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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f014cfe | Creio que perdemos a imortalidade porque a resistencia a morte nao evoluiu; seus aperfeicoamentos insistem na ideia primitiva, rudimentar, de manter vivo todo o corpo. So se deveria procurar conservar o que interessa para a consciencia. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 6f328a9 | Nessa] didn't know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely wrote, "Thank you, anyway, kind sir, but I am not going to marry you." | Kristiana Gregory | ||
| e1939a3 | I'll send Ria to you. Save you sneaking up the wall. | simon wall | Nalini Singh | |
| 8431247 | Butler shot one of the half dozen diners a fierce glare, just in case she might be planning something. The woman must have been at least eighty. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 60a7cc8 | I am not qualified to deal with this. Why does everyone I meet seem to have mental problems? I do not have mental problems! I say to the voice in my head, perfectly aware how damning it would sound were I to say it aloud. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 828ad6c | Excuse me, Tex," the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits." | half-moon half-moon-investigations mystery | Eoin Colfer | |
| c1d0d37 | Make it fast, you shower of stinking rabbit droppings, I've got a fresh blade that I'm just itching to test! | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 27cfb3b | Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts. | funny mastermind | Eoin Colfer | |
| 2d40a94 | Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 24f7637 | Punching - 2 shillings Both eyes blacked - 4 shillings Nose and jaw broke - 10 shillings Jacked out (knocked out with a blackjack) - 15 shillings Ear chewed off - same as previous Leg or arm broke - 19 shillings Shot in leg - 25 shillings Stab - same as previous Doing the Big Job - 3 pounds and up | Eoin Colfer | ||
| e637d5e | The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did. | trick | Eoin Colfer | |
| 0a5ef60 | It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice. | mercy | Eoin Colfer | |
| ece8bf2 | Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| a665167 | Baji-naji, nand' paidhi. Fortune has a human face and bastard Chance whores drunken down your streets. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| a6c3f8e | But there was someone she knew who could speak with a special knowledge on the Cross-Lexcorp controversy. Someone she'd rather not deal with. Someone she'd as soon not see again as long as she lived. Her former fiance. Lex. Lex Luthor. - Lois Lane | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| c5bd57d | For another--you can move faster than she can. You are as recognizable as she is. And you are willing to take cover. We are not so certain about the dowager. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 153ae3b | Yes, aiji-ma." "What is this agreement? You are most valuable when you argue, paidhi! Do not say yes to me!" "I shall most strenuously object when you are wrong, aiji-ma. You have been infallibly right at least this last hour." "Ha." | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 9fab008 | One tribe moves out and one tribe stays. History broadens, and philosophy shifts, develops a rift, splits one population from the other . . . and a schism happens, minor or major. It's the way humankind has always proliferated. We go over the next hill, live a few hundred years, change our languages to accommodate things we never saw before--and before we know it, our cousins think we have an accent. Or we think they have a strange attitude.. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| db08a20 | yes is all you ever need to say to begin a journey. | Bill Richardson | ||
| acfbc24 | Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again. | Denis Diderot | ||
| b98df15 | If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1864968 | He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars. | Victor Hugo | ||
| df45727 | Large sums passed through his hands. Nevertheless, nothing changed his way of life or added the slightest luxury to his simple life. Quite the contrary, As there is always more misery at the lower end than humanity at the top, everything was given away before it was received, like water on parched soil. No matter how much money came to him, he never had enough. And then he robbed himself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4c4670a | Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1066a6e | It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which combines all the material elements, and into which no moral element enters. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 60d0917 | It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is itself which creates them. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f4989cf | Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 52955e1 | n ll'Hdth lkbyr@ dhywlan lyst fy lHsbn | Victor Hugo | ||
| d645bf4 | Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4e35587 | Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there converted into evil. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 04352a0 | The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 97772e8 | Viaggiare e nascere e morire in ogni momento. Forse, nella piu vaga regione della sua mente, faceva accostamenti tra quei mutevoli orizzonti e l'esistenza umana. Tutte le cose della vita sono continuamente in fuga davanti a noi. Gli ottenebramenti e le luci si frammischiano: dopo un abbagliamento, un'eclisse; si guarda, ci si affretta, si tendono le mani per afferrare cio che passa; ogni evento e una svolta della strada; e d'un tratto si e .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4d55ed9 | Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 561dbb6 | Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- "The French Revolution!" | Victor Hugo | ||
| bf728cb | Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e13e70a | All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I consider that I am to be envied. | Hugo Victor | ||
| 03e9c10 | There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his mine. Pain everywhere was an occasion for goodness always. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ac08e4e | It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f34925f | Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 42ba4f5 | No corruption is possible with the diamond. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d67352e | With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators." | men compassion wisdom plants weeds | Victor Hugo | |
| 1bccdbb | Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny! | Victor Hugo | ||
| e356281 | The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our knowing why, that because we have received an almost imperceptible blow from a chance word, the heart insensibly empties itself of love. He who loves, perceives a decline in his happiness. There is nothing more to be dreaded than this slow exudation from the fissure in the vase. | love | Victor Hugo | |
| 0c74098 | Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great. | Victor Hugo |