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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d80fb0c | He bestowed his smiles indiscriminately and left a trail of havoc in his wake. | Jill Mansell | ||
| d48df5c | It's not you it's me' she couldn't use that line. Even though it really was her and not him, everyone thought that line really meant, 'it's not me. It's definitely you.' There was still a part of her that thought perhaps she shouldn't do it at all. In Andrew she had all the raw ingredients for a perfect life. Here was a grown-up, good-looking, solvent, generous, warm-hearted man who adored her. A man who adored her even when she looked lik.. | Chris Manby | ||
| d19717a | It didn't matter how wonderful Andrew was and how much effort he was prepared to put into their relationship. While Lou didn't feel the same way, his love was only building a tower without foundations. | heartbreak love | Chris Manby | |
| 5b859ea | Lou felt as though she would rather jump from her bathroom window than open the door and smile at him then, she managed it. And she even pinched his bum as the passed in the doorway. Not because she wanted him to act on the flirtatious gesture. But he deserved it. Because he was a great bloke and she knew she should be grateful to have him and perhaps, one day, if she let herself believe that someone that fantastic might really be the one f.. | Chris Manby | ||
| 0f38726 | That was what true love was supposed to be about. Couples slobbering all over each other, only just able to let each other out of sight long enough to go to the loo. True love was not furtively checking your email, while your other half is in the bathroom to see if you have a message from someone you met out once. True love shouldn't be disappointed when your ex writes with the news that another old girlfriend is back on the scene. 'Fuck' s.. | living-a-lie | Chris Manby | |
| 5637266 | One of the joys of being a dog is that they have no concept of the word "future." Everything is right now, and if right now happens to be a warm floor and a full stomach, then life is good." | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 1ade594 | I wish I knew the flavor of my happiness. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 0c8f26c | Meghan and I talked about music - she loved Ella Fitzgerald. "What about all the hip acts that college kids love? Do you like any of them?" "Like who?" "I don't know all their names. Snoop Diggity Do and all those hip cats." Meghan shook her head and laughed. We talked about movies - she loved anything made before 1964. No wonder I thought she was older; she was an old soul in a young body. "So what's your favorite movie?" I asked. "To Kill.. | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 764dd4a | Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing" "Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END." | Donna VanLiere | ||
| aca83bd | There comes a time when you don't know what your capable of anymore. Looking back, you can remember what you were capable of then, how you thought, what you did, who you loved, who people said you were. Then something happens and takes all that away, the basket of good intentions you've been toting around, the trunk of dreams you've been pulling behind you, all of its gone in an instant, and its just you, naked, bare, exposed. | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 9162a92 | que el vivir solo es sonar; y la experiencia me ensena que el hombre que vive, suena | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 3a7469b | plan your work and work your plan" "where there is a will, there is a way" | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 60c888a | In October 1805, Stoddard's tour left St. Louis, including forty-five Indians from eleven tribes. They arrived in Washington in January 1806. Jefferson gave them the standard Great Father talk: "We are become as numerous as the leaves of the trees, and, tho' we do not boast, we do not fear any nation. . . . My children, we are strong, we are numerous as the stars in the heavens, & we are all gun-men." He followed the threat with the carrot:.. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 2098e48 | Routine wears down vigilance. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 01c92d9 | The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| be61df7 | Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Corps of Discovery, they provided wheels, wagons, and canoes. Pioneering Lewis and Clark scholar Paul Russell Cutright pays the cottonwoods an appropriate tribute: 'Of all the wetern trees it contributed more to the success of the Expedition than .. | lewis-and-clark | Stephen E. Ambrose | |
| d147a9f | Jefferson could write, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| f2c3010 | Burial practices illustrated the two men's different outlooks. Custer believed a body should be buried in a long-lasting metal casket, thus removing the body from the ecological system by preventing bacteria from breaking it down and feeding it back into the soil. Crazy Horse believed in wrapping a body inside a buffalo robe and placing it on a scaffold on an open hillside, where the elements could break it down in a year or two. It would t.. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| d915630 | you liked him so much you just hated to let him down." He was, and is, all but worshiped by the men of E Company." | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 3e0167e | These are some of the qualities that make for a good company commander. Lewis had them in abundance, plus some special touches that made him a much-loved commander. He had a sense, a feel, for how his family was doing. He knew exactly when to take a break, when to issue a gill, when to push for more, when to encourage, when to inspire, when to tell a joke, when to be tough. He knew how to keep a distance between himself and the men, and jus.. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| ec346f2 | A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil....They had learned that while Nature is often beautiful and kind, her laws must be respected, for they are ruthless and inexorable as well. Man must accept these laws and adjust his way of living to them. Then only can he prosper. | lesson-for-life | Lois Lenski | |
| 4de6037 | They'd been afloat now without food, water, shelter, or sleep for over forty hours. Of the 1,196 crew13 members who'd set sail from Guam three days earlier, probably no more than 600 were still alive. In the previous twenty-four hours alone, at least 200 had likely slipped beneath the waves or been victims of shark attack. Since the sinking, each boy had been floating through the hours asking himself the same hard question: Will I live, or .. | Doug Stanton | ||
| 7a3974b | Some car had hit it after all, because it hadn't had the courage to honor its own correct instinct. And I began to cry because I had this thought about people, that they do this all the time, deny the wise voice inside them telling them the right thing to do because it is different. I remembered once seeing a tea party some little girls had set up outside, mismatched china, decorations of a plucked pansy blossom and a seashell and a shiny p.. | Elizabeth Berg | ||
| 60a3598 | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric po.. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
| 8ca7ff5 | One day the people of the world will want peace | peace | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 43d4856 | This system of discrimination, an inculcated double standard, may vary in content from culture to culture, but it is always unjust. There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth. | racial-discrimination us-history | John Howard Griffin | |
| 01c5c71 | In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all. | racial-discrimination us-history | John Howard Griffin | |
| 5ef9799 | A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity. | image-of-god maturation parenthood | John Howard Griffin | |
| 6e230cc | If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused. | humility leadership self-discipline servant-leadership | John Howard Griffin | |
| df66584 | Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death. Until that day arrives, the case against God must rely on incomplete evidence. We cannot really reconcile our pain-wracked world with a loving God because what we experience now is not the same as what God intends. Jesus himself prayed that God's will "be done, on earth as it is in heaven," a prayer that will not be fully answere.. | spirituality suffering why | Philip Yancey | |
| d061a2e | Will Christians turn once again toward an approach that imposes its will on the rest of society? By doing so we would betray our founder, who resisted a temptation to authority over "all the kingdoms of the world," and who died a martyr at the hands of a powerful state. In the words of Miroslav Volf, "Imposition stands starkly at odds with the basic character of the Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving--God's self-giving.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| bb91b1b | In the presence of the Great Physician, my most appropriate contribution may be my wounds. | Philip Yancey | ||
| d6d5b29 | The female runner still lags behind the male, and blame rests on the pelvis. The projections on the man's pelvis allow for more powerful muscles, but a woman equipped with them could not bear a child. Similarly, a man's hip sockets are closer together, nearer the center of gravity, which enables more efficient movement. If a woman's were similarly designed, there would be no room for the baby's head to extrude. So the odd pelvic bone repres.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ef802f4 | Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving--God's self-giving and human self-giving--and not about self-imposing. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 172ce77 | In God's presence I feel small because I am small. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8fa2bd8 | All of us in the church need "grace-healed eyes" to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us." | grace | Philip Yancey | |
| 2aaa6bb | I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes - well, maybe seven. Do you sense the presence of God when you pray? Occasionally, not often. Many of those I talked to experienced prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. They regarded it as important, even paramount, and felt guilty about their fa.. | faith prayer | Philip Yancey | |
| 021e750 | They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 27c9c88 | the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 72a6eb7 | Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 111c391 | Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 654afe6 | recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4643673 | In my lifelong study of the Bible I have looked for an overarching theme, a summary statement of what the whole sprawling book is about. I have settled on this: "God gets his family back." From the first book to the last the Bible tells of wayward children and the tortuous lengths to which God will go to bring them home. Indeed, the entire biblical drama ends with a huge family reunion in the book of Revelation." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 71c294c | Virtually every passage on suffering in the New Testament deflects the emphasis from cause to response. Although we cannot grasp the master plan of the universe, which allows for so much evil and pain (the Why? question), we can nevertheless respond in two important ways. First, we can find meaning in the midst of suffering. Second, we can offer real and practical help to those in need. | Philip Yancey |