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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0336084 | It was Aristotle who said, 'In life, be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. | Nikki Sex | ||
| 449347d | Never say anything you'll regret. It's easier to say nothing at all than to say something you can't take back. | Nikki Sex | ||
| 8d7de81 | Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." -- Khalil Gibran" | Nikki Sex | ||
| 4b0410c | What has been done to you is one thing. Yet to really suffer, to truly be burdened with guilt and shame, such pain always begins not with what has been done to you--but with what you have done. Andre Chevalier | responsibility emotional-pain shame guilt | Nikki Sex | |
| 03f62e7 | I mean, I don't want to pass judgment--I just wish my husband didn't shoot deer." "Oh, Mel, don't worry. I've been hunting with your husband--the deer are completely safe." -- | humour romance funny | Robyn Carr | |
| a27e501 | Thanks a lot. You could have cut the girl some slack. We haven't had anything pretty to look at around here since Bradley's old golder retriever died died last fall. | Robyn Carr | ||
| b71b988 | A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, "Help." | humour romance funny | Robyn Carr | |
| dc8e4ba | At this moment, I am obscenely happy. Please don't screw this up or dump me or cheat on me or divorce me." "All right," he said." | romance | Robyn Carr | |
| e1da86b | Cooper's been married in his head for a while now." "That's... kinda sweet." | romance | Robyn Carr | |
| e69e2bc | It's different for guys. They don't feel the same way about proms that girls do. Girls see it as a chance to feel like a princess. Guys see it as a chance to have sex. | Robyn Carr | ||
| 90ba1ad | the best thing you can give a child you love is happy memories and a foundation they can be proud of. | Robyn Carr | ||
| 6960f09 | You're a good date," he said. "You thought of it as a date?" He nodded. "From the beginning." | romantic romance | Robyn Carr | |
| d22cdca | You don't need a lot of money to live a full life--all you need is a fertile mind, some books and a good attitude. Books are free at the library, but a fertile mind takes practice. | Robyn Carr | ||
| 56f735a | You dance?" "I think that might be overly optimistic," he said. "I do something. I'll try not to hurt you." | humour romance funny | Robyn Carr | |
| fedd5e1 | Sarah, I'm going to take care of you whether you like it or not. | romantic romance women-s-fiction | Robyn Carr | |
| b41ca36 | God understands everything. And even He made a mistake or two. Look at the size of avocado seeds - way too big. And pomegranates? Too many seeds. What a waist of fruit! | religios | Robyn Carr | |
| b7daa01 | a heart can be broken, but it keep on beating, just the same. | heartbreak | Fannie Flagg | |
| ca479f6 | If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 1da90c7 | People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and then they sack me. A film broker once told me, as she terminated my contract, that I have a misleading sort of face. "You're pretty", she complained. "Your features are symmetrical and there was an article in Grazia that says human beings are programmed to find those with symmetrical features more pleasing to they eye.. | humorous turn-of-phrase way-with-words | Marian Keyes | |
| 38a18fc | Drink never drown anyone's sorrows," he went on. "It only teaches them how to swim." | Marian Keyes | ||
| 3b54c1f | freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 7be043b | Are you close to your family?' I considered it. 'Close' was one way of putting it. 'We're close,' I said cautiously. 'But we're very mean to each other. This morning I told my mum that if she didn't stop acting old I was going to lobby for a law on euthanasia, so a bus would come round every Monday morning and take away all the old people who complained that they couldn't hear the telly or see the buttons on their mobile phone or that they .. | Marian Keyes | ||
| a007ec4 | Back at my parents', Mum was waiting with a muffin for me. 'Banana and pecan. I know it's the wrong colour but would you try it? Are you okay?' she asked. 'You look a bit ...' 'Grand,' I said. 'It's just the clouds. When it's overcast like this, it does my head in.' A strange expression passed over her face. 'The sky is blue.' I took a look out of the window; the sky was blue. 'When did that happen?' 'It's been blue all morning.' But it did.. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 8cc964a | The Chinese word for "crisis" also means "opportunity." | Marian Keyes | ||
| 9ad1974 | The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 07f5dd8 | Insomnia is an enemy that attacks in many forms. Sometimes it shows up the moment I get into bed and lingers for a couple of hours. Other nights, it stays away until about 5 a.m. and then butts in and hangs around until twenty minutes before the alarm is due to go off. It's a full-time job, battling the fecker. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 356ec71 | Human touch is as important as water and food and air and laughter and new shoes. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 069a5e3 | A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong turn at Adam and found, to its surprise, that it had ended up in the entirely different destination of Dreamy Contentment. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 7594ab9 | I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn't say " Well, I won't give her that lump in her breast for another year. Best to let her recover from the death of her mother first." It just goes right on ahead and does whatever it feels like, whenever it feels like it." | Marian Keyes | ||
| 152ed53 | Reality had run and got Sanity. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 951eef5 | It is my honour to act as your ceiling | Marian Keyes | ||
| 12f0bf0 | I'm seized by sudden horrible fear - the thought of living without carbs is terrifying. | Marian Keyes | ||
| d6d35d9 | The strategy worked like a charm, and in 1980 Jimmy Carter was swept away like offal by the "Reagan Revolution," which ushered in eight years of berserk looting of the federal treasury and the economic crippling of the middle class. That was the eighties, folks. That was the feeding frenzy of the New Rich, who found themselves wallowing in excess profits as their maximum income tax rate got chopped down to 31 percent and who were welcomed l.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| ef24a10 | In his early twenties, a man started collecting paintings, many of which later became famous: Picasso, Van Gogh, and others. Over the decades he amassed a wonderful collection. Eventually, the man's beloved son was drafted into the military and sent to Vietnam, where he died while trying to save his friend. About a month after the war ended, a young man knocked on the devastated father's door. "Sir," he said, "I know that you like great art.. | Jimmy Carter | ||
| 664cacc | A person should have as our goal complete agape (self-sacrificial love). The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice. | Jimmy Carter | ||
| 2667a15 | Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge? | Jimmy Carter | ||
| 146ceb3 | But it's no surprise that when someone truly awful dies, the cool break out in reverence. Which is what happened when Hugo Chavez croaked. On that day in March 2013, we saw a parade of misty-eyed celebrities and solemn left-wing hacks paying tribute to a dead guy. Out of the woodwork came a parade of Hugoslavians, tyrant-lovers who could overlook the heathen's badness for the sake of coolness. See, someone can be truly evil. But if that per.. | Greg Gutfeld | ||
| a90c4b6 | I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans. | Tina Fey | ||
| 65c35bc | The National Academy of Sciences undertook its first major study of global warming in 1979. At that point, climate modeling was still in its infancy, and only a few groups, one led by Syukuro Manabe at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and another by James Hansen at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, had considered in any detail the effects of adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Still, the results of their wo.. | Elizabeth Kolbert | ||
| 4073bfd | Think of Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter or Billy Graham, or even Albert Einstein, and what will come to your mind is an image, a picture of face, (in Einstein's case, a photograph of a face). Of words, nothing will come to mind. This is the difference between thinking in a word-centered culture and thinking in an image-centered culture. | image-centered-culture typographic-mind word-centered-culture | Neil Postman | |
| 6193101 | Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone. | evelyn-couch mid-life-crisis menopause ice-cream | Fannie Flagg | |
| 6bd473b | The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year. After that, what economists call "diminishing marginal returns" sets in. If your family makes seventy-five thousand and your neighbor makes a hundred thousand, that extra twenty-five thousand a year means that your neighbor can drive a nicer car and go out to eat slightly more often. But .. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 4877b2c | Schools could do the same thing. Elementary and middle schools could put the January through April-born students in one class, the May through August in another class, and those born in September through December in the third class. They could let students learn with and compete against other students of the same maturity level. It would be a little bit more complicated administratively. But it wouldn't necessarily cost that much more money.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c5c98d2 | mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. Put a bunch of Renees .. | Malcolm Gladwell |