He strolled up to the infuriated beauty, and pushed up her chin. "Now, you may listen to me, my chil.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 53f68ff | Yes, but we do not know that he snores, my love,' Lady Ombersley pointed out. 'Indeed, we may be almost certain that he does not, for his manners are so very gentleman-like!' 'A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 65c3b7f | I'll see the color of your money, my lord." My lord folded the paper. He was still smiling. "It would disappoint you, my friend. It is just the same colour as everyone else's." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| f720ecb | With the aid of the baluster-rail and Mr Goring's stalwart arm she arrived, panting but triumphant, on the first floor, and paused to take breath. Observing that Lybster was about to throw open the door into the drawing room she stopped him by the simple expedient of grasping his sleeve. Affronted, he gazed at her with much hauteur, and said in freezing accents: "Madam?" "Looby!" enunciated Mrs Floore, between gasps. "You wait! Trying to pu.. | regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| 3c8f85d | I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons, but you may depend upon it none of those knight-errants would be able to rescue one from a social fix, and you must own, Meg, that one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 39c2728 | Your body is not a lemon! | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| ac8f689 | The state of relaxation of the mouth and jaw is directly correlated to the ability of the cervix, the vagina, and the anus to open to full capacity. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 7352cc3 | Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very bright, you are still likely to go far and, at the very least, will never experience poverty as an adult. A good education compounded by your parents' 'cultural capital', financial support and networks will always see you through. If you are a bright child born into a working-class family, you do not have any of th.. | Owen Jones | ||
| 41abbd3 | My name is Mila, and this is my journey. There are so many places where I could begin the story. I could start in the town where I grew up, in Kryvicy, on the banks of the Servac River, in the district of Miadziel. I could begin when I was eight years old, on the day my mother died, or when I was twelve, and my father fell beneath the wheels of the neighbour's truck. But I think I should begin my story here, in the Mexican desert, so far fr.. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| bed3941 | Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| f35b2b8 | That was it exactly--irony was defeatist, timid, the telltale of a generation too afraid to say what it meant, and so in danger of forgetting it had anything to say. | D.T. Max | ||
| 418c2c3 | It is possible that our present-day discussion about needs might be framed more by secular psychological theories than by Scripture. If this is so, we should be careful about saying, "Jesus meets all our needs." At first, this has a plausible biblical ring to it. Christ _is_a friend; God _is_ a loving Father; Christians _do_ experience a sense of meaningfulness and confidence in knowing God's love. It makes Christ the answer to our problems.. | needs scripture secular-psychology selfishness | Edward T. Welch | |
| 66350d4 | God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 60dd05e | When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| c472141 | You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d3d055e | Faith feels many different ways. It can be buoyant; it can be depressed and lifeless. Feelings don't define faith. Instead, faith is simply turning to the Lord. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 81f63b5 | To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone. | independence loneliness | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 98382d5 | I lack the World, for I move like a Ghost through it. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| f149097 | We are terrified of future catastrophes and are thrown into a continuous state of misery and anxiety, and for fear of becoming miserable, we never cease to be so, always panting for riches and never giving our souls or our bodies a moment's peace. But those who are content with little live day by day and treat any day like a feast day. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| c9df8a3 | In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. | auden renaissance | Stephen Greenblatt | |
| 09dd495 | Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel with the greasily smooth floors and the degenerate murals aping and mocking the things they had superseded-run back, before we had seen what we did see, and before our minds were burned with something which will never let us breathe easily again! | horror | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 1527e5e | Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. | hideous hideousness horror terror | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| b8b4735 | We're not lost," he said in a cheery tone. "We're just locationally deficient and directionally challenged at the moment." | Clive Cussler | ||
| de1a549 | My daddy always said, 'Luck never gives, it lends, | Clive Cussler | ||
| 0aae2f7 | Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I am so sorry dad." Kyle sobbed. "And I forgive you because that is what fahters do" said Max" | Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul | ||
| f23fe0c | We had a great friendship, good sex, a shared passion for the dinosaur room at the Museum of Natural History and Haagen-Daz French Vanilla ice cream. But love is more than the sum of its parts, isn't it? | Lisa Unger | ||
| 36e771c | But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing. | hate ignorance insulting politics pride | Bill Maher | |
| f8ed8ac | We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected. | complacency politics | Bill Maher | |
| 97329ba | New Rule: Someone has to make a mustard container that doesn't squirt out yellow water before it gets to the actual mustard. I get all excited for lunch, and then Grey Poupon pees on my sandwich. I suppose I could shake the bottle first, but fuck you, I'm an American consumer. Not only should your mustard be pre-blended to my specifications, it should also whiten my teeth. | Bill Maher | ||
| 8fa5997 | New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush recently suggested that public schools should teach "intelligent design" alongside the theory of evolution, because after all, evolution is "just a theory." Then the president renewed his vow to "drive the terrorists straight over the edge of the earth." Here's what I don't get: President Bush is a brilliant scientist. He's the man who pro.. | creationism essay evolution george-w-bush intelligent-design politics religion science separation-of-church-and-state | Bill Maher | |
| cc22bbd | New Rule: Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That's right, the NFL takes money from the rich teams and gives it to the poorer one...just like President Obama wants to do with his secret army of ACORN volunteers. Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a population of one hundred thousand. Yet this sleepy little town on the banks of the Fuck-if-I-know River has just as much of a chance of making it to the Super Bowl as the.. | humor politics sports | Bill Maher | |
| efdea9b | At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody.' 'Shoot,' I said, startled out of my misery, 'you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whole gang.' 'It ain't the same as having your own folks care about you,' Johnny said simply. 'it just ain't the same. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 500aeeb | Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . ." The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died. You read about people looking" | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 6c4d6e5 | When you're a kid, everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| dbe47ed | Juvenile delinquent, you're no good!" Darry shouted." | S.E. Hinton | ||
| f17031b | In the interests of separation, Black women have been taught to view each other as always suspect, heartless competitors for the scarce male, the all-important prize that could legitimize our existence. This dehumanizing denial of self is no less lethal than the dehumanization of racism to which it is so closely allied. | competition dehumanization | Audre Lorde | |
| 3f3bcbe | We cannot love 'our people' unless we love each of us ourselves, unless I love each piece of myself, those I wish to keep and those I wish to change--for survival is the ability to encompass difference, to encompass change without destruction. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 385f4bd | I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 58a82f9 | I'M LOSING FAITH IN MY FAVORITE COUNTRY Throughout my life, the United States has been my favorite country, save and except for Canada, where I was born, raised, educated, and still live for six months each year. As a child growing up in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, I aggressively bought and saved baseball cards of American and National League players, spent hours watching snowy images of American baseball and football games on black and whit.. | frugality frustration saving | Stephen Douglass | |
| 8072491 | i said to my soul be still and wait so the darkness shall be the light and the stillness | life light-and-darkness | t.s. eliot | |
| 87591c7 | Ash on an old man's sleeve, Is all the ash the burnt roses leave. Dust in the air suspended Marks the place where a story ended, Dust in breathed was a house- The wall, the wainscot and the mouse. The death of hope and despair, This is the death of air. | T.S. Eliot |