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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da6887e | Tribal Chief 1: The will of the people is what is best. That is what democracy means Tribal Chief 2: But if the people don't know what they are talking about, how can that be the best? | humor humorous-quotes satire satirical-humor-quotes | Leonard Wibberley | |
| cc235f6 | Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| c9ebcd4 | The state has the authority to take citizens' private property--in this case, their genetic information--without due process. Those are the features of a totalitarian state, not a liberal democracy. Jim | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| e837842 | Gentlemen," he said. "The Marine Corps loves you. Because the Marine Corps loves you, it has gone to considerable effort and expense to provide you with a healthy, nutritious breakfast. The Marine Corps expects you to eat the healthy, nutritious breakfast it has provided for you." | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| bcdf113 | we say here in Texas, 'Cold as an ex-wife's heart. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 5aa26a2 | only thing worse than not realizing one's dreams was to realize them: | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 1939f17 | all things live only if something else is cleared out of the path to make way. No death; no life. No exceptions. Things must come and go. People. Years. Ideas. Everything. The wheel turns, and the old is cleared away as fodder for the new. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| dc8e6ee | Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no oil, no vines, no wine, not even chickens. He asks, 'What kind of life is that?' He says, 'No wonder you don't sing or dance or recite poetry very often. | culture life meaningfulness | Robert Fulghum | |
| 613e7b8 | When Mark Twain was told in 1905 by the librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library that copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been removed from the shelves of the children's room, he replied, "I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be w.. | Richard Shenkman | ||
| 800553f | But even as she struck the bonds seemed to tighten, with each fresh blow to bind more securely. Mary now clung with every fibre of her sorely distressed and outraged being; with every memory that Stephen stirred; with every passion that Stephen had fostered; with every instinct of loyalty that Stephen had aroused to do battle with Martin. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| bbbf4bb | as things turned out her choice had been happy, for seldom had two people loved more than they did; they loved with an ardour undiminished by time; as they ripened, so their love ripened with them. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 3c0e46f | So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| b491c5c | Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement. One could say things in writing without feeling self-conscious, without feeling shy and ashamed and foolish -- one could even write of the days of young Nelson, smiling a very little as one did so. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 92a81fe | My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 462d7d2 | Do you believe in God, Martin?' And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?' | radclyffe-hall religion trees well-of-loneliness | Radclyffe Hall | |
| 2c8af54 | But her mother had looked at her curiously, gravely, puzzled by this creature who seemed all contradictions - at one moment so hard, at another so gentle, gentle to tenderness, even. Anna had been stirred, as her child had been stirred, by the breath of the meadowsweet under the hedges; for in this they were one, the mother and daughter, having each in her veins the warm Celtic blood that takes note of such things - could they only have div.. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 73be9cc | we're all part of nature. Some day the world will recognize this... | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| e0eedf2 | For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| e5061a3 | It was her nature...her weakness, that for her loving another human being must always have this intensity...this absoluteness. | Penny Jordan | ||
| e46f306 | We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the most difficult human art. It requires seeing all things at once, forward and backward, the way God sees. | Greg Iles | ||
| 22513f4 | yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other. | Greg Iles | ||
| e6e8bc1 | If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures. | Greg Iles | ||
| 73f0982 | For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop. | Greg Iles | ||
| c9faf5d | Emotions are by nature amorphous. When confined to words, our longings and passions, our rebellions and humiliations often seem melodramatic, trivial, or even pathetic. | Greg Iles | ||
| 2538bd4 | Mississippi blood is different. It's got some river in it. Delta soil, turpentine, asbestos, cotton poison. But there's strength in it, too. Strength that's been beat but not broke. | Greg Iles | ||
| 22ccdfb | Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own. | Greg Iles | ||
| 895f790 | Greed, apathy, hubris--even loyalty--all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word. | Greg Iles | ||
| 68043ca | But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot. | Greg Iles | ||
| dc94991 | Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General Eisenhower? Not one whit. Men are men, and gods are for storybooks. And if you've read your Edith Hamilton or Jane Harrison--or the Old Testament, for that matter--you'll know that gods acted like men most of the time, or worse. | Greg Iles | ||
| 49800db | All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life--it's living death. | Greg Iles | ||
| 672eb35 | Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. | Greg Iles | ||
| 3550cd9 | I educated myself, discovered my gift for language, learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart. | Greg Iles | ||
| 79e3c4c | There's no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it. | Greg Iles | ||
| d7d748b | If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago. | Greg Iles | ||
| 6348b84 | Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand. I have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now. | Greg Iles | ||
| 618004a | learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave. | Greg Iles | ||
| 8351682 | There are also generational knowledges in play, accessed and skilled within a history of televisual experiments in educational entertainment. For US academics schooled in the fifties, sixties, and seventies some old TV shows haunt this vignette as well. Two are Walter Cronkite's (CBS, 1953-57) and Steve Allen's (PBS, 1977-81). During the mid-century decades either or both could be found on the TV screen and in US secondary school classr.. | Katie King | ||
| 9029282 | In 1964, long-playing vinyl records sounded great. It was the age of high fidelity, and even your parents were likely to have a good-sounding console or tube components and a nice set of speakers, A&R, KLH, and so on. All the telephones worked, and they sounded good, too. Rarely did anyone ever lose a call, and that was usually on an overseas line. Anyone could work a TV set, even your grandmother. Off, on, volume, change the channel, perio.. | Donald Fagen | ||
| 30b7aec | si una mentira se repetia con la frecuencia suficiente, hasta los que sabian que era una mentira la consideraban pronto como si fuese verdad. | Leon Uris | ||
| 49b3fbb | The true guilty draw a curtain on the past. The most innocent assume the guilt. Unfortunately there are too few Germans like that girl. | Leon Uris | ||
| e52bfdd | So anyhow, all your goddamn poets will write tired sonnets about the good old days when the noblemen kicked the piss out of the peasants and the peasants kicked the piss out of the Jews. | Leon Uris | ||
| 60dfa61 | At the edge of the sea he took her to the ruins of the synagogue of Capernaum. Here, Jesus walked and taught and healed. Words came to Kitty's mind that she thought she had forgotten. Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee and saw two brethren, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea ... And they went into Capernaum and straight away on the Sabbath He entered into the synagogue and taught. It was | Leon Uris | ||
| e01bdf4 | For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who lived free in England were only there due to some quirk of fate instead of Aushwitz and every Jew knew that genocide could have happened to his own family except for that quirk of fate. Yet, as time stood suspended, Gilray was all gentiles who never quite understood Jews. He could befriend them, work with them, but never totally un.. | inspirational religion understand | Leon Uris | |
| 933632a | On May 9, 1916, the British and French entered into a clandestine treaty on how they intended to carve up the region. The treaty was the Sykes-Picot, named for the negotiators. Always described as infamous, the treaty ignored both Jewish aspirations and Sharif Husain's personal ambitions. And so Palestine became the 'twice promised land. | Leon Uris |