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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ebecb1e | The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade. | endurance jungle | Tahir Shah | |
| 3bc2625 | Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does. | moving | Tahir Shah | |
| 62b02fa | As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection. | tourism | Tahir Shah | |
| 0116b22 | The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. | ego glory | Tahir Shah | |
| 2570a49 | Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. | leadership sadism | Tahir Shah | |
| 579313e | In India everything has a use and a value. | life use value | Tahir Shah | |
| d8b2cbf | The ants are bad" The Bear "the ants?"Tahir "Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman." | destruction ignorance | Tahir Shah | |
| 624ef2c | There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage. | journey mules travel | Tahir Shah | |
| 8746d97 | But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was never moved by what I was doing (in an interview she said, "He writes his own material, I'm always telling him he needs a new writer")..." | Steve Martin | ||
| 9e58cb9 | Mirabelle is not sparkling tonight, because she works only in gears, and tonight she is in the wrong gear. Third gear is her scholarly, perspicacious, witty self; second gear is her happy, giddy, childish self; and first gear is her complaining, helpless, unmotivated self. Tonight she is somewhere midshift, between helpless and childish. | Steve Martin | ||
| 36d8adf | An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face. | hilarious-nerd | Steve Martin | |
| 86c56fa | People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, most of them no bigger than a tea tray. Their thin browns, ashy grays, and muted blues made people speak softly to one another, as if a shouted word might curdle one of the paintings and ruin it. Bottles, carafes, and ceramic whatnots sat in his paintings like small animals huddling for warmth, and the.. | matisse morandi picasso | Steve Martin | |
| 3cc1f5a | Children understand...things far better. Adults always make things so complicated. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8690eec | Ruby: I've decided. I'm putting my Gary on a diet. Rosie: You're putting him on a diet? How on earth can you control what your twenty-one-year-old son eats? Ruby: Oh it's easy; I'll just nail down everything to the floor. Rosie: So what kind of diet is it? Ruby: I don't know. I bought a magazine, but there are so many stupid diets out there I don't know which one to pick. Remember that ridiculous one that you and I did last year? The alphab.. | ruby | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 8c11135 | the more you try to simplify things, the more you complicate them. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 54b471b | It doesn't matter where you are in the world because it's about where you are up here,' she touched the side of her head lightly. 'It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination and memories. I'm happy up here,' she tapped her temple again and smiled, 'and because of that I'm happy up here too.' She held out her arms and displayed the countryside around her.... | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f1ce3b7 | A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7f575a3 | I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things having to be found. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3d95ce0 | I mourned for a life that I'd lost. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b095379 | Necesitas a alguien que te ayude a hacer realidad tus suenos y que sepa protegerte de tus temores. Necesitas a alguien que te trate con respeto, que ame cada parte de ti, sobre todo tus defectos. Deberias estar con alguien que supiera hacerte feliz, realmente feliz, que te hiciera sentir en las nubes de tanta felicidad"." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 092c55a | She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time till she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2a00e9d | There was something about him so pure and untarnished,yet he was powerful and well-versed on life. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 9014c44 | love was one of those feelings that you could never control. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7b40ff2 | Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, and decades were being spent the be.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 9d230cd | My mother says that I have a knack for remembering what others forget. Sometimes it's a curse; nobody likes it when there's somebody to remember what they've tried so hard to bury. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ec696fd | La vie est une succession de moments qui ne cessent de changer, comme les pensees. Parfois ca va, parfois ca ne va pas. Meme si c'est dans la nature humaine de ruminer, il ne faut pas se laisser envahir par une pensee negative, parce que les pensees sont comme des invites, ou des amies des bons jours. Sitot arrivees, certaines peuvent s'evaporer, et meme celles que l'on rumine longtemps peuvent disparaitre en un instant. Les moments sont pr.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 0b3e885 | Ever hear the saying that you need to be scared to be brave? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 753cb7e | When a member of the family leaves or dies, it changes the dynamics of a family. People move and shift, take up places they either wanted to have or are forced into roles they never wanted. It happens without anybody noticing, but it's shifting all the time. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b8c36b9 | There is a space that people hold for you, within themselves. Every person has a space for every person they met - sometimes the capacity is deep, sometimes it is shallow. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5d36fcf | We see being Flawed as a strength. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you're never the wiser. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c0ab0fc | It's like you know a lyric for a song by heart and suddenly you forget the words. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d00288c | A man should never neglect his family for business. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7037e59 | I never wanted anything new; from the age of ten, I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things having to be found. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 20ec206 | Every time he came back, apologetic, contrite, he'd start off being real nice. But he was as predictable as rain. No body knew when he'd go off, but at some point everybody knew he would. | Chris Gardner | ||
| 39a2820 | In our world," Darija said, throwing aside the chapter she was marking up, "there will be no semicolons." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 900250e | Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cb1dd25 | Recollections are in the eye of the beholder. No two held side by side can ever quite match. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c99bd52 | Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b0c8162 | It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life and think you are seeing yourself clearly. And then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, and you realize you've never truly seen yourself at all. I | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a8224f5 | Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank. | loss | Jodi Picoult | |
| d25e471 | McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win." "Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming." | dreaming | Jodi Picoult | |
| 34fbbe8 | Just because you choose to leave a place did not mean that you could escape taking it with you. A man and a woman who lived together long enough might swap traits, until they found parts of themselves in each other. Jettison a personality and you just might find it taking up residence in the heart of the person you loved most. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6a988a1 | Love isn't what you expect it to be. You imagine being drunk on happiness, but the truth is, you worry all the time. Is she ill? Hurt? Might she meet someone else? There's a moment when you realize you've gotten everything you wished for. And right on its heels is the understanding that this means you have so much more to lose. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b175c32 | It's like a telescope. My dad, no matter what he's doing, zooms right in so he can't see anything except what's right there with him at that minute. My mom, she's always on wide angle. | Jodi Picoult |