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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 27b7933 | Then the Miller fell off his horse. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 7fa54ff | Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush's presidency - the apparatus, personnel and mind-set of war making. | bob-woodward george-w-bush obama-s-wars war | Bob Woodward | |
| ea5a62f | Cohn removed the letter draft from the Resolute Desk. He placed it in a blue folder marked "KEEP." "I stole it off his desk," he later told an associate. "I wouldn't let him see it. He's never going to see that document. Got to protect the country." | Bob Woodward | ||
| 2edf93c | Ailes said they were there for their weekly debate prep. The first presidential debate against Hillary Clinton was a month and a half away, on September 26. "Debate prep?" Bannon said. "You, Christie and Rudy?" "This is the second one." "He's actually prepping for the debates?" Bannon said, suddenly impressed. "No, he comes and plays golf and we just talk about the campaign and stuff like that. But we're trying to get him in the habit." | Bob Woodward | ||
| 7dd4733 | Deep Throat stamped his foot. 'A conspiracy like this...a conspiracy investigation...the rope has to tighten slowly around everyone's neck. You build convincingly from the outer edges in, you get ten times the evidence you need against the Hunts and the Liddys. They feel hopelessly finished - they may not talk right away, but the grip is on them. Then you move up and do the same thing at the next level. If you shoot too high and miss, the e.. | Carl Bernstein | ||
| b460d14 | Grievance was a big part of Trump's core, very much like a 14-year-old boy who felt he was being picked on unfairly. You couldn't talk to him in adult logic. Teenage logic was necessary. | Bob Woodward | ||
| 325ea33 | I'm done doing this!' Obama said, finally erupting. 'We've all agreed on a plan. And we're all going to stick to that plan. I haven't agreed to anything beyond that.' The 30,000 was a 'hard cap,' he said forcefully. 'I don't want enablers to be used as wiggle room. The easy thing for me to do - politically - would actually be to say no' to the 30,000. Then he gestured out the Oval Office windows, across the Potomac, in the direction of the .. | bob-woodward chief-of-staff military obama-s-war president rahm-emmanuel robert-gates secretary-of-defense war | Bob Woodward | |
| c9dcaa6 | Nearly all economists disagreed with Trump, but he found an academic economist who hated free trade as much as he did. He brought him to the White House as both director of trade and industrial policy and director of the National Trade Council. Peter Navarro was a 67-year-old Harvard PhD in economics. "This is the president's vision," Navarro publicly said. "My function really as an economist is to try to provide the underlying analytics th.. | Bob Woodward | ||
| 836e03c | All the air seemed to have come out of Tillerson. He could not abide Trump's attack on the generals. The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire. If a country wouldn't pay us to be there, then we didn't want to be there. As if there were no American interests in forging and keeping a peaceful world order, as if the American organizing principle was money. | Bob Woodward | ||
| b946d12 | The single most important thing anyone needs to know about me," Kate hepburn said, "is that I am totally, completely the product of two damn fascinating individuals who happened to be my parents. I've had a pretty remarkable life, but compared to my mother and father, I'm dull." -- | Christopher Andersen | ||
| fb8ff21 | Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn't be able to see the itty-bitty people racing around worrying you wouldn't see the barn falling in or the cow stuck in the pond; you wouldn't see the mean Granger kids squirting mustard on your white dress. You would see the most beautiful blue oceans and green lands, and the whole earth would look like a giant blue-and-green marble floatin.. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 5965179 | Without any warning, tears filled my eyes. No one had ever given me such a kind and thoughtful gift before. I pictured Will going into the shop, looking over the books, and then discovering the very one he knew I would love. I even pictured him watching as the clerk wrapped the volume in brown paper. I wondered if the clerk had tied the green bow on it or if Will had gone into a notion shop and chosen it himself. These were all small things.. | love | Sharon Biggs Waller | |
| 15982e5 | To a Western observer, schooled in the theory and practice of Western freedom, it is precisely the lack of freedom--freedom of the mind from constraint and indoctrination, to question and inquire and speak; freedom of the economy from corrupt and pervasive mismanagement; freedom of women from male oppression; freedom of citizens from tyranny--that underlies so many of the troubles of the Muslim world. But the road to democracy, as the Weste.. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 2f969eb | By the time James had dressed and made his way down to the Great Hal for breakfast, it was nearly ten o'clock. Less than a dozen students could be seen moving disconsolately among the detritus of the morning's earlier rush. At the far corner of the Slytherin table, Zane sat hunched and squinting under a beam of sunlight. Across from him was Ralph, who saw James enter and waved him over. As James made his way across the Hal , four or five ho.. | G. Norman Lippert | ||
| 31fbe53 | That day was an education for me. I'll never forget it. Standing in teh doorway, watching the reaction of the men and women gathered there, I witnessed the poewrful effect of unwavering, uncomplaining, uncompromising leadership. It changed me. It was one of those moments when you say to yourself, [in italics] That's what I want to be when I grow up. and you know you've grown up a little already, simply because you recognize it. Norman calle.. | Nancy Brinker | ||
| 99db34f | For me love is like this: you're in one room or apartment which you think is fine, then you walk through a door and close it behind you and find yourself in the next apartment, which is even better, larger, more floorspace, a better view. You're happy there and then you go into the next apartment and close the door and this one is even better. And the sequence continues, but with the odd feature that although this has happened to you a numb.. | Norman Rush | ||
| 054117d | They had kissed the first time they did coke together, their first kiss, Wani's mouth sour with wine, his tongue darting, his eyes timidly closed. Each time after that was a re-enactment of a thrilling beginning. Anything seemed possible - the world was not only doable, conquerable, but lovable: it showed its weaknesses and you knew it would submit to you. You saw your own charm reflected in its eyes. Nick stood and kissed Wani in the middl.. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 6e96c5e | but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being temporary, is a kind of pleasure. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 51122a4 | There was one thing that stood like stone among the music and moonfroth of the evening's gaieties. It was stupid, it was terrifying, it was wonderful, but it had happened and I could do nothing about it. For better or worse, I was head over ears in love... | Mary Stewart | ||
| a674013 | Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds. | arthurian-legend fantasy merlin | Mary Stewart | |
| 410a177 | Rest you here, enchanter, while the light fades, Vision narrows, and the far Sky-edge is gone with the sun. Be content with the small spark Of the coal, the smell Of food, and the breath Of frost beyond the shut door. Home is here, and familiar things; A cup, a wooden bowl, a blanket, Prayer, a gift for the god, and sleep. (And music, says the harp, And music.) Rest here, enchanter, while the fire dies. In a breath, in an eyelid's fall, Yo.. | dreams enchantment merlin music myth | Mary Stewart | |
| 88e52a5 | The sparkling smile became enormous. 'Do you think she has a dagger there? Do you? Ask her, M. Francis? For,' said the most noble and most powerful Princess Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland, delving furiously under all the stiff red velvet, showing shift, hose and garters, shoes, knees and a long ribboned end of something recently torn loose, and emerging therefrom with a fist closed tight on an object short and hard and glittering, 'for I h.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6b8ccbe | She is giving me my life back and not claiming it for herself as so many of the women you love do claim. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 8ed5dec | Most of them were running away from something--usually the law. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 1f66b84 | Criza limbajului Ruptura intre fiinta si gandire.Gandirea,golita de fiinta,se usuca,se vestejeste,nu mai e gandire.Intr-adevar,gandirea e expresia fiintei,coincide cu fiinta.Poti vorbi fara sa gandesti.Pentru asta avem la dispozitie cliseele,adica automatismele.Gandirea adevarata nu poate fi decat vie. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 8d6c5ff | FIRE CHIEF: Life is very simple, really. [To the Smiths:] Go on and kiss each other. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 808a5f0 | exista emotii nepermise, precum, de pilda, vitelismul la poarta de aur fals a literaturii proaste. (...) Romanul este, de altfel, lenes in viata de toate zilele, liric in poezie, tembel in politica si impresionist in critica literara. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| e8a3890 | I ought not to have stirred, I was swept into the dance, caught up in the whirling movement of things. Being in Time means running after the present. You run after things, you run with things, you flow away. | centeredness fleetingness time | Eugène Ionesco | |
| 50592d3 | Financially independent people are happier than those in their same income/age cohort who are not financially secure. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| e910262 | Allocating time and money in the pursuit of looking superior often has a predictable outcome: inferior economic achievement. What are three words that profile the affluent? FRUGAL FRUGAL FRUGAL | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 2367e7a | Howard Zinn wrote in 1988, in what now seems like a lost world before so many political upheavals and technological changes arrived, "As this century draws to a close, a century packed with history, what leaps out from that history is its utter unpredictability." -- | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 88c8226 | Fire, brimstone and impending apocalypse have always had great success in the pulpit, and the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 70b0e25 | To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. | language lists | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c6df86f | That thing we call a place is the intersection of many changing forces passing through, whirling around, mixing, dissolving, and exploding in a fixed location. To write about a place is to acknowledge that phenomena often treated separately--ecology, democracy, culture, storytelling, urban design, individual life histories and collective endeavors--coexist. They coexist geographically, spatially, in place, and to understand a place is to en.. | narrative place | Rebecca Solnit | |
| d48643a | Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking a walk, because their walking and indeed their very beings have been construed as inevitably, continually sexual in those societies concerned with controlling women's sexuality. | misogyny nature rape-culture travel walking wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| dbbf5b6 | This paying attention is the foundational act of empathy, of listening, of seeing, of imagining experiences other than one's own, of getting out of the boundaries of one's own experience. There's a currently popular argument that books help us feel empathy, but if they do so they do it by helping us imagine that we are people we are not. Or to go deeper within ourselves, to be more aware of what it means to be heartbroken, or ill, or six, o.. | empathy literature | Rebecca Solnit | |
| b750281 | Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even. There are comparatively few articles about whether men are happy or why their marriages also fail or how nice or not their bodies are, even the movie-star bodies. They are the gender that commits the great majority of crime, particularly violent crime, and they are the majority of suicides as well. American men are falling behind wom.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 97de8f8 | One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church zoned for three units and carefully arrays on it twelve affordable housing units, a community center (the converted church), offices for Casa in the church's attic, and a garden that can accommodate street markets and kiosks. 'In a place where current regulation allows only one use,' [Cruz} crows, ' we propose five different us.. | architecture planning | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 173a672 | Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| f097801 | The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler piecework or agricultural labour for surplus and export. | landscape orchards page-55 | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 6659404 | The map of utopias is cluttered nowadays with experiments by other names, and the very idea is expanding. It needs to open up a little more to contain disaster communities. These remarkable societies suggest that, just as many machines reset themselves to their original settings after a power outage, human beings reset themselves to something altruistic, communitarian, resourceful and imaginative after a disaster, that we revert to somethin.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 65e5fd2 | No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. | travel | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c0c8fdb | It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after. | inspirational thought-provoking utopia | Rebecca Solnit | |
| a0316b2 | We live inside each other's thoughts and works. | Rebecca Solnit |