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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4d396d9 | I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me. | pride unrequited-love | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 72ced9d | All the methods of appointing authorities that have been tried, divine right, and election, and heredity, and balloting, and assemblies and parliaments and senate--all have proved ineffectual. Everyone knows that not one of these methods attains the aim either of entrusting power only to the incorruptible, or of preventing power from being abused. Everyone knows on the contrary that men in authority--be they emperors, ministers, governors, .. | authority government government-corruption politics power | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 50c42bd | A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other p.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e742d52 | The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 075b3c5 | And yet our existence is so organized that every personal enjoyment is purchased at the price of human suffering contrary to human nature. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 62a30d6 | Oh! How good it is to be your age! I remember, and I know that blue haze like the mist on the mountains of Switzerland. That mist which covers everything in that blissful time when childhood is just ending, and out of the vast circle, happy and gay, there is a path growing narrower and narrower, and it is delightful and alarming to enter the ballroom, bright and splendid as it is... | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 82b2215 | A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 6800204 | Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred that is supposed to find satisfaction in doing some one harm - but the hatred that fills you with overpowering aversion for a person who, however, deserves your respect, yet whose hair, his neck, the way he walks, the sound of his voice, his whole person, his every gesture are repulsive to you, and at the same time some unaccountable for.. | childhood tolstoy youth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| c4b3f74 | You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are. For instance you despise public service because you want work always to correspond to its aims, and that never happens. You also want the activity of each separate man to have an aim, and love and family life always to coincide--and that doesn't happen either. All the variety, charm and beauty of life are made up of light and sh.. | dissonance incongruity spectrum | Leo Tolstoy | |
| f7076aa | peoples who have been waiting for their independence for a century, fighting for it for a generation, can afford to sit out a presidential term, or a year or two in the life of an old man in a hurry; | Alistair Horne | ||
| 5a7472d | Though many desperately and relentlessly cling to old, divisive ideas in the face of a future that looks complex and uncertain, no one can legitimately portray themselves as members or practitioners of the one true faith, the superior race, the best culture. No one can say, with the image of the blue and green Earth floating in their heads, that others don't count as much as "we" do, that others don't hold the same status as we do, are not .. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| c25cde3 | If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 42c07f1 | A week ago," Ishmael said, "when we were talking about laws, you said that there's only one kind of law about how people should live--the kind that can be changed by a vote. What do you think now? Can the laws that govern competition in the community be changed by a vote?" "No. But they're not absolutes, like the laws of aerodynamics. They can be broken." "Can't the laws of aerodynamics be broken?" "No. If your plane isn't built according t.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 45978bb | Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they're reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They're saying to themselves, 'Of course it's our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest -- and who cares if a dozen other species .. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 065eb6e | It is in fact an orderly community. The green plants are food for the plant eaters, which are food for the predators, and some of those predators are food for still other predators. And what's left over is food for the scavengers, who return to the earth nutrients needed by the green plants. It's a system that has worked magnificently for billions of years. Filmmakers understandably love footage of gore and battle, but any naturalist will t.. | natural-order | Daniel Quinn | |
| 37ef6e5 | There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world-- any place at all. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| e0b50c0 | Why is it that no one is excited? I hear people talking in the laundromat about the end of the world, and they're no more excited than if they were comparing detergents. People talk about the destruction of the ozone layer and the death of all life. They talk about the devastation of the rainforests, about deadly pollution that will be with us for thousands and millions of years, about the disappearance of dozens of species of life every da.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 2545c22 | To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that the blaze may go on. None may deny its spark to the general blaze and live forever. Each is sent to another someday. You are sent; you are on your way. I am sent. To the wolf or the lion or the vulture or the grasses, I am sent. My death is the life of another, and I will stand again in the windswept grasses and look through the eyes of.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 3afc4c9 | The creatures who act as though they belong to the world follow the peace-keeping law, and because they follow that law, they give the creatures around them a chance to grow toward whatever it's possible for them to become. That's how man came into being. The creatures around Australopithecus didn't imagine that the world belonged to them, so they let him live and grow. How does being civilized come into it? Does being civilized mean that y.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| c0822d2 | Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil--not the world - "Ishmael" | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 1a73dc9 | One thing I know people will say to me is 'Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?'" "That of course is an inane idea," Ishmael said. "The Leaver life-style isn't about hunting and gathering, it's about letting the rest of the community live--and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers." | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 8a35e4b | We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 3238b94 | It has happened that a species has tried to live in violation of the Law of Limited Competition. Or rather it has happened one time, in one human culture--ours. That's what our agricultural revolution is all about. That's the whole point of totalitarian agriculture: We hunt our competitors down, we destroy their food, and we deny them access to food. That's what makes it totalitarian. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 8fffbed | Yes?" "When you said you weren't angry..." "Yes?" "Were you?" "I was rather annoyed," he admitted. "But not angry?" She sounded as if she didn't believe him. "Believe me, Henry, when I get angry, you'll know." "What happens?" His eyes clouded over slightly before he answered. "You don't want to know." She believed him." | dunford | Julia Quinn | |
| 4a6200d | I would be pleased to participate in this conversation to a greater degree," he drawled, "except that you have not seen fit to share with me of the details of your life." "It was not an oversight on my part." He clucked disapprovingly. "So hostile." Her eyes bugged out. "You abducted me-" Coerced," he reminded her. "Do you me to hit you?" "I wouldn't mind it," he said mildly. "And besides, now that you're here, was it really so very ter.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| c5dd967 | You are a treasure, Iris Kenworthy, | Julia Quinn | ||
| dc39285 | Hush up, minx. You're a funny one, but you're certainly more likable than unlikable. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5f599fb | Anthony Bridgerton hatradolt bor karosszekeben, elgondolkodva kortyolta a whiskyt; lotykolte, korbe aramoltatta a poharban, majd megszolalt: - Arra gondoltam, hogy megnosulok. Benedict Bridgerton, aki eppen azon szokasat gyakorolta, amit anyja annyira megvetett, nevezetesen szeket ket hatso labara billentve kisse kapatosan hintazott, erre lehuppant. Colin Bridgerton felrenyelt. Colin szerencsejere Benedict eppen idoben nyerte vissza egyensu.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| a1b0596 | I can't help but think that if she was going to kill herself, she might as well have done it earlier. Perhaps when I was a toddler. Or better yet, an infant. It certainly would have made my life easier. I asked my uncle Hugh (who is not really my uncle, but he is married to the stepsister of my current mother's brother's wife and he lives quite closeand he's a vicar) if I would be going to hell for such a thought. He said no, that frankly, .. | fun irony suicide | Julia Quinn | |
| c4fb64a | Benedict suddenly had to get away. It was either that or kill the twittering ninnyhammer, and with so many witnesses, he didn't think he could get away with it. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 44a41d3 | she was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 3c0374b | And could it even really be called a kiss? It had been very, very short. And did it mean anything if the kisser (him) had been feeling terribly grateful to the kissee (her) and possibly even indebted, in the most elemental of ways? She'd saved his life, after all. A kiss was not entirely out of order. Plus, he had said, "Forgive me." Did it count as a kiss if the kisser had asked for forgiveness? Honoria thought not." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 4dcbe0f | Will you leave my companion alone!" the dowager barked. He sighed and shook his head toward Miss Eversleigh. "She"s so domineering, don"t you think?" Miss Eversleigh blushed. Truly, it was the prettiest pink he"d ever seen. "Pity about these bindings," he continued. "We do seem to be caught in a romantic moment, your employer"s acidic presence aside, and it would be far easier to drop one exquisite kiss on the back of your hand were I able .. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5441c25 | Daisy said boldly. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." "Yes, but it is a wise man who understands his limits." "Who said that?" Daisy asked. "I did," Honoria answered impatiently" | Julia Quinn | ||
| 91db8de | It was going to be embarrassing regardless of what music they chose, but Honoria didn't have the heart to say it to her face. On the other hand, whichever piece they performed, they would surely butcher it past recognition. Could a difficult piece played badly be that much worse than a slightly less difficult piece played badly? | Julia Quinn | ||
| 18b1a82 | Consanguinity has never seemed to be one of your prerequisites for plain speaking." "Touche," she returned, giving him a single nod of approval. "I was merely pointing out that you are quite stealthy in your good humor. This I applaud wholeheartedly." "I am aquiver with glee." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5dd11a0 | But if he had indeed blushed-and his cheeks did feel a touch warm-neither of his brothers saw it, because they didn't say anything, and if there was anything in life as certain as, say, the sun rising in the east,it was that a Bridgerton never passed up the opportunity to tease and torment another Bridgerton. "She's been talking about Penelope Featherington nonstop," Colin said with a scowl. "I tell you, I've known the girl since we were bo.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 6f54910 | He wasn't sure how he ought to feel about this. On the other hand . . . boiled meat! | Julia Quinn | ||
| 8126c51 | He was trying not to grin, but it was exceedingly difficult with Lady Penwood gasping like a fish on land. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9df3446 | An awkward pause fell across the conversation. Daphne was shifting from foot to foot, not at all certain what to say to the duke, when Nigel exhibited stellar timing for the first time in his life, and sat up. "Daphne?" he said, blinking as if he couldn't see straight. "Daphne, is that you?" "Good God, Miss Bridgerton," the duke swore, "how hard did you hit him?" "Hard enough to knock him down, but no worse than that, I swear!" Her brow .. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 8a0e5fe | What are you doing here?"Lady Vickers asked, turning her frosty glare to Sebastian. "Exactly what you think, my lady," he said." | bevelstoke julia-quinn sebastian-grey ten-things-i-love-about-you | Julia Quinn | |
| bc0abab | Ti amo - le disse a voce bassa e ardente - Ti amo con tutto quello che sono, con tutto quello che sono stato e con tutto quello che spero di essere. - Colin... - Ti amo con il mio passato e ti amo per il mio futuro. - La bacio dolcemente sulle labbra - Ti amo per i figli che avremo e per gli anni che vivremo insieme. Ti amo con tutto me stesso e per ognuno dei miei sorrisi e, piu ancora, per tutto cio che sei e per ogni tuo sorriso. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 7deb38b | Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower. | julia-quinn love pride sir-richard wallflower | Julia Quinn | |
| 5f7572b | So now you're jumping out at me from ?" "Of course not." He looked affronted. "That was a staircase." Sophie peered around him. It was the side staircase. The staircase. Certainly not anyplace a family member would just to be walking. "Do you often creep down the side staircase?" she asked, crossing her arms. He leaned forward, just close enough to make her slightly ucomfortable, and, although she would never admit it to anyone, barely.. | Julia Quinn |