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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6d1273 | Yea" might be turned into "Nay" and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied to the matter. The second was that in any argument, the victor is always right, and the third that though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment. - Roger Fenwick, Duke of Grand Fenwick" | government politics satire | Leonard Wibberley | |
| 87a5644 | it's easier finding a virgin in a whorehouse than an honest politician. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 0f0ba96 | Gentlemen," he said, "I am a simple soldier. When I was a cadet at Norwich, I was told, and I believed, and my subsequent career has proven true, that the essence of command is to make sure the troops have confidence in what they are doing. Troops must have faith in their officers Officers build and maintain that faith in a very simple manner: They never lie to their troops; they never ask them to do something they cannot do themselves, or .. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 36e2a8e | They walk between raindrops. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 3c62602 | Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away! | Robert Fulghum | ||
| de55651 | And snow--snow is not my enemy, I tell him. Snow is God's way of telling people to slow down and rest and stay in bed for a day. And besides, snow always solves itself. Mixes with the leaves to form more earth, I tell him. Think compost, says I. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| b624af9 | Imagination is more important than information." Einstein said that, and he should know." | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 226d104 | You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind of blues is for them that's had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won't come back no more. Ain't no sufferin' in this world worse than that; and that's the blue we call 'I Had It But It's All Gone Now. | depths-of-despair despair loss music music-lyrics r-and-b sadness | Ken Grimwood | |
| 9de17a6 | The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 919c39d | Too late, too late, your love gave me life. Here am I the creature you made through your loving; by your passion you created the thing that I am. Who are you to deny me the right to love? But for you I need never have known existence. | lgbt lgbtq love mother | Radclyffe Hall | |
| 4e5c3e6 | Then Stephen must tell her the cruel truth, she must say: 'I am one of those whom God marked on the forehead. Like Cain, I am marked and blemished. If you come to me, Mary, the world will abhor you, will persecute you, will call you unclean. Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond -- yet the world will call it unclean. We may harm no living creature by our love; we may grow more perfect in understanding and in charity because of.. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 5d134f0 | Prostitution, perversion, and pornography are intertwined with independence and radical politics in the history of outstanding women. Radclyffe Hall, Colette, Anais Nin, Kate Millett, Erica Jong--all of these women used the money they made from writing about sexuality to make it possible for them to live as rebels, dykes, feminists, artists, or whatever deviant and defiant identities they assumed. | pornography sex | Pat Califia | |
| 6c94b51 | To her it seemed an inevitable thing as much a part of herself as her breathing; and yet it appeared transcendent of self, and she looked up and onwards towards her love--for the eyes of the young are drawn to the stars and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound." p146" | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 1700a8e | But her eyes would look cold, though her voice might be gentle, and her hand when it fondled would be tentative, unwilling. The hand would be making an effort to fondle, and Stephen would be conscious of that effort. Then looking up at the calm, lovely face, Stephen would be filled with a sudden contrition, with a sudden deep sense of her own shortcomings; she would long to blurt all this out to her mother, yet would stand there tongue-tied.. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 3d41af0 | We do not just belong to this universe, we are it. | universe | Greg Iles | |
| 6323501 | that right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all. | Greg Iles | ||
| 5357b7a | You can't build happiness on someone else's pain. | happiness | Greg Iles | |
| be4b3f6 | I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it. | Greg Iles | ||
| 20abd34 | When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appellation: the Turning Angel. | Greg Iles | ||
| 8850b35 | The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. | Greg Iles | ||
| 128b73d | God is all powerful. God is good. Evil exists. You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three. | Greg Iles | ||
| df2cc2a | Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We're still in the cave. It's just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . . | Greg Iles | ||
| 2cf2814 | Son of a bitch! You're Steve Allen! | Steve Allen | ||
| 925f225 | When my mother passed away several years ago--well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn't 'pass away.' She died. Something about that verb, 'to pass away' always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died. | death euphemism humor | Steve Allen | |
| b16e107 | Karen Hansen Clement sank deep in melancholy. She heard till she could hear no more. She saw until she could see no more. She was exhausted and confused, and the will to go on was being drained from her blood. Then, as so often happens when one reaches the end of the line, there was a turning upward and she emerged into the light. It | Leon Uris | ||
| ae1733c | They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee. | Leon Uris | ||
| c25e52e | The Yishuv covered itself with glory. Just as in World War I the British glorified the Arab revolt--so they tried to hide the efforts of the Yishuv in World War II. No country gave with so much vitality to the war. But the British Government did not want the Jews to use this as a bargaining point for their homeland aspirations later on. Whitehall and Chatham House kept the Yishuv's war effort one of the best secrets of the war. | Leon Uris | ||
| c637e67 | THE MOMENT OF DECISION is the loneliest in human life. It must be come upon in stillness and darkness and brooding thoughts and doubts torn out from the deep reaches of the soul. | Leon Uris | ||
| 0c9b30d | France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification. | Leon Uris | ||
| 7e35845 | Sin? What is sin inside the dynamic of family relationships? It is a mystery that began with man. No one can solve it except through his own unique experience. How you feel is human. But do not think it will leave you alone. We are never free of our blood. | Leon Uris | ||
| 9991d19 | All the various time travel devices used by Verne and Bert were stored in the repository, Poe explained, including the ones that had never quite worked as they were meant to. There was one that resembled a blue police box from London--"Stolen by a doctor with delusions of grandeur," said Poe--one that was simply a large, transparent sphere--"Created by a scientist with green skin and too much ego," said Verne--and one that was rather ordina.. | James A. Owen | ||
| cef1962 | And most of all I will love myself. For when I do I will zealously inspect all things which enter my body, my mind, my soul, and my heart. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation. Never will I allow my mind to be attracted to evil and despair, rather I will uplift it with the knowledge and wisdom of the ages. Never will I allow my soul to become complacent and satisfie.. | Og Mandino | ||
| d4fba48 | Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of lack of ability or lack of ambition.I am not deficient in either of these qualities! | dream encouragement-and-attitude poverty | Og Mandino | |
| 54e5816 | competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny ... | Og Mandino | ||
| c1b2fde | Berani tanpa disertai kesabaran akan membunuh anda. | Og Mandino | ||
| c7c4253 | my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity. | Og Mandino | ||
| 30b4074 | son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be | Og Mandino | ||
| 1a9dda1 | So many of us think ourselves into smallness, into inferiority, by thinking downward. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough.... Struck down by our own caution, our own lack of faith in ourselves and our abilities. Opportunities? There were many. But always there was risk. Do we dare? We vacillate. Time hurries by. Opportunity gone. We anguish. The years roll on. Finally, we convince ourse.. | Og Mandino | ||
| 19a682e | Instead of worrying, we need to be seeking His kingdom and His righteousness. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 094da15 | With small companies, my investment strategy is to be out of the stock in a year. My real estate strategy, on the other hand, is to start small and keep trading the properties up for bigger properties and, therefore, delaying paying taxes on the gain. This allows the value to increase dramatically. I generally hold real estate less than seven years. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 8d24e14 | Hi,Grandpa." He reddened at that and struggled with the pleasure the title gave him. "So you decided to give me a moment of your time." "I felt duty bound to pay my respects to the newest MacGregor first." As if on cue,Justin strode over to arrange Mac in the crook of Daniel's arm. Gennie watched the fierce giant turn into a marshmellow. "There's a laddie," he crooned, holding out his glass to Shelby,then chucking the baby under the chin. W.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 9a76c99 | War is a simple matter compared with revolution. War is an applied science, with well-defined principles tested in history; analogous solutions may be found from ballista to H-bomb. But every revolution is a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individualists. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 06aa8a2 | Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together. | beauty god grok groking unity | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 34db290 | a friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price. | Robert A. Heinlein |