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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c47bdc3 | listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or.. | butterflies hidden-beauty voice | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| 4b31161 | How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| e244b1c | Steadfast as the points of the compass to Mrs. Arbuthnot were the great four facts of life: God, Husband, Home, Duty. She had gone to sleep on these facts years ago, after a period of much misery, her head resting on them as on a pillow; and she had a great dread of being awakened out of so simple and untroublesome a condition. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 45cf2b8 | In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they had to be mentioned, were approached with caution; and a decent reserve prevented them and husbands ever being spoken of in the same breath. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| c6a8463 | To me this out-of-the way corner was always a wonderful and a mysterious place, where my castles in the air stood close together in radiant rows, and where the strangest and most splendid adventures befell me; for the hours I passed in it and the people I met in it were all enchanted. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 797a10f | They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 2c5c5cd | This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 223d0cb | So she ignored Mrs. Arbuthnot's remark and raised forefinger, and said with marked coldness--at least, she tried to make it sound marked-- that she supposed they would be going to breakfast, and that she had had hers; but it was her fate that however coldly she sent forth her words they came out sounding quite warm and agreeable. That was because she had a sympathetic and delightful voice, due entirely to some special formation of her throa.. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| dd9e54e | I shall give you lovely food; and Papa says that lovely food is the one thing that ever really makes a man give himself the trouble to rise up and call his wife blessed. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 80aabcf | A great need of something to lean on, and a great weariness of independence and responsibility took possession of my soul; and looking round for support and comfort in that transitory mood, the emptiness of the present and the blankness of the future sent me back to the past with all its ghosts. | support tiredness vulnerability | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| e79f590 | the place I was bound for on my latest pilgrimage was filled with living, first-hand memories of all the enchanted years that lie between two and eighteen. How enchanted those years are is made more and more clear to me the older I grow. There has been nothing in the least like them since; and though I have forgotten most of what happened six months ago, every incident, almost every day of those wonderful long years is perfectly distinct in.. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 3533690 | if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 7c88f60 | But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of the energetic and organising variety, but rather of that order which makes their owner almost lamentably prone to take up a volume of poetry and wander out to where the kingcups grow, and, sitting on a willow trunk beside a little stream, forget the very existence of everything but green pastures and still waters, and the glad blo.. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 038b517 | He had forgotten the golden rule of cold, which the DS had told us over and over: 'Don't let yourself get cold. Act early, while you still have your senses and mobility. Add a layer, make shelter, get moving faster - whatever your solution is, just do it. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 2295430 | Winston Churchill (him again!) once said words to the effect that everyone gets the chance to make their fortune once, but not everybody takes it. | Bear Grylls | ||
| f83cbaf | The DS had told us the parameters - run, you pass; walk, you fail. | Bear Grylls | ||
| ce5cc3f | Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains. | culture drugs fear minorities teen-moms | Barry Glassner | |
| 0a79a17 | He confirmado que no existe diferencia entre todos los demas y yo! Basta con un mal dia para que el hombre mas cuerdo del mundo enloquezca. A esa distancia esta el mundo de mi. A un mal dia. | locura | Alan Moore | |
| 0beb016 | But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. | Alan Moore | ||
| 62337f6 | Professor Einstein says that time differs from place to place. Can you imagine? If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers, hein? | Alan Moore | ||
| 36dd775 | KAPELA: Just look above you. Do you see? That is called the immense board of lights. And there is the Great Black and, strewn across it, small and surrounded and vulnerable and brave, there is the Great White. COMMUTER: Oh. Oh, yeah. Of course. Hah. You know, that's perfect. That's really perfect. And the Great White... I mean, there's so much more black. A-are we losing? KAPELA: No. Once there was only black. We are winning. | Alan Moore | ||
| 1478a8d | The child had woken before she could ask whether this meant that pigeons were all human ghosts, forms that dead people had gone into and become, or whether they somehow existed simultaneously in Heaven, where dead people go, and up amongst the rafters of the derelict barn in the neighbour's yard at the same time. | Alan Moore | ||
| 113129d | Nite-Owl: Look, I just meant we took enough unnecessary risks retrieving your outfit this morning... Rorschach: Unnecessary? Cowering down here in sludge and pollution, conjuring names on screens, learning nothing: that is unnecessary. Give me smallest finger on man's hand. I'll produce information. Computer unnecessary. This face, all that's necessary... all I need. | Alan Moore | ||
| 69b3ffa | Existen personas. Existen historias. Las personas creen modelar las historias, pero lo contrario suele acercarse mas a la verdad. Las historias modelan el mundo. Existen independientemente de las gentes. En lugares donde no hay hombres, tambien hay mitologias. Los glaciares tienen sus leyendas. El oceano canta sus propios romances. | Alan Moore | ||
| 42a87a1 | Rome sees some bloke from the London School of Economics on the telly while he's flicking through the channels. This chap makes the point that governments don't actually do anything for us. The only thing that makes them boss is that they control all the currency. Historically, anyone proposing an alternative to cash is brutally suppressed, but then historically they haven't got the Internet, which makes such things much easier to set up; m.. | Alan Moore | ||
| 23e71e2 | Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand. | Alan Moore | ||
| 2d0ab66 | There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there. | Alan Moore | ||
| abbc149 | Perhaps the entire over-engineered concept of endless rebirth only recapitulates the much smaller, simpler idea that nothing material is destroyed - we already know that the matter of our bodies is reincarnated endlessly in both organic and inorganic form. We have continuity with everything that our bodies will ever be or have already been, shit and stars alike. How | Alan Moore | ||
| 9449f96 | tkhyh khrdn bh khthryty khh skhwt khrdn fydh y chndny ndrh; chwn skhwt khyly shkhnndh st b yh Sdy blnd z byn myrh | Alan Moore | ||
| 2e4254d | yn khshwr njt pyd nkhrdh.. chnyn fkhry nkhn... wly tmm `tqdt khhnh sh bh wyrny khshydh shdn w rwy wyrnh st khh mytwnym chyz jdydy bszym | Alan Moore | ||
| 4410667 | Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done... | meaning-of-life | Alan Moore | |
| c23260d | It doesn't matter how "successful" each of us is in life. We're all doomed to die. Why can't anyone else see that?" | success | Alan Moore | |
| 720bbac | Come...dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. | Alan Moore | ||
| 3ee8afb | As I see it,part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore,realizing that the game has changed and that the stakes are different and that there isn't necessarily a place for you in this strange new pantheon of extraordinary people. | Alan Moore | ||
| 4473153 | SR: "We are talking of a world war." AQ: "And that makes you sweat, son?" SR: "Heavens, man! Doesn't it you?" | Alan Moore | ||
| e9b4d31 | Perhaps in the process of reconstructing its corporeal form, this new and wholly original entity achieved a complete mastery of all matter; able to shape reality by the manipulation of its basic building blocks. When news of this being's phenomenal genesis was first released to the world, a certain phrase was used that has--at varying times--been attributed both to me and to others. On the newsflashes coming over our tvs on that fateful nig.. | Alan Moore | ||
| fb92869 | But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt other people | Chris Abani | ||
| f098d0c | What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together | progress science stupidity | Julian Barnes | |
| 691278f | You only had to look at Noah and his wife, or at their three sons and their three wives, to realize what a genetically messy lot the human race would turn out to be. | Julian Barnes | ||
| c50d9b2 | People prefer to get what they want rather than what they deserve. | Julian Barnes | ||
| a951ee0 | Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both. So why do we constantly aspire to love? because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 1e49237 | After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 5af2176 | And since the griefstruck rarely know what they need or want, only what they don't, offence-giving and offence-taking are common. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 88cf71e | Insofar as I liked doing things by myself, it was partly for the pleasure of telling her about them afterwards. | Julian Barnes |