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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0716b85 | What distinguishes people with an extraordinary character from the rest of us is how they respond when life sends one of its inevitable curves. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 774af81 | I was more than my limitations; I was learning | learning | Robin S. Sharma | |
| 0fd096e | Whether you think something is possible or impossible, you'll most certainly be right. Because your belief determines your behavior. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| fdc0518 | Sigurno dori drevnite kitaitsi sa znaeli, che i nai-goliamoto neshchastie ima svoiata dobra strana - ako imash smelost da ia pot'rsish...V zhivota niama greshki, ima samo urotsi. Ne s'shchestvuva takova neshcho kato negativno prezhiviavane, a samo v'zmozhnosti da rastesh, da uchish | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 491ae15 | If you are blessed enough to still have your parents, honor them. And do it today. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 03c9eb5 | The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| d0d4269 | To Be a Great Leader, First Become a Great Person. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| eab57a3 | pain is a teacher and failure is the highway to success. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| e953445 | Did tragedy cause fissures, open them wider--or did tragedy merely turn on the light so you could see the fissure that had always been there? | Harlan Coben | ||
| 5ae1ba6 | You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it's almost impossible to comprehend. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 49de83b | We all have our demons. But men? They have them much worse. The world tells them that they are the leaders and great and macho and have to be big and brave and make a lot of money and lead these glamorous lives. But they don't, do they? Look at the men in this neighborhood. They all worked too many hours. They came home to noisy, demanding homes. Something was always broken they needed to fix. They were always behind on the house payments. .. | Harlan Coben | ||
| a55dfc0 | You can only be strong for so long. | Harlan Coben | ||
| d2bee3c | By noon, in a gray February world, we had come down through snow flurries to land at Albany, and had taken off again. When the snow ended the sky was a luminous gray. I looked down at the winter calligraphy of upstate New York, white fields marked off by the black woodlots, an etching without color, superbly restful in contrast to the smoky, guttering, grinding stink of the airplane clattering across the sky like an old commuter bus. | observational | John D. MacDonald | |
| fd2acd7 | Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 1c5486d | You're going to be a father. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll throw up again. | David Eddings | ||
| b252b4b | Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It's so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It's long since filled up the plain, and now it's creeping up the mountains to the west and reclaiming land from the bay in the east. The city never stops rewriting itself. In the time one street guide is produced, it's already become out of date. It's a tall city, and a deep one, as well as a spread-out one. Things are always moving below you.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 88d5c2a | I have always disapproved of murder. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 5325950 | Motives for murder are sometimes very trivial, Madame." "What are the most usual motives, Monsieur Poirot?" "Most frequent--money. That is to say, gain in its various ramifications. Then there is revenge--and love, and fear, and pure hate, and beneficence--" "Monsieur Poirot!" "Oh, yes, Madame. I have known of--shall we say A?--being removed by B solely in order to benefit C. Political murders often come under the same heading. Someone is c.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| cfc1cf5 | You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy. | faithfulness friends funny humor husband husband-and-wife-relationship tommy-and-tuppance | Agatha Christie | |
| 67e916a | They have a genius, young ladies, for getting into various kinds of trouble and difficulty. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 421e852 | I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced | unbalanced writer writers writers-quotes | Agatha Christie | |
| 52dae8b | The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world. | Agatha Christie | ||
| ff941ac | I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants. | Agatha Christie | ||
| bbd8fc2 | My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 661e536 | Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 6406f7c | Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167" | human-nature | Agatha Christie | |
| 8820843 | They say all the world loves a lover--apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 5a7a158 | They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice! | Agatha Christie | ||
| ca9cc91 | Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner. | humor poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| f20df3a | What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after fort.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0ed9eac | A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that. | politics | Agatha Christie | |
| a9ccaf1 | It is not the past that matters,but the future | Agatha Christie | ||
| c2c6c0f | I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield | Agatha Christie | ||
| 5076d18 | To be part of something one doesn't in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 164a93b | Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple | Agatha Christie | ||
| 4514818 | Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts. | poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| f99788f | Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most of Mr. Levine's readers, in spite of his efforts. He was a notable example of the fact that nothing can be duller than dull pornography. | humour pornography sarcasm | Agatha Christie | |
| 92ac5c7 | It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 573d0da | With a shock Iris realized suddenly that it was the first time in her life she had ever thought about Rosemary. Thought about her, that is, objectively, as a person. She had always accepted Rosemary without thinking about her. You didn't think about your mother or your father or your sister or your aunt. They just existed, unquestioned, in those relationships. You didn't think about them as people. You didn't ask yourself, even, what they w.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 75fec0f | Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 5c90f15 | one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street. | life-and-living life-philosophy | Agatha Christie | |
| 71a28e0 | Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity. | Agatha Christie | ||
| dd29bb0 | What are you doing, Poirot?" "I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting." | Agatha Christie | ||
| a45997e | Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. | succcess | Agatha Christie |