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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 811ba66 | He was tired of seeing his family only in dreams. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6c77e45 | The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the little backyard was filled with the little rainbows as the sun touched the dew. | dew diamonds feeling horizon place place-to-be rainbows seeing sky | Larry McMurtry | |
| 63fab7f | no medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5f2a799 | There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination. | inspirational | Julie Andrews Edwards | |
| 67c39a0 | Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 61d29aa | nW ld` b'n lns sywfqwn `l~ TrH m`yn n kn lhm 'n yfkrw bHry@in wHyd@ l yftrD 'n lns kdhlk f`lan | Amartya Sen | ||
| 97a4702 | looked over to where I had dropped my net. There it was right where I had dropped it; wide open and not a monkey in it. I couldn't believe it. How on earth could the little monkeys have gotten out of the net? My first thought was that the yellow ring had gotten tangled in a bush, and while the monkeys were flouncing | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 64b6ed8 | We're going to build a big pen out of that chicken wire," he said. "It'll have a top on it and a door with a snap latch. We'll put those coconuts right in the center of the pen and leave the door open. Then we'll tie the binder twine to the door and run it back through the pen and out into the brush a little way. When those monkeys go into the pen after those coconuts, we'll pull the binder twine and latch the door. What do you think of tha.. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 58d8591 | My heart started acting like a drunk grasshopper. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 8a3fc4f | I don't see how anything like that can keep a coon in a tree," I said. "It'll keep him there all right," Grandpa" | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 38a1540 | On my way home I didn't walk on the ground. I was way up in the clouds just skipping along. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 902ea61 | I didn't join the army to shoot Americans. If I wanted to shoot Americans I'd have joined the police. | Stephen Coonts | ||
| 8dc9ca2 | Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself... | happy secret | Alexandre Dumas | |
| dc69ed1 | Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations. | preparation travel travel-writing | Eugene Linden | |
| 710be6c | Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie. | environmentalism | Eugene Linden | |
| 480066d | The keepers would give the gorillas an assortment of fruits and vegetables each afternoon, and on this particular occasion, Judy Sievert tossed Nina an apple, which rolled away. Instead of going to get it, Nina just 'sat there sadly,' in Judy's words. Judy continued her rounds, handing out yams and apples to the other gorillas, but Nina sat there looking appleless and downtrodden. Taking pity, Judy tossed her another apple. As soon as Nina .. | deception gorillas | Eugene Linden | |
| fbfebbc | Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising. | sleeping | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 6816ec2 | Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| ef6a57b | The heart of the best woman is pitiless toward the sorrows of a rival. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 76865e6 | But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| ffc7ee8 | Geceleyin butun kediler gridir. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| be36190 | Peut-etre, dit Athos; mais, en tout cas, ecoutez bien ceci: assassinez ou faites assassiner le duc de Buckingham, peut m'importe! je ne le connais pas, d'ailleurs c'est un Anglais; mais ne touchez pas du bout du doigt a un seul cheveux de d'Artagnan, qui est un fidele ami qu j'aime et que je defends, ou je vous le jure sur la tete de mon pere, le crime que vous aurez commis sera le dernier. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 8f69ddd | Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2fd707a | I do not often laugh, sir," answered the unknown. "As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| fa99f8f | And how did this misfortune occur?" inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 787fec2 | Those who are born in a gilt cradle and have never wanted for anything, do not know what happiness life contains, just as they do not appreciate to the full a clear sky who have never entrusted their lives to the mercy of four planks on a raging sea. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c346c44 | Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what's possible, they say they can effect themselves. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 39739c5 | The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment." "What is it?" "Impossibility." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| bf6c1ff | Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 808ca99 | Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre." | treville | Alexandre Dumas | |
| e4c0ef2 | As for herself, she returned to her seat with a smile of savage scorn upon her lips, and she blasphemously repeated the fearful name of that God by whom she had just sworn, without ever having learned to know Him. "My God!" said she. "Fanatical fool! -My God is myself; and whoever will assist in my revenge!" | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 66d4fbd | The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 65996c6 | My opinion is, that all these old podestas, these ancient condottieri, -- for the Cavalcanti have commanded armies and governed provinces, -- my opinion, I say, is, that they have buried their millions in corners, the secret of which they have transmitted only to their eldest sons, who have done the same from generation to generation; and the proof of this is seen in their yellow and dry appearance, like the florins of the republic, which, .. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c2a1bee | Shall we make a positive appointment for a particular day and hour?" inquired the count; "only let me warn you that I am proverbial for my punctilious exactitude in keeping my engagements." -- | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 5ddebb0 | God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers. | justice | Alexandre Dumas | |
| d602335 | what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| d89f0ba | nHn lns nslm 'nfsn mndh lbdy@ .. 'w l nslmh mTlqan. (mrGryt) | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| e2bdb99 | One must ask for death to know how good it is to live | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| fb97950 | let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c7d09c5 | Gia, siete barone per i domestici, signore per i giornalisti, cittadino per i vostri elettori. Sono sfumature che si addicono assai a un governo costituzionale. Capisco perfettamente. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9778d97 | In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who made war against the cardinal; there was Spain, which made war against the king. Then, in addition to these concealed or public, secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, who made war upon .. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| eb2030b | dietro a ogni felicita presente e nascosto un timore futuro. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 22cc039 | Armed to the teeth?" "He had not even a knitting-needle." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| cf800cb | Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others." | Alexandre Dumas |