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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a08a9bb | Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it. | Betty Smith | ||
| 4d7c4cf | Tell the truth and write the story. | Betty Smith | ||
| 2b4b54d | You betcha they'd live, thought Francie grimly. It takes a lot of doing to die. | Betty Smith | ||
| 72584df | Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time. | life-lessons perspective time | Betty Smith | |
| bd7a86e | Francie always remembered what the kind teacher told her. 'You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up.'.. | Betty Smith | ||
| caa97cb | In spite of hard unfamiliar things, there is here--hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He may not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise--but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working hon.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 28e8827 | I know there is no Santa Claus." "Yet you must teach the child that these things are so." "Why? When I, myself, do not believe?" "Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly f.. | Betty Smith | ||
| bb1fa87 | Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father staggering home drunk | Betty Smith | ||
| 9709d57 | The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made. | Betty Smith | ||
| f3ff78e | She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things--or as a compromise, re-live rather than reminisce. She decided to fix this time in her life exactly the way it was this instant. Perhaps that way she could hold on to it as a living thing and not have it become something called a memory. | Betty Smith | ||
| c42fd17 | Why? When I, myself do not believe? "Because,"explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. t is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I , myself, even in this day a.. | Betty Smith | ||
| d440904 | She wept when they gave birth to daughters, knowing that to be born a woman meant a life of humble hardship. | Betty Smith | ||
| 5f631d2 | From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence, and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. | Betty Smith | ||
| 52113a7 | Oh, and you must not forget the Kris Kringle. The child must believe in him until she reaches the age of six." "Mother, I know there are no ghosts or fairies. I would be teaching the child foolish lies." Mary spoke sharply. "You do not know whether there are not ghosts on earth or angels in heaven." "I know there is no Santa Claus." "Yet you must teach the child that these things are so." "Why? When I, myself, do not believe?" "Because," ex.. | Betty Smith | ||
| d0aa789 | Ghosts are not always those who pass through closed doors," said Mary Rommely. "Katie has told how her husband used to talk to this saloon man. In all those years of the talking, Yohnny gave away pieces of himself to this man. When Katie called on her man for help, the pieces of him came together in this man, and it was Yohnny within the saloon man's soul that heard and came to her help." | Betty Smith | ||
| 0cca53f | Oh, and you must not forget the Kris Kringle. The child must believe in him until she reaches the age of six." " I KNOW there is not Santa Claus." "Yet you must teach the child that these things are so." "Why? When I, myself, do not believe?" "Because...the child must have a valuable things which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which [to] live things that never were. It is necessary that she BELIEVE. She must st.. | childhood-imagination imagination santa-claus | Betty Smith | |
| 69857b9 | A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the boot strap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel up climb. | rising-above-it | Betty Smith | |
| daa2436 | Sometimes when you had nothing at all and it was raining and you were alone in the flat, it was wonderful to know that you could have something even though it was only a cup of black and bitter coffee. | coffee-quotes poverty | Betty Smith | |
| b29f4b0 | Arriving at the store, she walked up and down the aisles handling any object her fancy favored. What a wonderful feeling to pick something up, hold it for a moment, feel its contour, run her hand over its surface and then replace it carefully. Her nickel gave her this privilege. If a floor-walker asked whether she intended buying anything, she could say, yes, buy it and show him a thing or two. Money was a wonderful thing, she decided. | Betty Smith | ||
| 2d12ab9 | Neeley, if you had to die, wouldn't it be wonderful to die now--while you believed that everything was perfect, the way this night is perfect? | Betty Smith | ||
| f46b9a0 | If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect." | loss protection risk tarkin | James Luceno | |
| 0bd7b57 | we must have that put in Latin--We do what we can--on | Edward Albee | ||
| af17bd3 | Writers have this schizophrenic ability to both participate in their lives and, at the same time, observe themselves participating in their lives. | participating writers writing | Edward Albee | |
| 8aa30c7 | what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy. | pornography sex the-zoo-story | Edward Albee | |
| 9672b8a | P'em za slepoe dukhovnoe oko, za serdechnyi pokoi i za tsirroz pecheni. | Edward Albee | ||
| a3a256d | You're demented." "Tell me something I don't know." "Okay, how about, we're unarmed!" -Droma & Han" | James Luceno | ||
| 21c8346 | It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die. | Kate Mosse | ||
| fc7517e | the bravest act of war is love. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 2459a82 | You well know that if a lie is repeated often enough, in the face of the clearest evidence to the contrary, even the most level-headed of men start to believe in it. Falsehood easily becomes accepted truth. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 4ecb5f6 | Drall's lighter gravity is going to Jacen's head. He's convinced that our coming here is going to upset the balance of the Force or something." -Anakin Solo" | James Luceno | ||
| 37cc72d | Plagueis extended his left hand to touch him on the crown of the head. "Then it is done. From this day forward, the truth of you, now and forever more, will be Sidious." | James Luceno | ||
| 225205f | Beings may elect their leaders, but the Force has elected us. | James Luceno | ||
| 62f2d04 | The time had come to give the rest of the galaxy a look at Darth Vader. | James Luceno | ||
| 51f11d9 | TWO THERE SHOULD BE; NO MORE NO LESS. One to embody power, The other to crave it. - Darth Bane | James Luceno | ||
| 8f35415 | For all that sentients have achieved with weapons and machines, life remains an ongoing battle for survival, with the strong or the smart at the top of the heap, and the rest kept in check by firepower and laws. | James Luceno | ||
| 233be57 | Triumphing over nature means better lives for sentients, but dominance is sustained only by bringing order to chaos and establishing law where none exists. | James Luceno | ||
| 024828b | The Jedi were certainly aware of the tremendous potential, but they restrained themselves." "Precisely what they did with the Force, as some have said. If they had made use of their full powers, the war would have ended in a heartbeat. And the galaxy would be in a different state entirely. For all their purported objectivity, they weren't scientists, they were mystics. For a thousand generations that sufficed. Notions of right and wrong can.. | James Luceno | ||
| fd71da1 | Laugh all you want." "I can laugh all I want." ::pause for effect:: "Did someone here make me say that?" -Kyp and Bombaasa" | James Luceno | ||
| dd017ea | Propelled by fear or hatred, even a Jedi can pass beyond the constraints of the Order's teachings and discover power of a more profound sort. But no Jedi who arrives at that place, who has risen above his or her allegiance to peace and justice, who kills in anger or out of desire, can lay real claim to the dark side of the Force. Their attempts to convince themselves that they fell to the dark side, or that the dark side compelled their act.. | James Luceno | ||
| 78439f3 | Now, with regard to religion, you say where you want to go is to a place where you can truly know God and love God. I am simply observing that your religions do not take you there. Your religions have made God the Great Mystery, and caused you not to love God, but to fear God. Religion has done little, as well, to cause you to change your behaviors. You are still killing each other, condemning each other, making each other "wrong." And, in .. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 123b030 | When you are in readiness, you are in wakefulness. A smile can take you there. A simple smile. Just stop everything for one moment, and smile. At nothing. Just because it feels good. Just because your heart knows a secret. And because your soul knows what the secret is. Smile at that. Smile a lot. It will cure whatever ails you. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 3810a10 | You could tell them that a definition of "right" and "wrong" is a definition established not only by time, but also by simple geography. You could allow them to notice that some activities on your planet (prostitution, for instance) are illegal in one place, and, just a few miles down the road, legal in another. And so, whether a person is judged as having done something "wrong" is not a matter of what that person has actually done, but of .. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 394556b | I do not love hot more than I love cold, high more than low, left more than right. It is all relative. It is all part of what is. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| e0cfa60 | Your life work is a statement of Who You Are. If it is not, then why are you doing it? Do you imagine that you have to? You don't have to do anything. If "man who supports his family, at all costs, even his own happiness" is Who You Are, then love your work, because it is facilitating your creation of a living statement of Self. If "woman who works at job she hates in order to meet responsibilities as she sees them" is Who You Are, then lov.. | Neale Donald Walsch |