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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1b8455f | If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 4387013 | There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| 96bf45c | Now, gentlemen, let us create hell. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| f1c5441 | Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship with God through Christ. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 0710e8f | Indians paid, in other words, for the privilege of being conquered by the British. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 13baff4 | We literally paid for our own oppression. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| ad1b81b | We must not be deluded into making concessions, whether on Kashmir or any other issue, in the naive expectation that these would end the hostility of the ISI and its cohorts. We must understand that Pakistan's fragile sense of self-worth rests on its claim to be superior to India, stronger and more valiant than India, richer and more capable than India. This is why the killers of 26/11 struck the places they did, because their objective was.. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 4431ace | India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| b12631f | It) is to one British colonial policy-maker or another that we owe the Boxer Rebellion, the Mau Mau insurrection, the Boer War, and the Boston Tea Party | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| bce2d90 | While God waits for his temple to be built of love, man brings stones.' Or | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| ed124e0 | The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61) | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| d4bbe53 | Human beings don't work like this in China. Time goes slower there. Here we have to hurry, feed the hungry children before we're too old to work. I feel like a mother cat hunting for its kittens. She has to find them fast because in a few hours she will forget how to count or that she had any kittens at all. I can't sleep in this country because it doesn't shut down for the night. Factories, canneries, restaurants - always somebody somewher.. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 99ff26b | How unlike a dead fish a live fish is. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| cb0321d | How had she ever thought sleeping with him would be a stress reliever, when he was the biggest producer of her stress? | contemporary-romance | susan meier | |
| eebe913 | I'll win you over eventually. I'm very charming that way. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 94fb506 | Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul." "Oh?" "Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid." "And treacherous and dangerous?" "You know, Niko, I begin to suspect that you are a man of prose. It is a blemish on you." "No one's perfect." "Speak for yourself." | prose | Trevanian | |
| 6ccecf8 | Shibumi, s'r? -- Nikolai poznavashe dumata, no samo kogato se izpolzvashe za gradini i arkhitektura, k'deto oznachavashe nenatrapchiva krasota. -- V kak'v smis'l izpolzvate poniatieto, s'r? -- O, neiasno. I predpolagam, nepravilno. Glupav opit da se obiasni neizrazimo kachestvo. Kakto znaesh, pri shibumi triabva da ima edno prechistvane na niskite, banalnite misli. Tova e edno izraziavane -- tolkova pravilno, che niama nuzhda da e smelo, to.. | Trevanian | ||
| 4ea443d | Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into a party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant. | Trevanian | ||
| 835a080 | As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brev.. | philosophy shibumi understatement | Trevanian | |
| 592b933 | He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be introduced to reality and he supposed that if the experience didn't kill her, it would assist her in the process of growing up. He stepped down and greeted her. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| ef3730c | I hope you understand that it is not the tooth of the saber-toothed tiger I want, it is the . I don't care if it's a old toothless tiger or not, just so it's alive. I intend to start a zoo. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 189d970 | If the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as beings existing in a created order to whose laws we freely respond, then what he sees on the surface will be of interest to him only as he can go through it into an experience of mystery itself. His kind of fiction will always be pushing its own limits outward toward the limits of mystery, because for this kind of writer, the meaning of a .. | writing writers | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 4501a4e | With the energy he had conserved yesterday letting her dress him, he had written a note and pinned it in his pocket. IF FOUND DEAD SHIP EXPRESS COLLECT TO COLEMAN PARRUM, CORINTH, GEORGIA. Under this he had continued: COLEMAN SELL MY BELONGINGS AND PAY THE FREIGHT ON ME & THE UNDERTAKER. ANYTHING LEFT OVER YOU CAN KEEP. YOURS TRULY T. C. TANNER. P.S. STAY WHERE YOU ARE. DON'T LET THEM TALK YOU INTO COMING UP HERE. ITS NO KIND OF PLACE. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| d6f9805 | To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. --Flannery O'Connor | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 8e09404 | Jesus thrown everything off balance. It was the same case with Him as with me except He hadn't committed any crime and they could prove I had committed one because they had the papers on me. Of course they never shown me my papers. That's why I sign myself now. I said long ago, you get you a signature and sign everything you do and keep a copy of it. Then you'll know what you done and you can hold up the crime to the punishment and see do t.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| c0fd80c | You may ask, why not simply call this literature Christian? Unfortunately, the word Christian is no longer reliable. It has come to mean anyone with a golden heart. And a golden heart would be a positive interference in the writing of fiction. | fiction christian-literature fiction-writing | Flannery O'Connor | |
| fc0e46d | I don't know which is worse--to have a bad teacher or no teacher at all. In any case, I believe the teacher's work should be largely negative. He can't put the gift into you, but if he finds it there, he can try to keep it from going in an obviously wrong direction. We can learn how not to write, but this is a discipline that does not simply concern writing itself but concerns the whole intellectual life. A mind cleared of false emotion and.. | education teaching-writing writing-class guidance observation writing-process perception | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 1865635 | The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. The Catholic fiction writer is entirely free to observe. He feels no call to take on the duties of God or to create a new universe. He feels perfectly f.. | how-to-write writing-fiction observation fiction-writing novel-writing perception world-view | Flannery O'Connor | |
| c0a81de | Mr. Head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were no words in the world that could name it. He understood that it grew out of agony, which is not denied to any man and which is given in strange ways to children. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 6afb1b8 | The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt and sorr. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| ecac564 | He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on an open track. He knew every stop, every junction, every swamp along the way, and knew the exact point at which her conclusion would roll majestically into the station | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 54065f9 | I have a one-legged friend and I asked her what they said to John at the gate. She said she reckoned they said, "The lame shall enter first." This may be because the lame will be able to knock everybody else aside with their crutches." | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 02f50e5 | I suppose that is what we have to have to get grace. Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace, Oh Lord. Help me with this life that seems so treacherous, so disappointing. | Flannery O’Connor | ||
| ddfc369 | Thomas had inherited his father's reason without his ruthlessness and his mother's love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His plan for all practical action was to wait and see what developed. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 1cef894 | Dear God please give me some place, no matter how small, but let me know it and keep it. If I am the one to wash the second step everyday, let me know it and let me wash it and let my heart overflow with love washing it. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 3df2589 | The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater. | writer writing christian-writers novelist realistic-fiction writers-on-writing perspective perception perception-of-reality realism | Flannery O'Connor | |
| e80dca6 | Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 320bb92 | Lady,' The Misfit said, looking beyond her far into the wood, 'there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 48d64dd | Fiction writing is very seldom a matter of saying things; it is a matter of showing things. However, | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| cf84572 | I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense of aesthetic craftsmanship; otherwise I will feel my loneliness continually--like this today. The word craftsmanship takes care of the work angle & the word aesthetic the truth angle. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| d8833d0 | My enemies are legion. | legion | George R.R. Martin | |
| 86899e7 | A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God. | woman free joy god christian mom mother | Elizabeth George | |
| 0328c17 | Salt a slug and shame a hero. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c6636d0 | The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God's battalions. | Rodney Stark |