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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 905f5c2 | If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each [person's] life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Rick Hanson | ||
| 767f798 | The spider's lesson is never to be greedy. It shows that objects of necessity can be objects of beauty and art as well. The spider teaches us that we can be too easily enraptured with ourselves. | Marlo Morgan | ||
| f0d1942 | We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with. | cheating-husbands owen-jones | Owen Jones | |
| 2bec0bf | The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society. | government politics society | Owen Jones | |
| 5ab620c | As well as a shared mentality, the Establishment is cemented by financial links and a 'revolving door' culture: that is, powerful individuals gliding between the political, corporate and media worlds - or who manage to inhabit these various worlds at the same time. The terms of political debate are in large part dictated by a media controlled by a small number of exceptionally rich owners, while think tanks and political parties are funded .. | politics the-establishment | Owen Jones | |
| b3c9227 | The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it. | corporate-greed oligarchy politics power the-establishment | Owen Jones | |
| 63c2641 | Get rid of all the cleaners, rubbish collectors, bus drivers, supermarket checkout staff and secretaries, for example, and society will very quickly grind to a halt. On the other hand, if we woke up one morning to find that all the highly paid advertising executives, management consultants and private equity directors had disappeared, society would go on much as it did before: in a lot of cases, probably quite a bit better. So, | Owen Jones | ||
| 04f407e | Chav-bashing draws on a long, ignoble tradition of class hatred. But it cannot be understood without looking at more recent events. Above all, it is the bastard child of a very British class war. | Owen Jones | ||
| 7ce86c5 | There is no morality in war', they said, 'but cannibals never killed more in one day that they could eat. In your wars, thousands are killed in a few minutes. Perhaps it might be worth suggesting to you leaders that both parties in your war agree to five minutes of combat. Then let all the parents come to the battlefield and collect the pieces and parts of their children, take them home and mourn and bury them. After that is over, another f.. | Marlo Morgan | ||
| 662aa8a | Can you ever really know a person? | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 4d51ec3 | Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost? | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 48d9835 | We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation,just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 7e5bc94 | Aslinda hepimiz yaraliyiz. Sadece bazilarimizin yarasi digerlerinden daha fazla belli, o kadar. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 13bffb1 | Bella,Jane'in gozlerinin icine bakti. "Adalet herkesin paylastigi bir sorumluluktur." | İris-fang jane-rizzoli tess-gerritsen | Tess Gerritsen | |
| 390bd33 | There's nothing as boring as perfection | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 127d630 | But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, merely one of those quirks of fate, like the child who survives a fall from a sixth-floor window, and is only scratched. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| a5288c6 | She met his gaze, and what she saw in his eyes scared her, because at that instant she saw both possibility and heartbreak. She was ready for neither. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 86f951f | Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting, | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 7444bae | If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 4d7afbe | From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown. | life | Tess Gerritsen | |
| 4cb09b8 | And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| f00bd32 | I go through a loop in which I notice all the ways I am - for just an example - self-centered and careerist and not true to standards and values that transcend my own petty interests, and feel like I'm not one of the good ones; but then I countenance the fact that here at least I am worrying about it; so then I feel better about myself (I mean, at least this stuff is on my mind, at least I'm dissatisfied with my level of integrity and commi.. | D.T. Max | ||
| 80aaeb7 | In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. | D.T. Max | ||
| e308580 | He [Wallace] sent a quick note to his friend [Franzen] explaining his behavior. "the bold fact is that I'm a little afraid of you right now,"[...] "all I can tell you is that I may have been that [a worthy opponent] for you a couple/ three years ago, and maybe 16 months or tow or 5 or 10 years hence, but right now I am a pathetic and very confused man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searing envious of you and Vollmann a.. | david-leavitt jonathan-franzen literary-genius mark-leyner suicide william-t-vollmann | D.T. Max | |
| 4483119 | Reason generates the list of possibilities. Emotion chooses from that list. | Dale Peterson | ||
| f618f8c | Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 44345bf | Joy is not the opposite of depression. It is deeper than depression. Therefore, you can experience both. Depression is the relentless rain. Joy is the rock. Whether depression is present or not, you can stand on joy. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 0044869 | Depression ... involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part ... to fill up the empty space. But for all intents and purposes, the deeply depressed are just the walking, waking dead. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| a23fb42 | There are more subtle ways we can contribute to depression too. For example, our misguided beliefs might lead us to think that we are beyond God's love or forgiveness. We could be carrying fears of death and judgment or fears of the future because we have believed myths about both God and ourselves. These mistaken beliefs can actually cause depression. At the very least they can get pulled into depression's gravitational field and end up as.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 1cc0302 | The reason Scripture doesn't give clear guidelines for assigning responsibility is that it is not essential for us to know precise causes. This is good news: you don't have to know the exact cause of suffering in order to find hope and comfort. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 4487b26 | Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 67488b3 | When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience. | obedience | Edward T. Welch | |
| a04557f | Suffering nags us with questions about God in a way that comfort never could. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| e1cabbf | Part of the depressive syndrome is that you are immensely loyal to your interpretation of yourself and your world. If God says you are forgiven in Christ, you create new rules that mandate contrition, penance, and self-loathing. If God says he loves you, you insist it is impossible. There it is: your system is higher than God's. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 501a492 | O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:1-3) These words might not speak on your behalf, but they can--they must. If you think they can't, that is not shame talking. It is hopel.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| c024805 | Love breaks the hold of individualism; it builds new communities out of the ashes of broken and fragmented relationships. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 7bf21d8 | Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God). | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 7a78d26 | Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. You feel exposed and humiliated. Or, to strengthen the language, You are disgraced because you acted less than human, you were treated as if you were less than human, or you were associated with something less than human, and there are witnesses. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 5654a81 | The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. | Dean R. Koontz | ||
| 6a7e3ee | It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend. | england king-arthur | Peter Ackroyd | |
| ca9b83e | He is a Londoner, too, in his writings. In his familiar letters he displays a rambling urban vivacity, a tendency to to veer off the point and to muddle his syntax. He had a brilliantly eclectic mind, picking up words and images while at the same time forging them in new and unexpected combinations. He conceived several ideas all at once, and sometimes forgot to separate them into their component parts. This was true of his lectures, too, i.. | language poetry turner | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 904b304 | So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 8286b39 | By the time of Athelstan the country was divided into shires, hundreds and vills or townships, precisely in order to expedite taxation. The shires of England were unique, their boundaries lasting for more than a thousand years until the administrative reorganization of 1974. The earliest of them date from the late seventh and early eighth centuries, but many of their borders lie further back in the shape of the Iron Age tribal kingdoms. So .. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| aff78f9 | I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without the recognition of death; we were too young to consider any such eventuality, and simply moved on with our lives into some indefinite but illimitable future. | Peter Ackroyd |