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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cbf8da8 | When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride -- thwarted pride. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d04f6b1 | God created you to trust him and love others. When you are not trusting or not loving, you are disconnected from your purpose, and hopelessness will thrive. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 26fba7e | London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 51ca820 | A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| b4876e6 | I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and began to enjoy living at the very end of time. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 88767c6 | So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 6078e70 | There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward. | inspirational | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 9524137 | History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. We live again in the twelfth or in the fifteenth century, finding echoes and resonances of our own time; we may recognise that some things, such as piety and passion, are never lost; we may also conclude that the great general drama of the human spirit is ever fresh .. | england history | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 3ab05b1 | The monk in the grip of acedia would find it difficult or impossible to read. Looking away from his book, he might try to distract himself with gossip but would more likely glance in disgust at his surroundings and at his fellow monks. He would feel that things were better somewhere else, that he was wasting his life, that everything was stale and pointless, that he was suffocating. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| d32ea09 | Spectators could, for an additional fee, sit on the stage--something not permitted at the Globe. With stage seating, audience members could show off their finery to maximum effect, and the practice was lucrative; but it contained an obvious risk of distraction. Stephen Greenblatt relates an occasion in which a nobleman who had secured a perch on the stage spied a friend entering across the way and strode through the performance to greet him.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 30d98e3 | The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. The principal enemies of human happiness are inordinate desire--the fantasy of attaining something that exceeds what the finite mortal world allows--and gnawing fear. Even the dreaded plague, in Lucretius' account--and his work ends with a graphic account of a catastrophic plague epidemic in Athens--is most horrible not only for the suffering and death that it brings but also an.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 5b49c0d | Independence & self-reliance had no cultural purchase; indeed, they could scarcely be conceived, let alone prized...The best course was humbly to accept the identity to which destiny assigned you: the ploughman needed only to know how to plough, the weaver to weave, the monk to pray. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 7e0015c | Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 3d66900 | Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They're wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 5759836 | They [Cops] were living in the media age, and in the media age, cops didn't get to fire their weapons. Cops were honored if they got themselves killed in the line of duty, but they were never suppose to draw their guns, not even in self-defense. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 17bca31 | Violence, the great equaliser. Cared nothing for money, class, occupation. One day, it simply found you. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 3b5da4d | Kendinize ait parcalar vardir, sayisiz parcalar, bunlari bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazsiniz. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| e5d08ba | There's no rewind, or erasing, or unmaking. The things that happened, they are you, you are them. You can escape, but you can't get away. Just the way it is. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 176399d | God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge | Lisa Gardner | ||
| dacb0f1 | You welcome your children into the world knowing that if all goes the way you plan, you won't get to see the end of their story. It seems a sad notion until you realize that's what gives you hope for the future. | David Mack | ||
| 2b264ed | I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d46db28 | For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone. I | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 3e6e510 | The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely. | pickman-s-model | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| ae35ad7 | For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 4b12282 | When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it's time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 0e99b92 | The Silver Key: I. In the first days of his bondage he had turned to the gentle churchly faith endeared to him by the naive trust of his fathers, for thence stretched mystic avenues which seemed to promise escape from life. II. Only on closer view did he mark the starved fancy and beauty, the stale and prosy triteness, and the owlish gravity and grotesque claims of solid truth which reigned bore somely and overwhelmingly among most of its p.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 8bebb0a | I have said that I dwelt apart from the visible world, but I have not said that I dwelt alone. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 0f1fa3e | But when I heard his voice, I felt content. When I was with him, I felt beautiful and happy. And there was nothing I could do about it. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 8daeda0 | I am He who howls in the night; I am He who moans in the snow; I am He who hath never seen light; I am He who mounts from below. My car is the car of Death; My wings are the wings of dread; My breath is the north wind's breath; My prey are the cold and the dead. | S.T. Joshi | ||
| 995943f | Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 9ea7fab | Set a pen to a dream, and the colour drains from it. The ink with which we write seems diluted with something holding too much of reality, and we find that after all we cannot delineate the incredible memory. It is as if our inward selves, released from the bonds of daytime and objectivity, revelled in prisoned emotions which are hastily stifled when we translate them. In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them res.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 1536717 | for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 0f101b5 | They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| ba624fa | God! What wonder that across the earth a great architect went mad, | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 2937881 | see, now, that it was wrong for me to curse your particular blood to a diseased eternity of suffering. In an attempt at magnanimity I extend an apology and retract my sanguinary execration. | Joseph Fink | ||
| 6e2762a | It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 16126b0 | To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement. Rather must it be said that we were not prepared to deny the possibility of certain unfamiliar and unclassified modifications of vital force and attenuated matter; existing very infrequently in three-dimensional space because of its more intimate connexion with other spatial units, yet close enough to the boundary of our own to furnish us o.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| d79836d | And, most vivid of all, there was the dramatic epic of the rats - the scampering army of obscene vermin which had burst forth from the castle three months after the tragedy that doomed it to desertion - the lean, filthy, ravenous army which had swept all before it and devoured fowl, cats, dogs, hogs, sheep, and even two hapless human beings before its fury was spent. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 092ca35 | Zijeme nase zivoty na malem ostruvku zaslepenosti, bez povedomi o temnych oceanech nekonecna okolo nas. Nemeli bychom se snazit prilis rozhlizet. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. | H P Lovecraft | ||
| 4c8730d | A place isn't really yours until you clean it. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e21f611 | There are times to think and times to lie fallow | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 3ebfebe | When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty." | Clive Cussler | ||
| 7bc87b6 | People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker! | feminism | Mary Gordon | |
| f61e4a6 | Writer Mary Jo Putney says, "What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever." | Brené Brown |