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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5f34f7 | Passengers were crushed by descending boats. Swimmers were struck by chairs, boxes, potted plants, and other debris falling from the decks high above. And then there were those most ill-starred of passengers, who had put on their life preservers incorrectly and found themselves floating with their heads submerged, legs up, as in some devil's comedy. | Erik Larson | ||
| 28c810c | Between the lights and the ever-present blue ghosts of the Columbian Guard, the fair achieved another milestone: For the first time Chicagoans could stroll at night in perfect safety. This alone began to draw an increased number of visitors, especially young couples locked in the rictus of Victorian courtship and needful of quiet dark places. | Erik Larson | ||
| bc8fd5f | why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world? | Erik Larson | ||
| 4cc4543 | To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. "I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years." | Erik Larson | ||
| 6079f79 | But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents. | Erik Larson | ||
| 903f019 | If I told you, you wouldn't know what I was talking about. | Erik Larson | ||
| 4ff6058 | The fair awakened America to beauty and as such was a necessary passage that laid the foundation for men like Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. | Erik Larson | ||
| 04526b8 | At one point during the Holmes investigation Chicago's chief of police told a reporter he'd just as soon have a squad of reporters under his command as detectives. | Erik Larson | ||
| 10b9782 | One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed. | Erik Larson | ||
| bdf018c | She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, "Madam, do you think that would be a lady?" | Erik Larson | ||
| 2212c0f | a new phrase was making the rounds in Berlin, to be deployed upon encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street, ideally with a sardonic lift of one eyebrow: "Lebst du noch?" Which meant, "Are you still among the living?" | Erik Larson | ||
| 124f2d3 | In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to "a human being with his skin removed." | Erik Larson | ||
| ec21083 | I've eliminated everything else. This is what's left. And when you've eliminated everything else, what's left should be true. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 04b4918 | they found it easier to reject what they could not have than to admit the lack of it as a deficiency in themselves. | Richard Hofstadter | ||
| ed2d52a | Any historian of warfare knows that it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, we can see how many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination: treason in high places can be found at almost every turning -- and in the end the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarshi.. | Richard Hofstadter | ||
| cf1aebf | The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to have played an important part in breaking the mold in which America was cast and in consequence he gets more than his share of the blame. | intellectualism intellectuals | Richard Hofstadter | |
| 25f88e6 | However, in a populistic culture like ours, which seems to lack a responsible elite with political and moral autonomy, and in which it is possible to exploit the wildest currents of public sentiment for private purposes, it is at least conceivable that a highly organized, vocal, active, and well-financed minority could create a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible. | Richard Hofstadter | ||
| f2cfcb0 | She taught me that I deserved her. And in return, I took her away from the man who didn't. | Elizabeth Finn | ||
| a62a7cd | and left no doubt that Cecilia had done violence to herself. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b81b4ce | It gave me a feeling of temporary acceptance into that elite community, to stroll across the quad at his side. It also gave me my first faint quiver of sexual belonging, the elusive feeling that if I slipped my hand into his as we walked along, a door would fall open somewhere in the long wall of reality as I knew it, never to be closed again. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 7eb0bac | For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you've seen that truth--really seen it--you can't look away. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 89d6500 | I lay awake for hours in my twin bed next to the other, empty bed, feeling and hearing the spruces, the hemlocks, the rhododendron scraping at the partly open window, the verdant mountain out there in the night, the burgeoning of nature that did not seem to include me. And when, my restless body asked my teeming brain, had I agreed to be excluded? | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 1979fc8 | That is the beauty of the solid Marxist education you did not have the privilege of receiving. Believe me, you can find labor issues in any topic if you look hard enough. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 99c278e | In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as I have by me at the moment. (a) Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy of a system which cannot be converted into work by even a perfect heat engine.--Clausius. (b) Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which can be converted into work by a perfect engine.--Maxwell, following Tait. (c) Entro.. | definition entropy james-clerk-maxwell james-maxwell maxwell peter-guthrie-tait peter-tait robinson rudolf-clausius rudolf-julius-emanuel-clausius science tait | Sydney Herbert Evershed | |
| 22d52c1 | Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| de65879 | Martinis in a can, Callie. We live in an age of wonders. | wonders | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| cb05d95 | I crossed the line." "The line shifts." Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. "If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?" | J.D. Robb | ||
| 5a1df9a | Why do people live in places like this? There's nothing here. You see all that sky?" she asked Roarke. "You shouldn't be able to see that much sky from down here. It can't be good for you." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 1596306 | He wore command as he wore his suit--a good fit with clean lines. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 46d2c6a | I read this article about how what you wear under your clothes is all about what makes you feel empowered and in control. It's the Under You. | J.D. Robb | ||
| fd8b1b0 | Is there any exceptionally beautiful woman you haven't slept with?" "I'll make you a list. So, you knocked her down." | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 837d1d2 | I've never understood the appeal of anything referred to as 'hash. | J.D. Robb | ||
| a53b703 | The surface can hide a great deal of turmoil. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 49c47cc | You've got a point. But I like it better when the bad guys are just the bad guys." "There's always plenty of them to go around." | J.D. Robb | ||
| efc073a | What the fuck was that? Is it like that vid, with the people and the pods and the dupes?" "Oh, that's a scary one. It's sort of like that. He's in love." "What with?" "Who," Peabody said with a laugh. "Apparently he met somebody a few weeks ago, and he's in love. He's happy." "He's fucking creepy, that's what he is. I think I like him better when he's a dick. He kept smiling." "Happy makes you smile." "It's unnatural." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 765bd03 | There were times during the weeks and weeks - months really - of planning, of selecting, of working out all the tiny details, I felt impatient, even annoyed with myself. There were times I doubted, times I nearly lost my courage and my focus. It's too easy to become discouraged when no one values your skills and your efforts. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 39ab55f | Cakes of rice are not a snack. I suspect them of evil deeds for this alone. | J.D. Robb | ||
| f9adbab | Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 77265b1 | You can't make this shit up. | J.D. Robb | ||
| cf34947 | There was Ireland in his voice, dreamy wisps of it that could, unexpectedly, wind around her heart. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 591792c | You have shoes to match." "I do?" "You do, yes, and go with diamonds. Leave the color to the dress." "Which diamonds? Do you know how many you give me? Why do you do that?" The aggrieved sound of her voice amused him nearly as much as giving her diamonds. "It's a sickness. I'll get them for you once you're dressed." She said nothing, and stood where she was as he selected a dark suit from his forest of suits, a slate-colored shirt, and a st.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 60dc79f | Speaking of chocolate, what kind of cake are we having for the shower?" "I don't know." Sincerely shocked, Peabody jerked around in her seat. "You didn't get cake?" "I don't know. Probably." Because the idea of the shower, what she had to do, hadn't done, should do, made her stomach jitter, Eve squirmed. "Look, I called the caterer, okay? I did it myself. I didn't dump it on Roarke, I didn't ask--God forbid--Summerset to handle it." "Well, .. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 27cfe24 | To have birthed and bred her, beaten and raped her all for selling her to other scum. What god made such creatures as that and set them to prey on innocents? | J.D. Robb | ||
| acc100e | Chip Robbins, how many times have I told you not to yell out for me unless you're being stabbed with a pitchfork? | J.D. Robb |