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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4e33856 | The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills" (Song of Solomon 2:8)." | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 4a8e18d | The fourth thing," she said with a radiant face, "was really the first I learned up here. Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedient to your will can be transformed. "Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that you want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason t.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| bfa7938 | Make haste, Beloved, be thou like an hart On mountains spicy sweet; And I, on those High Places where thou art, Will follow on hinds' feet; As close behind the hart, there leaps the roe, So where thou goest, I will surely go. That, as perhaps you know, is the last verse of the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. But for Grace and Glory it was the beginning of a new song altogether. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 16fb667 | Dennis Prager got it right: "If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil." | Bernard Goldberg | ||
| 2d642ed | Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United States. | Al Franken | ||
| c72876e | I'm not going to write stuff like, "Mitch McConnell and I may disagree, but when we're off the clock, we're the best of friends--sometimes we go to dinner and Mitch will laugh so hard that milk shoots out of his nose." No, I'm not going to be writing cliches like that. Instead," | Al Franken | ||
| ea31730 | Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access. | Al Franken | ||
| 6f424d8 | Today's Congress is a polarized, dysfunctional body, rendered helpless by partisanship, more focused on scoring short-term political points than on solving our nation's urgent problems. In short, the Washington of the past decade has been awash in nincompoopery.USS* And that was before Trump. | Al Franken | ||
| 20311c0 | As the polls began closing in the East, with states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Virginia going for Barack Obama, it was quickly becoming clear that this would be an especially bad night for racists all across the country. | Al Franken | ||
| f447d23 | No whining on the yacht. | Al Franken | ||
| be90d18 | I know this seems quaint, but back in 2008, Republicans did not consider "demeaning and degrading women" to be senatorial, let alone presidential." | Al Franken | ||
| eede534 | If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse. | politics | Al Franken | |
| b587b1d | I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna was pretty risque too, but she was pretty much always known as a "bad girl." Mariah was a good girl, supposedly Christian, turning very bad, in the late 90's. So then, all the other little girls and teens and women across America thought it would be ok for them to "come out" too essentially, or flaunt whatever they had. Modesty went complete.. | christian coming-out dress good-girl madonna mariah-carey modesty pop-culture risque skin | Lisa Bedrick | |
| e12712b | LONDON, March 16 Ed telephoned from Vienna. He said Major Emil Fey has committed suicide after putting bullets through his wife and nineteen-year-old son. He was a sinister man. Undoubtedly he feared the Nazis would murder him for having double-crossed them in 1934 when Dollfuss was shot. I return to Vienna day after tomorrow. The crisis is over. I think we've found something, though, for radio with these round-ups. | William L. Shirer | ||
| d323f75 | The trial, despite the subserviency of the court to the Nazi authorities, cast a great deal of suspicion on Goering and the Nazis, but it came too late to have any practical effect. For Hitler had lost no time in exploiting the Reichstag fire to the limit. On the day following the fire, February 28, he prevailed on President Hindenburg to sign a decree "for the Protection of the People and the State" suspending the seven sections of the c.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 7a06e30 | Most Germans, so far as I could see, did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their splendid culture was being destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work were being regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation ... On the whole, people did not seem to feel that they were being cowed a.. | nazism | William L. Shirer | |
| 61a7de0 | The street gangs," in the words of Alan Bullock, "had seized control of the resources of a great modern State, the gutter had come to power." But--as Hitler never ceased to boast--"legally," by an overwhelming vote of Parliament. The Germans had no one to blame but themselves." | William L. Shirer | ||
| 56f9c01 | Although millions more had jobs, the share of all German workers in the national income fell from 56.9 per cent in the depression year of 1932 to 53.6 per cent in the boom year of 1938. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 0275b7c | In retrospect, it is easy to see that Hitler's successful gamble in the Rhineland brought him a victory more staggering and more fatal in its immense consequences than could be comprehended at the time. At home it fortified his popularity and his power, raising them to heights which no German ruler of the past had ever enjoyed. It assured his ascendancy over his generals, who had hesitated and weakened at a moment of crisis when he had held.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 36cfecf | In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 883490f | One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( Dummkopf ) I was!" | fritz-thyssen politics third-reich world-war-2 | William L. Shirer | |
| b2f3947 | Tell Ragnall," I told him, "that the Saxons of Mercia are coming. Tell him that his dead will number in the thousands. Tell him that his own death is just days away. Tell him that promise comes from Uhtred of Bebbanburg." -- | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| b319442 | After splashing icy water on their faces and rubbing them fiery red with one of the rough sweet-smelling towels, they came in and took their places at the big kitchen table. This morning the table wore a bright red-and-white checked cloth and a pot of red geraniums. Mrs. Campbell handed the girls their plates, each with a slice of ham and half of a crisp, tan waffle. | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 2e81677 | Some Saturday mornings, as soon as the mountains had bottled up the last cheerful sound of Bob and the truck, I, feeling like a cross between a boll weevil and a slut, took a large cup of hot coffee, a hot-water bottle, a cigarette and a magazine and WENT BACK TO BED. Then, from six-thirty until nine or so, I luxuriated in breaking the old mountain tradition that a decent woman is in bed only between the hours of seven pm and four am unless.. | regional | Betty MacDonald | |
| e686845 | When Molly O'Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy cane at the same time and drooled candy cane juice on the colored pictures of gems and then forgot and shut the book so the pages all stuck together, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle didn't say, "Such a careless little girl can never ever look at the colored pictures in my dictionary again." Nor did she say, "You must never.. | candy children | Betty MacDonald | |
| f39e531 | When you wanted to savor something, it would speed by in a blur. When you wanted to get past something, it would drag on forever. Elaine | Emily Giffin | ||
| 508aab7 | Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 4156a85 | and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me? | love | Emily Giffin | |
| 66c83f6 | I'm far from fat, but her using me as a sounding board on this topic is like me complaining to a blind woman that I have to wear contacts. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 79367c6 | Much later, she would go back and read the entry, and think to herself that memories were that way, too. When you wanted to forget, everything would return in raw, brutal focus. When you wanted to remember, the details would slip away like a dream at dawn. | Emily Giffin | ||
| dad2c18 | evident in every small act of kindness. It was love as a verb, as Rachel used to say. Love that made me more patient, more loyal, and stronger. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo-filled past. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 172cfe0 | Being around people didn't make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 224d651 | knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 5d6e286 | The surprise element of her betrayal was what burned me the most. The fact that I never saw it coming. | Emily Giffin | ||
| d66ae98 | Life isn't always fun, and is almost never easy, | Emily Giffin | ||
| 94b82e1 | I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that. | Emily Giffin | ||
| d3d61c2 | I'm not saying it's healthy to be past-obsessed, ferreting out details of every ex. But it's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1d00577 | What's not to love' is hardly a reason to love, And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 498c3cb | But I cherished our filterless relationship and considered it the truest measure of a best friend, greater than pure affection. Who was the person you trusted enough to be your most transparent self with, in both good times and bad? | Emily Giffin | ||
| 7c2fb7b | I don't know what a carbuncle is, but it doesn't sound pleasant. I wish one upon Rachel's nose. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 46c039d | To be good, you must learn to be yourself at the bargaining table. | G. Richard Shell | ||
| 4c56367 | The first law of business: Make the rules or your rivals will | G Richard Shell | ||
| 9574efc | Love's empire is this globe and all mankind; the most refined and the most degraded, the cleverest and the most stupid, are all liable to become his faithful subjects. He can alike command the devotion of an archbishop and a South-Sea Islander, of the most immaculate maiden lady (whatever her age) and of the savage Zulu girl. From the pole to the equator, and from the equator to the further pole, there is no monarch like Love. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| ec49405 | When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please. | H. Rider Haggard |