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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 460b589 | In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War. | parenthood victorian-era | Bill Bryson | |
| 9ae2b77 | We are not only what we do, we are also what we imagine. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 587f668 | we're going to be in the wilderness in three days. There won't be doughnut stores. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 11a2e97 | The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively, as almost every American learns on his first day in Britain. | Bill Bryson | ||
| e71af4f | It is a natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity - in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes - an interesting side branch. Of the twenty-three main divisions of life, only three - plants, animals and fungi - are large enough to be seen by the human eye.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 03bb5b5 | IN 1953, STANLEY Miller, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, took two flasks--one containing a little water to represent a primeval ocean, the other holding a mixture of methane, ammonia, and hydrogen sulphide gases to represent Earth's early atmosphere--connected them with rubber tubes, and introduced some electrical sparks as a stand-in for lightning. After a few days, the water in the flasks had turned green and yellow in a .. | Bill Bryson | ||
| deaf54b | That is the most extraordinary fact about Britain. It wants to be a garden. Flowers bloom in the unlikeliest places - on railway sidings and waste grounds where there is nothing beneath them but rubble and grit. | Bill Bryson | ||
| bda29bc | Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, "We all do." | community | Bill Bryson | |
| 5b93605 | I hate to sound like an old man, but why are these people famous? What qualities do they possess that endear them to the wider world? We may at once eliminate talent, intelligence, attractiveness, and charm from the equation, so what does that leave? Dainty feet? Fresh, minty breath? I am at a loss to say. Anatomically, many of them don't even seem quite human. Many have names that suggest they have reached us from a distant galaxy: Ri-Ri, .. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 6825a8a | But I love to drink. I can't help it. I mean, I love it Bryson-love the taste, love that buzz you get when you've had a couple, love the smell and feel of the taverns. I miss dirty jokes and the click of pool balls in the background, and that kind of bluish, under lit glow of a bar at night. | Bill Bryson | ||
| dbcabd6 | Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation. | power-generation | David Weber | |
| 18ad278 | There's a reason I've always relied on you for the necessary political miracles, Emily," Hamish told her with a smile. "Give me a fleet problem, or a naval battle to fight, and I "know exactly what to do. But dealing with scum like High Ridge and Descroix--?" He shook his head. "I just can't wrap my mind around how to handle them." "Be honest, dear," Emily corrected him gently. "It's not that you really can't do it, and you know it. It's th.. | David Weber | ||
| e3bfc8f | Yet i say to you, do not rush to marriage for it is a deep and perfect thing. Test first, that you may be certain you are called to it by love, and not simply by pleasures of the flesh which will consume themselves and leave only ashes and misery | David Weber | ||
| e766ae0 | And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins. | David Weber | ||
| 9d9e1e7 | It's much more comfortable to cling to your bigotry than it is to admit you've been wrong to feel it in the first place, | David Weber | ||
| 0893ce5 | At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength. | inspiration inspirational-quote promise strength truth | Tania Elizabeth | |
| 47c53d3 | Elizabeth also wept, and was unhappy; but her's also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 1d9d7c7 | Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge knows that he, too, is a criminal, exactly the same as the one who stands before him, and that he is perhaps most guilty of all for the crime of the one standing before him. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e13fc60 | If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6d48fe1 | I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2096d32 | It may be that you ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be of great heart and fear less. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ccaa829 | Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything. --FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY | Dan Ariely | ||
| c2a5cb1 | Doss dear," said Cousin Georgiana mournfully, "some day you will discover that blood is thicker than water." "Of course it is. But who wants water to be thick?" parried Valancy." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 559d31d | Some women's intended from the start to be old maids, and I'm afraid I'm one of them, Miss Shirley, ma'am, because I've awful little patience with the men. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 47037cb | I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her. | religion | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 9c7c6a3 | hate's got to be a disease with me. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 064e9dd | We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e293990 | raised herself on one round elbow and looked out on a tiny river like a gleaming blue snake winding itself around a purple hill. Right below the house was a field white as snow with daisies, and the shadow of the huge maple tree that bent over the little house fell lacily across it. Far beyond it were the white crests of Four Winds Harbour and a long range of sun-washed dunes and red cliffs. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 715354a | could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take. | love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0dc992d | he's going to marry Ellen West after wanting her all his life. If I was Ellen--but then, I'm not, and if she is satisfied I can very well be. I heard her say years ago when she was a schoolgirl that she didn't want a tame puppy for a husband. There's nothing tame about Norman, believe ME." The sun was setting over Rainbow Valley. The pond was wearing a wonderful tissue of purple and gold and green and crimson. A faint blue haze rested on th.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1467efe | Marilla loved the [more grown up] girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 42543d9 | My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 6eb7476 | The first day I came I remarked to Miss Maria that it looked a little like rain--and Miss Maria laughed. I said the road from the station was very pretty--and Miss Maria laughed. I said there seemed to be a few mosquitoes left yet--and Miss Maria laughed. I said that Prospect Point was as beautiful as ever--and Miss Maria laughed. If I were to say to Miss Maria, 'My father has hanged himself, my mother has taken poison, my brother is in the.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d3f4fc6 | Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1c89257 | I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7cbb14a | She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1c869f6 | Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d2014f6 | I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 93df9e5 | Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9369d16 | Spring is singing in my blood today, and the lure of April is abroad on the air. I'm seeing visions and dreaming dreams, Pris. That's because the wind is from the west. I do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? When the east wind blows I always think of sorrowful rain on the eaves and sad waves on a gray shore. When I get old I shall have rheumatism when the wind is east." "And" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| fa073f6 | Well, I won't. Ludovic Speed and Theodora Dix live in Middle Grafton and Mrs. Rachel says he has been courting her for a hundred years. Won't they soon be too old to get married, Anne? I hope Gilbert won't court YOU that long. When are you going to be married, Anne? Mrs. Lynde says it's a sure thing." "Mrs. Lynde is a--" began Anne hotly; then stopped. "Awful old gossip," completed Davy calmly. "That's what every one calls her. But is it a .. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 380c2b3 | I kind of think she's one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f0be8c3 | Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever | humor | L. M. Montgomery | |
| 0c99a37 | It's so easy to be happy on a day like this. | l. m. Montgomery |