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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 218f11f | I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously | personality | Jules Verne | |
| 8eceb51 | populations | Jules Verne | ||
| d6a1387 | Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2bf9d98 | Ah! sir, live--live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free! | Jules Verne | ||
| a796751 | Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot. "Very well, let it bust up!" replied the Floridans, with a brevity of the days of ancient Sparta." | Jules Verne | ||
| 47549ab | the human imagination soon got caught up in the most ridiculous ichthyological fantasies. | Jules Verne | ||
| 762c04c | What human being would ever have conceived the idea of such a journey? and, if such a person really existed, he must be an idiot, whom one would shut up in a lunatic ward, rather than within the walls of the projectile. | Jules Verne | ||
| 5f8ed4d | His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk." | Jules Verne | ||
| 2ac8c7e | I am the law, and I am the judge! | Jules Verne | ||
| 25ddd48 | Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero. | Jules Verne | ||
| dfe9d41 | The devil!" exclaimed Ned." | Jules Verne | ||
| ae9f669 | Almighty God! enough! enough! | Jules Verne | ||
| a4510d7 | solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs. | loveless sadness solitude | Jules Verne | |
| 9579807 | The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness. | Jules Verne | ||
| 41945cf | to the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea | Jules Verne | ||
| f5b2a03 | No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see. | Jules Verne | ||
| ca982d2 | Ah! women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! | Jules Verne | ||
| c62a453 | The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise. | Jules Verne | ||
| 24c8f22 | That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them! | Jules Verne | ||
| 3710b3b | Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success. | Jules Verne | ||
| a48cb8f | When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2f9b729 | I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world. | Jules Verne | ||
| d07797a | I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life. | Jules Verne | ||
| 07ab460 | But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2a40408 | Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7e12a78 | Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, and I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life. | Jules Verne | ||
| 6599532 | to the poet, a pearl is a tear of the sea | Jules Verne | ||
| 2151679 | Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity!" That" | Jules Verne | ||
| 3451a17 | Horses At Midnight Without A Moon" Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her. The summer mornings begin inch by inch while we sleep, and walk with us later as long-legged beauty through the dirty streets. It is no surprise that danger and suffering surround us. What astonishes is the singing. We know the ho.. | Jack Gilbert | ||
| 1836dc5 | And at first it's so amazing to be able to enjoy dreamy afternoon meadows of heather up the other end of the canyon and just by walking less than a halfmile you can suddenly also enjoy wild gloomy sea coast, or if you're sick of either of these just sit by the creek in a gladey spot and dream over snags--So easy in the woods to daydream and pray to the local spirits and say "Allow me to stay here, I only want peace" and those foggy pe.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 4f1ac79 | jack laughed at my attempts to avoid being felt up by a mythical beast. "Apparently you're a virgin." "Shut up!Like that's any of your business!" He shrugged,the motion less effective upside down."Unicorns love maidens. Haven't you done any research at all?" "What,you have?" He flipped off the branch,startling the unicorn so badly it bolted from the meadow. Thank heavens." | Kiersten White | ||
| 024e7f6 | She swam nearer and her breath caught. Lying atop the rock was a bow and quiver full of arrows beside a pair of beaded moccasins. She spun around in the water, joy bubbling up inside her. But before she could take a breath, firm hands caught her ankles and tugged her under. She came up sputtering and laughing, but he'd still not surfaced. So he swims like a fish. She remembered he could also run like a deer, overtaking her in the woods all .. | Laura Frantz | ||
| a014e05 | Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of collective purpose. We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better .. | Tony Judt | ||
| f1abd86 | The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the very practical business of urban life and the maintenance of cleanliness and civility on city streets. If we don't trust each other, our towns will look horrible and be nasty places to live. Moreover, she observed, you cannot institutionalize trust. Once corroded, it is virtually impossible to restore. | Tony Judt | ||
| c9f1b22 | What, then, should we have learned from 1989? Perhaps, above all, that nothing is either necessary or inevitable. | Tony Judt | ||
| d46cac1 | A closed circle of opinion or ideas into which discontent or opposition is never allowed--or allowed only within circumscribed and stylized limits--loses its capacity to respond energetically or imaginatively to new challenges. | Tony Judt | ||
| 4da900b | There were no disagreements in Stalin's universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes. The trials served both to illustrate Stalin's virtues and identify his enemies' crimes. They also illuminate the extent of Stalin's paranoia and the culture of suspicion that surrounded him. | Tony Judt | ||
| 8a7bdb5 | What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in varying degrees, security, prosperity, social services and greater equality. We have grown accustomed in recent years to the assertion that the price paid for these benefits--in economic inefficiency, insufficient innovation, stifled entrepreneurship, public debt and a loss of p.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 4f388b1 | Elio Vittorini observed in 1957 that ever since Napoleon, France had proved impermeable to any foreign influence except German philosophy: and that was still true two decades later... By the time German philosophy had passed through Parisian social thought into English cultural criticism, its difficult vocabulary had achieved a level of expressive opacity that proved irresistible to a new generation of students. | Tony Judt | ||
| 5f3e437 | Finally, Europe's post-war history is a story shadowed by silences; by absence. The continent of Europe was once an intricate, interwoven tapestry of overlapping languages, religions, communities and nations. Many of its cities--particularly the smaller ones at the intersection of old and new imperial boundaries, such as Trieste, Sarajevo, Salonika, Cernovitz, Odessa or Vilna--were truly multicultural societies avant le mot, where Catholics.. | minority postwar | Tony Judt | |
| 2c1888f | Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within. | Tony Judt | ||
| 23ad645 | The history of the two halves of post-war Europe cannot be told in isolation from one another. The legacy of the Second World War--and the pre-war decades and the war before that--forced upon the governments and peoples of east and west Europe alike some hard choices about how best to order their affairs so as to avoid any return to the past. One option--to pursue the radical agenda of the popular front movements of the 1930s--was initially.. | postwar | Tony Judt | |
| 5ab8386 | In the first place, this is a history of Europe's reduction. The constituent states of Europe could no longer aspire, after 1945, to international or imperial status. The two exceptions to this rule--the Soviet Union and, in part, Great Britain--were both only half-European in their own eyes and in any case, by the end of the period recounted here, they too were much reduced. Most of the rest of continental Europe had been humiliated by def.. | postwar | Tony Judt | |
| b3858d3 | Forgetting, I would even go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation; thus the progress of historical studies is often a danger for national identity . . . The essence of a nation is that all individuals have many things in common, and also that they have forgotten many things'. Ernest Renan | Tony Judt |