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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 449ad5a | In his particular line of business, peace had reigned for nearly a year. And peace was killing him. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 345dab2 | Never send a man where you can send a bullet. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 3acddd8 | Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved a.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| d6053ef | James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 315bc9f | Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual. | skill | Ian Fleming | |
| 10f88e4 | The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead. | death james-bond | Ian Fleming | |
| 318d4a0 | It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatre-set that modern Turkey had thrown aside in favour of the steel and concrete flat-iron of the Istanbul-Hilton Hotel, blankly glittering behind him on the heights of Pera. | istanbul modernization pera turkey | Ian Fleming | |
| 223964f | The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not. | las-vegas traps | Ian Fleming | |
| 953fe8b | You never get real adventures without a bit of risk somewhere. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 32e541b | My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have stumbled by mischance into a game for grown-ups and you have already found it a painful experience. You are not equipped, my dear boy, to play games with adults and it very foolish of your nanny in London to have sent you out here with your spade and bucket. Very foolish indeed and most unfortunate for you.' 'But we must stop joking, my dear.. | advice wise-words | Ian Fleming | |
| c90e2b6 | The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. | P.D. James | ||
| 7e712b7 | Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am | Rumer Godden | ||
| b19c522 | It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined the small possessions, recorded and labelled for public view the sad detritus of .. | murder-mysteries | P.D. James | |
| 03d8984 | People should make up their minds whether to live or to die and do one or the other with the least inconvenience to others. | P.D. James | ||
| 9f9dbc3 | I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval. | P.D. James | ||
| 3861361 | I don't think He bargains." "Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He's supposed to he just. If He wants belief He'd better provide some evidence.' "That He exists?" "That He cares." | religion | P.D. James | |
| 71c2331 | What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure. | pd-james the-murder-room | P.D. James | |
| 5d24215 | Like all religious evangelists, she realizes that there is little satisfaction in the contemplation of heaven for oneself if one cannot simultaneously contemplate the horrors of hell for others. | P.D. James | ||
| f9b4b68 | Admirable." Translation: Slut. "I'm confident you could have ripped the vampire's heart out with no help from Sir Conall. You would never need a hero to rescue you." Translation: Amazon." | Nina Bangs | ||
| 5ff6f67 | That's what friends are for," I said. "It doesn't matter if they're old friends or new friends. They're the kind of people who will listen as long as you need them to because, sometimes, telling the story and having someone listen is the only way to figure out how to move on." | J.A. Jance | ||
| 76d666a | She blinked once, then twice, and yet again, sure what she viewed was just another part of this fantasy world that she had stepped into when her feet touched the green grass of Ireland. | fern-michaels holiday secret-santa | Fern Michaels | |
| f86be2d | This is why the rabbis tell us that a broken heart is more full than one that is content: because a broken heart has a vacancy, and the vacancy has the potential to be filled with the infinite. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 22c8253 | Metti chiunque, anche uno scemo, davanti a una finestra, e avrai uno Spinoza. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| d19e157 | I hadn't thought about it until just now, but the night Daniel rang our bell in the winter of 1970 was the end of November, the same time of year she died twenty-seven years later. I don't know what's that supposed to tell you; nothing, except that we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 72316be | Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs. But sometimes, at rare moments, a memory of him will return to me with such suddenness and clarity that all the feeling I've pushed down for years springs out like a jack-in-the-box. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| e644522 | My mother was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve i.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| baf0bbe | By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly. My heart is weak and unreliable. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| afc3192 | It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous. | perspective time | Nicole Krauss | |
| 45aa45a | But then a foreboding thought cast a shadow over the rest, blunt and unadorned, and it was simply this: that for most of my life i had been emulating the thoughts and actions of other people. That so much I had done or said had been a mirror of what was said and done around me. And that if i continued in this manner, whatever glimmers of brilliant life still burned in me would soon go out. When i was very young it had been otherwise, but I .. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| ce8b454 | I know sometimes things are hard with Mum." "She misses Dad," I said, which was like pointing out that a sky-scraper is tall. Uncle Julian nodded." | Nicole Krauss | ||
| d1cafa0 | 23. OUTSIDE, IT WAS STILL COMING DOWN | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 9fc6d79 | When he read a book he gave himself over entirely to commas and semicolons, to the space after the period and before the capital letter of the next sentence. He discovered the places in a room where silence gathered; the folds of the curtain drapes, the deep bowls of the family silver. When people spoke to him he heard less of what they were saying, and more and more of what they were not. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| f22ef5c | The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy. | counseling | Nicole Krauss | |
| 65e0530 | And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58) | sad | Nicole Krauss | |
| 31b163e | The inclusion of lemon or lime juice in grog, made compulsory in 1795, therefore reduced the incidence of scurvy dramatically. And since beer contains no vitamin C, switching from beer to grog made British crews far healthier overall. | grog naval-crews scurvy | Tom Standage | |
| d39f6b0 | Life in Australia would go on, and I would hear nothing, because once you leave Australia, Australia ceases to be. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 412707f | a society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| d8c1a5c | No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is." | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 688c363 | We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| a68ac5f | If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 34291d9 | No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| fc7afd1 | Nisbet could find much to disturb a traditional conservative even in the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan: "President Reagan's deepest soul is not Republican-conservative but New Deal-Second World War Democrat. Thus his well noted preference for citing FDR and Kennedy as noble precedents for his actions rather than Coolidge, Hoover, or even Eisenhower. The word 'revolution' springs lightly from his lips, for anything from tax reform to narcotics p.. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 0380071 | Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| afd9546 | Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. --Aristophanes, Greek comic poet (c. 450-385 BCE) | Tom Standage |