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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f19e4a | The art of war," I told him, "is to make the enemy do your bidding." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 045eef2 | Rumor has it your war is intended to protect the Covenant, but the King insists it was you who was going to break it. Rumor also has it you and your brother said you were going to war for the betterment of Remalna." "It's true, I assure you," I said. "I mean, about our going to war for the Covenant. The King intends to break it--we have proof of that. And we want to help the kingdom." "Perhaps it is true." The mother gave me a serious loo.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 8c00e33 | What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?' 'Life is a play, isn't it? | beauty flauvic life princess-elestra | Sherwood Smith | |
| 6ba4bde | What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?' 'That's not good, that's triumph, | flauvic princess-elestra triumph | Sherwood Smith | |
| 88b391a | I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 89c89f3 | Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one, | granny-risa princesses servants young-risa | Sherwood Smith | |
| bb25958 | I feel stupid when people say 'You? You are so brave,' because I don't feel brave, I don't even know what brave is. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 5aaf34a | I looked around for the tunic so I could leave the room; not for worlds would I go out dressed thus into the midst of a lot of staring Renselaeus warriors. The terrible thought froze me for a moment, but then I looked down at that fire and realized that if Galdran had beaten us, I'd hardly be in such comfortable surroundings again. More likely I'd have woken in some dungeon somewhere, with clanking chains attached to every limb. I held my .. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 0db4bb3 | He'd spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn't, sometimes. So you made a life as best you could. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 8607a1c | Loss of prestige? In what way?" I asked. He sat back, his eyes glinting with amusement. "First there was the matter of a--very--public announcement of a pending execution, following which the intended victim escapes. Then...didn't you stop to consider that the countryside folk who endured many long days of constant martial interference in the form of searches, curfews, and threats might have a few questions about the justice of said threats.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 0e2106a | Do not be afraid; only believe" (Mark 5:36)." | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 3121d31 | Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you; | Stormie Omartian | ||
| fa92da7 | My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. JOHN 15:12 Dear Jesus, help me to love others the way that You do. I know that You love them unconditionally, no matter how they act or what they have done. I find it hard to always do that. You have commanded us to love You and love others, but I find it far easier to love You than I do to love them. Other people fail me and You never do. Other people can be unloving and You never ar.. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 6684b1d | Our decision every day must be to live a righteous life--not in our own strength, but by the enablement of the Holy Spirit in us. We must acknowledge that we depend on God and choose to live our life for Him. Even though we are a new creation, we still must decide to live like we are. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| b935743 | Whatever God has called your husband to be or do, He has also called you to support it and be part of it, if in no other way than to pray, encourage, and help in whatever way possible. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| d5ca64d | I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. 2 KINGS 20:5 | Stormie Omartian | ||
| ba11ead | Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion. PROVERBS 11:22 Heavenly Father, I fear I haven't been representing the dignity that You've given me. You have called me to be a woman of noble character who is respected. You have instructed me to present myself with beautiful modesty and a wise spirit. Lord, forgive me for trading in Your admirable qualities for worldly trends. My culture has glamorized provoca.. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 34f77f6 | God's power is not cheap. Just like the electric power that comes into our homes, there is a price to pay for it. Only the price is not monetary. The price is spending time filling ourselves with God's Word so we can understand the power. It's praying so we can access the power. It's living in obedience so we can maximize the power. It's praising and worshiping God so that we open up the lines through which God's power flows into our lives. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 2edcf00 | Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God. | god life parenting power prayer | Stormie Omartian | |
| bcfe46e | Seeking God first will always put us in the correct position and aim us in the right direction to move into the future God has for us. | future-inspirational god inspirational uplifting | Stormie Omartian | |
| 5531e18 | Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give--not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement. | encouragement faith god guidance parenting parents-quotes parents-responsibility raising-children | Stormie Omartian | |
| 2039874 | Whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 1 JOHN 2:5-6 | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 02f6692 | We try to teach our students how to think... how to use their brains and imagination. Individual subjects can always be learned by a man who knows how to learn. We teach them to think, and the other subjects arise by themselves... | Ben Bova | ||
| 954aa8e | Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 26af19d | With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess. | chimneys chip-pans cigarettes fire | Adrian McKinty | |
| cb0a575 | The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| d7e4ea5 | Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, "That bullshit only works on intelligent people." | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| e231764 | Flotsam said, "He thinks I shouldn't do surfboard self-defense on four squids that flip us off and stole my juices when I was rippin'. They thought it was cooleo till one of them caught my log upside his head when I snaked him on the next wave." "What?" Ronnie said. "All I said was," Jetsam said to Flotsam, "You should cap the little surf Nazi if you wanna turn him into part of the food chain, not torpedo him till he's almost dead in the fo.. | Joseph Wambaugh | ||
| 4273e36 | Anyone who sees clearly sees chaos everywhere. Art is a way of temporarily setting order to confusion. Temporary and incomplete; that's why we never run out of new art. Anyone who comes to the tools of art without that sense of confusion is an invader. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 7fa974e | In the few moments I lay awake after finally lying down, the thought came to me that the next time I closed my eyes could well be the last. And partly because of the drug hangover, mostly because of the past day's horrors, I found that I really didn't give a shit. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 412c881 | I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch | feminism old-fashioned | Joe Haldeman | |
| 96f01ee | Most of us didn't feel too enthusiastic about making a collapsar jump, either. We'd been assured that we wouldn't even feel it happen, just free fall all the way. I wasn't convinced. As a physics student, I'd had the usual courses in general relativity and theories of gravitation. We only had a little direct data at that time -- Stargate was discovered when I was in grade school -- but the mathematical model seemed clear enough. The collaps.. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 2e503c6 | We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we're the last to know. There | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 171c457 | Plans are just dreams until they're executed. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| fec6f2d | My father's gone," Joe said eventually. "Emma's dead. Your brother's dead. My brothers scattered. Shit, D, you're one of the only people I know anymore. I lose you, who the fuck am I?" | Dennis Lehane | ||
| eda4937 | Things weren't ever what they were supposed to be; they were what they were, and that was the simple truth of it, a truth that didn't change just because you wanted it to. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6d3afcf | The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ff1c73f | So, about the only difference I see between a thief and a banker most times is a college degree. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1142616 | I once again felt an odd flush of admiration for my partner's faith in a religion I had long ago abandoned. She doesn't advertise it or announce it at every turn, and she has nothing but scorn for the patriarchal hierarchy that runs the church, but she nevertheless holds firm to a belief in the religion and ritual with a quiet intensity that can't be shaken. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e376bb3 | It never works that way. Once that ugliness has been forced into you, it becomes part of your blood, dilutes it, races through your heart and back out again, staining everything as it goes. The ugliness never goes away, never comes out, no matter what you do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. All you can do is hope to control it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 846100b | I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f16bb60 | At that moment, Dave would have lifted a house for Jimmy, held it up to his chest until Jimmy told him where to put it down. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| be4c1dc | When a child disappears, the space she'd occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And these people--relatives, friends, police officers, reporters from both TV and print--create a lot of energy and noise, a sense of communal intensity, of fierce and shared dedication to a task. "But amid all that noise, nothing is louder than the silence of the missing child. It's a silence that's two and a half to three feet tall, and you fee.. | child-abuse crime kidnap noir | Dennis Lehane | |
| 5c859f9 | Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance and lies were often underrated. Most people Brendan knew couldn't make it through the day without a saucerful of ignorance and a side of lies. | lies truth | Dennis Lehane |