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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cd288b9 | Many religious people find it hard to imagine how, without religion, one can be good, or would even want to be good. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b26bb6e | The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living is, he will say . And indeed, has done a marvelous job of popularizing . But | charles-darwin darwin darwinian dawkins evolution gene genetics irony richard-dawkins science | Ernst Mayr | |
| 566f403 | It occurred to her, sadly, and not for the first time, that as you grew older you became busier, and time went faster and faster, the months pushing each other rudely out of the way, and the years slipping off the calendar and into the past. Once, there had been time. Time to stand, or sit, and just at daffodils. Or to abandon housekeeping, on the spur of the moment, walk out of the back door and up the hill, into the lark-song emptiness .. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 005031c | Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an experience to be savoured. Time did not last forever. I shall not waste a single moment, she promised herself. She had never felt so strong, so optimistic. As though she was young once more, starting out, and something marvellous was just about to happen. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 985a6df | Go and be happy. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| b8a6268 | You never really got to know people properly until you had seen them within the ambiance of their own home. Seen their furniture and their books and the manner of their lifestyle. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 67cad6c | Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| e1a5ad0 | For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| f04517c | Oscar and I are very close, and yet I know that part of him is still withdrawn, even from me. As though part of him was still in another place. Another country. Journeying, perhaps. Or in exile. Across the sea. And I can't be with him, because I haven't got the right sort of passport. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 6980d88 | have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful nor think to be beautiful. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| c50a2ef | Man's inhumanity to man, unleashed, was an obscenity, and that obscenity was each person's own private responsibility. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 2c7a3be | Relax, Klara, you can finish your one-woman book club as soon as somebody gets home. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| d7fb939 | I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything. Kids just have an easier time with words. | language language-learning language-understanding words | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 858e484 | Teachers always promise that students are in a "safe place," but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime." | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 351dc56 | So what? He's good to you and Hazel now, isn't he? Who cares if he's got history with some other broad? | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| de06b09 | I wanted to correct her, but if I'd learned one thing by that point in my education, it was that when anybody in these cruel worlds offers a helping hand... you shut your fucking mouth and grab it. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 4d10564 | Welcome to Abortion Town! | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 8e568d1 | Grown-Ups are usually guilty of something | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 49270e3 | Every relationship is an education. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 48ec1e1 | Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight | William W. Johnstone | ||
| 095b65e | He who spends all his time amassing wealth is a slave to it. | Chrétien de Troyes | ||
| 1d9c0e9 | When it hurts and destroys its follower, Love is worse than Hatred. | Chrétien de Troyes | ||
| cf9407d | If a man lives for the glory of God, he stops looking for affirmation from other human beings after every good deed, a pat on the head every time he does his duty. Instead, he throws himself into his role unselfishly. He contents himself with knowing he is fulfilling his purpose in this world and pleasing the God who made him. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| bdcec97 | The air of innocence remained, still begging corruption. | Shayla Black | ||
| 2a7993d | Kinley stepped up behind Law, peering out from behind his back. "Are you sorry you kidnapped me?" He had to be honest with her. "No. If I hadn't, you wouldn't be here. I'd be a lot sorrier about that. I think you would, too." She pursed her lips. "Are you sorry that your dog raped mine?" He wasn't about to take that. "No, your dog led mine into sin. He has a thing for bows. She used it against him." He caught the faintest hint of a smile fr.. | Shayla Black | ||
| 368f939 | You might have a hundred ways to fool yourself, but I don't bother with that shit. I know better. You're it for me, and what we just did in that bed together proved it. I'm smitten. Gone. And I can't stand that you don't trust me. | Shayla Black | ||
| 0262e8a | Take the pleasure I'm giving you as a vow, pet. If you leave me, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth. There won't be a place you hide where I can't find you. I will never stop looking. I will never give up. I will never let you go when I can save you. - Mitchell Thorpe | Shayla Black | ||
| c7f19d1 | The bonds didn't give so much as an inch. He must have been one h*ll of a boyscout. | Shayla Black | ||
| 30c9d3f | We all want you two have...someone loyal and kind in our corner. | L.A. Banks | ||
| 7130839 | She had found someone who matched her, a warrior and a shield. A man she could respect; one she could argue with and enjoy. She hadn't wanted to lose that. Hadn't wanted to be alone again. | perfect-match | Lora Leigh | |
| a65c649 | Hell, he'd (Nathan/Noah) been around Tehya and his uncle enough to know that Jordan was determined to fight whatever he was feeling for Tehya. He'd been feeling it for six damned years now or more, and still, Jordan didn't dare mention the L word. If he acknowledged it, then he might have to admit it actually existed. | Lora Leigh | ||
| ea723c0 | Don't wake up," he whispered as he felt her shudder against him once more. "Dream with me, Belle. Sweet Belle, just dream with me." -from Travis/Black Jack" | Lora Leigh | ||
| 6a56aef | I have no doubt you'll find it the highlight of your old and wasted life. | snarkiness | Lora Leigh | |
| 0a04a29 | Some couples--most couples--waited years and years before they developed the ability to read or to feel each other so well. Then there were those very few who touched each other so deeply, so perfectly that first time that the bond was almost immediate. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 3c5f151 | He gave to Paige that last part of himself. The part of a male that became more than a lover, more than a heart mate. He gave her that primitive, possessive core that most men hold back. He gave her his being and he felt the momemt she gave to him. And they became more than just one. | Lora Leigh | ||
| cee6447 | You can just enjoy your little perversions alone. God gave men a hand and five fingers for a reason, you know. | Lora Leigh | ||
| f8be5c9 | I love her," Kane suddenly remarked from the other side of the room. "God bless her heart. I love her." He was chuckling wickedly as he looked back at the Felines staring at him. "Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf." He looked at Sherra and growled." | Lora Leigh | ||
| a52ed3f | On undetached people who are full of self-will.4 People say: 'O Lord, I wish that I stood as well with God and that I had as much devotion and peace with God as other people, and that I could be like them or could be as poor as they are.' Or they say: 'It never works for me unless I am in this or that particular place and do this or that particular thing. I must go to somewhere remote or live in a hermitage or a monastery.' Truly, it is you.. | Meister Eckhart | ||
| a919e3e | in general, religiously observant people were offended by Jesus, but those estranged from religious and moral observance were intrigued and attracted to him. We see this throughout the New Testament accounts of Jesus's life. In every case where Jesus meets a religious person and a sexual outcast (as in Luke 7) or a religious person and a racial outcast (as in John 3-4) or a religious person and a political outcast (as in Luke 19), the outca.. | Timothy Keller | ||
| 42a73e3 | If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to rethink the new religion from first principles. As his philosophical enemy, the anti-Christian Porphyry, summed it up, he 'introduced Greek ideas to foreign fables' -- that is, gave a barbarous eastern religion the intellectual respectability of a philosophical defense. Origen was also a phenomenon. As Euse.. | writing | Paul Johnson | |
| 6f20f60 | A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22) | Joyce Meyer | ||
| f745a02 | Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. Hebrews 13:15 | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 5f27327 | This is the day God has made, and I am going to enjoy it. I can handle whatever comes my way today through Christ Who is my strength. Today, I am energetic and creative. I have favor with God and man everywhere I go. Everything I lay my hand to prospers and succeeds. I enjoy being a blessing to others. I am thankful for all that God has done for me. God is working on my problems, and I can wait patiently because His timing is perfect. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| ea0b47a | EXPECT TO RECEIVE! TO RECEIVE, EXPECT! And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His.. | Joyce Meyer |