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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5477fdf | ntSf llyl, wkhym lskwn, wshml lSmt ldwr wlTrqt, wntshrt 'nwr lmSbyH lbht@ k'nh tw'ns wHsh@ l'shjr lmGrws@ fy l'fryz | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 6882b3d | ll`n@ `l~ lftwt. w`l~ lqTT Hyn tlfZ lfy'rn 'nfsh byn 'snnh. w`l~ kl nZr@ skhr@ 'w DHk@ brd@. w`l~ mn ystqbl 'khh l`y'd bqwlh : l mhrb mny `nd lGDb. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d88c6c7 | n llhw l yuGyr m bqlwb lrjl ! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1410cba | Don't be afraid. Fear won't prevent death, it prevents life." --NAGUIB MAHFOUZ" | Manal Al-Sharif | ||
| f2bee8f | Despite dissimilarities in our luck and success at looking after ourselves, we are all human beings. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 834dfe4 | What a lot of graves there are laid out as far as the eye can see!. Their headstones are like hands raised in surrender, though they are beyond being threatened by anything. A city of silence and truth, where success and failure, murderer and victim come together, where thieves and policeman lie side by side in peace for the first and last time. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 388406b | sm`t mr@ rjlan ytHdth `nh fyqwl: "hw 'Sl Hrtn, wHrtn 'Sl mSr 'mW ldny, `sh fyh wHdh why khl khrb, thm mtlkh bqw@ s`dh wmnzlth `nd lwly, kn rjlan l yjwd lzmn bmthlh, wftw@ thb lwHwsh dhkrh" wsm`t akhr yqwl `nh : "kn ftw@ Hqan, wlknh lm ykn klftwt lakhryn, flm yfrD `l~ 'Hd tw@, wlm ystkbr fy l'rD, wkn blD`f rHyman", thm j zmn ftnwlth ql@ mn lns bklm l ylyq bqdrh wmknth, whkdh Hl ldny." | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| aca8b8c | wknt wm zlt 'jd lHdyth `nh shy'q l yml. wkm df`ny dhk l~ lTwf bbyth lkbyr l`ly 'fwz bnZr@ mnh wlkn dwn jdw~. wkm wqft 'mm bbh lDkhm 'rnw l~ ltmsH lmHnT lmrkb '`lh, wkm jlst fy SHr lmqTm Gyr b`yd `n swrh lkbyr fl 'r~ l rw'ws 'shjr ltwt wljmyz wlnkhyl tktnf lbyt, wnwfdh mGlq@ l tnm `l~ 'y 'thr lHy@. 'lys mn lmHzn 'n ykwn ln jdW mthl hdh ljd dwn 'n nrh 'w yrn ? 'lys mn lGryb 'n ykhtfy hw fy hdh lbyt lkbyr lmGlq w'n n`ysh nHn fy ltrb ?! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1cb69d4 | lTrb Tl qSyr l'jl fwq mwl lfrq | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| df3b998 | Isn't it sad that a man of no significance like this marriage clerk should impede the progress of your life? But a lowly worm eats the corpses of the most exalted individuals. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 7a22bb3 | wlys blkhbz wHdh yHy lnsn | الحياة الحب | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| ce4f087 | 'l tkhsh~ `l~ lHDr@? - mn Hsn lHZ 'nn lm ndkhl lHDr@ b`d, fm khwfn mn lbll? | الدمار الخوف | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 6ccc372 | n shhwtn l tqn` l b'n tbny fwqn tlan mn ldhry@ lSkhb@. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 6d17a9a | You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun-who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing. | writing | Frances Mayes | |
| 4313d4c | Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 44ad9c5 | A lifelong insomniac, I sleep like one newly dead every night and dream deeply harmonious dreams of swimming along with the current in a clear green river, playing and at home in the water. On the first night, I dreamed that the real name of the house was not Bramasole but Cento Angeli, One Hundred Angels, and that I would discover them one by one. Is it bad luck to change the name of a house, as it is to rename a boat? As a trepid foreigne.. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 11eb17b | One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 735ef38 | Be nice to her," I muttered under my breath. "She's my sister; she got sick. She lost her kid. For all I know, she may have eaten her." | Joan Frances Turner | ||
| 71c6f15 | At first only Tamarind had noticed the awkward, disquieting way his expressions changed, as if a puppeteer were pulling wires to move his face muscles, and doing it rather badly. Nowadays she saw the fear in everybody's eyes. Her brother was going out of tune like an old piano, and nobody would come to retune his strings. Dukes and kings may go mad at their leisure, for nobody has enough power to stop them. | Frances Hardinge | ||
| 3406592 | The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 2e642c4 | What has been said of the Roman empire, is at least as true of the British constitution--"This mighty structure has come together thanks to eight hundred years of good fortune and discipline, which cannot be uprooted without destroying the uprooters." This British constitution has not been struck out at an heat by a set of presumptuous men, like the assembly of pettifoggers run mad in Paris. 'Tis not the hasty product of a day, But the we.. | Edmund Burke | ||
| f25b6e5 | And you may comfort yourself with the thought that you have been the caltrop under her satin shoe every step of the way. You misdirected the Romantic Facilitator she had hired, you turned up in her own house and reported her plans to her father and when she was on the brink of snatching the ransom you careered in from stage left dressed as a pantomime horse and threw everything into disorder. And then, just when she was probably working her.. | Frances Hardinge | ||
| b3621d2 | The accuracy of my memories, whether things happened exactly the way that the personalities remember, doesn't really matter. If my memory, combined with the memories of the other personalities, provides some coherent past, then that is far better than the blankness I have. Whatever inaccuracies may occur because of the passage of time or because of the colored intensity of "emotional truth" harm no one. All that matters is that I gain a fir.. | Joan Frances Casey | ||
| ba34e03 | In North America, there is no nostalgia for the postwar period, quite simply because the Trente Glorieuses never existed there: per capita output grew at roughly the same rate of 1.5-2 percent per year throughout the period 1820-2012. To be sure, growth slowed a bit between 1930 and 1950 to just over 1.5 percent, then increased again to just over 2 percent between 1950 and 1970, and then slowed to less than 1.5 percent between 1990 and 2012.. | Thomas Piketty | ||
| 9bf458c | Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. | Edmund Burke | ||
| cc8b5e7 | zebra crossings were rather like Bosnia's "safe zones": places where, if you die, you may simply die with the knowledge that your killer was in the wrong." | humor pedestrian | Lucy Wadham | |
| 45aa5dc | And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, "go." | travel | Frances Mayes | |
| f42e4b0 | Stone houses, terrace walls, city walls, streets. Plant any rose and you hit four or five big ones. All the Etruscan sarcophagi with likenesses of the dead carved on top in realistic, living poses must have come out of the most natural transference into death they could imagine. After lifetimes of dealing with stone, why not, in death, turn into it? | Frances Mayes | ||
| 24f6cb5 | Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held. | morality reform principles | Matthew Scully | |
| 8874cee | Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother. | pain strength endure ignore mom mother power | Charlie Huston | |
| 2eb29c2 | The world doesn't just jump out of its axis on its own. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 29571f8 | Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd get rid of the guns. Nothing more dangerous to the life of a child than a house full of firearms. Nothing more dangerous except maybe a parent. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 61c5487 | You can't change the world if your motive is revenge. Vibes like that just aren't productive. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 547a455 | Tell them to drop their guns and fuck off out of my way. --Allow him to-- I clamp my arm tight. --That's not what I said. She gets it right this time. --Drop your guns and fuck off out of his way. They drop their guns and fuck off out of my way. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 22eee99 | Set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God." (Colossians 3:1) This is a direct command to set our hearts on Heaven. And to make sure we don't miss the importance of a heaven-centered life, the next verse says, "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." God commands us to set our hearts and minds on Heaven." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| fcdf7b2 | Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son. | fiction courageous fatherhood | Randy Alcorn | |
| b13180a | O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2eab5a6 | Meanwhile, we on this dying Earth can relax and rejoice for our loved ones who are in the presence of Christ. As the apostle Paul tells us, though we naturally grieve at losing loved ones, we are not "to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope" (1 Thessalonians 4:13). Our parting is not the end of our relationship, only an interruption. We have not "lost" them, because we know where they are. They are experiencing the joy of Christ's .. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 0488a80 | I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand .. | money discovery stewardship excitement | Randy Alcorn | |
| 26480de | Think of friends or family members who loved Jesus and are with him now. Picture them with you, walking together in this place. All of you have powerful bodies, stronger than those of an Olympic decathlete. You are laughing, playing, talking, and reminiscing. You reach up to a tree to pick an apple or orange. You take a bite. It's so sweet that it's startling. You've never tasted anything so good. Now you see someone coming toward you. It's.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e6f3732 | Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 3e95ab0 | I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 4242341 | A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| ecfcba8 | If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. | Randy Alcorn |