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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1462eee | Bad government, like good government, is a spiritual thing. Even the tyrant never rules by force alone; but mostly by fairy tales. And so it is with the modern tyrant, | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 67dfc73 | Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 884a81f | We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e2b3988 | All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 4161bed | Many ask, "Shall we first acquire material success to fulfill our worldly obligations, and then seek God? Or should we have God first and then go after success?" By all means, God first. Never begin or end your day without communion with Him in deep meditation. We should remember that we could not perform any duties without the power borrowed from God. So it is to Him we owe our first allegiance. If you do your other duties but forget God, .. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 3e4f271 | Remember, people suffer only because they think things ought to be different from what they are. A | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| f1d3eb5 | Mas suave que la flor, cuando se trata de amabilidad; mas potente que el rayo, cuando los pricipios estan en juego. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| de0266d | Burnham and Root became rich men. Not Pullman rich, not rich enough to be counted among the first rank of society alongside Potter Palmer and Philip Armour, or to have their wives' gowns described in the city's newspapers, but rich beyond anything either man had expected, enough so that each year Burnham bought a barrel of fine Madeira and aged it by shipping it twice around the world on slow freighters. | Erik Larson | ||
| 178df71 | But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3b1574c | They were all looking at Mary, and she felt more than ever like the new pupil at a school where they had high expectations of her. She also felt a strange flattery: the idea of herself as swift and darting and birdlike was new and pleasant, because she had always thought of herself as dogged and plodding. But along with that came the feeling that they'd got it terribly wrong, if they saw her like that; they didn't understand at all; she cou.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3461434 | Hepimiz kadere tabiyiz, ama hepimiz sanki degilmisiz gibi hareket etmeliyiz." dedi Cadi. "Yoksa umutsuzluktan oluruz." | Philip Pullman | ||
| 079a37a | Death is going to die. | Philip Pullman | ||
| aa75f20 | In some lights they were hardly there at all, just visible as a drifting quality in the light, a rhythmic evanescence, like veils of transparency turning before a mirror. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 0a21de3 | You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3c46de4 | Princess, princess, youngest daughter, Open up and let me in! Or else your promise by the water Isn't worth a rusty pin. Keep your promise, royal daughter, Open up and let me in! | fairy-tales iron-heinrich philip-pullman rhyme the-frog-king | Philip Pullman | |
| 0b67d6f | John Stuart Mill, the British philosopher, said, "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better .. | William J. Bennett | ||
| c0d0500 | American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because they didn't want to win, | William J. Bennett | ||
| 223230f | Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I would not use you for my own ends; I am happy only in your own true happiness. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 4b503ba | Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 51f5b66 | The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| c3138aa | Art should be beautiful, not ugly. It should be uplifting and redemptive. Art reassures us that life is good and that, however bad things may look at the moment, everything works out for the best in the end. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| dbd31da | So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| c0dc68c | The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little puzzlement. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| fc8cb6b | It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 871c53f | Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought. | holidays merriment | Lauren Willig | |
| d62e556 | The use of charm as a tool made her hackles rise. She respected a more direct approach. A battering ram approach. At least one knew where one stood with the battering ram, none of this butter-wouldn't-melt nonsense that could mean yes, no, or maybe. | directness humor | Lauren Willig | |
| 8da532c | Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England | historical-fiction lauren-willig spy | Lauren Willig | |
| d3d4258 | If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs. | virtue | Lauren Willig | |
| b57c238 | The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 409f0cd | The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee! | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| decabbf | When Mildred went to bed her stomach hurt from laughter, her heart ached from happiness. Then she remembered that while Veda had kissed her, that first moment when she had entered the house, she still hadn't kissed Veda. She tiptoed into the room she had hoped Veda would occupy, knelt beside the bed as she had knelt so many times in Glendale, took the lovely creature in her arms and kissed her, hard, on the mouth. | James M. Cain | ||
| 32705bd | Then she got up, went to Monty's mirror, and began combing her hair, while little cadenzas absentmindedly cascaded out of her throat, and cold drops cascaded over Mildred's heart. For Veda was stark naked. From the massive, singer's torso, with the Dairy quaking in front, to the slim hips, to the lovely legs, there wasn't so much as a garter to hide a path of skin. | James M. Cain | ||
| 3605a97 | I told you this long ago, and it is still true. I am a man with but one heart to give, and it has been given to you. You must take great care with the knowledge of that. | Diane Haeger | ||
| e9accae | I love you," he said, as he parted her lips with his own and then kissed her. After a moment he added, "I love you with everything I have, and with all that I am." | Diane Haeger | ||
| 698fd86 | In some ways, programming is like painting. You start with a blank canvas and certain basic raw materials. You use a combination of science, art, and craft to determine what to do with them. You sketch out an overall shape, paint the underlying environment, then fill in the details. You constantly step back with a critical eye to view what you've done. Every now and then you'll throw a canvas away and start again. But artists will tell you .. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 0cebf20 | If you work closely with your users, sharing their expectations and communicating what you're doing, then there will be few surprises when the project gets delivered. This is a BAD THING. Try to surprise your users. Not scare them, mind you, but /delight/ them. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 17485bd | In an article in the April 1999 CACM, Robert Glass summarizes research that seems to indicate that, while code inspection is effective, conducting reviews in meetings is not. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 79acdca | There is a simple marketing trick that helps teams communicate as one: generate a brand. When you start a project, come up with a name for it, ideally something off-the-wall. (In the past, we've named projects after things such as killer parrots that prey on sheep, optical illusions, and mythical cities.) ...Use your team's name liberally when talking with people. It sounds silly, but it gives your team an identity to build on, and the worl.. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 566cbea | in the Bhagavad Gita. One stanza reads: "Offering the inhaling breath into the exhaling breath and offering the exhaling breath into the inhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both breaths; thus he releases prana from the heart and brings life force under his control."2 The interpretation is: "The yogi arrests decay in the body by securing an additional supply of prana (life force) through quieting the action of the lungs and heart; he also .. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 712fca7 | We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e1e3a12 | never go into the Council room without a plan. You have to give them a range of possibilities, but if they discuss them too much, they'll never make a decision. Steer them toward the right choice and don't let them derail the train. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 8443389 | Curran, please don't bite his head off." "Why?" "Because it's illegal. Technically you assaulted him first when you threw him across the lawn." "I didn't throw him very far." I rolled my eyes. "I could've thrown him straight up and let him land on the pavement." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3e7d062 | Lago nodded knowingly. "The thing with the Beast Lord didn't turn out, huh? That's okay, I heard that guy is a dick. You don't need that shit." Curran's" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1585561 | What happened?" "You fell." "Really? What did I fall into?" "My fist." | Ilona Andrews |