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| 1d46501 | The Americans have always been better than the Iraqis at the leaflets. Early on in the first Gulf War, Iraqi PsyOps dropped a batch of their own leaflets on US troops, designed to be psychologically devastating. They read, 'Your wives are back at home having sex with Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 72f1861 | Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. | institution madness | Jon Ronson | |
| b8f566a | What Jim had seen tallied with studies conducted after the Second World War by the military historian General S.L.A. Marshall. He interviewed thousands of American infantrymen and concluded that only 15-20 per cent of them had actually shot to kill. The rest had fired high or not fired at all, busying themselves however else they could. And 98 per cent of the soldiers who did shoot to kill were later found to have been deeply traumatized by.. | Jon Ronson | ||
| b3709f9 | He squinted up at the straining muscular backs of the stone men supporing the dome. "You'll have to take me to some museums," he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country. "But I did see a show of Hopper once. And I like his light. It was kind of lonely or something. Or, "The world's a mess, i.. | francesca-lia-block thorn | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 7f310c8 | I thought he had taken my soul, said Rev. I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 2afa1d2 | Baby, I love you. Pen... More then I love the color black. More than I love cigarettes, more than I love books. Even music." "More than food. More than art or stories. More than words..." | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 6bb730f | The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and not feel shame. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 8c553c3 | What did it mean for us? Because everything I did, everything that happened to me, that was what I asked myself - what does this mean for us. It meant that I was farther away from you, different. It meant that if we let ourselves, we could get closer than we had ever been. Disappear into each other. You'd bleed and I wouldn't. Then we both would. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 31ab4d6 | What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?" "I'm going to remember. When there was art." | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| b5f7e31 | The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again, her skirt flashing with tiny mirrors, hair braided with petals. He looked up at her, dizzy with it, seeing her face framed in the pa.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 8af9bc8 | The fairy who was not old, not young, who was red roses, white snowfall, who was blind and saw everything, who sent stories resounding through the universe said, You much reach inside yourself where I live like a story, not old, not young, laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 9ae7251 | Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us. | stories | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 817f918 | Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall." | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| ae8c288 | Ultimately the only answer God gave to job was a revelation of Himself. It was as if God said to him, "Job, I am your answer." Job was not asked to trust a plan but a person, a personal God who is sovereign, wise, and good. It was as if God said to Job: "Learn who I am. When you know me, you know enough to handle anything." -- | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 240ef57 | She stared at him, at his face. Simply stared as the scales fell from her eyes. "Oh, my God," she whispered, the exclamation so quiet not even he would hear. She suddenly saw-saw it all-all that she'd simply taken for granted. Men like him protected those they loved, selflessly, unswervingly, even unto death. The realization rocked her. Pieces of the jigsaw of her understanding of him fell into place. He was hanging to consciousness by a t.. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 09a4b6b | the Sponsoring Thought behind every supplication is that you do not have now what you wish. That Sponsoring Thought becomes your reality. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 32b1171 | If there is a person, place, or thing with which you do not agree, you attack it. If there is a religion that goes against yours, you make it wrong. If there is a thought that contradicts yours, you ridicule it. If there is an idea other than yours, you reject it. In this you err, for you create only half a universe. And you cannot even understand your half when you have rejected out of hand the other. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 8831a54 | In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what you experience of God differs from what you've heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 9241b30 | You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. The only solution is the Ultimate Truth: nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life. All government, all politics, must be based on this truth. All laws must be rooted in it. This is the future hope of your race; .. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| d176536 | Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change. | David Baldacci | ||
| f02e850 | if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by. | David Baldacci | ||
| 3a519a8 | It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more. | David Baldacci | ||
| 4b1ec79 | Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's. | David Baldacci | ||
| 4605832 | She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant - all in ten days' time. | relationships | Betty Smith | |
| 78cb030 | Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination." | imagination | Betty Smith | |
| 351c38b | You know, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you exactly how it happened but the truth and the story. Then you won't get mixed up. | Betty Smith | ||
| b961133 | All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life it's in him to live. | Betty Smith | ||
| fa7d293 | Maybe being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better. | Betty Smith | ||
| a63512d | she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy.. | Betty Smith | ||
| bdd66e0 | Mary was convinced that because of some sin she had unwittingly committed in her life, she was mated with the devil himself. She really believed this because her husband told her so. "I am the devil himself," he told her frequently." | Betty Smith | ||
| a10db28 | There are two truths," said Katie finally. "As a mother, I say it would have been a terrible thing for a girl to sleep with a stranger--a man she had known less than forty-eight hours. Horrible things might have happened to you. Your whole life might have been ruined. As your mother, I tell you the truth. "But as a woman..." she hesitated. "I will tell you the truth as a woman. It would have been a very beautiful thing. Because there is on.. | Betty Smith | ||
| cd90a83 | Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere-be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.. | Betty Smith | ||
| f234d95 | The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed." "That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come.. | disappointment suffering | Betty Smith | |
| 333d889 | What had granma Mary Rommely said? "To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory." | Betty Smith | ||
| fa65c69 | It's sad to know you've gone through it all, or most of it, without... that the one body you'v wrapped your arms around, the only skin you've ever known, is your own... and that's it's dry, and not warm. | Edward Albee | ||
| 7b7f25b | Moff Tarkin sends his regards. | James Luceno | ||
| 1cb91f5 | If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends." -Luke Skywalker" | James Luceno | ||
| ea2c05d | Every action taken by human beings is based in love or fear, not simply those dealing with relationships. Decisions affecting business, industry, politics, religion, the education of your young, the social agenda of your nations, the economic goals of your society, choices involving war, peace, attack, defense, aggression, submission; determinations to covet or give away, to save or to share, to unite or to divide--every single free choice .. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 854e3f9 | People have a right to basic survival. Even if they do nothing. Even if they contribute nothing. Survival with dignity is one of the basic rights of life. I have given you enough resources to be able to guarantee that to everyone. All you have to do is share. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 0990bad | Past Data should not be the basis of Present Truth. Data from a prior time or experience should always and only be the basis for new questions. Always the treasure should be in the question, not in the answer. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| e337837 | So I devised a way for you to create anew, and Know, Who You Are in your experience. I did this by providing you with: 1. Relativity--a system wherein you could exist as a thing in relationship to something else. 2. Forgetfulness--a process by which you willingly submit to total amnesia, so that you can not know that relativity is merely a trick, and that you are All of It. 3. Consciousness--a state of Being in which you grow until you reac.. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| ec3a828 | Sometimes you have to do what you don't want to do in order to ensure that you won't have to keep on doing it! This apparent contradiction is part of the Divine Dichotomy, which says that sometimes the only way to ultimately Be a thing--in this case, "peaceful"--may be, at first, to not be it!" | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| c3a4cd8 | Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| a7dea18 | the Ultimate Truth: nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life. | Neale Donald Walsch |