1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3334
3335
3336
3337
3338
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 728397d | Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called "modern" ideas are really old errors with new labels." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 0fc67cf | Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays are to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes; and the close.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 36f1176 | Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics. | buddhism ethics morals | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 587827a | Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can be saved only by a renovation of the inner man, only by a purging of our hearts and souls; for only by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His Justice will all these other things be added unto.. | kingdom-of-god politics | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| c6ad271 | The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d65168e | Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e8d4585 | The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts! | redemption salvation sin the-cross | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 645ae3f | The basic reason why erotic experiences outside of marriage create psychological strain is because the void between spirit and flesh is more closely felt. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 8fa1ff8 | Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. | immorality scepticism sin | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| fd7dc54 | Hearing her laugh nearly made him cum in his pants like a teenager, not a one hundred and twenty-five year old werewolf. | paranormal-romance werewolves | Amanda Clark | |
| d229feb | Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory. | successors victory | Antonio Gramsci | |
| ca0b99a | The same thing, notes Brynjolfsson, happened 120 years ago, in the Second Industrial Revolution, when electrification--the supernova of its day--was introduced. Old factories did not just have to be electrified to achieve the productivity boosts; they had to be redesigned, along with all business processes. It took thirty years for one generation of managers and workers to retire and for a new generation to emerge to get the full productivi.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 79805e7 | Chung ta quen nhin dan chu hoa nhu mot su kien - giong nhu hinh anh buc tuong Berlin sup do - nhung thuc ra dan chu hoa la ca mot qua trinh. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| d2480f7 | to make old things work better, to make new things possible, and to do old things in fundamentally new ways. For instance, the invention of the Uber taxi service did all three: it didn't just create a new competitive taxi fleet; it created a fundamentally new and better way to summon a taxi, to gather data on riders' needs and desires, to pay for a taxi, and to rate the behavior of the driver and the passenger. These sorts of transformation.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 229b51d | The job of the politician in America, whether at the local, state, or national level, should be, in good part, to help educate and explain to people what world they are living in and what they need to do if they want to thrive within it. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| ae51d05 | Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 847d3ec | And to start with I would focus on five of these killer apps that have immediate application to governing today: (1) the ability to adapt when confronted by strangers with superior economic and military might without being hobbled by humiliation; (2) the ability to embrace diversity; (3) the ability to assume ownership over the future and one's own problems; (4) the ability to get the balance right between the federal and the local--that is.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 01f8d2a | Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting- room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness.. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 9b65f57 | Watson: When do we start? | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 42d5bd2 | It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Philip Kotler | ||
| 7646180 | No one had told her what "birth" meant." | Lois Lowry | ||
| bdf3eb1 | And I've thought of a way to help you with the concept of color. "Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm going to give you a memory of a rainbow." -- | humor | Lois Lowry | |
| 1218837 | DAYS WENT BY, and weeks. Jonas learned, through the memories, the names of colors; and now he began to see them all, in his ordinary life (though he knew it was ordinary no longer, and would never be again). But they didn't last. There would be a glimpse of green--the landscaped lawn around the Central Plaza; a bush on the riverbank. The bright orange of pumpkins being trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary--s.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 188bee9 | I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 43a5e54 | They can't help it. They know nothing | Lois Lowry | ||
| ab4eb4b | I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when he was only twenty-one years old. I read his story as I had read many others, turning the pages, skimming here and there: this sabotage, that tactic, this capture, that escape. After a while even courage becomes routine to the reader. Then, quite unprepared, I turned the page and faced a photograph of Kim Malthe-Bruun. .. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d86cc8d | Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 1d458ff | The man had sat back down in the comfortable upholstered chair. He moved his shoulders around as if to ease away an aching sensation. He seemed terribly weary. 'Call me The Giver,' he told Jonas. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 61b73f0 | It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless. | memories | Lois Lowry | |
| 8dc8a54 | I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt) | humor little-kids mistake | Lois Lowry | |
| 2357d60 | I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 42b2278 | It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 1a8b69d | There were no secrets in Village. It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the people had voted in favor of it. Everyone who had come to Village from elsewhere, all of those who had not been born here, had come from places with secrets. Sometimes--not very often, for inevitably it caused sadness--people described their places of origin: places with cruel governments, harsh punishments, desperate poverty, or false comfort.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 0e16aa0 | Ellen had said that her mother was frightened of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 54bc2e8 | Unlike societies that employed baroque procedures for distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate children, the Mongols accepted all children as equal. No child could be born without the consent of the Eternal Blue Sky. No earthly law or custom could presume to declare the child illegitimate. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| ba4299c | No friend is better than your own wise heart!" Genghis Khan" | Jack Weatherford | ||
| dd4b490 | It occurred to me, not for the first time, that Lili's world was not so different from my dioramas, or even from Sirena's installations: you took a tiny portion of the earth and made it yours, but really what you wanted was for someone else -- ideally, a grown-up, because a grown-up matters, has authority, but is also not the same as you -- to come and see, to get it, and thereby, somehow, to get and all of this, surely so that you might .. | Claire Messud | ||
| 3317893 | I thought I could get to greatness, to my greatness, by plugging on, cleaning up each mess as it came, the way you're taught to eat your greens before you have dessert. | Claire Messud | ||
| 1ce35ee | Her self, then, was represented in her books. | Claire Messud | ||
| a79ae2d | And it explains much about me, too, about the limits of my experience, about the fact that the person I am in my head is so far from the person I am in the world. Nobody would know me from my own description of myself. | Claire Messud | ||
| 25b2d96 | I wish it hadn't happened; but what good does this do? I can wish it wouldn't happen again - but here too, if I'm wishing the impossible, it will do no good at all. | Claire Messud | ||
| 5445e92 | For so long I had eaten my greens and here - at last! - was my ice-cream sundae. | Claire Messud | ||
| d87160e | Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?), | Claire Messud | ||
| 9d18d74 | An inchoate mass of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise, he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return. | Claire Messud |