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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f501490 | If Nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that- warm things, kind things, sweet things-help and comfort and laughter- and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6735a9c | Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?" In her eagerness she did not realize how queer the words would sound and that they were not the ones she had meant to say. Mr. Craven looked quite startled. "Earth!" he repeated. "What do you mean?" "To plant seeds in--to make things grow--to see them come alive," Mary faltered. He gazed at her a moment and then passed his hand quickly over his eyes. "Do you--care about gardens so much.. | come-alive garden gardening secret-garden seeds | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 9cde5b3 | Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me! | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 89a1969 | It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0ebb957 | Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 08e4b7d | There was something friendly about Sara, and people always felt it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3e77ab9 | But that such an administration could be elected in the first place, headed by a man whose only qualifications to be President of the United States at a dangerous time in the history of the world were rhetoric, style and symbolism--and whose animus against the values and institutions of America had been demonstrated repeatedly over a period of decades beforehand--speaks volumes about the inadequacies of our educational system and the degene.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| e2df306 | Reality does not go away when it is ignored. | reality | Thomas Sowell | |
| 121ae07 | The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| adf8fc0 | beware that] "many of what are called social problems are differences between the theories of intellectuals and the realities of the world--differences which many intellectuals interpret to mean that it is the real world that is wrong and needs changing." | intellectuals social-policy the-anointed | Thomas Sowell | |
| 96e36c3 | As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. | government history ideologue oppression political-philosophy politics power progressives revolt revolution rule violence | Thomas Sowell | |
| 739665f | It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time. | Andrew Weil | ||
| 66baa6b | In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness. | depression lifestyle | Andrew Weil | |
| c046442 | The stories of Harmonius and Aristogeiton, of Phaedrus of the Theban Band were well enough for those whose hearts were empty, but no substitute for life. That Clive should occasionally prefer them puzzled him. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 107f80e | Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution. | E.M. Forster | ||
| a33661e | I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.' Yes, that was the reason of his visit. It was the closing of a book that would never be read again, and better close such a book than leave it lying about to get dirtied. The volume of their past must be restored to its shelf, and here, here was the place, amid darkness and perishing flowers. He owed it to Alec also. He could suffer no mixing of the old with the new. All compromise was perilo.. | E.M. Forster | ||
| ed9ec0c | Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 3db3f01 | He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 89fa7ac | We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' and 'through' and go somewhere else. The result is they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl. | E.M. Forster | ||
| f58b93f | How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants, and perhaps by the stones? | E.M. Forster | ||
| 97a5f5f | He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to. | gay-romance hope love patience | E.M. Forster | |
| 3993d5b | Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul.... | shock suburban-life suburbiaia | E.M. Forster | |
| 3ab87bc | Rudeness affected Margaret like a bitter taste in the mouth. It poisoned life. At times it is necessary, but woe to those who employ it without due need. | howards-end life manners rude rudeness unpleasant | E.M. Forster | |
| 3129b9b | I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. | maturation mentoring | E.M. Forster | |
| 53e6280 | Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again. | isolation machine science-fiction | E.M. Forster | |
| dcd14f7 | an Italian can never be ignored, least of all when he has a grievance. | E.M. Forster | ||
| e49bf87 | And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind -- the knowledge that they could never be parted because their love was rooted in common things. | sisterhood | E.M. Forster | |
| 0dd07be | I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words can say. | love | E.M. Forster | |
| 35ec3d5 | Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them. | forster life philosophy where-angels-fear-to-tread | E.M. Forster | |
| cc7dce0 | For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or--to put the thing less cynically--we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice. Phillip, at all events, lived more graciously in Italian, the very phrases of which entice one to be happy and kind. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 45cbedc | If one doesn't worry, how does one understand? | E.M. Forster | ||
| 17cde3d | Like many other who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini. They are our gates to the glorious and unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. In Paddington all Cornwall is latent and the remoter west; down the inclines of Liverpool Street lie fenlands and the illimitable Broads; Scotland is through the pylons of Euston; Wessex behind the poi.. | E. M. Forster | ||
| 08a1e6f | Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy. | E.M. Forster | ||
| ae41941 | She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with earth and all the other stars. | E.M. Forster | ||
| b451af1 | Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 7b804c8 | I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 3e13dea | There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 77daed5 | To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened! The gum cost a dollar, but the story was free. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 96ebc90 | Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes "enslaved African" sound nonchalant. As in "Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 834e160 | I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't believe in god have to believe is in other people and that New York City is the best place there ever was for a godless person to practice her moral code. I think it has to do with the crowded sidewalks and subways. Walking to and from the hardware store requires the push and pull of selfishness and selflessness, taking turns between getting o.. | city new-york-city urban-life | Sarah Vowell | |
| 99d15f2 | Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of cheap-ass despair? It's not? Whew. | architecture humor | Sarah Vowell | |
| fbee5d7 | it's worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this subject heartbreaking, a waste: the greatest living American author was forced to spend his days writing tariff reports instead of novels. But now, kno.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| a408a51 | It was made clear to me that I wasn't supposed to trouble the moody Creator with any pesky questions about the eccentricities of His cosmic system....Thus my idea of heaven was that I got to spend eternity sitting at the feet of God, grilling Him. "Let me get this straight," I'd say, by way of introduction. "It's your position that every person born has to suffer because Eve couldn't resist a healthy between-meals snack?" | religion | Sarah Vowell | |
| 14f7e9c | Cotton says, "If God be the gardener, who shall pluck up what he sets down?" Hear that, Indians? No weeding of the white people allowed. Unless they're Catholic. Or one of those Satan-worshipping Virginians." | Sarah Vowell |