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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 81fcf65 | There was no question that Andrew was the most fantastic bloke she had the good fortune to go out with. | Chris Manby | ||
| f5625fa | All that time tying herself up in knots because she simply couldn't think of a good reason not to be with him | heartbreak love | Chris Manby | |
| 8328827 | Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go. | home love | Donna VanLiere | |
| 20f9c95 | Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| ee673b7 | Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven. Nothing can touch you here. | safe-haven | Jonathan Carroll | |
| 116dc70 | How does these things happen? How do we go mad in small ways and calmly work the madness into our everyday little exercises...? Little by little... | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| af7ee38 | guilt's a whore. It goes with anybody, but it's not good in bed. You're not dying, but this thing you've got with the girl is no different than my situation. We could both use up whole days feeling guilty 'bout what we didn't do in life, but why spend a day in bed with someone who doesn't give you any pleasure? | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| d770527 | Chaos doesn't do, it undoes. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| e6ca22a | Time doesn't fly, it steals. Like some skilled pickpocket or magician, it gets you to look the other way and when you do, it ruthlessly steals your essential things--memories, great moments that end much too soon, the lives of those you love. It knows how to trick you and then steal you blind. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 7a855e6 | Quelli che ci amano possono essere divisi in due categorie: chi ci capisce e chi ci perdona i nostri peggiori peccati. Raramente riusciamo a trovare una persona capace di entrambe le cose. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 47d0fad | Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 977df25 | One splendid summer afternoon Kaspar realized he had never been happier in his life or both of his lives, past and present. Not fireworks-orgasms-and-champagne happy, but on waking in the morning he was glad almost every single day to be exactly where he was. He had never before experienced the feeling of genuine, constant well-being and it was a true revelation. The longer the satisfaction continued, the less he thought about his previous .. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 68084db | In the end, each of us has only one story to tell. It takes a lifetime to live that story but sometimes less than an hour to tell it. The | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| a371210 | We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. --C. S. Lewis It | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 89ed219 | Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 7b1be20 | y en este mundo, en conclusion, todos suenan lo que son, aunque ninguno lo entiende. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 6c94f4e | No, I dream not, since I know What I am and what I've been. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 1ee10fa | Woman, the sweetest name That man can breathe, or flattering language frame, Who art thou? | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 40ac96f | For, as on the coloured canvas Subtle pencils softly blend Dark and light in such proportions That the dim perspectives end- Now perhaps like famous cities, Now like caves or misty capes, For remoteness ever formeth Monstrous or unreal shapes... So it was, while I alone, Saw their bulk and vast proportions But their form remained unknown. First they seemed to us uplifting High in heaven their pointed towers, Clouds that to the sea descended.. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 17dc3aa | pues asi llegue a saber que toda la dicha humana, en fin, pasa como sueno, y quiero hoy aprovecharla | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 640c73d | That I dream, and that my wishes Are to do what's right, since we Even in dreams should do what's fitting. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 5edf27c | Wake me not if this is vision, Let me sleep not if 'tis true. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| b2c0759 | They were white, because the U.S. Army in World War II was segregated. With three exceptions, they were unmarried. Most had been hunters and athletes in high school. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| ef4654b | How he led is no mystery. His techniques were time-honored. He knew his men. He saw to it that they had dry socks, enough food, sufficient clothing. He pushed them to but never beyond the breaking point. He got out of them more than they knew they had to give. His concern for them was that of a father for his son. He was the head of a family. He | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 7f2b786 | Profitable as it was to him, Jefferson hated slavery. He regarded it as a curse to Virginia and wished to see it abolished throughout the United States. Not, however, in his lifetime. He said that his generation was not ready for such a step. He would leave that reform to the next generation of Virginians, and was sure they would make Virginia the first southern state to abolish slavery. He thought the young men coming of age in postwar Vir.. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 91423da | When a man was hit hard enough for evacuation, he was usually very happy, and we were happy for him--he had a ticket out to the hospital, or even a ticket home--alive. "When a man was killed--he looked 'so peaceful.' His suffering was over." | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 3a091b1 | That evening, the first Americans ever to enter Montana, the first ever to see the Yellowstone, the Milk, the Marias, and the Great Falls, the first Americans ever to kill a grizzly, celebrated their nation's twenty-ninth birthday. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 36dd4cd | No wrong will ever be done you by our nation."3" | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 3a12eaf | Despite himself, Webster was drawn to the people. "The Germans I have seen so far have impressed me as clean, efficient, law-abiding people," he wrote his parents on April 14. They were churchgoers. "In Germany everybody goes out and works and, unlike the French, who do not seem inclined to lift a finger to help themselves, the Germans fill up the trenches soldiers have dug in their fields. They are cleaner, more progressive, and more ambit.. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| b0fa337 | The men of Easy Company lined the rails to see the Statue of Liberty slip astern. For nearly every one of them, it was his first trip outside the United States. A certain homesickness set in, coupled with a realization, as the regimental scrapbook Currahee put it, of "how wonderful the last year had been." | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| a42044f | No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 989c77f | Each man in his own way had gone through what Richard Winters experienced: a realization that doing his best was a better way of getting through the Army than hanging around with the sad excuses for soldiers they met in the recruiting depots or basic training. They wanted to make their Army time positive, a learning and maturing and challenging experience. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 5086c32 | On his thirty-first birthday, Lewis wrote, in a famous passage, "This day I completed my thirty first year. . . . I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the hapiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation. I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now soarly feel the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they b.. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 50c2695 | Army was boring, unfeeling, and chicken, and hated it. They found combat to be ugliness, destruction, and death, and hated it. Anything was better than the blood and carnage, the grime and filth, the impossible demands made on the body--anything, that is, except letting down their buddies. They also found in combat the closest brotherhood they ever knew. They found selflessness. They found they could love the other guy in their foxhole more.. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| a55c18f | The Easy Company men began throwing grenades at the retreating enemy. Compton had been an All-American catcher on the UCLA baseball team. The distance to the fleeing enemy was about the same as from home plate to second base. Compton threw his grenade on a straight line--no arch--and it hit a German in the head as it exploded. He, | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 2910bdd | There are trees growing in Philadelphia (at Fourth and Spruce Streets) and the University of Virginia (at Morea, a guest house) today that grew from the cuttings Lewis sent. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| f5242eb | They knew they were going into great danger. They knew they would be doing more than their part. They resented having to sacrifice years of their youth to a war they never made. They wanted to throw baseballs, not grenades, shoot a .22 rifle, not an M-1. But having been caught up in the war, they decided to be as positive as possible in their Army careers. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 8fd200d | McCoy, drained and hollow-eyed, couldn't take his eyes off the life vest belonging to the boy who'd slipped away from the group during the night. The empty vest spooked McCoy. All its straps were still tightly tied-it looked like some trick that Houdini might've played. Then McCoy peered into the water and got another shock: the boy was floating below him, spread-eagled, about fifteen feet below the surface. He lay motionless until a curren.. | Doug Stanton | ||
| cd1cee9 | Elizabeth, do you remember Jerusalem? The pools of Bethesda, the porch and the water where the lame and halt used to wait for the angel to stir the water for them? There was a beggar there. His body was broken and feeble. He was so weak and lame, he was unable to walk, unable even to stand. Do you remember him, Elizabeth? Do you know who I mean?" "Yes, I remember. He was one of the crippled. And my Brother healed him." "Do you remember how .. | Chris Stewart | ||
| 6a8790c | In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." --Dwight D. Eisenhower" | K.M. Weiland | ||
| ecef275 | Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an achievement that much of the Republican Party has been trying to undo over the past several decades. Richard Nixon signed into law four landmark federal bills: the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Environmental Pesticide Control Act, and the Endangered Species Act. He established the Environmental Protection Agency, and made ma.. | Dale Jamieson | ||
| fd600fa | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed -- those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone -- it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
| ffcdc9f | We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity. | Clayborne Carson | ||
| b988c47 | However it might go, I should have no regrets. If I should be reduced to begging in the street, then I should enjoy the feel of pavement beneath my feet and the odors of asphalt and automobile exhausts. Good and bad fortune were equally attractive when viewed in such a context. Hunger was as interesting as satiety. A life without sight was as interesting as life with sight. Who was to say different? Society? The bulk of humanity? They were .. | inspirational motivational | John Howard Griffin |