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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d6e8715 | To je bilo davno, ali ljudi grijese kada kazu da proslost moze da se pokopa. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bda838b | Mariam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| cd9a62e | Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one...Mariam wished she's been a better daughter to Nana. She wished she's understood then what she understood now about motherhood. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 09c1dc3 | there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is variation of theft. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 79eeee2 | Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be. | punishment | Khaled Hosseini | |
| a7cd6cb | kyf ntHml bSmt kl ldhy yq` `ly khln ?!! | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 730e7b3 | For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . . | James Hilton | ||
| 6405f5d | Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue-black sky. | lost-horizon moon nature quote | James Hilton | |
| 4ed2bdd | He had, in fact, already begun to sink into that creeping dry rot of pedagogy which is the worst and ultimate pitfall of the profession; giving the same lessons year after year had formed a groove into which the other affairs of his life adjusted themselves with insidious ease. He worked well; he was conscientious; he was a fixture that gave service, satisfaction, confidence, everything except inspiration. | James Hilton | ||
| 1d2859f | the heart is like a box; if it is filled with rubbish, there is no space for other things. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 855abb5 | Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| fa62ddd | I'm lonely," she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e3e9605 | The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind. | sadness | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 6e3ebad | The mere seeing of Miss Sara would have been enough without meat pies. If there was time only for a few words, they were always friendly, merry words that put heart into one...Sara--who was only doing what she unconsciously liked better than anything else, Nature having made her for a giver--had not the least idea what she meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 62e2bab | In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. | the-secret-garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| baa4525 | It IS a story," said Sara. "EVERYTHING'S a story. You are a story--I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 062570c | The strong and strange thing--that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun--had begun to move in them. It was no new and rare thing, but an ancient and common one--as common and ancient as death and birth themselves; and part of the law as they are. As it comes to royal persons to whom one makes obeisance at their mere passing by, as it comes to scullery maids in royal kitchens, and grooms in roya.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d541386 | When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so. If there was a doctor anywhere who could make you forget you were ill instead of remembering it I would have him brought here. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 717a90e | Don't let us make it tidy," said Mary anxiously. "It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 15f50da | Sara!" she cried, aghast. "Mamma Sara!" She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world. Her short legs had seemed to have been mounting hundreds of stairs." -- | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5e90488 | I wish you had a 'little missus' who could pet you as I used to pet papa when he had a headache. I should like to be your 'little missus' myself, poor dear! Good night-good night. God bless you! | Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924 | ||
| 0f10133 | It seemed to her many years since he had begun to prepare her mind for "the place," as she always called it. Her mother had died when she was born, so she had never known or missed her. Her young, handsome, rich, petting father seemed to be the only relation she had in the world. They had always played together and been fond of each other. She only knew he was rich because she had heard people say so when they thought she was not listening,.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 85c7c18 | All that I do is right--for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law--and the law of some others. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d75f030 | Uno de los descubrimientos mas extraordinarios de este siglo ha sido el que los pensamientos son tan poderosos como las pilas electricas, tan buenos como la luz y tan peligrosos como el veneno. si permitimos que un pensamiento triste o malo se introduzca en nuestra mente es tan arriesgado como dejar que un virus se apodere de nuestro cuerpo. Si se le permite quedarse, es posible que no podamos desprendernos nunca mas de el. | frances-hodgson-burnett | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 91ceb6e | People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for the prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. One | Thomas Sowell | ||
| d1b0790 | ideology. . . is an instrument of power; a defense mechanism against information; a pretext for eluding moral constraints in doing or approving evil with a clean conscience; and finally, a way of banning the criterion of experience, that is, of completely eliminating or indefinitely postponing the pragmatic criteria of success and failure. --Jean-Francois Revel1 | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 01ed9ff | Have you gone crazy, Lefty?" "No. On the contrary, I have become educated." "Sometimes that's worse, these days." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 7c929ce | The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds. What that means is that, even if we somehow manage to survive this man's reckless economic policies at home and his potentially fatal foreign policy actions and inactions, the gullibility and fecklessness of those voters who put him in the White House will still be there to be exploited by the next master of glib demago.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| e4cd34f | Electric cars may be fun at amusement parks, where they don't have to go very far or very fast. But if the consuming public wanted electric cars for regular use, Detroit would be manufacturing them by the millions. Only people infatuated with their own wonderful specialness would think that their job is to coerce both the manufacturers and the consuming public into something that neither of them wants. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| e3ac169 | President Obama keeps telling us that he is "creating jobs." But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for jobs. You are only counted as unemployed if you are still looking for a job." -- | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 0ab0a60 | Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed. | oil | Thomas Sowell | |
| 1b577e6 | Misconceptions of business are almost inevitable in a society where most people have neither studied nor run businesses. In a society where most people are employees and consumers, it is easy to think of businesses as "them" - as impersonal organizations, whose internal operations are largely unknown and whose sums of money may sometimes be so huge as to be unfathomable." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| bd059df | What is called "planning" in political rhetoric is the government's suppression of other people's plans by superimposing on them a collective plan, created by third parties, armed with the power of government and exempted from paying the costs that these collective plans impose on others." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 3b81693 | Gun control zealots compare the United States and England to show that murder rates are lower where restrictions on ownership of firearms are more severe. But you could just as easily compare Switzerland and Germany, the Swiss having lower murder rates than the Germans, even though gun ownership is three times higher in Switzerland. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finlan.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 264e758 | Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward. Fortunemagazine{115} | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 0712e0b | the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else? | common-sense elite | Thomas Sowell | |
| 382bed2 | Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 103beec | Today, there are more people of Irish ancestry in the United States than in Ireland, more Jews than in Israel, more blacks than in most African countries. There are more people of Polish ancestry in Detroit than in most of the leading cities in Poland, and more than twice as many people of Italian ancestry in New York as in Venice. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 5bdda05 | The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions. | fake-news journalism media news propaganda truth | Thomas Sowell | |
| 0ba50c5 | Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility? | Thomas Sowell | ||
| f1eb0d3 | Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can | Yann Martel | ||
| 54abc1b | There were letters for her at the bureau-one from her brother, full of athletics and biology; one from her mother, delightful as only mother's letters could be. She had read in it of the crocuses which had been bought for yellow and were coming up puce, of the new parlour-maid, who had watered the ferns with essence of lemonade... | E.M. Forster | ||
| c55b642 | He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 5861a78 | I feel to you as Pippa to her fiance, only far more nobly, far more deeply, body and soul, no starved medievalism of course, only a - a particular harmony of body and soul that I don't think women have even guessed. But you know. | E.M. Forster |