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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6362eb4 | I didn't get anything from holding onto those handles," Rick said. "Mercer talked to me but it didn't help. He doesn't know any more than I do. He's just an old man climbing a hill to his death." "Isn't that the revelation?" Rick said, "I have that revelation already." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c0e3f29 | I have fought the long defeat and brought other people on to fight the long defeat, and I'm not going to stop because we keep losing. Now I actually think sometimes we may win. I don't dislike victory. ... You know, people from our background-like you, like most PIH-ers, like me-we're used to being on a victory team, and actually what we're really trying to do in PIH is to make common cause with the losers. Those are two very different thin.. | the-long-defeat | Tracy Kidder | |
| 086d8cd | Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| cc2c694 | It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation." "Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community." "The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them." | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 4a6f926 | Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how long the Lord God took to destroy Babylon and Nineveh? Seven minutes. There's more wickedness in one block in New York City than there was in a square mile in Nineveh, and how long do you think the Lord God of Sabboath will take to destroy New York City and Brooklyn and the Bronx? Seven seconds. Seven Seconds. | manhattan new-york-city | John Dos Passos | |
| cea6e8b | Life...is a wonder. It is a sky laden with clouds of contradictions. | contradictions life | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 68b91a0 | wHrtn lm t`rf ywman l`dl@ wlslm. hdh m qD~ bh `lyh mndh Trd 'dhm w'mym@ mn lbyt lkbyr, 'l t`lm bdhlk y jblwy? wybdw 'n lZlm stshtd kthf@ Zlmth klm Tl bk lskwt, fHt~ mt~ tskt y jblwy? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| cb71bbe | l yfrq byn rjl w rjl l mr'@ | women | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 902796d | l ywjd bld s`yd ,lshkw~ hy lG@ lnsn lmshtrk@ | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 570e9f7 | nn ntnkr bl`mr. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d0cd6c4 | At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 074a0a6 | l tbn amlk fy lHy@ `l~ mwt nsn | hopes life | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 2ef5d7e | wm jdw~ l'ml dh kn dhlk l`dhb klh lm yzknW lrHm@ mn nuHb ? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| de1c2fc | n lGDb yj`l mnk shyy'an Hqyran t`fh lnfs | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| a0f6f4b | fy hdhh lHwry mn Hwln l yHlm l lmjnyn. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| cff676f | qlt lkm mrran n lSbr `l~ m nlq~ khyr mn ltsk` byn Grb sykrhwnn | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 6aa36e6 | What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real. | Frances Mayes | ||
| d59f24e | Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well--thousands of acres of land--a whole province of France--all France itself--lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its com.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 1e92be0 | I should therefore suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France, until I was informed how it had been combined with government; with public force; with the discipline and obedience of armies; with the collection of an effective and well-distributed revenue; with morality and religion; with the solidity of property; with peace and order; with civil and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things too; and, without them.. | Edmund Burke | ||
| 9ddac84 | He said he couldn't understand a world 'shameless and cruel enough to divide its people by color when color is in fact the sign of God's artistic genius. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 1a791a9 | But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be given to the reader through factual description. And maybe not at all. You have to find your own secret images. The slow fall of a coin into the gorge with the sun catching the copper only for a moment, and the fall into nothing says more about a sense of place than three pages of restaurant and hotel descriptions... | Frances Mayes | ||
| 668312e | We pass the apartment we rented five years ago, when I swore off Florence. In summer, wads of tourists clog the city as if it's a Renaissance theme park. Everyone seems to be eating. That year, a garbage strike persisted for over a week and I began to have thoughts of plague when I passed heaps of rot spilling out of bins. I was amazed that long July when waiters and shopkeepers remained as nice as they did, given what they had to put up wi.. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 272330a | IT BEGAN WITH A GUN. On September 1, 1939, the German army invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. In the October 1939 issue of Detective Comics, Batman killed a vampire by shooting silver bullets into his heart. In the next issue, Batman fired a gun at two evil henchmen. When Whitney Ellsworth, DC's editorial director, got a first look at a draft of the next installment, Batman was shooting again. Ellswo.. | Jill Lepore | ||
| 0fb9afe | An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with confidence that most readers will share his sense of concern and indignation. Sounding the call to action--convincing people that change is not only necessary, but actually possible--is more problematic. In protecting animals from cruelty, it is always just one step from the mainstream to the fr.. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 62e57d4 | What's inside is inside for a reason. What's hidden is hidden for a reason. What's buried is buried for a reason. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 71b7656 | Like I was ever normal. Like I was ever any different from how I am now. A cure won't make me better. It'll just make me more like a regular son of a bitch. Like the Vyrus makes you into something else. It doesn't. If you get it, if you survive, it's because you were already the kind of person who will drink blood. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 611238c | He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| dc08992 | If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then? | economic-catastrophe faith fiscal-cliff gunpoint hoarding protection provision resources sharing stewardship survivalism trust | Randy Alcorn | |
| 60eac65 | If we come to see the purpose of the universe as God's long-term glory rather than our short-term happiness, then we will undergo a critical paradigm shift in tackling the problem of evil and suffering. The world has gone terribly wrong. God is going to fix it. First, for his eternal glory. Second, for our eternal good. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1c1dc72 | Fiction is not the opposite of truth--indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e871917 | Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God. | inspirational miracles redemption | Randy Alcorn | |
| 600ef0c | Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds. | giving grace investment-kingdom need stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| 7c180da | No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e18265d | To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give. | christianity community encouragement example giving humility kingdom learning materialism modelling models stewardship stories | Randy Alcorn | |
| 37a3286 | By eroding their sense of shame we've made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. ...their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if he should now avoid. I was delighted one of them said, "This is a great movie--only one sex scene, and the f-word's only used a few times." 'Titanic' is one of my favorites. How many Christian young people have watched it in thei.. | entertainment faith movies sex television truth | Randy Alcorn | |
| d3d19f1 | Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships. | communication honesty openness relationships stewardship transparency wealth | Randy Alcorn | |
| 6b2a5c6 | Perry continued, his voice even but firm as granite; "Do you prefer the easy platitudes? You said you didn't. How dare you speak about God like He's some frivolous clown? Do you think you're the only one who has suffered in this world? Every apostle but one died a martyr's death. By the time of Nero the streets of Rome were lined with Christians hanging on crosses. Emperors would wrap them in wax and light them on fire, using their burning .. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 985919f | Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? | faith materialism self-sufficiency temptation wealth | Randy Alcorn | |
| 298e98a | If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth." | god heaven life new-earth | Randy Alcorn | |
| 0a436c3 | Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain. | Annie Proulx | ||
| b7a0d83 | For Archie was an expert in dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman. | E. Annie Proulx | ||
| a21d0c3 | The forest had many edges, like a lace altarpiece. | Annie Proulx | ||
| cf90c53 | On the stairs an image came to him. Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought calm and gentle pleasu.. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 8c19ab0 | You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew. | Annie Proulx |