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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 659e7f4 | Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. "You're mad." "Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?" | Robin Hobb | ||
| e5f8cd4 | You earn your future, Malta Vestrit." The bead-maker cocked her head at her. "What does tomorrow owe you?" "Tomorrow owes me?" Malta repeated in confusion. "Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that." Amber looked out to sea again. "And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7009222 | How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child. | parenting | Robin Hobb | |
| 825dca4 | All events, no matter how earth-shaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living. Men walking a battlefield to search for wounded among the dead will still stop to cough, to blow their noses, still lift their eyes to watch a V of geese in flight. I have seen farmers continue their ploughing and planting, heedless of armies clashing but a few miles away. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e2ba9a3 | I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home. | cost evaluate home look regret result return stranger think truth | Robin Hobb | |
| fba0695 | It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d8e24f3 | Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a6c31d6 | Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 6c6f755 | Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what his father commanded him to be. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 33f1ca5 | Death stalks us, and he is ever sure of his kill. It is not a thing to dwell on, but it is something we all know, in our guts and bones. All save humans. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3fd761c | Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for. | Robin Hobb | ||
| bc1d07f | I've not got much money, but I've got heaps of ideas. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 72c9677 | Yes, I know," Lionel interrupted. "Well, I shall read them all. I love to read. I am so glad I learned to read." | E. Nesbit | ||
| 3cb6b1d | I don't agree with you in the least," said Temple-- "about marriage, I mean. A man ought to want to get married--" "To anybody? Without its being anybody in particular?" "Yes," said Temple stoutly. "If he gets to thirty without wanting to marry any one in particular, he ought to look about till he finds some one he does want. It's the right and proper thing to marry and have kiddies." | E. Nesbit | ||
| d5321ac | These gardens are green, because green is the color that most pleases and soothes men's eyes; and however you may shut people up between bars of yellow and mud color, and however hard you may make them work, and however little wage you may pay them for working, there will always be found among those people some men who are willing to work a little longer, and for no wages at all, so that they may have green things growing near them. | E. Nesbit | ||
| f810bd5 | If you say that the China Cat might have lost its ear-tips in battle you are the kind of person who makes difficulties, and you may be quite sure that the kind of splendid magics that happened to Tavy will never happen to . | E. Nesbit | ||
| ce8136a | If you don't go with the tide of a dream - if you resist it - you wake up, you know. | motto-to-live-by sane-and-insane | E. Nesbit | |
| c2efca6 | So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. Us, or anyone else. Because we're not comparing it with anything. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| b273b5c | I was working on the principle, you see, that the more obvious you are, the less obvious you are. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 4013127 | Je suppose que quelqu'un, quelque part, le connait - l'a baptise ainsi, l'a gueule dans l'escalier a l'heure du petit-dej | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 758799f | Chacun en leur temps, briques, couteaux, bouteilles et divers arguments rationnels avaient rebondi sur cette vaste surface en ne laissant que d'infimes empreintes entre des pores profonds et tres espaces. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 6a1b039 | Nous avons echange des civilites. Mi-scenario hollywodien, mi-bonne societe. Elle a commence a hurler, puis essaye de me mordre la main. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| d0e37c6 | I said no thank you a dozen times, and fuck off once. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 07ae2f0 | Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them, they become a politician. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 5a95acf | Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 31362e8 | Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 4203b25 | Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 526feb0 | I grew up on a farm," Ayanna protested. "We worked the land." She pulled a face. "Well, I helped Dad program the agribots." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| e0acf9f | If you want to understand how a government works, the laws tell you. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| bf28f2f | Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 6bd041e | Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| ec10c6c | Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help! | help women-s-roles | Will Schwalbe | |
| 4f911dc | What's that smell?" Reynolds asked. That smell is the stuff they grow mushrooms in." DeForrest sniffed the air. "Shit?" he asked. Captain Suzie shrugged. "Manure." | David Wellington | ||
| 2a50fbd | You should tell your family every day that you love them. And make sure they know that you're proud of them too. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| a30d141 | 1. Ask: "Do you want to talk about how you're feeling?" 2. Don't ask if there's anything you can do. Suggest things, or if it's not intrusive, just do them. 3. You don't have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough." | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 6743243 | It's a Buddhist meditation that Teza uses to calm his mind, to put aside not just the physical pain but the sadness and rage he's feeling: He starts to whisper a prayer. "Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hurtfulness. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from ill health. Whatever beings there are, may th.. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 27de451 | sThat's enriched my life more than I can say. Of course you could do more--you can always do more, and you should do more--but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| dfadd94 | How great, I thought, to honor people while they are still alive. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 4bb2ce0 | reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 0d73fab | But mostly, when I look back, what I remember is not Mom rushing about; it's Mom sitting quietly in the center of the house, in the living room, under the swirling colors of a Paul Jenkins painting; there would be a fire in the fireplace and a throw over her lap, her hands sticking out to hold a book. And we all wanted to be there with her and Dad, reading quietly too. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 75eb924 | I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had. | strength | Will Schwalbe | |
| 8c44a93 | It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made our of them. | providence work | Will Schwalbe | |
| 92a94d9 | Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books? | Will Schwalbe | ||
| e2769b8 | The day's passage was by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It read: That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past? | Will Schwalbe |