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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f7197c1 | If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on." | Yann Martel | ||
| dcb64d9 | I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion. | Yann Martel | ||
| e0bf065 | My fingers, which a second before had been taste buds savouring the food a little ahead of my mouth, became dirty under his gaze. They froze like criminals caught in the act. I didn't dare lick them. I wiped them guiltily on my napkin. He had no idea how deeply those words wounded me. They were like nails being driven into my flesh. I picked up the knife and fork. I had hardly ever used such instruments. My hands trembled. My sambar lost it.. | Yann Martel | ||
| cc38aa9 | What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch? | logic reason | Yann Martel | |
| 5c33fad | I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen. | Yann Martel | ||
| a23cd4f | Le mie pratiche religiose venivano riportate ai miei genitori, dipinti nei toni drammatici del tradimento. Tanta meschinita faceva forse bene a Dio? Purtroppo, c'e sempre chi e pronto ad assumersi le responsabilita di difenderlo, come se la Realta Ultima e la struttura dell'esistenza necessitassero dell'aiuto umano. | Martel Yann | ||
| 4239b44 | There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all. | profound | Yann Martel | |
| 5a11a92 | My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. | memorable story | Yann Martel | |
| 8492093 | They were dead; I could no longer deny it. What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 2fd5bdb | Demonstrate ROI. In this approach, you gather and analyze data to prove that a usability change you've made resulted in cost savings or additional revenue ("Changing the label on this button increased sales by 0.25%"). There's an excellent book about it: Cost-justifying Usability: An Update for the Internet Age, edited by Randolph Bias and Deborah Mayhew." | Steve Krug | ||
| fc7159c | Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away | Steve Krug | ||
| 9d04554 | Or as Jakob Nielsen so aptly put it: The human brain's capacity doesn't change from one year to the next, so the insights from studying human behavior have a very long shelf life. What was difficult for users twenty years ago continues to be difficult today. I | Steve Krug | ||
| 301eb28 | There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still. | loss love | Louis de Bernières | |
| 3c2962a | for the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| e4bcb36 | He felt his throat constrict. and was overcome with an emotion that he could not name. because it was a mixture of so many. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| e286cab | Do you know the strangest thing about being a soldier? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide. and you obey. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 9dfdcd6 | No one is every only one thing. Inside one person there are so many different people, and quite often they're at war with each other, and sometimes one of them is winning, and sometimes another. We're all so hard to understand, aren't we? I don't even understand myself. | conflict self-reflection | Louis de Bernières | |
| ff623be | Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 473254d | There is nothing at all wrong with our laws and institutions and our constitution, which are all democratic and enlightened. What is wrong is that they are enforced by people who do not consider themselves bound by them. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 530c4d4 | Lord Jesus, Son of God,' he prayed. 'If you're not going to do anything, I will. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 739f915 | Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 6fe1c32 | What's the news of the war?' The doctor twisted the ends of his moustache and said, 'Germany is taking everything, the Italians are playing the fool, the French have run away, the Belgians have been overrun whilst they were looking the other way, the Poles have been charging tanks with cavalry, the Americans have been playing baseball, the British have been drinking tea and adjusting their monocles, the Russians have been sitting on their h.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 9ceecb1 | Soldiers planted like vegetables waiting for the day of harvest. ... everything is more intense at night, perfectly beautiful, and when the wind shifts and the reek of rotting meat vanishes for a few blessed minutes you can smell the sweet scent of the countryside. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 8370053 | few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit, | Louis de Bernières | ||
| c9589e6 | Only an island as lackadaisical as this would allow itself to be infested by such troupes of casual and impertinent goats. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 5f92db5 | The oligarchy was divided into Liberals and Conservatives, who were united in their terror of communism after the success of the Cuban Revolution, especially since many of them had had interests in the brothels and casinos of Havana; others had had interests in pharmaceutical companies that manufactured drugs to cure the diseases spread by the former, and some in supplying guns to be used by gangs struggling for control of the latter. Howev.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| bc3c857 | to believe there's so many dogs that all look the same.' Nancy smiled to herself. Red Dog was everybody's dog now, | Louis de Bernières | ||
| fb4fd91 | Distinguee? In what sense might a maid be distinguee? | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 419302f | as the human race is incapable of learning anything from history. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 8ac27cb | One is only young once, but in her case it was once too often. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 4e12862 | No matter which route you take, within twenty-four hours the day will be over. Tomorrow should be better. But if it's not, nor the next day, or the next, then know that it's okay to ask for help from friends, a support group, a therapist, a doctor, or your Higher Power. Dark days come to all of us. Yet discouraging days bring with them golden opportunities when we can learn to be kind to ourselves. Believe it or not, today offers you a hidd.. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 1ea71a7 | Ir is tiesu netrukus tekancio vandens sniokstimas pamazu nustelbe visur aplinkui slamancius medzius, tyliai kalbancius vieni su kitais alsia, gailia sneka, kokia ramiomis dienomis prabyla eukaliptai. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 948da5e | Ceriba ir visnezeligaka pavadone, un reizem otram vislabak var palidzet, nogalinot vina bezcerigu ceribu. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 2506024 | Corunda Base Hospital itself continued to function on doctors, nurses, domestic staff, food preparers, and ancillary staff in the same old way, so that the patients lived (or died) in relative ignorance of the drama going on at an executive level. Indeed, it was a rare patient even knew that a hospital had executives. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 25c9f62 | stayed as close to Theatre as she could, working Casualty or Men's; | Colleen McCullough | ||
| cec1758 | Later on after the war was over the women were to find this constantly; the men who had actually been in the thick of battle never opened their mouths about it, refused to join the ex-soldiers' clubs and leagues, wanted nothing to do with institutions perpetuating the memory of war. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 52508d6 | Os nossos filhos e os seus filhos e todas as geracoes vindouras tem de ser fortes. Tem de ser educados de molde a terem orgulho dos seus proprios feitos e do seu proprio trabalho arduo; nao devem ser educados para descansarem sobre os louros dos pais. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 66f21ae | S'lzite ia zaslepiavakha, s'rtseto i be svito ot nepoznata do sega bolka, zashchoto nikoga predi ne be pritezhavala neshcho, zaradi koeto da t'guva | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 1318c65 | Mislekh, che s'm uspiala da te natikam v misha dupka zavinagi. - Edin svesten m'zh ne mozhe da ostane v misha dupka zavinagi. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 79e8903 | Ptichkata s tr'na v g'rdite sledva neumolim zakon.Sama ne znae kakvo ia kara da zabie shipa v s'rtseto si i da umre, peeiki. Kogato ostriia tr'n ia pronizva,tia ne podozira, che ia ochakva sm'rt..samo pee i pee, dokato ne i ostanat sili da izdade nito zvuk poveche. No nie- kogato nie zabivame shipa v g'rdite si, znaem. Razbirame. I vse pak go pravim. Vse pak go pravim. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 2e9d3a0 | Nav jegas barstit Sekspiru tur, kur gluzi labi pietiek ar grafomanu. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 7aee689 | went to the cross eight months before His | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 83b01a3 | Surprised, she realized that keeping physically busy is the most effective blockade against totally mental activity human beings can erect. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| afbeac4 | Ot svobodno padashchite cherni k'dravi kosi i porazitelno sinite ochi do iziashchnite r'tse i kraka otets Ralf beshe deistvitelno s'v'rshen. Ne, izkliucheno beshe da ne si dava smetka za tova. I vse pak d'rzhanieto mu i podskazvashe, che toi e nad vsichki tezi neshcha i che nikoga ne e robuval i niama da robuva na v'nshnostta si. Toi bez ugrizenie bi ia izpolzval, ako triabva, za da postigne tselta si, no ne kato che li zhertva neshcho sk'p.. | Colleen McCullough |