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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 635fa67 | But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture and execution of great men.... If it's not going too far back I'd like to know who it was demanded the execution of our friend Jesus H. Christ. | saccho-vanzetti strikes working-class | John Dos Passos | |
| 436ee0d | U. S. A. is the slice of a continent. U. S. A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stockquotations rubbed out and written in by a Western Union boy on a blackboard, a public-library full of old newspapers and dogeared historybooks with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil. U. S. A. is the world's greatest river.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| b1a8c0d | ftsl jwd whw yhz r'sh bHzn : - wkyf ytsn~ llHb wlslm 'n y`ysh byn lfqr wnbbyt lftwt. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 37668e8 | n 'Hkm m fy `mlk 'nk thzmyn lshr blTyb ljmyl. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 2bdd3c8 | We usually exchange bare civilities at breakfast and then settle back to loathe each other cordially in silence. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d804a13 | hl t`ny lHy@ 'n nstwSy bljbn wl`m ? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 9b1aaae | He shook his head sadly. "What a fool you are. You've wasted your ability searching for something that doesn't exist." "When will you realize you don't exist?" | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| e90022f | wtbtsm kthyran f'qwl l'my: -tyz@ wlyd@ khfyf@ wtHb lDHk fttmt 'my: -rbn m`h wm` kl jryH | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 092a8ac | l`ql y`ny lHkm@ wl'nny@ wljbn | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d7a87f3 | nstTy` 'n n`ysh dwn mbl@ bm yqwl lns | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 875a1ed | lkdhb ynqlb fDyl@ fy HDr@ lns | virtue women | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 766d4e7 | ldny mn Gyr Tl`@ mHyh l tswy dhrh mn rmd | face flirt | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 01d7aa5 | lkn myld nsn qd yjy blkwrth, fwq rw'wsn l`n@ mn qbl 'n nwld, w'`jb `dw@ hy l tjd lh mn mbrr l 'nh byn 'khwyn. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| c43479b | sm` y jbl, lkhwf shdyd lydh, wlth`bn l yldG l `nd lkhwf ! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 9fd6769 | Calatoria pare sa fie destul de lunga. Tanarul pare sa se fi imbarcat in trenul lui Auguste Compte, sa fi trecut prin statia teologiei, a carei deviza era: ,,Da! Crede si nu cerceta" pentru a poposi si a scormoni acum in taramurile metafizicii a carei deviza este: ,,Nu!", iar in departare se intrezareste realismul, pe al carui frontispiciu sta scris: ,,Deschide ochii si intdrazneste!"." -- | pozitivism realism viața | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| dd047c6 | After living for a month in his home, her character had been infected with the virus of submission to his will, which terrified everyone in the house. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 17e6dde | det ar bra for en manniska att meditera over de drommar hon haft. Da framstar den passiva tron pa vetenskapen som en verklighetsflykt lika mycket som mysticismen. Darfor ar arbete och handling nodvandiga. Men de maste vara grundade pa tro. Fragan ar hur vi kan skaffa oss en tro vardig livet. ... 'Jag tror pa livet och manniskorna', hade Ahmed sagt. 'Jag anser det vara min plikt att stodja deras ideal, sa lange de ar riktiga, for passivitet.. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| b5a8190 | lm 'jd f~ `qlny@ 'stdh~ lshykh mGG@ '~ jdw~ fy sjn~ ldy'm wlkn~ wjdt fy qdry@ 'm~ lsdhj@ rH@ ly's | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 25a37d0 | tSwr 'n 'bq~ Ht~ 'shhd zwl dnyy. ydhhb lns rjl wns, w'bq~ Gryb wsT Grb, 'fr mn mkn l~ mkn, 'byt mTrd 'bdy, 'jn, 'tmn~ lmwt... | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 6c9bee9 | ql lshykh `bd rbh lty'h: khfq y qlby w`shq kl jmyl wbk bdm` Gzyr dh shy't wlkn l tndm | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 3349937 | Kamal was distressed and angry, not merely at the insult to the honor of teachers but first and foremost for the sake of learning itself, for what he felt was true learning. He did not think well of occupations that shook the earth. He had often found that the writers who inspired him applied derogatory epithets to them, referring, for example, to their counterfeit grandeur and ephemeral glory. Basing his opinion on what they had said, he b.. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 64bf6f5 | how to live away from places and people I love. Joseph Brodsky was right. So were Nabokov and Conrad. They were artists who never returned. Each had tried, in his own way, to cure himself of his country. What you have left behind has dissolved. Return and you will face the absence or the defacement of what you treasured. But Dmitri Shostakovich and Boris Pasternak and Naguib Mahfouz were also right: never leave the homeland. Leave and your .. | Hisham Matar | ||
| 7536383 | m 'Hb lmwd lyk? fyjyb bSrH@ m`hwd@: lmHfwZt, mthl: 'yh lTy'r ljmyl 'hlan, bmHyk wshl Ht~ fy tlk lsn lmbkr@ bd' yHb lsh`r wyHfZh, wrbm wjd sh`ran fy mjl@ mm ywjd fy lfyll fys'l mmth 'n tshrHh lh thm sr`n m yHfZh wys`d lbsh bdhlk wyqwl lHrmh: lwld dhky wsykwn Tbyban mdhshan | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 529c28a | Every inch a person's body travels on the road of separation seems like miles to the heart. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f0a72b8 | Finally I caught on that what you buy today is ready--picked or dug this morning at its peak. This also explained another puzzle; I never understood why Italian refrigerators are so minute until I realized that they don't store food the way we do. The Sub-Zero giant I have at home begins to seem almost institutional compared to the toy fridge I now have here. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 29870e8 | We feel prepared to face the reality of restoration. We walk into town for coffee and telephone Piero Rizzatti, the geometra. The translations "draftsman" or "surveyor" don't quite explain what a geometra is, a professional without an equivalent in the United States--a liaison among owner, builders, and town planning officials. Ian has assured us that he is the best in the area, meaning also that he has the best connections and can get the .. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 395f489 | I'm sure of one thing," she said earnestly. "It hurts to--to let go of anything beautiful. But something will come to take its place, something different, of course, but better. The future's always better than we can possibly think it will be . . . We ought to live confidently. Because whatever's ahead, it's going to be better than we've had." Rose Wilder Lane Diverging Roads" | Susan Wittig Albert | ||
| 5ab7ac2 | Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too happy to accept. In hostile hands, they become a pretext for doing nothing, for brushing off real and urgent moral duties in the care of animals. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 02c4d11 | If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite. | Matthew Scully | ||
| a0c1962 | The corporate farmer is the absent farmer, the stranger on his own property, too important to worry about little details like whether a pig has room to turn or straw to sleep on. He is our modern hireling, too busy with bigger business than the care of his own animals, and we were warned about him long ago: The hired hand--who is no shepherd nor owner of the sheep-- catches sight of the wolf coming and runs away, leaving the sheep to be sna.. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 1304c87 | lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to meet and hardships to bear, joined with us in the mystery of life and death--and frankly, for all of our more exalted endowments, not all that much less enlightened than the sagest of naked apes about the meaning of it all. | Matthew Scully | ||
| fbf908b | Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. | Matthew Scully | ||
| fb4464c | You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending. | end-of-the-world murder | Charlie Huston | |
| 71d51b1 | Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about. | justice morality philosophy universality | Charlie Huston | |
| e7e3b6f | She makes a stone-face, drops her voice an octave. -No. No. No. My name is Joe Pitt and I don't do nuthin' I don't want to do and I won't even listen because I don't know a good thing when I have it and I'd rather be all fucked up and tragic and go hurt people. | Charlie Huston | ||
| cc8bcca | Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind of person you are. What you'll do and why and when you'll do it. What you believe in. What you really believe in. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 3b404e2 | The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a room, he mutters lies to himself to keep from falling into the trap of truth-telling. In the day, sleeping in his bed, deep in the safest heart of Coalition headquarters, he dreams in lies. The better to keep his left hand from knowing what betrayals his right has planned. | Charlie Huston | ||
| c9dc346 | The enforcer takes an envelope from his side jacket pocket and drops it in one of the scummy puddles. I look at Predo. "You rehearse that move in advance? He shrugs. "Actually, not. This one has initiative." | Charlie Huston | ||
| ddb8ad2 | It's a puzzler, and I don't want to sound full of myself, but I may just be the Vyrus messiah." He shakes his head. "I don't know for sure. Have to meditate on that shit some more. Anyhoo." | Charlie Huston | ||
| ef118fc | She reaches up and ties the strip of black cloth so that it covers my dead eye. "Now, go Arrghh. "Arrghh. She nods. "There. You're a pirate." | Charlie Huston | ||
| 50f1e3d | The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5bd94f8 | Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1eeddcd | Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you." | fatherhood lecturing parenting relationship | Randy Alcorn | |
| 656adec | To be in resurrected bodies on a resurrected Earth in resurrected friendships, enjoying a resurrected culture with the resurrected Jesus--now that will be the ultimate party! Everybody will be who God made them to be--and none of us will ever suffer or die again. As a Christian, the day I die will be the best day I've ever lived. But it won't be the best day I ever will live. Resurrection day will be far better. And the first day on the New.. | Randy Alcorn |