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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a9fc6b | A man is all the people he has been. Some recollections never die. They lie in one's subconscious, squirreled away, biding their time. | William Manchester | ||
| 425cb8b | Above all, beware the crowd! The crowd only feels; it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams--but it never builds. | William Manchester | ||
| 7c069f8 | Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like Churchill, quickly chafe at missing interaction and opportunity. | reflection | William Raymond Manchester | |
| 18cc198 | A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. | William Manchester | ||
| e604335 | In 1988, William Manchester began writing The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, the third and final volume of his biography of Winston Churchill. | Paul Reid | ||
| 96a8748 | Inside his second-rate mind, one felt, a third-rate mind was struggling toward the surface. | William Manchester | ||
| 3dee4fd | Tell me the sort of agreement that the United Nations will reach with respect to the world's petroleum reserves when the war is over," Ickes proclaimed, "and I will undertake to analyze the durability of the peace that is to come." | William R. Manchester | ||
| b193d8a | Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications revolution lead to expectations of instantanaiy are exasperated by the slow toils of history. They assume that the thunderclap of cause will be swiftly followed by the lightening bolt of effect. | media | William Raymond Manchester | |
| 8e581c4 | GBS wired Winston: "Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend--if you have one." Churchill wired back: "Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second--if there is one."61" | William Manchester | ||
| 28b2d64 | Jaina never intended to marry the prince." "I see. He's not a Jedi." "True, but that's not the issue. I'm guessing that the only man Jaina would ever take seriously is one who can outfly her." "There are not many who fit that description." "Yeah, I've noticed that." Kyp & Jag" | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| 5ff4d7e | This was raw. This was primal. This was real. | knight medieval-romance wales | Angela Quarles | |
| 333cc9f | You will be the death of me, woman. | knight medieval-romance time-travel-romance wales | Angela Quarles | |
| 7e1217b | She straightened and crossed her arms. "I can't sleep with you," she blurted. ... "As you please." "As you please?" She stepped back, the rough wood of the bench bumping her upper calf. She'd braced herself for a battle and now felt oddly deflated. "You aren't going to try to talk me into it?" "I need not talk women into lying with me." | knight knightly-romance medieval-romance norman time-travel-romance wales welsh | Angela Quarles | |
| 5973379 | Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying. | historical-romance knight knight-romance medieval-romance normans time-travel-romance wales | Angela Quarles | |
| bae8100 | Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to smearing honey on his junk and walking into grizzly territory. | humor jock romance | Heidi Betts | |
| 5600363 | Parenting pressures have resculpted our priorities so dramatically that we simply forget. In 1975 couples spent, on average, 12.4 hours alone together per week. By 2000 they spent only nine. What happens, as this number shrinks, is that our expectations shrink with it. Couple-time becomes stolen time, snatched in the interstices or piggybacked onto other pursuits. Homework is the new family dinner. I was struck by Laura Anne's language as s.. | Jennifer Senior | ||
| 3b45a77 | Bertrand Russell where he declared, "I would rather be mad with the truth than sane with lies." -- | Todd J. McCaffrey | ||
| 37ce171 | No one is keeping a score. We're all just trying to do the right thing. | Jude Watson | ||
| 9a53132 | Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years before he developed true inner balance. Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was supposed to have it already. | Jude Watson | ||
| df75d87 | He bolted up. "What's happening? Where's my pants?" | Jude Watson | ||
| 885150a | Amy looked up at him. Their faces were very close. She remembered when those dark expressive eyes would make her quiver inside, when being this close would make her blush and stammer. Not anymore, though. | Jude Watson | ||
| e5a26db | There is no try. Only do. Yoda said that, and he was awesome.")." | Jude Watson | ||
| a0b38e8 | Was our father a Vesper?" Erasmus took a careful sip of coffee. He leaned back and blew out a sigh as he stared out at the square. Then he took off his sunglasses. His eyes looked tired. He leaned forward again, his big hands cradling the cup. With every move and gesture Amy felt her heart sink. She wanted to run as far and as fast as she could to escape what was coming next. "Yes," Erasmus said." | Jude Watson | ||
| ff1c4f1 | The great spy novelist John Le Carre suggested this axiom: The cat sat on the mat is not the beginning of a story. The cat sat on the dog's mat, is. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 71d04f9 | Sometimes writing a novel feels about as rewarding as turning a spit in the fires of hell. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 472b915 | You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 1ca257d | Grief was not a stream. It was an ocean. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 93d29b0 | Give yourself permission to be bad. Write first, polish later. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 6caff6b | Don't give up. I don't think any other advice works. Writing is one of those things where you just have to do it. There will be far more people to discourage you than to encourage you. The time never comes to you, the inspiration doesn't come to you. You just sit down and do it." - James Lee Burke" | James Scott Bell | ||
| 69addff | When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb with a pencil and a ten-cent notebook, and start the whole thing all over again." - Preston Sturges" | James Scott Bell | ||
| d621916 | Dwight Swain, the great writing teacher, once said that the secret of excitement is to go deeper into your characters. Create more backstory, more secrets, more complexity, and you'll get excited again. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 9a4f4e8 | Transformation is about change, and change needs to be proven. People can talk a good game. Someone can say he's sorry for stealing and wants to go straight. But until the thief returns the goods, we don't believe he's a changed person. Change does involve an inner realization. But then, to prove itself, it must work outward in a visual form. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 0a55c93 | A great novel is the record of how a character fights with death. | James Scott Bell | ||
| e22cd2f | While there is some disagreement over the official length of a short story, a good rule of thumb is that it is between 1k and 7k words. Less than that and you get into the area of flash fiction. More than that and you move into the territory of the novelette (7k -20k) or the novella (20k-50k). | James Scott Bell | ||
| bb87635 | The despot is not a man. It is the Plan. The correct, realistic, exact plan, the one that will provide your solution once the problem has been posited clearly, in its entirety, in its indispensable harmony. This plan has been drawn up well away from the frenzy in the mayor's office or the town hall, from the cries of the electorate or the laments of society's victims. It has been drawn up by serene and lucid minds. It has taken account of n.. | James C. Scott | ||
| 023b596 | Ethnicity and tribe began, by definition, where sovereignty and taxes ended. The ethnic zone was feared and stigmatized by state rhetoric precisely because it was beyond its grasp and therefore an example of defiance and an ever-present temptation to those who might wish to evade the state. | ethnicity shatter-belt statism taxes tribalism | James C. Scott | |
| 5d91c85 | So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts. . . . In my view, the great intellectual challenge facing conservatives is to make the case for morality at a time when many in the West have ceased to believe in an external moral order. The decline of belief in such an order is the most important political development of the past two centuries. Indeed, this decline has created the "crisis of the West." -- | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| dc9554a | Progressives want to take over all the major industries, from education to health care to energy to automobiles to investment banking to real estate. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, they want, as my fellow inmates like to say, "the whole enchilada." This is not to say that progressives intend to seize all that wealth, but they do want to control it. Progressives generally can't create wealth, so they seek to take it over once it has bee.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 89ae5fe | Fascism is an Italian term that means "groupism" or "collectivism." The fasci in Italy were groups of political activists who got their name from the fasces of ancient Rome--the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the unified strength of the Romans. The core meaning of the term fascism is that people are stronger in groups than they are as individuals." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| b2bcb2a | Second, America is drowning in debt. While China is the world's largest creditor nation, America is the world's largest debtor nation. At $17 trillion, the national debt is now bigger than the annual gross domestic product--in other words, it is bigger than the total sum of goods and services that America produces in a year. Nearly half of this debt has been accumulated during the Obama years, at the average rate of a trillion dollars a yea.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 78b639f | The godfather's name is Saul Alinsky. His most famous students are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Hardly anyone recognizes this, but Alinsky and the Alinsky method is the hidden force behind the 2008 economic meltdown. The meltdown was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression; it was the main cause of median wealth in the United States in the subsequent three years declining nearly 40 percent. While the meltdown is routinely .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 2a97ae5 | Hitler and Mussolini were indeed authoritarians, but it doesn't follow that authoritarianism equals fascism or Nazism. Lenin and Stalin were authoritarian, but neither was a fascist. Many dictators--Franco in Spain, Pinochet in Chile, Peron in Argentina, Amin in Uganda--were authoritarian without being fascists or Nazis. Trump admittedly has a bossy style that he gets from, well, being a boss. He has been a corporate boss all his life, and .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| ec23fb4 | Hillary rode her husband's success to become first lady of Arkansas, then first lady of the United States. Then she won an easy race in liberal New York to become its junior senator. As a senator she accomplished, well, nothing. Then she ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, losing to Barack Obama, who appointed her secretary of state. Despite extensive travels, Hillary's achievements as secretary of state are essentially nil. As .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 81c4f78 | I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren | Max Allan Collins |