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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 778a715 | I am not trying to say that a passport photo of himself can cure a gloomy man of a gloom for which there is no ground; for true gloom is by nature groundless; such gloom, ours at least, can be traced to no identifiable cause, and with its almost riotous gratuitousness this gloom of ours attained a pitch of intensity that would yield to nothing. If there was any way of making friends with our gloom, it was through the photos, because in thes.. | Günter Grass | ||
| 89a08db | Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way. | memory memory-loss | Günter Grass | |
| 6ad6ad0 | The god of unreflecting drunkenness advised me to take no reading matter at all, or if I absolutely insisted on reading matter, then a little stack of Rasputin would do; Apollo, on the other hand, in his shrewd, sensible way, tried to talk me out of this trip to France altogether, but when he saw that Oskar's mind was made up, insisted on proper baggage; very well, I would have to take the highly respectable yawn that Goethe had yawned so l.. | Günter Grass | ||
| 1ac59e0 | So rode the squadrons out against the grey steel foe, adding another dash of red to the sunset glow. | Günter Grass | ||
| 0f9ad03 | Man mag noch so viel uber die beliebte Dreiecksthematik des Theaters schimpfen; zwei Personen alleine auf der Buhne, was sollen sie tun, als sich totdiskutieren oder insgeheim nach dem Dritten sehnen. | german romance | Günter Grass | |
| 4acd4be | Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental; | joking seriousness | Günter Grass | |
| 75fde24 | Mrs. Russell made us both sit down with a glass of milk. "And I have a special treat for you," she said. I'm not lying. She really said that. I held my breath because of the last special treat at the Daughertys', but it didn't help, because when Mrs. Russell came back, she came back with a loaf of banana bread. Banana bread! And James said, "How about we have some jam with that?" and Mrs. Russell said, "Jam? Then you wouldn't be able to tas.. | funny laughter | Gary D. Schmidt | |
| 9ea340e | Nothing has more potential for strengthening one's sense of well-being than effectively loving and being loved. | Gary Chapman | ||
| a638021 | Abuse of gift-giving can occur when a child is living with a custodial parent following a separation or divorce. The noncustodial parent is often tempted to shower a child with gifts, perhaps from the pain of separation or feelings of guilt over leaving the family. When these gifts are overly expensive, ill-chosen, and used as a comparison with what the custodial parent can provide, they are really a form of bribery, an attempt to buy the c.. | Gary D. Chapman | ||
| c508220 | Can emotional love be reborn? You bet! The key is to learn the primary love language of your spouse and choose to speak it. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 8bf49ae | We even fall in love with love. | Gary Chapman | ||
| fef728f | Women like to be affirmed verbally, just as men like to be affirmed verbally. They tend to pull away from dating partners who do not give affirmation. Lack of verbal affirmation is interpreted as lack of love. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 21ff2f7 | You can simply remember that behavioral expressions of love can be divided into physical touch, quality time, gifts, acts of service, and words of affirmation. | Gary Chapman | ||
| df6630a | Many children go to school ill-prepared to learn because they are not emotionally ready to learn. Children need to reach appropriate emotional levels of maturity before they are able to learn effectively at their age level. Simply sending a child to a better school or changing teachers is not the answer. We must make sure our children are emotionally ready to learn. (See chapter 9 for more on | Gary Chapman | ||
| 6eb33bc | The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln" | leadership strategy | Gary Chapman | |
| 3a322b7 | A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 80b592d | When your spouse's emotional love tank is full and he feels secure in your love, the whole world looks bright and your spouse will move out to reach his highest potential in life. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 88b7775 | Love won't allow you to bear burdens alone. -- Tina Givens -- | Gary Chapman | ||
| ed22aa5 | I'm sorry. I know I have hurt you, but I would like to make the future different. I would like to love you in your language. I would like to meet your needs." I have seen marriages rescued from the brink of divorce when couples make the choice to love." | Gary D. Chapman | ||
| e717391 | Loving others sometimes requires a love far greater and purer than our own. -- Dawn Lilly | Gary Chapman | ||
| 506c3a6 | A soft answer turns away anger. | Gary Chapman | ||
| cacd11d | Some parents find the idea of asking permission to share their perspective ridiculous, or even offensive. "Why should I have to ask my teen permission to speak?" one father asked. The question is not whether the parents have the right to speak to the teenager, they do. The question is: "Do you want your teenager to listen to what you are saying?" Asking permission recognizes that she is an individual, and she has the choice of hearing what .. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 3787c9a | We need not agree on everything, but we must find a way to handle our differences so that they do not become divisive. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 0309982 | Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word "to train." | Gary Chapman | ||
| 00052e6 | When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer. --Psalm 94:19 | Gary Chapman | ||
| 3c1a19e | A gift is a gift only when given as a genuine expression of love, not as an effort to cover over past failures. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 54df1a5 | Genuine service demands that we speak the truth in love. We do not serve each other by avoiding one another's weaknesses. | Gary Chapman | ||
| daf3d9c | Love helps those that are hard to pray for turn into people who are easy to pray for. -- Donna Collins Tinsley -- | Gary Chapman | ||
| 0d97560 | Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use. | Gary Chapman | ||
| e617eb6 | true love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course. | Gary Chapman | ||
| e97ce81 | Positive Eye Contact Quality time should include loving eye contact. Looking in your child's eyes with care is a powerful way to convey love from your heart to the heart of your child. Studies have shown that most parents use eye contact in primarily negative ways, either while reprimanding a child or giving very explicit instructions. If you give loving looks only when your child is pleasing you, you are falling into the trap of conditiona.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 32623b7 | The desire for reconciliation is often more potent than the desire for justice. The more intimate the relationship, the deeper the desire for reconciliation. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 20cc4bc | During all that time I didn't see Willie. I didn't see him again until he announced in the Democratic primary in 1930. But it wasn't a primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the back room of Casey's saloon rolled into one, and when the dust cleared away not a picture still hung on the walls. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes and.. | Robert Penn Warren | ||
| bad90f8 | Anything tastes good when you wash it down with chocolate. | Diane Mott Davidson | ||
| 0d2b415 | My grandmother told me you shouldn't try to define evil, that the minute you think you've got it all pinned down, a kind of evil you never even thought of will sneak up behind you and jump inside your head. I don't think anyone knows what evil is. I don't think anyone has the right to say. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| baec5db | He looked like an actor who'd star in some movie about a doomed love affair between an heiress and a park ranger. I thought it was probably inappropriate to fling myself against him and bury my nose in his chest. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 7928917 | maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was | pretending sue-grafton w-is-for-wasted | Sue Grafton | |
| c5b2b13 | I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone) | Sue Grafton | ||
| e893947 | Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 1c45608 | To distract myself, I thought about all the cusswords I knew and arranged them in alphabetical order. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 42dab17 | I have friends who adore high heels, but I can't see the point. I figure if high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. | Sue Grafton | ||
| e149f97 | Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 4f7a99c | Some people die accidentally. It's a fact. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 1f33809 | He has all the uncanny intuitions of a psychopath. Have you ever dealt with one? It's almost like a form of mind-reading... | psychopath | Sue Grafton |