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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0d4d3dd | Do you think I don't worry about you?" "That's not--" "Not the same? Because you are a man and I am a woman?" "No. Because it's one thing for me to make the choice to put my own life in danger and something else entirely when my actions endanger someone else." She touched her fingers to his lips. "I knew what I was letting myself in for when I married you, Devlin." He smiled against her hand. "I'm not sure I did." | C.S. Harris | ||
| 41e3bdf | O Come, O Come, Emmanuel "T hey shall call his name Immanuel" (which means, God with us)" (Matthew 1:23 ESV). This is perhaps our oldest Christmas carol. Historians say its roots go back to the 8th century. In its earliest form, it was a "plain song" or a chant and the monks sang it a cappella. It was sung or chanted in Latin during the seven days leading up to Christmas. Translated into English by John Mason Neale in 1851, we sing it to th.. | Ray Pritchard | ||
| 76838de | Never worry about how much money, ability, or equipment you are starting with; just begin with a million dollars' worth of determination. Remember: It's not what you have; it's what you do with what you have that makes all the difference. | John Mason | ||
| f0a746d | Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper--it solves a problem and makes things more acceptable for a while. | John Mason | ||
| 9cb0d80 | Mediocrity is a region bound on the north by compromise, on the south by indecision, on the east by past thinking, and on the west by a lack of vision. | John Mason | ||
| 5e59ec2 | Reflect on why your life is precious. Ask yourself: "What inspires me to live?" * Reflect on the fact that death is unavoidable, and on how you want to live your life. Ask yourself: "How am I being in this life? What am I doing with my life?" * Reflect that actions have consequences, and on some of the consequences of your actions. Ask yourself: "What actions have been a gain to my life? What actions have been a cost in my life?" * Re.. | Valerie Mason-John | ||
| 9085e69 | I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 8a92bac | Oh, boy, he could kiss. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4dedbfe | Los muertos enterrados no me daban miedo. Los vivos y los no muertos eran mucho mas peligrosos. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b95368e | dearly hope that neither Jack nor his family ever encounter one of the vile predatory monsters that inhabit our world. Be careful who you trust, that's my advice. They can all too easily destroy your life, as he did mine. | John Nicholl | ||
| b1dc629 | Sadly, life has taught me that attempting to determine our future is something of a lottery. We can try, we should always try, but there are no guarantees. | John Nicholl | ||
| c73d7aa | I don't know much," I confessed, my voice barely audible. "Don't worry. I know a lot." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 493055f | Email to Eric from Bill: GFY. Let me know if you need help with that abbreviation Sheriff. Bill | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 1b21806 | Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read . . . or didn't read. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 29fdf35 | Make love," he suggested. "Make love with me." "I'm not in the right mood for love." "Let me try to persuade you." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d17c8c8 | I'd often thought being a Christian meant by definition being a bad one, since nothing is more difficult than Christianity, so I was more or less used to that feeling. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| f16b803 | The worst thing about sleepless nights was the feeling of running in a hamster cage, at least mentally. The same thoughts, over and over . . . | Charlaine Harris | ||
| c32333e | Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends | Lisa Chaney | ||
| 5e1d821 | the end, it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation. | David Hewson | ||
| 55b408f | I can see why some people become "beach bunnies": you don't have to think about things or even talk when you're on the beach. You just sit here and feel good about being alive." | beach beach-bunnies feel good talk think | Jennifer Allison | |
| 5c6e881 | I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better, no longer tired. I went to the typewriter and sat before it. My thought was to write a sentence, a single perfect sentence. If I could write one good sentence I could write two and if I could write two I could write three, and if I could write three I could write forever. But suppose I failed? Suppose I had lost all of my beautiful .. | persistence writing | John Fante | |
| 6ec08df | that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other. | Joseph Epstein | ||
| 80281af | Moldovans, most of whom will never be able to afford the products advertised--unless they sell a kidney. Joseph Epstein, in his book on envy, described the entire advertising industry as "a vast and intricate envy-producing machine." In Moldova, all of that envy has nowhere to dissipate; it just accumulates, like so much toxic waste." | Eric Weiner | ||
| 080e84a | It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious. | Joseph Epstein | ||
| f2d5043 | Delia Smith calls it 'tart's pasta'. Italian American restaurants call it 'whore's pasta'. But Nigella Lawson calls it 'slut's spaghetti', and that's the one I prefer. Because there's nothing more terrifying than a woman who eats and fucks with abandon. | Lara Williams | ||
| b682e90 | Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor | Joseph Demakis | ||
| dc03be2 | was asking what the difference was between mime and pantomime and no one would say. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 4d70fc1 | tragic Powell, the Company Man Who Could Have Been Great, who was offered the mantle by all the polls but deferred to the Boss's Callow Son and vouched for him, | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 6da6f42 | The top 1% holds nearly half of the financial wealth, the greatest concentration of wealth of any industrialized nation, more concentrated than at any time since the Depression. In 1980, on average, CEOs earned 42 times the salary of the average worker, and these days they earn about 476 times that salary. Since 1980, the rich have been getting richer fast and furiously and hard-working people in the middle are sliding down the greasy slope.. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 68e7bd4 | That's what high school does for you: gives you some art and music and history so that even if you spend your life raising kids and writing computer programs, still there was a time when you argued about the First Amendment and talked about the Civil War and read Romeo and Juliet. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 8674677 | We are one country, and I remain a proud Unionist, happy to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and pledge allegiance, sing about the amber waves of grain, wish I was in the land of cotton, pick my teeth with a carpet tack, be in the kitchen with Dinah, hate to see the evening sun go down, take myself out to the ball game, walk that lonesome valley, and lean on the everlasting arms. I love this country. This is one of those simple dumb discover.. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| c31a406 | You could allow a gentleman the privacy of his piss. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 90f00db | For about 48 weeks of the year an asparagus plant is unrecognizable to anyone except an asparagus grower. Plenty of summer visitors to our garden have stood in the middle of the bed and asked, 'What is this stuff? It's beautiful!' We tell them its the asparagus patch, and they reply, 'No this, these feathery little trees.' An asparagus spear only looks like its picture for one day of its life, usually in April, give or take a month as you t.. | food | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 6ea657c | Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes," he still loves to say, as often as possible. "It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a9f00d4 | I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7e27d7e | There is something else I must confess about Tata Boanda: he's a sinner. Right in the plain sight of God he has two wives, a young and an old one. Why, they all come to church! Father says we're to pray for all three of them, but when you get down to the particulars it's hard to know exactly what outcome to pray for. He should drop one wife, I guess, but for sure he'd drop the older one, and she already looks sad enough as it is. The younge.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bcb3615 | It's a fact of our culture that the loudest mouths get the most airplay, and the loudmouths are saying that in times of crisis it's treasonous to question our leaders. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 108786d | While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born. | eternity light | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 2a6b5a2 | I know what it is: it's a green mamba snake away up in the tree. You don't have to be afraid of them anymore because you are one. They lie so still on the tree branch; they are the same everything as the tree. You could be right next to one and not even know. It's so quiet there. That's just exactly what I want to go and be, when I have to disappear. Your eyes will be little and round but you are so far up there you can look down and see th.. | disappearance | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| f6d1561 | Life proceeds, it enrages. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a61836d | You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 39cda02 | Bobby Bingo had skin like a baked potato. A complete vegetable man, Lou Ann thought, | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d470b1a | I have long relied on the comforts of martyrdom. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4cdf020 | To live is to be marked, to live is to change, to die one hundred deaths. | Barbara Kingsolver |