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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c1b7391 | Life is a cosmic grab-bag. At this moment, somewhere in the world, someone is losing a child, skiing down a mountain, having an orgasm, getting a haircut, lying on a bed of pain, singing on a stage, drowning, getting married, starving in a gutter. In the end, aren't we all that same person? An aeon is a thousand million years, and an aeon ago every atom in our bodies was a part of a star. Pay attention to me, God. We are all a part of your .. | god universe | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 145b941 | They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth. | lied mirror murder stranger stranger-in-the-mirror young youth | Sidney Sheldon | |
| ec0d7b8 | Nao me cantem cancoes da luz do dia / Pois o sol e o inimigo dos amantes / Cantem das sombras e da escuridao / E das lembrancas da meia-noite. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 2d0c698 | Like Beauty. But she only pricked her finger. I had a spindle through my heart. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 58c8b3d | You'll have to take me to some museums," he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country." | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 41be3e1 | Being a good mother is being a hero. Right? | mothers | Francesca Lia Block | |
| bec30db | We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| fc04845 | When you look at pain as material it makes all the difference in the world. I thought, the pain that is too big to be eased by its use as material would be a pain I couldn't (and wouldn't want to) even imagine. | francesca-lia-block pain violet-claire | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 13efecf | Lex surfed wicked, like the devil. He wasn't afraid of anything, seemed like. He grinned at West as the waves came up toward them like towers of green glass, an emerald city. We're off to see the wizard, he shouted. He whooped. His body crouched ready to fly. He shone against the sun. | beaches ocean sea surf surfing surfs-up | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 8c3be14 | West didn't want her to get hurt anymore. He wanted her to let go. He wanted her to appreciate her life. To know he loved her. All these things sounded so stupid to him when he imagined saying them and he knew she didn't want to hear them anyway. She wanted to hear one thing. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 833f0ca | Why else were we here except to love? | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| c2cf1be | But me, maybe I fit in a place like this. Maybe the cold inside of me will seem less cold in this winter. Maybe the tall buildings will make the brick walls I build for myself seem smaller. Maybe the noises in my head will quiet down in the middle of all the other noises. Or maybe my cold and walls and noise will get worse. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 12b2975 | You have to imagine things before you can do them. Stories help us see. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| de6b8c5 | At the next Goat Guys show, the band came on stage with their wings, their haunches, their horns. The audience swooned at their feet. Cherokee spun and spun until she was dizzy, until she was not sure anymore if she or the stage was in motion. Afterwards two girls in lingerie and over-the-knee leather boots offered a joint to Raphael and Angel Juan. All four of them were smoking backstage when Cherokee and Witch Baby came through the door. .. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 8399b86 | Tripes, poumons, coeur de porc, etc., tout cela cuit a la vapeur avec du vin de riz. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| c084ae5 | Al fin y al cabo, un hombre es solo lo que ha decidido hacer o no hacer. | hombre | Qiu Xiaolong | |
| 8fe4104 | Ich furchte, grad unter Menschen mochtest du ein Mensch zu sein verlernen. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| bb96057 | Ein Hurenhaus geriet um Mitternacht in Brand. Schnell sprang, zum Loschen oder Retten, Ein Dutzend Monche von den Betten. Wo waren die? Sie waren - - bei der Hand. Ein Hurenhaus geriet in Brand. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| e115b4d | War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown around like seeds in the wind until the city folk with calculators and Swiss bank accounts stop talking rot from a bunker under a mountain. | Bill Carter | ||
| 3454d73 | Expats of any country are quick to lose their sense of humour, beaten down by a lifetime of defending the land they no longer live in. | Bill Carter | ||
| 15df791 | Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you're a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don't seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on yo.. | freedom good-and-bad martin-luther-king-jr pat-conroy | Pat Conroy | |
| 547c974 | Thinking matters through before we act is always difficult and often consumes a lot of our time. But it is simply not possible to be a person of integrity without doing it. --Stephen Carter, Integrity | Bill Gates Sr. | ||
| 0f66f67 | It was not our war, but it would be our disgrace, our shame. The West was filling to declare a war over the price of oil, but when it came to the wholesale slaughter of human beings we folded our hands across our chests and tapped our heels, with great anticipation that Sunday's sporting events would be wonderfully entertaining | Bill Carter | ||
| 9609f34 | Surely, when looking back, our lives can, for the most part, be accounted for in our interactions with others. That is where memories are stored, in one another. And yet each person is unique enough in his or her own thoughts that no two people are going to remember the same experience in the same way. | Bill Carter | ||
| c21f5b7 | Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 52549a2 | A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and she was under no obligation to keep her body looking any certain way, no more than she was obliged to do anything just because it was customary, or traditional, or expected of women in America. She didn't have to get married, she didn't have to have kids, and she didn't have to be thin. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 014c9ad | Something that's bigger than you, and something that's kind and forgiving, I'd heard one of the meeting leaders say. That's all your Higher Power has to be. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| fab203c | A girl named Jo once had a life / But that's gone now; she's only wife. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 802745a | This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth. | writing | Jennifer Weiner | |
| 0c536b5 | She and her friends would talk about their husbands like they were children, or pets - some strange species responsible for bad smells and strange noises and messes they'd have to clean up. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 4f312fc | I didn't trust people who forgot to eat. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| addb56d | If you want to hit someone or you want to throw something, I want you to run first. I want you to run until you can hardly lift your legs and your arms. Run until you're exhausted, and then, if you still want to hit someone or throw something, you just wait 'til you've caught your breath again and then go for it. Try it, | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| d6765e0 | With motherhood and marriage there was no finish line, no hour or day or year when you got to say you were through. Life just went on and on, endless and formless, with no performance evaluation, no raises or feedback or two weeks' vacation. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| ca82cdb | You're allowed to want to use your education. You're allowed to want to be more than a mother. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| c97e1e0 | Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity. | R.C. Sproul Jr. | ||
| e7f9e2d | What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limited by our freedom, we are sovereign, not God. No, we are free, but God is even more free. This means that our freedom can never limit God's sovereignty. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 009829f | To be a saint means to be separated. But it means more than that. The saint also is to be involved in a vital process of sanctification. We are to be purified daily in the growing pursuit of holiness. If we are justified, we must also be sanctified. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ae7fcf3 | three stanzas says the same thing: May the Lord bless; may the Lord make His face shine; may the Lord lift up His countenance upon you. The Israelite understood blessedness concretely: to be blessed was to be able to behold the face of God. One could enjoy the blessing only in relative degrees: the closer one got to the ultimate face-to-face relationship, the more blessed he was. Conversely, the farther removed from that face-to-face | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 78fac02 | It is precisely the presence and help of Christ in times of suffering that makes it possible for us to stand up under pressure. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0f43d30 | The call to delight in our heavenly Father is not one that can be rightly obeyed with bootstrap effort. One cannot grimly determine to rejoice in the grace of God. The only way to rejoice the way David did is to be overcome with emotion. David's joyous dance was true to who he was and true to how he felt about God. It was David becoming like a child, so much so that he insisted on giving in to his willingness, even his eagerness, to become .. | R.C. Sproul Jr. | ||
| ae23a76 | We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead. | regeneration theology | R.C. Sproul | |
| a6313b9 | Because of Christ, our suffering is not useless. It is part of the total plan of God, who has chosen to redeem the world through the pathway of suffering. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f2012f9 | Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself. | R.C. Sproul Jr. | ||
| 96fb301 | The tongue is a restless evil, full o deadly poison. This was the realization of Isaiah. He recognized that he was not alone in his dilemma. He understood that the whole nation was infected with dirty mouths: "I live among a people of unclean lips." in the flash of the moment Isaiah had a new radical understanding of sin. He saw that is was pervasive, in him and in everyone else." | R.C. Sproul |