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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 666a2b7 | Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims | righteousness | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 8dee9bd | In the beginning we feared everything--animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky--everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No-one knows why anyone does anything. No-one tells the truth. No-one is happy. No-one is safe. In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the li.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| aca28b0 | Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And in the tiny, precious wisdom that they give to us, even those dread and hated enemies, suffering and failure, have their reason and their right to be. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 02acb80 | Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honourable way--the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason--and you can enforce the peace without any honour at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 55572c0 | Le antiche leggende sanscrite narrano di amori predestinati, di connessioni karmiche fra anime destinate a incontrarsi, urtarsi e incastrarsi a vicenda. Le leggende dicono che l'amata si riconosce all'istante perche si ama ogni suo gesto, ogni suo pensiero, ogni movimento, ogni suono e ogni stato d'animo che balena nei suoi occhi. La riconosciamo dalle sue ali - ali che solo no possiamo vedere - e dal fatto che lo struggimento per lei annie.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0d520ed | Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out--your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of girls here. I think that.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2e36169 | She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever known. It was the beauty of a desert at dawn: a loveliness that filled my eyes, and crushed me into silent, unbreathing awe. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 961fa78 | If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere, is suffering for it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f68a704 | He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 66d03a5 | Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him?' 'Yeah. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 89e3dc1 | We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dfa86c3 | You can respect a man's rights or opinions without knowing the man at all. But you can only respect the man himself when you find something in him that's worthy of the word. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ede6112 | I was too young, then, to know that dead lovers are the toughest rivals. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d2dae9a | because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.' I knew those words by heart. I | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| efb6cf0 | And I survived, while other men around me died. They were better men than I am, most of them: better men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a808a58 | The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0c2dcd6 | MEN WAGE WARS for profit and principle, but they fight them for land and women. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e4f2bfc | I would say that [suffering] is different for all of us, but that it happens when we grow up, when we mature and pass from the childishness of our youthful tears, and become adults. I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by th.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ba32ef3 | Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a533d8f | I also agree with Winston Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won't change his mind and can't change the subject. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 03aac9f | siakash v g'nkite na kozhata be s'brala chudovishchnoto i skr'bno os'znavane, che niama shchastie bez m'ka, che vsiako bogatstvo si ima tsena i che niama zhivot, koito rano ili k'sno da ne poluchi v p'lna miara svoia dial ot skr'b i sm'rt. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 04923c2 | I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 61116b5 | I love you, Karla," I said when we were alone again. "I loved you the first second I saw you. I think I've loved you for as long as there's been love in the world. I love your voice. I love your face. I love your hands. I love everything you do, and I love the way you do everything. It feels like magic when you touch me. I love the way your mind works, and the things you say. And even though it's all true, all that, I don't really understan.. | love-quotes | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 28475c7 | Fear and guilt haunt the rich. Despair and humiliation haunt the poor. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9369cae | The Big Questions only have small answers, and the Big Answers can only be found through small questions. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2a1da82 | I began to see how deep the well of her loving was, and how much her happiness and confidence depended on drawing that love into the light, and sharing it. And love was beautiful in her. It was a clear sky she gave us with those eyes, and a summer morning with her smile. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 17067f1 | Happiness is a myth,' Karla snapped back angrily. 'It was invented to make us buy things. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 462432d | You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9a469ad | Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 30ca257 | That's not wise, Lin. I think wisdom is very over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like. If I was giving wise advice--which I'm not--I'd say don't get drunk, don't spend all your money, and don't fall in love with a pretty village girl. That would be wise. That's the .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 17c965c | It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. | resilience spirit suffering survival willpower | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 2bb738a | Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn't your own. Sometimes you're chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man's, grown in a different heart, and it takes longer than a fading bruise to forget. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5d5036f | The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things that people do always strike at the part of us that wants to love the world. And a tiny part of the shame we feel, when we're violated, is shame at being human. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 840f001 | I had seen beauty, but the beauty had burdened me with responsibility. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 8c977eb | we don't have five senses as we were told by all that flat, world-thinking that came from Europe. The Mother Earth is Round, we were told, and the Universe is Alive and Whole and always Growing and Changing in Sacred Cycles. Men have six senses, and women have seven, and when a man and woman come together, they then have all Thirteen. This is what love is really all about, a man and a woman coming to their full senses when they Unite their .. | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| a418272 | For this is God's great plan, that people rise up beyond their personal hatreds, here, right now, in this new land where so many different people with so many different bloods have come to join together and that we recognize we are all the children of God! Every one of us! | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| 56c141a | Rich is the cream of the fat cow's milk," she said. "Rich is the love of God that we receive each new day! Rich isn't gold! Gold is only for people that are poor of heart!" | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| 1bc81ae | I was drinking beer to kill time, the erotic and sensitive Mexican time which is so different from the clean-packaged, well-kept time of the Americanos. Time in Mexico is at times cruel and punishing, but it is never indifferent. It permeates everything, changes reality. Einstein would have loved Mexico because there time and space are one. I stare more often into empty space when I'm in Mexico. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 0458fd3 | Once you're wired for distraction, you crave it. | Cal Newport | ||
| 61ac153 | Such is the cost immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 43b0860 | Some people believe that there is no distinction between the spiritual and physical universes, no distinction between the inner and the outer, between the subjective and the objective, between the miraculous and the rational. I need such distinctions to make sense of my spiritual and scientific lives. For me, there is room for both a spiritual universe and a physical universe, just as there is room for both religion and science. Each univer.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| d249484 | When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sounds. He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future. At the same time, he is forced to witness events without being part of them, witnout changing them. He envies the people who live in their own time, who can act at will, oblivious of the future, ignorant of the effects of their actions. But he .. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 34068f9 | Continents of memory had been lost. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 898c85d | Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past while effect in the future, but future and past are entwined. On the terrace of the Bundesterrasse is a striking view: the river Aare below and the Bernese Alps above. A man stands there just now, absently emptying his pockets and weeping. Without reason, his friends have .. | Alan Lightman |