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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 493262b | Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. --Mahatma Gandhi | Philip Yancey | ||
| b1fce49 | But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we'll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty which is forever. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 6082093 | According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3ed860a | But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 613da80 | I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like "What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything?" Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 93b8c5c | Sometimes the only meaning we can offer a suffering person is the assurance that their suffering, which has no apparent meaning for them, has a meaning for us. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3c6b4d5 | The poor, the hungry, the mourners, and the oppressed truly are blessed. Not because of their miserable states, of course--Jesus spent much of his life trying to remedy those miseries. Rather, they are blessed because of an innate advantage they hold over those more comfortable and self-sufficient. People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts. People who lack such natural advantages,.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| b38bed0 | If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! | Philip Yancey | ||
| 312d647 | Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gospel sounds like good news only to bad people? | christians good-news | Philip Yancey | |
| 5ec033e | If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 9c3c513 | Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self. You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 420c0ef | It's how we train." "To drown?" "To never quit. Ever." | David L. Robbins | ||
| 8f84cb5 | For even a little sin in our wellspring has the power to pollute and corrupt the very essence of who we are. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 0c0222c | I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the "obsolete" hand-loom weaver, the "utopian" artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foo.. | social-history the-past | E.P. Thompson | |
| e154938 | He expelled a long breath, smiled slightly as if in memory. "I heard them in their room. She said she was a bit tired, and he said that perhaps it was time to see what came next." | Meljean Brook | ||
| ed5232e | She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary among the sailors. - pag. 191 | Meljean Brook | ||
| 648fbaf | Your purse is bulging, Mr. Fox. Tuck it away before you board. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 5023e31 | When you come home to me, I will always be here waiting for you. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 905dc36 | Yes. I remember." His voice had deepened. Mina did, too, every conversation they'd had over breakfast, and it made her heart ache. Such a strange thing... She suddenly couldn't laugh anymore." | memories | Meljean Brook | |
| 6b58fd2 | His gaze settled on her mouth. "Have you been kissed before, inspector?" "Why?" If he wanted virgin lips, she'd claim to have serviced an army. "If it's your first, I'll do it differently." "You won't do it at all." "Yes, I will." | humor kissing | Meljean Brook | |
| 2b6a646 | there is rarely any rhyme or reason in suicides. They can be a cry for help gone wrong, or a punishment to those you're leaving behind, or one fateful twenty-minute window when you lose your bearings and can't find the reasons to go on. | Mariel Hemingway | ||
| 931e13d | the first tear drops falling from a depressed sky, | Ryan C. Thomas | ||
| 01fa8be | There's a strange intimacy between a lost animal and the person who finds him. In terms of time, what you've shared is tiny and insignificant, but that moment is a vital pivot in the animal's life, the line between his old life and a better, new one. In some cases that fine line is the one between life and death. | Ken Foster | ||
| f96e43a | As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work--you remove roadblocks and help them win. | leader roadblocks support win | Kenneth H. Blanchard | |
| 8429f95 | Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 9696205 | Empowerment means that people have the freedom to act. It also means that they are accountable for results. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 018076c | People have trouble admitting there are problems, but everyone has an area he or she would like | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| e377559 | I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 8c0d6a7 | This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another. | love pain | Ishmael Beah | |
| 5abed2e | This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you. (page 37) | Ishmael Beah | ||
| e4fed14 | This isn't your fault, you know. It really isn't. You'll get though this. (page 151) | Ishmael Beah | ||
| fabfa9c | We danced and laughed into the morning. But gradually we stopped. It was as if we all knew that we could be happy for only a brief moment. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 00efdce | I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 9b1539f | The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies. --Ishmael Reed, Mumbo-Jumbo | Robert Shea | ||
| f72eb31 | Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?) | Ishmael Reed | ||
| 3054e59 | What is the American fetish about highways? They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers. Because something is after them, Black Herman adds. | highways progress | Ishmael Reed | |
| b70aece | Linda hadn't exaggerated her fear of the golden orb weaver spider. Up north at her cabin in Morley, I had once teased her by asking "Have we ever seen this kind of vireo before?" And then, instead of showing her a photo of a bird, I thrust a picture of the black-and-yellow spider at her. She shrieked. I laughed. Oh, the fun we had." -- | Bob Tarte | ||
| 2e193d3 | She made a slow turn as she loosened her ponytail and shook her head; her hair streamed down her back like a glossy black waterfall. She finished her spin. Her focus landed on me, and the air caught in my throat. My Wolf stirred. Her body went rigid; her sultry gaze hardened as she stared at me. I'd know those moonlit eyes anywhere. She ran and grabbed hold of the stage right pole. Her feet left the floor as she wrapped her legs around the.. | werewolf-paranormal-romance | Elizabeth Morgan | |
| e34f802 | He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before Dean Devlin shows up and rains on our private parade, I snort and ask, "Good book?" I forget I'm pretending to be sitting behind my two-thousand-ninety-eight-page Highlights of Modern Chemistry book, so he snorts back. "Better than yours." | ghouls heavy-metal paranormal-romance romance romantic-comedy young-adult-novels | Rusty Fischer | |
| 8ce3518 | Some sample lyrics I think I catch: "My engine races up to seventh gear; wrap your legs around my engine, dear . . . . The tunnel's dark, but the ground is wet; I lubricate it with my dripping sweat!" Or, something vaguely disturbing and gross like that; it's hard to tell with the wailing guitars and the front man screaming through his ravaged vocal chords." | ghouls paranormal-romance young-adult-novels | Rusty Fischer | |
| b4b4adc | A beautiful young clerk might flirt with him as he browsed, but she'd never see what I did. She'd see only his shiny shell, snapped shut to hide a jumble of secondhand parts, ticking not quite as they should, but ticking nonetheless. A bit rusty. A bit erratic, like my heartbeat in the moments before I press his buzzer. | Cara McKenna | ||
| 017f9fc | But, that guy who quit also missed the real point. Good things come through grit and hard work, and all things worthwhile have a cost. In the case of the SAS, the cost was somewhere around a thousand barrels of sweat. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 8345a93 | The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.' Pearl S. Buck | Bear Grylls | ||
| 978d2f1 | Walter came from a strong line of self-motivated, determined folk: not grand, not high-society, but no-nonsense, family-minded, go-getters. His grandfather had been Samuel Smiles, who, in 1859, authored the original motivational book, titled It was a landmark work, and an instant bestseller, even outselling Charles Darwin's when it was first launched. Samuel's book also made plain the mantra that hard work and perseverance were the ke.. | Bear Grylls |