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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 446c455 | It is God's will that some of his children should learn this deep union with himself through the perfect flowering of natural human love in marriage. For others it is equally his will that the same perfect union should be learned through the experience of learning to lay down completely this natural and instinctive desire for marriage and parenthood, and accept the circumstances of life which deny them this experience. This instinct for lov.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| e5628e9 | When Bootsie was old enough to go to high school, Fran got herself a $300 GI loan to enroll at the University of Maine. She got three more loans and graduated with a teaching degree. Because she taught Title I kids--poor kids--all her loans were forgiven. Every member of Franni's family made it to the middle class. And they did it because of Social Security, Pell Grants, the GI Bill, and Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.. | Al Franken | ||
| 45b96f0 | But I really think that if we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching a reasonable political discourse. Politicians have always shaded the truth. But if you can say something that is provably false, and no one cares, then you can't have a real debate about anything. I | Al Franken | ||
| 49f9fc6 | When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, my parents, like the rest of America, were terrified. The Soviets had nuclear weapons and now were ahead of us in space. So my parents marched me and Owen into our living room, sat us down, and said, " You boys are going to study math and Science so we can beat the Soviets!" I thought that was a lot of pressure to put on a six-year old. But own and I were obedient sons, so we studied math and .. | Al Franken | ||
| d6db798 | See that house with the Ivy on it? From that rooftop, what if you leapt onto the next rooftop, dashed over that blue & green wall, climbed and jumped up the pipe, ran across the roof and jumped to the next? You can, in animation. | magical miyazaki rooftop | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| b2fbccc | There was a Sears, Roebuck catalogue painfully twisted and shellacked and tied with a red cord. The white card beneath it said, An inexpensive doorstop." ... There were catsup bottles made into bud vases, closthespins decorated with crepe paper butterflies for use as curtin hold-backers, crocheted bags for silverware, bouquets of crepe paper and velvet flowers, an enormous funeral set piece of white organdy gardenias and dark green oilcloth.. | Betty McDonald | ||
| f5232f6 | _Sunday!_ In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all of the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 332e546 | You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 3a32631 | Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 2d9487a | I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes. | tough-decisions | Emily Giffin | |
| ae28a72 | I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 0fba670 | Although too much time has gone by to miss her, I feel regret that I didn't maintain our friendship. Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. | Emily Giffin | ||
| ea6972f | I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 3c7c05a | Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a20f66d | Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together. | Emily Giffin | ||
| caefaf9 | Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old father; if one dies because one dreams of one's father, what happens to a man who dreams of his mother-in-law? | mother-in-law | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 7c80c67 | The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 5da572f | How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity | true vulgarity | H. Rider Haggard | |
| bc96e89 | Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with my generation, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten. | immortality mortality | H. Rider Haggard | |
| e147f50 | Cos'e il kitsch? Prima di tutto, e un'idea dell'arte che implica una falsificazione dell'arte autentica, o come minimo la sua svalutazione sensazionalistica; ma e anche la negazione di tutto cio che nell'esistenza umana risulta inaccettabile, nascosto dietro una facciata di sentimentalismo, bellezza fraudolenta e virtu posticcia. Il kitsch e, in poche parole, una menzogna narcisistica che nasconde la verita dell'orrore e della morte: cosi c.. | javier-cercas | Javier Cercas | |
| 6691cc8 | Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me. | Leif Enger | ||
| 0e8d00f | I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers. Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will. | Leif Enger | ||
| 916090f | Yes, yes sir--routine is worry's sly assassin. | Leif Enger | ||
| 64917ee | You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that--if it's going to die, it has to die on its own | Leif Enger | ||
| 5680428 | To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell thro' all its regions. A Dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A Horse misus'd upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood. Each outcry of the hunted Hare A fiber from the B.. | William Blake | ||
| 43c1a47 | El mejor vino es el mas viejo, la mejor agua es la mas nueva. | William Blake | ||
| d86109a | speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver. | William Blake | ||
| 70b7a30 | A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said "I've a pretty rose tree," And I passed the sweet flower o'er. Then I went to my pretty rose tree, To tend her by day and by night; But my rose turned away with jealousy, And her thorns were my only delight." | William Blake | ||
| a41130f | William Blake says the body is 'that portion of soul discerned by the five senses | five-senses senses william-blake | Marion Woodman | |
| e510b36 | What, in fact, do we know about the peak experience? Well, to begin with, we know one thing that puts us several steps ahead of the most penetrating thinkers of the 19th century: that P.E'.s are not a matter of pure good luck or grace. They don't come and go as they please, leaving 'this dim, vast vale of tears vacant and desolate'. Like rainbows, peak experiences are governed by definite laws. They are 'intentional'. And that statement sud.. | maslow peak-experience | Colin Wilson | |
| 39870e8 | From my first breath in this world, all I wanted was a good set of lungs and air to fill them with... p 1 | Leif Enger | ||
| 8945f8b | It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go." | Leif Enger | ||
| 62d6c55 | Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across! | Leif Enger | ||
| 0b2cff7 | He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry | Leif Enger | ||
| 5599c15 | Franco's voice is something tae hear, it's like wi it bein Hogmanay, he's absorbed just the right amount ay alcohol n good vibes and they intersect at this wonderous vector as he briefly becomes something else, this force ay grace and soul. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 011dcb3 | The trouble with people like him is that they think that they can brush off people like me. Like I was nothing. They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition. | attention recognition | Irvine Welsh | |
| 5b139b4 | He was a very arrogant young man, so full of himself. | man young | Irvine Welsh | |
| 43b4e38 | You said, when we embarked on this great adventure together, that lots of laughter was essential in a relationship. I agreed. You also made the point that a great deal of sex was of equal importance. Again, I agreed. Wholeheartedly. In fact I remember your exact words: laughter and sex are the barometers of a relationship. This was the statement you made, if I remember correctly. Don't get me wrong. I couldn't agree more. But no at the sam.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 6318cbf | Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 7df1454 | We are all acquaintances now | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 89e4c62 | Football divisions were a stupid and irrelevant nonsense, acting against the interest of working-class unity, ensuring that the bourgeoisie's hegemony went unchallenged. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 5996204 | Es rarisimo que por un momento estemos aqui y al siguiente hayamos desaparecido. En un par de generaciones, a nadie le importara una mierda. No seremos mas que unos gilipollas con ropas graciosas en fotografias descoloridas que un triste descendiente con demasiado tiempo libre saca del aparador para mirar de vez en cuando. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2111d5b | Analisar um romance significava destruir sua alma, e isso tava arruinando o prazer que eles me davam. Eu nao podia me submeter a um treinamento pra pensar daquela maneira. Eu precisava me recusar a estudar literatura pra conseguir preservar minha paixao por ela. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| bfe743d | Estas jodido?", pregunto. "No lo se. Si te soy sincro, sera el sexo lo que mas echare de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ?sabes?" Tommy necesita a la gente mucho mas que la mayoria." | Irvine Welsh |