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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7fe6c04 | Warren Buffet said, "The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say 'no' to almost everything." | Matthew Lewis Browne | ||
| 5234d76 | You are part of God's story on earth," my parents whispered in our ears, "You can be like Aragorn or Frodo or Sam in the battles of the world, you can bring beauty like Jared (in The Journeyman by Elizabeth Yates), or discover something new like George Washington Carver. What kind of hero do you want to be?" | Sarah Clarkson | ||
| e259610 | What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer. | spiritual-living | Elizabeth George | |
| 387a966 | Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him. | assist christian follow god good husband love marriage men minister pure truth wife women | Elizabeth George | |
| 42f85fc | Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman. | beautiful christian energy eyes god love mental physical strength toughness trait woman women | Elizabeth George | |
| 3a16c34 | Only one life, it will soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last. | christ christian done faith god jesus last life one past soon | Elizabeth George | |
| 0a4ae97 | We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him. | comprehend define faith god heart hide knowledge love mind profound simple | Elizabeth George | |
| ee19ac4 | When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes. | christian eyes god inspire lens love men understand value view women word worth | Elizabeth George | |
| 05aed40 | If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day...Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage. | Elizabeth George Speare | ||
| 04752f5 | Beauty is vain. It appears and like the wind, it's gone | the-prince the-raven vain | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 1c113e1 | Tu me estas ensenando a amar y supongo que yo tambien te estoy ensenando a hacerlo, a mi manera --dijo y se aparto un poco para mirarla a los ojos--. No somos perfectos, pero eso no tiene por que impedirnos ser felices, ?no crees? | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 73c19c2 | Of course, one might object that it is impossible for one person, one woman, to represent the ideal of both agape and eros. If you will allow my indulgence for a moment, I will suggest that such skepticism is a form of misogyny. For only a misogynist would argue that women are either saints or seductresses--virgins and whores. Of course, a woman, or a man for that matter, can be both--the muse can be lover to both soul and body. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 14d96e7 | You are the only ray of hope I've seen since 1274. You're the only one who has caused my heart to beat again. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| ce6660b | What a beautiful heart you have," he whispered as he held her tightly." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| f6b44ee | Wanting someone, needing someone, isn't a vice. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 8b1b0bf | You are the light that shines in my darkness. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| e90779b | Is that what I am? I don't know what the hell I am anymore." "Oh, bullshit. You're a guy, a human being. Just another poor son of a bitch who doesn't want to be alone when the sacred ginmill closes." | Lawrence Block | ||
| a1993d8 | The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start. | Lawrence Block | ||
| e304089 | Fiction writing starts off by requiring the towering arrogance that enables one to sit down at the typewriter in the belief that someone somewhere will actually be eager to read the productions of our own private imaginations. But that arrogance must be buffered by the humility that leads us to learn our craft and strive to make our work comprehensible and inviting and accessible to the reader. | Lawrence Block | ||
| a5decd6 | Novels are written--as life is lived--One Day At A Time. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 1b4c676 | The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... | short-stories short-story writers writing | Lawrence Block | |
| 71ac2be | The full measure of a culture embraces both the actions of a people and the quality of their aspirations, the nature of the metaphors that propel their lives. And no description of a people can be complete without reference to the character of their homeland, the ecological and geographical matrix in which they have determined to live out their destiny. Just as a landscape defines character, culture springs from a spirit of place. | culture | Wade Davis | |
| 3667344 | Dear heart," he murmured, "do not look on me with those dear, scared eyes of yours. If there is aught that puzzles you in what I said, try and trust me a little longer. Remember, I must save the Dauphin at all costs; mine honor is bound with his safety. What happens to me after that matters but little, yet I wish to live for your dear sake." -- | france honor love the-scarlet-pimprenel trust | Emmuska Orczy | |
| 81b0ca9 | dlm nmykhwst dlm nmykhwst yh chyzyw bht bgm. tw chsht dw t drkht dywwnhy khwchwlw dydm z hw, z khndh, z Tl. wn tb mykhwrdn | Federico García Lorca | ||
| cf8dfc9 | The dreadful nostalgia for a wasted life, the fatal feeling that you were born too late, or the restless hope for an impossible morning with the nearby restlessness of the flesh's ache | Federico García Lorca | ||
| 0b65299 | Julieta, la noche no es un momento, pero un momento puede durar toda la noche. | amor el-público federico-garcia-lorca noche relatividad-del-tiempo tiempo | Federico García Lorca | |
| e1c9c55 | An hour before dawn they went down to the cove, following the bubble of the stream and the descending combe, with a glowworm here and there green-lit like a jewel in the dark. | Winston Graham | ||
| 665aa1e | He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it | Graham Greene | ||
| 2c1dfa3 | What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom. | Graham Greene | ||
| 547c4ad | I couldn't resist the temptation to tease Pyle - it is, after all, the weapon of weakness and I was weak. | Graham Greene | ||
| 5e84ade | You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing. | Graham Greene | ||
| 4cc5fa8 | Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition. | Graham Greene | ||
| 226ab3f | I wondered whether she would consent to sleep with me that night if Pyle never came, but I knew that when I had smoked four pipes I would no longer want her. | Graham Greene | ||
| bab3253 | That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8d53c26 | He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't possess that remained the same and welcomed him. | Graham Greene | ||
| 4e3c794 | Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears. | fears old-age worries | Graham Greene | |
| 76ae068 | Married people grow like each other. | Graham Greene | ||
| 92bb23d | I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving. | Graham Greene | ||
| 9f1179f | It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [...] You can pull a stamp out,' she said with terrible youthful clarity, 'and you don't know that it's ever been there. | Graham Greene | ||
| dc5008e | I didn't know it buy You moved in the pain. I said, "let him be alive,' not believing in You, and my disbelief made no difference to You. You took it into Your love and accepted it like an offering, and tonight the rain soaked through my coat and my clothes into my skin, and I shivered with the cold, and it was for the first time as though I nearly loved You. I walked under Your windows in the rain and I wanted to wait under the all night o.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 59e4046 | I'm just a bad writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls | Graham Greene | ||
| 8262c2f | There I go again. I want. I don't want. If I could love You, I could love Henry. God was made man. He was Henry with his astigmatism, Richard with his spots, not only Maurice. If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry? But I'd turn from the leper if he were here, I suppose, as I shut myself away from Henry. I want the dramatic always. I imagine I'm ready for the pain of your nails... Dear God, I'm no use. I'm .. | Graham Greene | ||
| 024cc9c | A picture postcard is a symptom of loneliness. | Graham Greene | ||
| e95a3c0 | And yet he was happier in his unused room simply because it was his, his possession. I thought with bitterness and envy, if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it. | Graham Greene |