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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 76acec7 | Words can calm people, can make them them fall in love, can whip them up into a frenzy, can turn them into killers. | Roger Highfield | ||
| 7accc9f | If Newton had not, as Wordsworth put it, voyaged through strange seas of thought alone, someone else would have. If Marie Curie had not lived, we still would have discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium. But if J. K. Rowling had not been born, we would never have known about Harry Potter. That is why Master Potter means so much to me. Science may be special but Harry, as a work of art, is more so. Harry Potter is unique. | Roger Highfield | ||
| 21606da | She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. | immortality freedom meaning philosophy self-abandonment liberation thought soul | Iain Pears | |
| 4e78164 | Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark. | Iain Pears | ||
| 9490e8f | I had never before spent a night with a woman, had someone lying by my side in the quietness of the dark, hearing her breath and feeling her warmth beside me. It is a sin, and it is a crime. I say it frankly, for I have been taught so all my life, and only madmen have said otherwise. The Bible says it, the fathers of the church have said it, the prelates now repeat it without end, and all the statues of the land prescribe punishment for wha.. | Iain Pears | ||
| a3c7d92 | The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be. | Iain Pears | ||
| f93c7aa | Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. | virtue politics | Iain Pears | |
| f1220c4 | Lauren," he began gravely, "I would like four daughters with wobbly blue eyes and studious horn-rimmed glasses on their little noses. Also, I've become very partial to your honey-colored hair, so if you could manage..." | Judith McNaught | ||
| fcdc2db | Panicked, she dropped the suitcase and started edging away. In her haste she caught the backs of her knees on the arm of the sofa, lost her balance and landed flat on her back on the cushions. His eyes gleaming with amusement, Nick looked at the delectable beauty sprawled invitingly across the sofa. "I'm flattered,honey, but I'd like something to eat first.What are you serving-besides baked shoes?" | Judith McNaught | ||
| a5df416 | Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision. | revision plan | Judith McNaught | |
| 4fe55ef | When I came back from lunch and found out you'd been reassigned to Nick, I went up to be certain that you were doing all right. Mary told me that you'd just gone into Nick's office, so I opened the door and looked in to see if you needed rescuing. There you were-smiling angelically at him while you gave him messages from other women and turned down his offer of an 'affair.'" Resting his head against the back of his chair, Jim closed his eye.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 744e7f0 | Well, what happened to your scruples in the woodcutter's cottage? You I thought you'd already left when I went inside." "Why did you stay," he countered smoothly, "when you realized I was still there?" In confused distress Elizabeth raked her hair off her forehead. "I knew I shouldn't do it," she admitted. "I don't know why I remained." "You stayed for the same reason I did," he informed her bluntly. "We wanted each other." "I was wrong,".. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 6ce928a | Elizabeth snapped awake in a terrified instant as the door to her bed chamber was flung open near dawn, and Ian stalked into the darkened room. "Do you want to go first, or shall I?" he said tightly, coming to stand at the side of her bed. "What do you mean?" she asked in a trembling voice. "I mean," he said, "that either you go first and tell me why in hell you suddenly find my company repugnant, or I'll go first and tell you how I feel w.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 2a74cc2 | Since we've ruled out another man as the explanation for all this, I can only assume something has gone wrong at Havenhurst. Is that it?" Elizabeth seized on that excuse as if it were manna from heaven. "Yes," she whispered, nodding vigorously. Leaning down, he pressed a kiss on her forehead and said teasingly, "Let me guess-you discovered the mill overcharged you?" Elizabeth thought she would die of the sweet torment when he continued tend.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 003d7ea | Courage was an admirable trait in a man. In a woman, he decided, it was a pain in the ass. | Judith McNaught Once and Always | ||
| 5d46033 | Snowbound up here with you. Without books or business to occupy my time, I wonder what I'll do," he added with a leer. She blushed gorgeously, but her voice was serious as she studied his face. "If things hadn't gone so well for you-if you hadn't accumulated so much wealth-you could have been happy up here, couldn't you?" "With you?" "Of course." His smile was as somber as hers. "Absolutely." "Although," he added, linking her hands behind h.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 148cb38 | People say love can be developed, but in the end only person you love is themselves. that's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most. - Takumi | nana takumi | Ai Yazawa | |
| dfc23a3 | When I need a hit of caffeine...I'll pay S1.00 for coffee. But I'd much rather sip tea at a fancy cafe. I need to live in a hip place. I want to wear cool clothes. I want to see the latest films. I have to have the best cell phone. I want a driver's license. I wanna see the world! | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 00297d9 | He who sneers at love will be left howling by love. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 564a2a7 | Two people can be in the same room and still be gone. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| fb07a90 | a smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 2a82f5b | The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you're not. And so, if you're like me, those times when you're not, you try and save face--especially after you've seriously fucked up. You make one bad decision and then another, trying to fix that very first fuck-up. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 6225f13 | Sometimes I believe we would all be better off if we always treated people like this was the last time we were ever going to see them | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| d51390c | Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 1b7e8b4 | Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sage, a virtuoso, a good chap, a man of honour, a hard case, a spendthrift, an opportunist, a raisonneur; to be very rich, to be very poor, to possess a thousand mistresses, to win the heart of one love to whom he was ever faithful, to be on the best of terms with all men, to avenge savagely the lightest affront, to live to a hundred full of yea.. | poverty dandy artist | Anthony Powell | |
| 35655b4 | There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love. | love unreality | Anthony Powell | |
| c064f44 | But, in a sense, nothing in life is planned--or everything is--because in the dance every step is ultimately the corollary of the step before; the consequence of being the kind of person one chances to be. | Anthony Powell | ||
| a8c1019 | Brains and hard work are of very little avail, Jenkins, unless you know the right people. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 9e76ddd | Where, as again Vaughan writes, the liberated soul ascends, looking at the sunset towards the west wind, and hearing secret harmonies. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 5599dcf | If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulties in procuring its satisfaction. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 625200b | An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life. | success | Anthony Powell | |
| 24102c1 | There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing. | Anthony Powell | ||
| b174bcf | Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought and thoughtful deed to reap the harvest wonderful. Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare. Thus in Thy good time may infini.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| e114100 | You will not wonder at his weird pilgrimage,-who who in the swift whifl of living, amid its cold paradox and marvelous vision, have fronted life and aked its riddle face to face. And if you find that riddle hard to read, remember that yonder black boy finds it just a little harder; if it is difficult for you to find and face your duty, it is a shade more difficult for him; if your heart sickens in the blood and dust of battle, remember that.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 885fc22 | That ought to be our stewardship mandate, to create Edens wherever we go. That's why humans are here. Our responsibility is to extend forgiveness into the landscape. | Joel Salatin | ||
| a6f2585 | I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom it gave me- I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 0481fa3 | Kat hates men like that, men who are too attractive for their own good-and know it. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| b0344c6 | A troubadour to a distant mistress. | margaret-beaufort | Philippa Gregory | |
| 40c43a3 | What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 8c66912 | I am sorry for you. And I am sorry for me. When you are sent back to me, perhaps a month from now, perhaps a year, I will try to remember this day, and you looking like a child, a little lost among all these clothes. I will try to remember that you were innocent of any plotting; that today at least, you were more a girl than a Boleyn. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d64778d | I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f8a63e8 | Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right. | women | Philippa Gregory | |
| b536daa | Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbirth!" | women personhood | Philippa Gregory | |
| 5a29f0c | The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy. | women religion personhood | Philippa Gregory |