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| 4df61b0 | Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. She thought ruefully of Nana, of the sacrifices that she too had made. Nana, who could have given her away, or tossed her in a ditch somewhere and run. But she hadn't. Instead, Nana had endured the shame of bearing a harami, had shaped her life around the thankless task of raising Mariam and, in her own way, of loving her. And, in the end, Mariam had chosen Jalil over her. As.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 99e82ec | Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 593dc5f | I cringed a little at the position of power i'd been granted, and all because I had won at the genetic lottery that had determined my sex. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 59acfc4 | Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. --Khaled Hosseini | Bradley Nickell | ||
| 35e89ed | 'stm` l~ dqt ls`@ fy lrdh@, thm 'fkr , fy kl ltkt wldqy'q , kl ls`t wl'ym, l'shhr wlsnwt lty tntZrny, klh bdwnhm, w`ndh l 'stTy` ltnfs, k'n shyy'an m ykhTw fy qlby... lqd 'SbHt D`yf@ jdan ,, wqd 'nhr fy 'y lHZ@ ... | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 41b56e3 | My friend, it is not an arduous task that I bequeath, for our order knows only silken bonds. To be gentle and patient, to care for the riches of the mind, to preside in wisdom and secrecy while the storm rages without -- it will all be very pleasantly simple for you, and you will doubtless find great happiness. | philosophy | James Hilton | |
| 854574c | why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading a newspaper or chatting with the girls she worked with all day. And maybe she always read like that--with an air of having surrendered totally to a spell. | James Hilton | ||
| f6ce7bb | For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with horror. He was a quiet, conventional person, and the world, viewed from the haven of Brookfield, seemed to him full of distasteful innovations; there was a fellow named Bernard Shaw who had the strangest and most reprehensible opinions; there .. | men society women | James Hilton | |
| 6c13abb | When you grow older you miss that eagerness; life may be happy, you may have health and wealth and love and success, but the odds are that you never look forward as you once did to a single golden day. You never count the hours to it, you never see some moment ahead beckoning like a goddess across a fourth dimension. | James Hilton | ||
| 1b77a6a | His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies. | James Hilton | ||
| 7aad405 | Perhaps," she said, "to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5b8baaf | If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 08e0c80 | Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4fe48ab | I don't know what it is to be hungry, | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 1170f92 | Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else. | fairy fairy-tales frances-hodgson-burnett magic the-little-princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 155f606 | When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a1a8c78 | What does it say?" asked my lord. "It says, `Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were together. Every night she used to say that to me, and every morning she said, `God bless you all the day!' So you see I am quite safe all the time----" | mother | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 5d1db34 | All girls are! Even if they live in tiny old attics, even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young, they're still princesses - all of us! Didn't your father ever tell you that? Didn't he? | sara | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 7cf4f24 | Once when I was givin' th' children a bit of a preach after they'd been fightin' I ses to 'em all, "When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems like there's not enow quarters to go round. But don't you--none o' you--think as you own th' whole orange or you'll f.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 02848aa | How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. | language understanding | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| f18bccb | So long as Colin shut himself up in his room and thought only of his fears and weakness and his detestation of people who looked at him and reflected hourly on humps and early death, he was a hysterical half-crazy little hypochondriac who knew nothing of the sunshine and the spring and also did not know that he could get well and could stand upon his feet if he tried to do it. When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous on.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 378a3a9 | difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6580254 | Tis a barbaric fancy," said Roxholm thoughtfully as he turned the stem of his glass, keeping his eyes fixed on it as though solving a problem for himself. "A barbaric fancy that a woman needs a master. She who is strong enough is her own conqueror--as a man should be master of himself." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0e2fbe5 | Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 301b30b | When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word--just to look at them and THINK. Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it, Miss Amelia looks frightened, and so do the girls. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's no.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 20c551c | I am almost ashamed to answer,' she said. 'As I have said before, Emily Fox-Seton has become the lodestar of my existence. I cannot live without her. She has walked over to Maundell to make sure that we do not have a dinner-party without fish to-night.' 'She has _walked_ over to Maundell,' said Lord Walderhurst--'after yesterday?' 'There was not a pair of wheels left in the stable,' answered Lady Maria. 'It is disgraceful, of course, but sh.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5c17979 | if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help and pardon, surely--surely He will lend an ear! | mercy prayer | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 3dac554 | In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don't. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| e7491ad | Free-loading at emergency rooms--mandated by government--makes being uninsured a viable option. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 070d4d2 | Minimum wage laws appear to give low-income workers something for nothing--and appearances are what count in politics. Realities can be left to others, so long as appearances get votes. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 8cfd89d | If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on "the legacy of slavery" with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals. Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and "war on poverty" p.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 236c9c9 | As in the general society, fertility tends to be greatest where people are poorest: "The rich get richer, and the poor have children." In" -- | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 4bb65b7 | When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 2067395 | teachers who pander to minority students by turning their courses into rap sessions and ethnic navel-gazing exercises capture their interest and allegiance. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 2ea43fc | Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others. | peace violence war | Thomas Sowell | |
| 63e0863 | isolation is a recurring factor in poverty and backwardness around the world, whether that is physical isolation or cultural isolation, for any number of particular reasons | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 314f670 | This compulsion to look back, to explain to myself, to others, why I did what I did--or, worse, to justify why I didn't do something else--is one of the most direct roads to depression we have. Our thoughts, emotions, and attitudes, according to Dr. Andrew Weil in his book Healthy Aging, are "key determinants of how we age." They can threaten the quality of time we bring to the present." | Joan D. Chittister | ||
| 53359a7 | Nisker wasn't really in the mood for an LSD trip. After all, he was in a car and heading toward the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge. Then Scoop started thinking to himself. Well, the guy is the "high priest of LSD." What else can I do? When else am I going to get a chance like this? So, Nisker dropped the acid. By the time they got to the radio station Scoop was so stoned he couldn't put two words together. But Leary sat down behind the mi.. | Don Lattin | ||
| 6089c9e | The internet is the nerd Israel, a place to speak and listen to spectacularly specific concerns. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 60a0f75 | They had started speaking of "women and children"--that phrase that exempts the male from sanity when it has been repeated a few times. Each felt that all he loved best in the world was at stake, demanded revenge, and was filled with a not unpleasing glow, in which the chilly and half-known features of Miss Quested vanished, and were replaced by all that is sweetest and warmest in private life. "But it's the women and children," they repeat.. | E. M. Forster | ||
| cdc3f98 | The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete--the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art--throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb. Not thus had she played on the little draped piano at the Bertolini, and "Too much Schumann" was not the remark that Mr. Beebe had passed to himself when she .. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 2eee26c | It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 2205950 | There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started. | E.M. Forster | ||
| a504726 | He has dreams--not exactly spiritual dreams: but dreams of the tangible and the actual: robust dreams, which take him, not to heaven, but another earth. | E.M. Forster |