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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| db0af0f | 1. Optimize potential. 2. Facilitate empowerment. 3. Implement visioning. 4. Strategize priorities. 5. Augment core structures. | objectives | Connie Willis | |
| b3010ae | We live in hope that the good we do here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. We also hope to win the war. We hope that right and goodness will triumph, and that when the war is won, we shall have a better world. And we work toward that end. We buy war bonds and put out incendiaries and knit stockings---" And pumpkin-colored scarves, Polly thought. "---and volunteer to take in evacuated children and work in hospitals and drive ambulances" -.. | hope london resistance wartime world-war-2 world-war-ii | Connie Willis | |
| a359703 | There is a Sacerdotall dignitie in my native Countrey contiguate to me, where I now contemplate: which your worshipfull benignitie could sone impenetrate for mee, if it would like you to extend your sedules, and collaude me in them to the right honourable lord Chaunceller, or rather Archgrammacian of Englande. | Simon Winchester | ||
| e6c9bc9 | One woman even disparaged Johnson for failing to include obscenities. "No, Madam, I hope I have not daubed my fingers," he replied, archly. "I find, however, that you have been looking for them." | Simon Winchester | ||
| bccdbb6 | No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a language that simply cannot be fixed, not can its use ever be absolutely laid down. It changes constantly; it grows with an almost exponential joy. It evolves eternally; its words alter their senses and their meanings subtly, slowly, or speedily ac.. | lexicology words | Simon Winchester | |
| 9046be6 | True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than we ever know. The real world doesn't roil with as many crazed artists, psychotic generals, dyspeptic writers, maniacal statesmen, insatiable tycoons, or mad scientists as you see in dramas. | David Brin | ||
| f1870c0 | The species greatest harvest -- words. | words | David Brin | |
| d68340e | You are the stuff of which consumer profiles - American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model - are made. When you're staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn't it make sense to order the best Scotch that money can buy before you go to the theater in your private limousine? | illusion money | Jay McInerney | |
| 86360be | But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 16d6d28 | The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know this moment has come and gone, but you are not yet willing to concede that you have crossed the line beyond which all is gratuitous damage and the palsy of unraveled nerve endings. Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but your rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush.. | drugs late-nights night-life wasted-time | Jay McInerney | |
| eafe437 | death by drowning, death by snakebite ... death by memory loss, death by claymore ... death by paper cuts, death by whoreknife, death by poker game ... death by authority, death by isolation, death by genocide, death by Kennedy ... death by signature, death by silence ... death by performance | Colum McCann | ||
| 7e94c64 | The overexamined life... It's not worth living. | Colum McCann | ||
| baf47b3 | It was one of those moments when everything is out of balance, I suppose, and just watching an odd thing seems to make sense. The squirrel scampered up a tree trunk, the sound of its nails like water in a tub. | Colum McCann | ||
| a78bbc3 | The elaborate search for a word, like the turning of a chain handle on a well. Dropping the bucket down the mineshaft of the mind. Taking up empty bucket after empty bucket until, finally, at an unexpected moment, it caught hard and had a sudden weight and she raised the word, then delved down into the emptiness once more. | Colum McCann | ||
| 1920eba | It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. | youth-age | Colum McCann | |
| f916a63 | Gloria laughed at them and said that she'd overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear. | life | Colum McCann | |
| 5e1d779 | Are you saying I'm a liar? --No I'm just, like, speaking. | Colum McCann | ||
| 9c5339c | It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world. The unbearable news of sixteen million deaths rolled off the great metal drums of the newspapers. Europe was a crucible of bones. | Colum McCann | ||
| e4b57fe | But what is now encompassed by the one word ("school") are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nation's governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latte.. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 61c5bb3 | Shorn of unattractive language about "robots" who will be producing taxes and not burglarizing homes, the general idea that schools in ghettoized communities must settle for a different set of goals than schools that serve the children of the middle class and upper middle class has been accepted widely. And much of the rhetoric of "rigor" and "high standards" that we hear so frequently, no matter how egalitarian in spirit it may sound to so.. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 7f9bd30 | Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 048c807 | Terry gets annoyed when I describe his mother as cold. She isn't cold, he insists, just a little standoffish, and not so gabby as certain members of my family. While Terry's mom doesn't believe in asking intrusive questions, like "How are you?", she's still a warm and loving mom; just quiet and undemonstrative." | Dan Savage | ||
| a7bb8e4 | The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother because I was gay. | Dan Savage | ||
| 599f0c6 | Terry cooked for me, but I resented having to do dishes. As I saw it, Terry liked cooking-he enjoyed it, he told me so. Well, I didn't enjoy washing dishes- I hated it, and I'd told him so-and didn't see why I should have to do something I hated after he got to do something he liked. I mean, that wasn't fair, was it? | Dan Savage | ||
| 82b7617 | Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage. | Dan Savage | ||
| 5d5cedc | Any you really need to work on faking it. You sound pathetic even from my bed. | Molly McAdams | ||
| fca1981 | I still can't see my life with anyone but you. I still love you Harper, baby included. | Molly McAdams | ||
| c955c53 | and if this is my last hour with you, I'm not going to waste another second of it." -- Chase Grayson." -- | Molly McAdams | ||
| 7795b71 | El dia que conoci a tu madre, sabia que estaria en mi vida para siempre. Habia algo sobre ella y supe que me estaba enamorando ese primer dia. Te hacia querer ser mejor, tratar de ser digno de su amor. Lamentablemente, tu padre pensaba lo mismo, nadie entendia por que cambio drasticamente, excepto yo. A pesar de que ella estaba conmigo, dejo de beber, dejo de dormir con otras chicas, es como si lo hubiera hecho madurar al instante y convert.. | chase liam | Molly McAdams | |
| 9c13c95 | Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day. | Arthur Nersesian | ||
| cce1ea1 | It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them. | nonchalance peer-pressure | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 0592745 | Awkwardness defines my life. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 54d3954 | Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages. ( "Elf" the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )" | Martha Grimes | ||
| 92016c4 | And there you have it, Your Highness. Turning a jug of water into gold. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 354b801 | More often than not he finds what he is looking for, and it destroys him. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| cc03c86 | Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to summon up neither the memory nor the illusion of any other, truer self. As a passerby I had a right to insist on my identity. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| b46d575 | You're still young, probably you haven't lost sight of anything in this world that you can never forget, that's so dear to you you're aware of its absence all the time. Probably the sky a hundred yards or so above your head is still nothing more than sky to you. But all that means is that the storehouse happens to be empty at the moment. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 8303981 | No doubt his fellow priests would condemn his act as sacrilege; but even if he was betraying them, he was not betraying his Lord. He loved him now in a different way from before. Everything that had taken place until now had been necessary to bring him to this love. 'Even now I am the last priest in this land. But Our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of him. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 1ee350a | The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil. | good salvation | Shūsaku Endō | |
| 0ad6440 | Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God .... the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent. | silence | Shūsaku Endō | |
| 00ba7c8 | In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 21cce59 | Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms of the windowsill, she was different. Things had happened to her that were hers alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of telling about it could help them understand or share what she felt. It was satisfying and lonely, both at once. She rocked, gazing out at the twilight, and the soothing feeling came reliably into her bones. That feeling--it tied her to them, to.. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 7ccbf1c | He wasn't crazy. How could he be? He was just -- amazing. But she was struck dumb. All she could do was stare at him. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 4c0a9de | Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances. | Henry David Thoreau |