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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6623772 | Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don't like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and takes up with the wrong people. | Walker Percy | ||
| c7891d7 | Where did the terror come from? Not from the violence; violence gives release from terror. Not from Leroy's wrongness, for if he were altogether wrong, an evil man, the matter would be simple and no cause for terror. No, it came from Leroy's goodness, that he is a decent, sweet-natured man who would help you if you needed help, go out of his way and bind up a stranger's wounds. No, the terror comes from the goodness and what lies beneath, s.. | Walker Percy | ||
| e6ccd46 | Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the city with no particular emotion except a mild boredom, unease, exasperation, and dislike especially for, say, Times Square and Brooklyn, and a longing for a Connecticut farmhouse. Later you become an astronaut and wander in space for years. You land on a strange, unexplored (you think) planet. There you find a road sign with an ar.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 37c32f0 | In fact, these terms devised by Franklin are the ones we still use today, along with other neologisms that he coined to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a783c8b | I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head of a hatchet buried in the heartwood of a tree -- it eventually finds the teeth of a whirling saw blade. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 4311527 | I had seen a dawn like this one only twice in my life: once in Vietnam, when a Bouncing Betty had risen from the earth on a night trail and twisted its tentacles of light around my thighs, and years earlier outside of Franklin, Louisiana, when my father and I discovered the body of a labor organizer who had been crucified with sixteen-penny nails, ankle and wrist, against a barn wall. - Sunset Limited | James Lee Burke | ||
| 76d3c98 | Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is. If there is such a thing as wisdom, and I have serious doubts about its presence in my own life, it lies in the acceptance of the human condition and perhaps the knowledge that those who have passed on are still with us, out there in the mist, showing us the way, sometimes uttering a word of caution from the shadows, sometimes visiting us in our sleep, as bright as a candle burnin.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 38145bb | It's a great burden, being one of the good guys. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a7083a8 | One day you'll have a quiet heart. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 2102409 | This is Louisiana, Dave. Guatemala North. Quit pretending it's the United States. Life will make a lot more sense," he said." | James Lee Burke | ||
| d698e41 | Onboard signal to Terra Defense Command . . ." He paused, his mouth opening and closing. "I know, it's a tough one," Commodore Guptill said. "But, face it, sir, you've got to say the words." "Signal: 'It's a trap,' " Admiral Clemons said, grimacing. "Include battle schematics." "That's more like 'It's a Trap!' sir," Guptill said in a gurgly voice. "Like a Horvath is saying it. Imagine you have a great big squid--" "I know," Clemons said. "D.. | John Ringo | ||
| d1b4bdc | Ibsen: "Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life." | Jon Lee Anderson | ||
| 447210a | I realize that something that was growing inside of me for some time ... has matured: and it is the hate of civilization, the absurd image of people moving like locos to the rhythm of that tremendous noise that seems to me like the hateful antithesis of peace. | Jon Lee Anderson | ||
| ece7b87 | that's the problem with paradise--nothing attracts a serpent quite like it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b1b2728 | At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount. | humor | Tahir Shah | |
| 56e2ece | Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity. | india life wisdom mumbay gossip | Tahir Shah | |
| cecdc1b | The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near .. | india travel delhi farakka-express ghosts | Tahir Shah | |
| 8262569 | The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail. | study-abroad | Tahir Shah | |
| 72695f0 | Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth. | endurance quest health | Tahir Shah | |
| 3f7d35c | Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. | expedition endurance hunger food | Tahir Shah | |
| 5139495 | Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead. | treasure success zigzag strategy | Tahir Shah | |
| d87f81f | In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense. | corpse mummy quest body | Tahir Shah | |
| 419343b | The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs. | football value | Tahir Shah | |
| c6d91b2 | As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes. | threat | Tahir Shah | |
| 03ccc76 | Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship. | explorers hardship | Tahir Shah | |
| 56f3e80 | I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains. | fear death machete threat | Tahir Shah | |
| b4a751e | In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life. | emotion death sadness threat | Tahir Shah | |
| 31428f4 | Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster. | expedition monster power | Tahir Shah | |
| 0559d70 | A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 1f736a5 | To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress. | humanity inspirational-quotes | Tahir Shah | |
| eb7f0d0 | In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell. | Tahir Shah | ||
| b0ad540 | In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 1d1b76d | The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten! | myth india travel america gondwana geography | Tahir Shah | |
| f3691ad | I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it. | india travel writing | Tahir Shah | |
| 271c79c | You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation, they pass it on. its the secret ingredient the foundationfor a salesman's success. lie well and you make a fortune every day. your wife purrs like a kitten, and your children ealk tall with pride. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 582abaf | Had his room been facing west he would have noted the sparkling twenty-five-mile vista to the sea which looks almost like the Mediterranean. He would have noted how the streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath. How laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These a.. | Steve Martin | ||
| 5c80cdb | At least Clarissa knows I'm benign. But that is not an adjective one wants to throw around about one's spouse: "This is my husband. He's benign." | Steve Martin | ||
| 8ce7c62 | I believe you, Tamara, I just don't believe it. | trust | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 87adf5f | In the deeper hours of the night I began to look at myself, to consider myself and my condition, to measure the life I'd led so far. I did not know what made me this way. I did not know of any other way I could be. I did not know what was inside me or how I could redeem what was hidden there. There must be a key or person or thing, or song or poem or belief, or old saw that could access it, but they all seemed so far away, and after I drift.. | Steve Martin | ||
| 2971353 | Mirabelle, who never takes credit for her attractiveness, believes it is not she he is responding to, but rather something independent of her. | Steve Martin | ||
| 3cf2a1b | The dawn breaks everything, including the mood from the night before. | Steve Martin | ||
| fea3e76 | I feel like I took a wrong turn but went so far down the road I didn't have the energy to turn back. Please, Martin, you must remember this. It's never too late to turn back if you make a wrong turn. Even if it takes you a decade to backtrack, you must do it. Don't get stuck because the road back seems too long or too dark. Don't be afraid to have nothing. | Steve Toltz | ||
| d0fdd69 | One day I was particularly gloomy, and Jim asked me what the matter was. I told him my high school girlfriend (for all of two weeks) had broken up with me. He said, "Oh, that'll happen a lot." The knowledge that this horrid grief was simply a part of life's routine cheered me up almost instantly." | Steve Martin | ||
| 2459001 | In a sense, this book is not an autobiography but a biography, because I am writing about someone I used to know. Yes, these events are true, yet sometimes they seemed to have happened to someone else, and I often felt like a curious onlooker or someone trying to remember a dream. I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an .. | Steve Martin |