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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 58f69d0 | Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e9cb170 | Matthew Henry, the Puritan preacher and Bible commentator, made this statement after a thief stole his money: "Let me be thankful first because I was never robbed before; second, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 061efa7 | To put the last point another way, writers such as Graves, Sassoon, and Owen saw the Great War as the disease, but Tolkien saw it as merely the symptom. | John Garth | ||
| b11b793 | Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemingly crucial facts. It's not as if the Bard forgot, in the course of all those words, to tell us whether Hamlet was crazy or only pretending: He wanted us to wonder. He forces us to work on a puzzle that has no definite answer. And this mysterious.. | shakespeare musicals plays writing-craft questions | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter | |
| 089e4c7 | Right," said Jack, and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for th.. | separation | Annie Proulx | |
| ff1e487 | Without getting up he threw deadwood on the fire, the sparks flying up with their truths and lies, a few hot points of fire landing on their hands and faces, not for the first time, and they rolled down into the dirt. One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by a sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 09bb1ff | The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it. | literature corporate-greed | Annie Proulx | |
| d74acf5 | What do you think,' she said. Her voice was rapid. 'You want to marry me, don't you? Don't you think you want to marry me?' Waited for the wisecrack. As she spoke she changed in some provocative way, seemed suddenly drenched in eroticism as a diver rising out of a pool | E. Annie Proulx | ||
| f8179af | I felt confident that his inherited knowledge and instincts would soon assert themselves, given the chance, and in spite of his [lion] breeding. I must admit that I did not feel the same confidence about his two owners, when I heard they would accompany Christian [lion] and stay a few weeks at my camp. I was lead to believe they were very 'mod' with long hair and exotic clothing. | George Adamson | ||
| 25b68d8 | Till tree from tree, tree among trees tree over tree become stone to stone, stone between stones, stone under stone for ever. O Loud, hear the wee beseech of thees of each of these thy unlitten ones! Grant sleep in hour's time, O Loud! That they take no chill. That they do ming no merder. That they shall not gomeet madhowiatrees. Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughter low! | James Joyce | ||
| 389b357 | Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you. In time, Maisie, you will find that the larger questions in life share such behavior. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 96efff9 | But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy beauty. Is that because it's beyond them? Is it because beauty represents something they cannot have, or is not inside them? | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 155e898 | Allow grief room to air itself," Maurice had taught her."Be judicious in using the body to comfort another, for you may extinguish the freedom that the person feels to be able to share a sadness." | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 7bb978e | The heart does not know chronos time, Maisie. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| e543a2b | Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 8bada23 | In the early days of her pupilage with Maurice, he had told Maisie of his teachers, the wise men who spoke of the veil that was lifted in the early hours, of the all-seeing eye that was open before the day was awake. The hours before dawn were the sacred time, before the intellect rose from slumber. At this time one's inner voice could be heard. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 4904860 | The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| b74a936 | Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved. --Jojo Moyes, One Plus One | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 7a5d751 | Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 0f60621 | Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father. Is | Epictetus | ||
| 2eefc47 | No person is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus | Avery Breyer | ||
| f1a6177 | Remember then that if you think the things which are by nature slavish to be free, and the things which are in the power of others to be your own, you will be hindered, you will lament, you will be disturbed, you will blame both gods and men: but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another's, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will .. | Epictetus | ||
| 606b8e5 | Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. IX | Epictetus | ||
| 25ba356 | Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. X | Epictetus | ||
| fb606ce | On the occasion of every accident (event) that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. | Epictetus | ||
| e401c00 | Epictetus: "The judgment seat and a prison is each a place, the one high, the other low; but the attitude of your will can be kept the same, if you want to keep it the same, in either place." | James B. Stockdale | ||
| c0430bb | Helen and Buster got down and started praying with Mom, but I just stood there looking at them. The way I saw it, I was the one who'd saved us all, not Mom and not some guardian angel. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 95ad372 | Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death and, despite his gimp and speech impediment, lived a long life doing pretty much what he wanted. He hadn't drawn the best of cards, but he'd played his hand darned well, so what was there to grieve over? | life luck | Jeannette Walls | |
| c477eca | At the same time, Dad was working on a book arguing the case for phonetic spelling. He called it 'A Ghoti out of Water.' "Ghoti," he liked to point out, could be pronounced like "fish." The "gh" had the "f" sound in "enough," the "o" had the short "i" sound in "women," and "ti" had the "sh" sound in "nation." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| e817fd7 | You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them," [Jeannette's mom] said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation." | love-your-enemies hitler | Jeannette Walls | |
| 5ba0045 | I'm none too big on giving advice,' Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| d27d361 | I'm a grown woman now," Mom said almost every morning. "Why can't I do what I want to do?" | Jeannette Walls | ||
| b53c920 | Life's too short to worry about what other people think... Anyway, they should accept us for who we are. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| d5aec75 | Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| c4bcb7c | People say that when you return to the place where you grew up, it always seems smaller than you remember. ...but I don't know if it was because I had built it up in my memories or I had gotten bigger. Maybe both. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 2edc432 | A little while after we'd moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talking about buying us kids real beds, and we said they shouldn't do it. We liked our boxes. They made going to bed seem like an adventure. pg. 52 | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 38168d2 | God knows what He's doing, | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 4a38609 | Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal"." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| adfa1f3 | There had always seemed to me a frightening amount of chance in the way that people chose their careers. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| cc1d0ef | His own men, those who would attack in the morning, knelt on the earth, faces hidden behind one hand, in an agonizing tunnel of their own, a darkness where there was no time but where they tried to look on death. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| d02a8de | They saw the Scots coming up out of their burrows like raving women in their skirts, dying in ripples across the yellowish-brown soil. They saw the steady tread of the Hampshire's as though they had willingly embarked on a slow-motion dance from which they were content not to return. They saw men from every corner walking, powerless, into an engulfing storm. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 9299c91 | If only I could have my time again. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 1647003 | Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your feet... a vole. It's a remarkable thing in its way, a vole--intricate, beautiful really, marvellous. But does it... Does it help? Does it move the matter on? When you ask a question that you'd actually like to know the answer to--what was there bef.. | voles meaning science questions | Sebastian Faulks | |
| fa09791 | That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards. | Sebastian Faulks |