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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6cf21ab | Cattle die, kinsmen die, one dies oneself in the same way, but a reputation never dies for the one who acquires a good one. | John Lindow | ||
| b3b8045 | I am not fair save to the King, Though fair my royal dress, His kingly grace is lavished on My need and worthlessness. My blemishes he will not see But loves the beauty that shall be. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| e3834ed | That's how things are supposed to work. If you are privileged enough to have a job as a lawmaker, part of your job is to make laws. And if you don't like the way a law is working, your job is to help make it work better. But | Al Franken | ||
| ac07cce | The Democratic Senator's Serenity Prayer God Grant Me the Serenity to Accept the Things I Cannot Legislate The Courage to Legislate the Things I Can The Wisdom to Know the Difference And the Patience to Explain That Difference to My Donors | Al Franken | ||
| 56f5c19 | Former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank once said, "I only voted once for someone who believes in 100 percent of what I believe. And that's when I voted for myself--the first time." | Al Franken | ||
| 6854b6b | I watched Harry closely as he read the joke and then... burst out laughing. In fact, he started shaking with laughter. It was a surreal moment, sitting nervously with my consultants, watching Harry Reid convulse in hysterics over the idea of Anne Frank playing drums in the attic. Finally, he turned to me. I just shrugged. | Al Franken | ||
| c33222a | You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen. | fame god joy love mansion mariah-carey money peace popularity success unhappy worldly | Lisa Bedrick | |
| a4c8832 | Pop stars AREN'T cool. Cheating on your husband or your wife isn't cool. Having no modesty with your body and no self-respect is NOT cool. It doesn't matter how pretty someone's voice is, or if they SAY they are Christian, God calls us to modesty and faithfulness, so we need to be careful to not idolize anyone that goes way off of what God wants. | church faithfulness god holiness-of-god honesty jesus mariah-carey marriage modesty pop-stars respect | Lisa Bedrick | |
| ed309d9 | The world began in chaos and it will end in chaos. The gods brought the world into existence, and they will end it when they fight among themselves, but in between the chaos of the world's birth and the chaos of the world's death is order, and order is made by oaths, and oaths bind us like the buckles of a harness. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d9a24a6 | I suppose every government that has ever gone to war has tried to convince its people of three things: (1) that right is on its side; (2) that it is fighting purely in defence of the nation; (3) that it is sure to win. | William L. Shirer | ||
| c2f7b77 | Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious." | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 45de2e0 | Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness and drudgery of their lives at Mrs. Monday's and transported them to palaces in India, canals in Holland, pioneer stockades during the Indian wars, cattle ranches in the West, mountains in Switzerland, pagodas in China, igloos in Alaska,.. | libraries storytelling | Betty MacDonald | |
| 4ca1c67 | We thought about Thanksgiving, planned for Thanksgiving and talked of Thanksgiving for weeks beforehand, but the evening before the actual day was the best time of all. Then the house seethed with children and dogs, with friends and cooks, and with delightful smells of baking pie, turkey stuffing and coffee. Every time the doorbell rang we put on another pot of coffee and washed the cups and by the time we went to bed we were so nervous and.. | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 78ae0e4 | It's a metaphor for life. If sports don't matter, then life doesn't matter. | Emily Giffin | ||
| fd6c2ad | It didn't matter that we weren't much alike on paper. That I thought the best of people, and she often assumed the worst. That I was an introvert, and she could work a room like nobody I'd ever seen but her mother. That I was even-tempered, and she was moody and dramatic. That I was no frills, and she was all frills. That I loved football, and she simply tolerated it. The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them matter.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 62298b5 | I think of how emotions seem so magnified when you're a child. Joy is more all-encompassing, disappointments more crushing, hope more palpable. | Emily Giffin | ||
| ec22505 | I think my sister Daphne's obsession with having children has a lot to do with wanting to erase the pain my mother caused. On one level, Daphne's approach makes more sense. Yet the thought of a redo is not only unappealing, but terrifying. I don't want that kind of power over anyone. I don't want to be something that someone has to overcome. After all, I think everyone would agree that it's far worse to be a fucked-up mother than it is to h.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1cff8a6 | They both continue to stare at each other, expressionless, motionless, in the weirdest standoff I've ever seen almost as if they're calling the other's bluff. It is the way you'd look at a perfect stranger, although if they were actually strangers someone would break down and exchange a pleasantry after such prolonged eye contact. I start to wonder if maybe I shouldn't reintroduce my own parents. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b449d72 | I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were." | adoptionon | Emily Giffin | |
| 89fb642 | Of course she knows that I will not join her. I have never danced on a bar. I wouldn't know what to do up there besides fall. | Emily Giffin | ||
| e01629b | But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 4e891ff | Their collective advice: don't settle. Keep looking. Find Mr. Right. That is what they all did. And by God, I think they believe it. Because nobody who marries at the ripe age of twenty-three can be settling. Naturally. That is a phenomenon that only happens to women in their thirties. | women | Emily Giffin | |
| 05eafc0 | Everyone has issues. And at the end of the day...you are who you are. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 5fcbf0c | In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear. | William Blake | ||
| 9a514f1 | Well, it is not a good world -- nobody can say that it is, save those who wilfully blind themselves to facts. How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? The wonder is not that it is so bad, but that there should be any good left in it. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 3ffa36f | Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 9585a5a | For Woman, in her weakness, is yet the strongest force upon the earth. She is the helm of all things human; she comes in many shapes and knocks at many doors; she is quick and patient, and her passion is not ungovernable like that of man, but as a gentle steed that she can guide e'en where she will, and as occasion offers can now bit up and now give rein. She has a captain's eye, and stout must be that fortress of the heart in which she fin.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 6e5918b | Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| f4ddf50 | I have noted that those who desire to do the most good often work the greatest harm. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 1d714ce | Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one." | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 30809e2 | It was a wonderful thing to think for how many thousands of years the dead orb above and the dead city below had gazed thus upon each other, and in the utter solitude of space poured forth each to each the tale of their lost life and long-departed glory. The white light fell, and minute by minute the quiet shadows crept across the grass-grown courts like the spirits of old priests haunting the habitations of their worship--the white light f.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 76e294e | When will man learn what was taught to him of old, that faith is the only plank wherewith he can float upon this sea and that his miserable works avail him nothing. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 5b757f6 | Los Sexos nacidos del Orgullo y la Verguenza florecieron en la manana y en la noche murieron; | poesía | William Blake | |
| 0587128 | All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics. | poetry romantics william-blake | William Blake | |
| f116e4c | She pushed the button and like a miracle her head filled with the sound of Jerry Trupiano's voice... and more importantly, with the sounds of Fenway Park. She was sitting out here in the darkening, drippy woods, lost and alone, but she could hear thirty thousand people. It was a miracle. | fenway-park jerry-trupiano red-sox | Stephen King | |
| c1ea5f1 | The old King is dead. The new King approaches! And at his approach the world sheds its sorrow. The sings of the old King dissolve like morning mist! The world assumes the character of the new. His virtues fill up the wood and world! | Susanna Clarke | ||
| f6e99c5 | Funny, because the way I see it, the more friends I have, the better I'm doing at life." "Ah," Victor said, "but friends can be bought. Enemies are always earned." | Tom Wood | ||
| ad3f9b6 | Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches. | Javier Cercas | ||
| a90c992 | I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium. | spanish-civil-war stockton | Javier Cercas | |
| 52a3283 | If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 6a0b773 | Nobody remembers them, you know ? Nobody. Nobody remebers why they died, why they didnt have a wife and children and a sun lit room either, nobody, least of all people for whom they fought. There is no and there never will be some pathetic street in one pathetic village of a shitty country that is named after any of them." Miralles stopped talking, he took out his handkerchief, wiped the tears, blew his nose, he did so without shame, as if.. | legion-etrangere veterans | Javier Cercas | |
| ada0bcd | Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said: 'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 7b8b16f | En aquel momento tuve por vez primera la intuicion falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya acontecido es irreversible. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 2098b9e | The avenue was designed by Reichsminister Albert Speer and completed in 1957. It is one hundred and twenty-three meters wide and five-point-six kilometers in length. It is both wider, and two and a half times longer, than the Chaps Elysees in Paris. Higher, longer, bigger, wider, more expensive...even in victory, thought March, Germany has a parvenu's inferiority complex. Nothing stands on its own. Everything has to be compared with what th.. | Robert Harris |