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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd7b8a1 | Wow. So what was the vampire like?" "Pale. Big. Toothy," the trooper answered." | David Wellington | ||
| 1c5b80e | In my experience, men who sit in corners are the ones to watch. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 069dab3 | I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that something in the Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this land, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and t.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 350c0b3 | Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy. | mississippi-writers mississippi-authors | Shelby Foote | |
| 1bc7531 | They burnt crosses every night all around us, and a man who'll burn what he prays to, he'll burn anything. | racism ku-klux-klan | Shelby Foote | |
| 1b343ce | Whatever shortcomings they might develop under pressure (Grant's, for instance, was said to be whiskey; hearing which, the President was supposed to have asked what brand he drank, intending to send a barrel each to all his other generals) | Shelby Foote | ||
| 8750b95 | You care about me. We're in a room together, with a hundred other people, and you know ehre I am, who I'm talking to. We enjoy each other. We're a bit alike, but different enough. You see things in me that you don't see in your wife and you know, deep down, that if we had met in another time, when it wasn't impossible for anything to happen between us, that we could have had something. And you think it might have been spetacular. And you kn.. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 4f25079 | The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through. | light heart love heartache | Elizabeth Noble | |
| c7579c8 | the contemplation of it, even at this distance of time, has taken away my breath and my grammar, and unless I subdue my emotion, my spelling will go too. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f898437 | If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day had, of itself, and by itself, been very endurable -- small, keen, bright little spots of positive enjoyment having come sparkling into the very middle of sorrows. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 021c0fc | Keske sana ne kadar yalniz oldugumu anlatabilsem. Burasinin ne kadar soguk ve sert oldugunu. Her yerde bir celiski ve cefa var. Tanri'nin bu yeri unuttugunu dusunuyorum. Sanirim cehennemi gordum ve o beyaz, cehennem sevgili Edith, kar beyazi... | north-and-south | Elizabeth Gaskell North And South | |
| c8fad21 | But her little white thin hand lay in mine; and we understood each other without words. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 667766f | A man leads a dree life who's not i' th' Union. But once i' the' Union, his interests are taken care on better nor he could do it for himsel', or by himsel', for that matter. It's the only way working men can get their rights, by all joining together. More the members, more chance for each one separate man having justice done him. Government takes care o' fools and madmen; and if any man is inclined to do himsel' or his neighbour a hurt, it.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 053c0ca | Pooh! away with love! Nay, my dear, we loved each other so dearly we should never have been happy with any one else; but that's a different thing. People aren't like what they were when we were young. All the love nowadays is just silly fancy, and sentimental romance, as far as I can see. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| c0b638f | I never knew what sad work the reading of old-letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why. The letters were as happy as letters could be -- at least those early letters were. There was in them a vivid and intense sense of the present time, which seemed so strong and full, as if it could never pass away, and as if the warm, living hearts that so expressed themselves could never die, and be as nothing to the sunny earth. I.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| cb5140f | I just wished to know if you mean to marry the girl. Spite of what you said of her lightness, I ha' known her long enough to be sure she'll make a noble wife for any one, let him be what he may; and I mean to stand by her like a brother; and if you mean rightly, you'll not think the worse on me for what I've now said; and if--but no, I'll not say what I'll do to the man who wrongs a hair of her head. He shall rue it to the longest day he li.. | love jem protectiveness | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 9e496bd | MRS. BROWNING. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| ac3651b | A man," as one of them observed to me once, "is so in the way in the house!" | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 85b71e0 | But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you'll find I've copied out all the fine words they said of you: "careful observer," "strong nervous English," "rising philosopher." Oh! I can nearly say it all off by heart, for many a time when I am frabbed by bad debts, or Osborne's bills, or moidered with accounts, I turn the le.. | son parenthood | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 6928815 | They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness; | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 64f68ec | Then letters came in but three times a week: indeed, in some places in Scotland where I have stayed when I was a girl, the post came in but once a month;--but letters were letters then; and we made great prizes of them, and read them and studied them like books. Now the post comes rattling in twice a day, bringing short jerky notes, some without beginning or end, but just a little sharp sentence, which well-bred folks would think too abrupt.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 952f9b6 | He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ... | sadness resiliance north-and-south pride | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 2977ce7 | though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 97a1e1d | a watched pot never boils. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 4677c83 | Our Lord Jesus was not above letting folk minister to Him, for he knew how happy it makes one to do aught for another. It's the happiest work on earth. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 3924f77 | a man who read too many books and disagreed with everybody | Seamus Deane | ||
| 9801c3c | In the utter peace and stillness the world seemed holding its breath, a little apprehensively, drawing near to the fire to warm itself. There was none of that sense of urgeful, pushing life that robs even a calm spring day of the sense of silence; life was over and the year was just waiting, harboring its strength for the final storms and turmoil of its death. The warmth and the color of maturity was there, exultant and burning, visible to .. | Elizabeth Goudge | ||
| 4197432 | If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it? | Rob Bell | ||
| 65b383b | No one likes to be afraid. Fear is the enemy of love & faith & it robs us of our sleep & our sunrise & makes us treacherous & venal& fills our glands with toxins & effaces our identity & gives flight to any vestige of self respect. If you have ever been afraid, truly afraid, in a way that makes your hair soggy with sweat & turns your skin gray & fouls your blood & spiritually eviscerates you to the point you cannot pray, lest your prayers b.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| f07c15a | It's all--let's use a very specific word here--miraculous. You, me, love, quarks, sex, chocolate, the speed of light--it's all miraculous, and it always has been. | religion love miracles quarks | Rob Bell | |
| 4a569a5 | when people debate faith vs. science they've already missed the point. Faith is about embracing truth wherever it's found, and that of course includes science.) He's | Rob Bell | ||
| 677280e | Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places? | Rob Bell | ||
| 43455f2 | One of the great "theologians" of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: "When everything gets answered, it's fake. The mystery is the truth."21" | Rob Bell | ||
| c1b0cfa | People wrote these stories down because they found in them something that helped restore their dignity; the stories gave them a sense of identity; they helped give voice to their pain. | Rob Bell | ||
| 860908f | Whatever those things are that make you feel fully alive and like the universe is ultimately a good place and you are not alone, I need a faith that doesn't deny these moments but embraces them. | Rob Bell | ||
| c077dca | Confession is like really, really healthy vomit. It may smell and get all over the front of your shirt, but you feel better--you feel cleansed--when you're done. | Rob Bell | ||
| ff2b711 | I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners. | Rob Bell | ||
| bd89b33 | How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act. | Rob Bell | ||
| 2453a07 | Because sometimes you need a biologist, and sometimes you need a poet. Sometimes you need a scientist, and sometimes you need a song. | Rob Bell | ||
| 997c28b | What would it look like for you to approach tomorrow with a sense of honor and privilege, believing that you have work to do in the world, that it matters, that it's needed, that you have a path and you're working your craft? | Rob Bell | ||
| 94b3c67 | People aren't static; they're dynamic--endlessly complex and capable of tremendous surprise and change. | Rob Bell | ||
| a46a5dc | Are you breathing? Are you here? Did you just take a breath? Are you about to take another? Do you have a habit of regularly doing this? Gift. Gift. Gift. Whatever else has happened in your life--failure, pain, heartache, abuse, loss--the first thing that can be said about you is that you have received a gift. Often | Rob Bell | ||
| 3ddf25a | No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events and places and memories and desire and love that is your life hasn't ever existed in the history of the Universe. Welcome to a truly unique phenomenon. Welcome to your life. I want you to be here. Welcome to here. | self-awareness love presence present-moment self unique desire | Rob Bell | |
| 1c0eda3 | At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be. | Rob Bell |