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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2eae641 | Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law. | over-regulation | Lawrence Lessig | |
| 1600e85 | The soft wool blend of his sweater felt itchy compared to his skin. Even though we'd been together all night, I couldn't get over the feel of him, his taste, that potent, delicious smell of his neck. I was higher than a fan at a Bob Marley concert. | Ophelia London | ||
| f0c0c2b | Don't jump in the water if you can't swim." --BOB MARLEY" | L. Divine | ||
| 8273564 | So how, in an increasingly interconnected world, do we integrate and still keep our values? | Russell Shorto | ||
| 569fe13 | There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might "go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation")." | Russell Shorto | ||
| f0f6875 | Where land was controlled by noblemen and/or the Church in other parts of Europe, in the province of Holland, circa 1500, only 5 percent of the land was owned by nobles, while peasants owned 45 percent of it. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 58eaeea | she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know." | Carol Shields | ||
| 890b35f | Time and chance. The twin offspring of destiny. That wondrous branching of our fates. | Carol Shields | ||
| 1569168 | To be a romantic is to believe anything can happen to us. | Carol Shields | ||
| 25e3cb0 | I've had lots of happy moments. I've been lucky. But I always think the happiest moment hasn't happened yet. I'm talking about the queen of happy moments. The biggie. The unfathomable. The epitome of happiness. The only thing is, I worry that when it comes along I won't recognize it. It'll be flashing away there at the edge of my vision and I'll be looking so hard that I'll just let it float right by. | Carol Shields | ||
| ed38fab | This last year she has been in danger of becoming an eccentric or else one of those persons who does not bother to put a saucer under her cup. | Carol Shields | ||
| 9c5df6c | No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it. | love | Anne Brontë | |
| f2e1c5f | Well, and what was there in that?--Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig? | hopelessness | Anne Brontë | |
| 9c59823 | Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, | poetry | Anne Brontë | |
| 51fac11 | There is another life both for you and for me,' said I. 'If it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy hereafter. It is His will that we should not injure others by the gratification of our own earthly passions; and you have a mother, and sisters, and friends who would be seriously injured by your disgrace; and I, too, have friends, whose peace of mind shall never be sacrificed to my enjoyment,.. | god-s-will honor | Anne Brontë | |
| a36e9d6 | When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 5a65334 | I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received | Anne Brontë | ||
| fb293ce | But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired stationary life as mine, can possibly imagine what they were: hardly even if he has known what it is to awake some morning, and find himself in Port Nelson, in New Zealand, with a world of waters between himself and all that knew him. | loneliness sad | Anne Brontë | |
| 7844dde | This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it... It is still fresh and blooming as a flower can be, with the cold snow even now on its petals.-- Will you have it? | Anne Brontë | ||
| b06fdf2 | The rose I gave you was an emblem of my heart,' said she; 'would you take it away and leave me here alone?' 'Would you give me your hand too, if I asked it?' 'Have I not said enough? | heart love engagement hand rose gift | Anne Brontë | |
| 831f853 | And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections? | perfection love imperfections | Anne Brontë | |
| ad59a7a | Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please | men women future happiness | Anne Brontë | |
| 88d992a | When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all. | Robin Hobb | ||
| abcc74d | I sleep like an old woman now, she thought to herself. In fits and starts. It isn't sleeping and it isn't waking and it isn't rest. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a2a8801 | Ten times dead was very dead indeed. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9358e2d | Trust had. But I had broken that, like a child who takes something apart to see how it works and ends up with a handful of pieces. Perhaps he could not be the Fool again, any more than I could go back to being Burrich's stable boy. Perhaps our relationship had changed too profoundly for us to relate as Fitz and the Fool. Perhaps Tom Badgerlock and Lord Golden were all that was left to us. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3492669 | I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us! | sadness love truth revelation | Robin Hobb | |
| db01902 | That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here. | Robin Hobb | ||
| fea0ead | Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 869756b | We didn't have to share a mind to share a heart. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 846f2b3 | As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7fc0511 | No matter what name they call us by, you will always be mine. And I am yours, Bee. And I will always do everything in my power to protect you. Do you understand that?... I will always need you. I will always want you to be part of my life. Do you understand that? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 63b7475 | There are moments that change the course of one's lifetime, and often we don't realize how significant those initial may be until years pass. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7ef3805 | There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I | Robin Hobb | ||
| 53b26b8 | I bit my tongue and sat through his detailed and strained explanation. Not for the first time, I realized he considered me slightly slow. My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0ef4590 | He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0d0240e | Dawn," Thymara scoffed. "I think the dragons meant, "After we wake up and when we feel like it." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 643f79d | Young, Chade suggested. Young and full of righteous fury. Hurt and heartbroken, I suggested. So tired of being thwarted. Tired of being bound by rules that no one else had to follow. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a9997a1 | Honour and courtesy and justice...they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 24b3c0a | They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree. | nature trees | Robin Hobb | |
| 89cdde7 | Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e18714c | The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt. | time pain measure passage realization realize hurt fitz knowledge hit fool | Robin Hobb | |
| bfba2b0 | I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market. | time man woman true men women change love truth discover elixir familiar potion sincere find know charm sincerity playboy knowledge delight minstrel | Robin Hobb | |
| de061b7 | Not babies perhaps. But I know about young things. Foals, puppies, calves, piglets. Even hunting cats. I know if you want them to trust you, you touch them when they are small. Gently, but firmly, so they believe in your strength, too. You don't shout at them, or make sudden moves that look threatening. You give them good feed and clean water, and keep them clean and give them shelter from the weather. You don't take out your temper on them.. | Robin Hobb |