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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 84f3083 | this is only the beginning. Many die, many kill their bodies and souls, but they cannot kill the justice of God, even they cannot kill the eternal spirit. From their very degradation that spirit will rise up to demand of the world compassion and justice | despair lgbt social-exclusion | Radclyffe Hall | |
| 78943f7 | I don't really understand the world anymore. But maybe there's some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together. | world-peace | Greg Iles | |
| 6a0a7c6 | I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. --Jane Austen, Persuasion, paraphr. | Greg Iles | ||
| 90c9544 | People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. | Greg Iles | ||
| 8979c77 | Don't keep a girl guessing too long, or she'll find the answer somewhere else. | Greg Iles | ||
| 4abfd97 | The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them. | Greg Iles | ||
| 0e9c707 | Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up. | Greg Iles | ||
| 664e6cf | Let me tell you something, man. I sat here at this desk during the war as one report after another of Arab sellouts came in. The Egyptian Chief of Staff selling secrets to the Germans; Cairo all decked out to welcome Rommel as their liberator; the Iraqis going to the Germans; the Syrians going to the Germans; the Mufti of Jerusalem a Nazi agent. I could go on for hours. You must look at Whitehall's side of this, Bruce. We can't risk losing .. | Leon Uris | ||
| adc40db | And that is where I have failed you, Ari. You see, I would have crawled to your mother a million times. I would crawl to her because I need her in order to live. She is my strength. God help me, Ari, I have been a party to the creation of a breed of men and women so hard they refuse to know the meaning of tears and humility. | Leon Uris | ||
| d688ef8 | What's your plan to stay out of my bed? | quinn-masters | Stephanie Rowe | |
| ae612ed | He stayed right where he was, shielding Lily with his body, accepting her violent emotions, and running his hands over skin that was too precious to be marred with so many bruises. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 0e10a9e | I can see down your shirt | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 53c64f4 | You can't manipulate me. I made the choice because you look like some lost puppy dog at the the thought of losing me, and I felt bad for you. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 6f7140c | He remembered lesson #76.5 from Man Decorum 101: Never tell a smart, pissed-off female what to do. Ask her. Nicely. Preferably with roses in hand. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 26c7a8f | Mine to you. Yours to me. Bonded by blood, by spirit and by soul, we are one. No distance too far, no enemy too powerful, no sacrifice too great. I will always find you. I will always protect you. No matter what the cost. I am yours and you are mine. - Elijah | order-of-the-blade stephanie-rowe | Stephanie Rowe | |
| 0fb4200 | That's the thing about time travel -- you're always moving forward, even when you go back. | James A. Owen | ||
| d4b3cd9 | Las cosas que amamos siempre acaban por destruirnos. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c6531b4 | There's always a bear, | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 7f87a06 | We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. | Og Mandino | ||
| 3679d67 | If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will remember past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be master of my emotions. | Og Mandino | ||
| 4003bc9 | Within him, as he hurled himself forward, was born a love, a despairing fondness for this flag which was near him. It was a creation of beauty and invulnerability. It was a goddess, radiant, that bended its form with an imperious gesture to him. It was a woman, red and white, hating and loving, that called him with the voice of his hopes. Because no harm could come to it he endowed it with power. He kept near, as if it could be a saver of l.. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 1b7e389 | The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and even a genius of mental aberrations could never conclude that it was anything but a horror to the muscles and a crime against the back. | Stephen Crane | ||
| c1626b5 | He turned now with a lover's thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks-- an existence of soft and eternal peace. | Stephen Crane | ||
| aa9a457 | XXVI There was set before me a mighty hill, And long days I climbed Through regions of snow. When I had before me the summit-view, It seemed my labor | Stephen Crane | ||
| f240020 | Testosterone also increases confidence and optimism, while decreasing fear and anxiety.5 This explains the "winner" effect in lab animals, where winning a fight increases an animal's willingness to participate in, and its success in, another such interaction. Part of the increased success probably reflects the fact that winning stimulates testosterone secretion, which increases glucose delivery and metabolism in the animal's muscles and mak.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| ca782f5 | A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." | Stephen Crane | ||
| a3da1fa | The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")" | hearing horror | Stephen Crane | |
| b9b9235 | obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| cb89135 | Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective . . . and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a576156 | Each sunrise is a precious jewel . . . for it may never be followed by its sunset. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a98692e | We organized First and Second Volunteer Defense Gunners of Free Luna-two regiments so that First could snub lowly Second and Second could be jealous of First. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4ec798a | Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impos.. | inspirational | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| e165b8f | Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fb203d2 | But you don't have to take his advice. Whether you use his ideas, or whether they spark some different plan--make your decision and snap out orders. The one thing--the only thing!--that can strike terror in the heart of a good platoon sergeant is to find that he's working for a boss who can't make up his mind. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 46017d0 | Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies--the same Vargas who was on the Second Venus Expedition. He told me what had happened and I looked at the gibbons, meantime rearranging my prejudices. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| cbfb71b | They insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own, and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing, is one that they can't or won't entertain. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a52957d | Or maybe he was seeing double. Bad stuff, gin. Should 'ave switched to rum a long time ago. Good stuff, rum. You could drink it, or take a bath in it. No, that was gin -- he meant Joe. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6496389 | I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don't civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 43b6c40 | There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time.. | precision war | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| fb7db4a | Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 305c8c6 | Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d0dcc19 | But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 77d64d9 | That's a subject as safe as being in favor of Christmas. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e86ece0 | We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race--we are even developing an exact ethic for extra-human relations. But all moral problems can be illustrated by one misquotation: 'Greater love hath no man than a mother cat dying to defend her kittens.' Once you understand the problem facing that cat and how she solved it, you will the.. | Robert A. Heinlein |