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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c3ed141 | Geography and history demonstrate that we can never discount Russia. Russia's partial resurgence in our own age following the dissolution of the Soviet Empire is part of an old story. Russia | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| c63b26c | Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism. | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| 2342117 | In foreign policy, a modest acceptance of fate will often lead to discipline rather than indifference. The realization that we cannot always have our way is the basis of a mature outlook that rests on an ancient sensibility, for tragedy is not the triumph of evil over good so much as triumph of one good over another that causes suffering. Awareness of that fact leads to a sturdy morality grounded in fear as well as in hope. The moral benefi.. | machiavelli morality | Robert D. Kaplan | |
| be85bc5 | Books that have been owned by someone for many years for a specific purpose carry not just memories, (that is obvious), they also reveal their owner's true values; for the books we own may indicate something about us very different from what we think. | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| 542a604 | Buffett's genius was largely a genius of character--of patience, discipline, and rationality. | Roger Lowenstein | ||
| ae8181e | Graham's first goal was never to make money--it was to avoid losing any. | Roger Lowenstein | ||
| e2a72e0 | If Wall Street is to learn just one lesson from the Long-Term debacle, it should be that. The next time a Merton proposes an elegant model to manage risks and foretell odds, the next time a computer with a perfect memory of the past is said to quantify risks in the future, investors should run--and quickly--the other way. On Wall Street, though, few lessons remain learned. | Roger Lowenstein | ||
| 1b1d480 | Given the benefit of hindsight, it's difficult to understand why anyone doubts the fascist nature of the French Revolution. Few dispute that it was totalitarian, terrorist, nationalist, conspiratorial, and populist. It produced the first modern dictators, Robespierre and Napoleon, and worked on the premise that the nation had to be ruled by an enlightened avant-garde who would serve as the authentic, organic voice of the "general will." The.. | Jonah Goldberg | ||
| 06dcabf | I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas. | mindset success | Tahir Shah | |
| f496696 | Can good come from evil? Have you ever considered the possibility that one might undertake a search not for God but for evil? You people may have been on the wrong track all these years with all that talk about God and signs of his existence, the order and beauty of the universe--that's all washed up and you know it. The more we know about the beauty and order of the universe, the less God has to do with it. I mean, who cares about such thi.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 338e2ce | Peklo nemuze byt plne ohne - existuji daleko horsi veci. | Walker Percy | ||
| 2c91443 | Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, ? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all? | Walker Percy | ||
| 7088b31 | Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital. | Walker Percy | ||
| b024c53 | It is otherwise with sports and the media. There, too, a shift has occurred, from active participation to the vicarious participation of spectatorship. Four people used to go bowling, but 100 million watch the Super Bowl. Football, where men try to hit and hurt, has replaced baseball as the national game. It is as if the demotion from participant to spectatorship and from live spectatorship to TV spectatorship has to be compensated by uppin.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 3e5d658 | She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is So.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 14e742f | I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness. | Walker Percy | ||
| e642055 | All arguments between the traditional scientific view of man as organism, a locus of needs and drives, and a Christian view of man as a spiritual being not only unresolvable at the present level of discourse but are also profoundly boring...From the scientific view at least, a new model of man is needed, something other than man conceived as a locus of bio-psycho-sociological needs and drives. Such an anthropological model might be provided.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 57e0ae1 | he believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves and no end to their capacity to deceive themselves and that though they loved life, they probably loved death more and in the end would likely win over . | Walker Percy | ||
| 34318bf | REMEMBER TOMORROW Starting point for search: It no longer avails to start with creatures and prove God. Yet it is impossible to rule God out. The only possible starting point: the strange fact of one's own invincible apathy - that if the proofs were proved and God presented himself, nothing would be changed. Here is the strangest fact of all. Abraham saw signs of God and believed. Now the only sign is that all the signs in the world make no.. | Walker Percy | ||
| d099156 | Without faith, people perish, and they are perishing before our eyes | eyes faith god people way-of-life | Walker Percy | |
| 29ffb97 | Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you love me? and it is possible to tap back: yes, I love you. | speech words | Walker Percy | |
| 1ce93b1 | Firing the sunset gun | Walker Percy | ||
| 40a4f62 | but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to keep to oneself and to avoid the uneasy commerce of offense and even insult. Either one shakes hands with someone or one ignores him or one kills him. What else is there? | Walker Percy | ||
| 6ac2e9b | A man is after all himself and no other, and not merely an example of a class of similar selves. If such a man is deprived of the means of being a self in a world made over by science for his use and enjoyment, he is like a ghost at a feast. He becomes invisible. That is why people in the modern age took photographs by the million: to prove despite their deepest suspicions to the contrary that they were not invisible. | Walker Percy | ||
| bc62f10 | I alight at Esplanade in a smell of roasting coffee and creosote and walk up Royal Street. The lower Quarter is the best part. The ironwork on the balconies sags like rotten lace. Little French cottages hide behind high walls. Through deep sweating carriageways one catches glimpses of courtyards gone to jungle. | carriageways coffee cottages courtyards creosote ironwork royal-street | Walker Percy | |
| 02e99e0 | I cannot tolerate this age. And I will not. I might have tolerated you and your Catholic Church, and even joined it, if you had remained true to yourself. Now you're part of the age. You've the same fleas as the dogs you've lain down with. I would have felt at home at Mont-Saint-Michel, the Mount of the Archangel with the flaming sword, or with Richard Coeur de Lion at Acre. They believed in a god who said he came not to bring peace but the.. | Walker Percy | ||
| dde3687 | it must have been hard making a silent movie about a girl who hears voices.) | Stephen Clarke | ||
| 9572d77 | Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day. | James Lee Burke | ||
| caa76b5 | THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 3bfd7e1 | We all have an extended family, people whom we recognize as our own as soon as we see them. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 7bd589e | My experience has been that grief and loss do not necessarily become more acceptable with time, and commitment to them is of no value to either the living or the dead. | James Lee Burke | ||
| dff376a | god bless the world | James Lee Burke | ||
| 4cf1cae | It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it was the poem that banished fear from the heart and transformed us from actors into participants. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 821de02 | There's another way to put it. Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned was a dream written on water. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 65c000b | The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress. | James Lee Burke | ||
| bcb81fd | As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoe.. | warfare | James Lee Burke | |
| fb3a523 | The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. | oil-spill | James Lee Burke | |
| f88a022 | Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice. | James Lee Burke | ||
| b7d2728 | Every drunkard has many moments of shame that live like carpet tacks in his memory, | James Lee Burke | ||
| 5dbaec4 | People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 4c790e5 | As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else. | virtue wealth | James Lee Burke | |
| 2bb74cd | Then Belmont discovered the carnival world of Louisiana politics, in the way a mental patient might wander into a theme park for the insane and realize that life held more promise than he had ever dreamed. Burke, James Lee. Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux Book 11) | James Lee Burke | ||
| 49a40b5 | If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors? | James Lee Burke | ||
| d990c4e | Death was a rodent that ate its way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon from organ, until finally, when you were along in the dark, it sat gorged and sleek next to your head, its eyes resting, its wet muzzle like a kiss, a promise whispered in your ear. | James Lee Burke |