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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 68c50f3 | You see, when someone says "it's impossible,' I have this very bad habit, I can't help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 97634e1 | Gideon," he said, "think for a minute about the qualities that a leader--even a co-leader--is required to have. He's a team player. He's good at inspiring others. He's able to hide his true feelings, put up a false front when necessary. He projects confidence at all times--even if he doesn't feel confident. He can't be a freelancer. And he's certainly not a loner. Now, tell me: do any of these qualities describe you?" | Douglas Preston | ||
| 79fc036 | D'Agosta had long ago learned, when working with Pendergast, to never get caught without two things: a gun and a flashlight. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 13c0095 | Zero-sum games deal with resources that neither increase nor decrease in amount--they only shift from one player to the other. Given your present frame of mind, were you to speak now, I'm afraid you might say something rash. I would feel it incumbent to offer a rejoinder. As a result of this exchange, you would be mortified and humiliated, which--as dictated by the rules of game theory--would increase my influence and status at your expense.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 39abcdc | The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 8bdc47b | Sometimes it takes courage--maybe all the courage you've got--to just live life. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 1955e25 | Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 3637543 | nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 41d7144 | Perhaps it's not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists. | Douglas Preston | ||
| e3c40cc | As we hoped, our kids began to learn Italian. One day Isaac sat down to dinner, looked at the plate of pasta we'd prepared, made a face, and said, "Che schifo!" a vulgar expression meaning "Gross!" We were so proud." -- | Douglas Preston | ||
| 87baaa8 | Fortune makes promises to many, keeps them to none. Live for each day, live for the hours, since nothing is forever yours. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 5bfc9dd | But della Rovere frowned and said, "Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church." | church devil evil god mario-puzo priest the-family | Mario Puzo | |
| 4020b0e | Nekad neuztraucies par naudu. Doma par slavu. | Mario Puzo | ||
| af5b3b7 | A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning. | Mario Puzo | ||
| ca48c96 | have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 5dae1e9 | He had no illusions about the dangerousness of his mission. He spent the first year meeting with different chiefs of gangs in New York, laying the groundwork, sounding them out, proposing spheres of influence that would be honored by a loosely bound confederated council. But there were too many factions, too many special interests that conflicted. Agreement was impossible. Like other great rulers and lawgivers in history Don Corleone decide.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 794f6c3 | Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 5400d14 | Le hare una oferta que no podra rechazar. | Mario Puzo | ||
| c595ab8 | Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. | Mario Puzo | ||
| f957686 | For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone. | Mario Puzo | ||
| d11e3ae | That night a bomb exploded in the Corleone Family mall in Long Beach, thrown from a car that pulled up to the chain, then roared away. That night also two button men of the Corleone Family were killed as they peaceably ate their dinner in a small Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. The Five Families War of 1946 had begun. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 22ff649 | We are not responsible to the .90 calibers the pezzonovantis who take it upon themselves to decide what we shall do with out lives, who declare wars they wish us to fight in to protect what they own... And who are they then to meddle when we look after our own interests? Sonna cosa nostra...these are our own affairs. We will manage our world for ourselves because it is our world, cosa nostra | Mario Puzo | ||
| db1b92e | Un hombre que no pasa el suficiente tiempo con su familia no merece ser llamado hombre. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 95c8552 | Narkotikas ir pestisana cilveka garam, patverums tiem izmisusajiem, kam liktenis lemis nabadzibu vai garigas slimibas.! Tas ir remdinajums tiem, kas alkst pec milestibas, zudusajam dveselem musu garigi pagrimusaja pasaule. Galu gala- ja cilveks vairs netic Dievam, sabiedribai, pats savai vertibai, kas tad vinam vel atliek.? Nonaveties.? Narkotikas lauj cilvekam dzivot sapnu un ceribu valstiba. Viss, kas nepieciesams, ir zinama mereniba. Gal.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| c60cad4 | I would trust you with my whole fortune," he told the president. "I would trust you with my life and the welfare of my children. It is inconceivable to me that you would ever trick me or otherwise betray me. My whole world, all my faith in my judgment of human character would collapse." | Mario Puzo | ||
| f94b367 | Yet he thought, if I die saying " Life is beautiful", then nothing else is important." | Mario Puzo | ||
| 9bc0999 | If the Clericuzio Family was the Holy Church for the Mafia empires scattered over the United States, then the head of the Family, Don Domenico Clericuzio was the Pope, admired not only for his intelligence but for his strength. | power | Mario Puzo | |
| a67c4e3 | he had been a tough teenager in New York's Hell's Kitchen. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 9b6a698 | Genius had its rewards. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 35e78bb | no longer fearing the cost. "For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone." | Mario Puzo | ||
| d5e2067 | He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean. | mario-puzo murder revenge the-last-don | Mario Puzo | |
| 5070b51 | It was not necessary that he be your friend, it was not even important that you had no means with which to repay him. Only one thing was required. That you, you yourself, proclaim your friendship. And then, no matter how poor or powerless the supplicant, Don Corleone would take that man's troubles to his heart. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 73504b8 | Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 88539ad | He said to the cardinal, "I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life." | hypocrisy religion | Mario Puzo | |
| 398f0bb | You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes.' Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 2b59f02 | The story you are holding was first published in 1969, which was, as you may know, a very interesting year. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 265551d | A man's primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children? | mario-puzo quote the-last-don | Mario Puzo | |
| b9dd86b | The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend goes. I sometimes wonder why, if that is true, she walks the earth and he lies restless in the grave. | Glen Cook | ||
| de1ff3c | Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. --John Woods comp.lang.c++ | Jeff Knupp | ||
| e8c974a | My role was to pulse at the edge of the universe of the faithful, alone in the darkness. An outrider. A herald. | David Mitchell | ||
| c282b49 | I am the Daughter of Night. I am the Child of Darkness Forthcoming. Come to my mother or become prey for the beasts of devastation in the Year of the Skulls. | Glen Cook | ||
| cf1e42b | I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper's screams. I am haunted by the Lady's laughter. | Glen Cook | ||
| 7e806d1 | The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3fed479 | How Opulent the building had felt after my own parents' bland box of suburbia - one day, I promise, I'm going to live in a house like this. Another promise I've broken; at least that one was only to myself. | David Mitchell |