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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 545582d | The night became silver again; looking up, it was as if they saw the moon sailing through the clouds instead of the other way around; racing smoothly across the sky, passing puffs and wisps of cloud on either side, and yet never moving from its place. | Susan Cooper | ||
| eae3e48 | The child I was is the only child I really know.' That's it. I can still feel what it was like to be that child of the 1940s from inside; I am still the same mixture of insecurity and determination, shyness and arrogance, curiosity and fear. I have the same talent she had; the same imagination. I write for her, for that child, and so it is true when I say I write for myself. | Susan Cooper | ||
| e113642 | The recent spate of magazines for "parents" (i.e., mothers) bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can (after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant) produce bright, motivated, focused, fun-loving, sensitive, cooperative, confident, contented kids just like the clean, obedient ones on the cover. " | parenting | Susan Douglas | |
| 219d6d1 | Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads. | satan sin | Susan Cooper | |
| 2a54acc | Worry about nothing. Pray about everything. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| ec0b5ec | A voluntary act to fill empty hours had become intensive labor streaked with the bad feelings that ride the skin like pollen when too much about one's neighbors is known. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 5a32d28 | You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 9e30a63 | Over and over and with the least provocation, they pulled from their stock of stories tales about the old folks, their grands and great-grands; their fathers and mothers. Dangerous confrontations, clever manoeuvres. Testimonies to endurance, wit, skill and strength. Tales of luck and outrage. But why were there no stories to tell of themselves? About their own lives they shut up. Had nothing to say, pass on. As though past heroism was enoug.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| b10beff | And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. | Toni Morrison | ||
| c720925 | Down came the dry flakes, fat enough and heavy enough to crash like nickels on stone. It always surprised him, how quiet it was. Not like rain, but like a secret. | Toni Morrison | ||
| ef7acf2 | As harsh as it may sound to some of us, Toni Morrison had it right when she suggested, "In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate." | Tim Wise | ||
| 3150a10 | He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander" -- | openness pride | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| fb8ab9a | Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a1e5b19 | The origin of war, according to its 14th century codifier Honore Bonet, lay in Lucifer's war against God, | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 9709de6 | A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. In this sphere, wisdom, which may be defined as the exercise of judgment acting on experience, common sense and available information, is less operative and more frustrated than it should be. Why.. | wisdom-inspirational wisdom-quotes | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 1fd283a | SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans," Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 1cea2db | He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as "Wotan's Mickey Mouse." | fascism liberal plutocracy politics right-wing-politics | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 5328b88 | Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| c7b504a | Which of them said which has never been determined, and does not matter, since they all had the same ideas and expressed them always with the same ponderance and brassy assurance. If it was not Babbitt who was delivering any given verdict, at least he was beaming on the chancellor who did deliver it. (p. 116) | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| a30f5a9 | There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect! | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 9765a31 | and after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| a322205 | Said Doremus, "Hm. Yes, I agree it's a serious time. With all the discontent there is in the country to wash him into office, Senator Windrip has got an excellent chance to be elected President, next November, and if he is, probably his gang of buzzards will get us into some war, just to grease their insane vanity and show the world that we're the huskiest nation going. And then I, the Liberal and you, the Plutocrat, the bogus Tory, will be.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 368c41c | She found beauty in the children. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| d8077e7 | I know the Press only too well. Almost all editors hide away in spider-dens, men without thought of Family or Public Interest or the humble delights of jaunts out-of-doors, plotting how they can put over their lies, and advance their own positions and fill their greedy pocketbooks by calumniating Statesmen who have given their all for the common good and who are vulnerable because they stand out in the fierce Light that beats around the Thr.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 6f490c7 | Your lips are for songs about rivers in the morning and lakes at twilight. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| aea206e | Those of you who have listened to me before will understand that I--or rather that the League of Forgotten Men--has no quarrel with individual Jews; that we are proud to have Rabbis among our directors; but those subversive international organizations which, unfortunately, are so largely Jewish, must be driven with whips and scorpions from off the face of the earth. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 24dd13b | He had every prejudice and aspiration of every American Common Man. He believed in the desirability and therefore the sanctity of thick buckwheat cakes with adulterated maple syrup, in rubber trays for the ice cubes in his electric refrigerator, in the especial nobility of dogs, all dogs, in the oracles of S. Parkes Cadman, in being chummy with all waitresses at all junction lunch rooms, and in Henry Ford (when he became President, he exult.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| bd8cf7f | He had learned how to assemble Jewish texts, Greek philosophy, and Middle-Western evangelistic anecdotes into a sermon. And he had learned that poverty was blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons. | sermons | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 9a2846e | She was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none of that mattered so long as she could slip her hands beneath his coat, run her fingers over the warm smoothness of the satin back of his waistcoat, seem almost to creep into his body, find in him strength, find in the courage and kindness of her man a shelter from the perplexing world. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 7c49724 | A winged angel, with the sign of the sun upon his forehead and on his breast the square and triangle of the septenary. I speak of him in the masculine sense, but the figure is neither male nor female. It is held to be pouring the essences of life from chalice to chalice. It has one foot upon the earth and one upon waters, thus illustrating the nature of the essences. A direct path goes up to certain heights on the verge of the horizon, and .. | Arthur Edward Waite | ||
| c4191d1 | If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory. | glorifying-god god life wake-up | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| f1e242c | You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop. | god gods-will purpose | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| 90e49b6 | How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions? | intemperate minds passion slave | Francine Rivers | |
| 82b6171 | Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten. Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one. | love | Francine Rivers | |
| 6ec2911 | You touch that young woman, and I will see you hang. | Francine Rivers | ||
| cea99ee | So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. JESUS, MATTHEW 7 : 12 | Francine Rivers | ||
| 8921036 | I want you to love me," he said and saw the derision in her face. "I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want." Her anger dissolved at his sincerity. "Mister, can't you understand that's impossible?" "Anything's possible." "You don't have any idea who and what I am other than what you've created in your own mind." "Then tell me." | Francine Rivers | ||
| 4219050 | Do my will, beloved. I drew you up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set your feet upon a rock. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 8c92412 | God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another. | jesus knowledge love myths philosophies | Francine Rivers | |
| 5afbea7 | He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness, | Francine Rivers | ||
| 9b1fa75 | matter what your father plans, nor what his motives might be. God will prevail. God will use everything to His good purpose if you love and trust Him. | Francine Rivers | ||
| cc51d55 | I'm not your father! I'm not Duke! I'm not some gent paying for half an hour in your bed!" His hands tightened on her arms. "I'm your husband! I don't take what you feel lightly. I love you. You're my wife!" | Francine Rivers | ||
| 81dd7e6 | Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 21a760e | We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse. | Francine Rivers |