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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dea6308 | Enorgullecete de tu dolor -le decia siempre su madre-. Eres mas fuerte que aquellos que no sienten ninguno. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d8748c0 | CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that's just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that's a conspiracy. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d4c9c6a | The Giver shrugged. "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences." He thought for a moment. "We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others." | Lois Lowry | ||
| e31222c | Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. "And" | Lois Lowry | ||
| 7d0f933 | way, he had hoped he would not. His life would | Lois Lowry | ||
| 87b939c | hurry through the evening's last light to the homeplace, where the blind | Lois Lowry | ||
| 30ecd99 | Our gifts are our weaponry, | Lois Lowry | ||
| e27d198 | He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader's, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and fire; and nails being pounded into the tender flesh of a man's hands. Painters had preserved such pain through beauty. | beauty death painters paintings | Lois Lowry | |
| a99f4b4 | A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 949ff7e | Fear dims when you learn things" -Alys" | Lois Lowry | ||
| 348e1fc | I am the Fiercest of the Fierce. | Lois Lowry | ||
| a31b50a | Squalor has nothing to do with money. Squalor happens when people are sad. And | Lois Lowry | ||
| fe526cf | He might make wrong choices." "Oh." Jonas was silent for a minute. "Oh, I see what you mean. It wouldn't matter for a newchild's toy. But later it does matter, doesn't it? We don't dare to let people make choices of their own." "Not safe?" The Giver suggested. "Definitely not safe," Jonas said with certainty. "What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? "Or what if," he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, "th.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| b0b3c6b | But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet. | Lois Lowry | ||
| ee684b3 | For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d6917e0 | We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh. | difficulty experiences feelings joy laughter problems | Lois Lowry | |
| 2608d2e | Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child. | landscapes madonna newborns | Lois Lowry | |
| 0f0da56 | The exemption from rudeness startled him. Reading it again, however, he realized that it didn't compel him to be rude; it simply allowed him the option | Lois Lowry | ||
| 6cea755 | Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often--there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable--so painless. It's what they've chosen. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 6b308e7 | Back and back and back." Jonas repeated the familiar phrase. Sometimes it had seemed humorous to him. Sometimes it had seemed meaningful and important. Now it was ominous. It meant, he knew, that nothing could be changed." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 00fa70a | He might make wrong choices." "Oh." Jonas was silent for a minute. "Oh, I see what you mean. It wouldn't matter for a newchild's toy. But later it does matter, doesn't it? We don't dare to let people make choices of their own." "Not safe?" The Giver suggested. "Definitely not safe," Jonas said with certainty. "What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? "Or what if," he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, "th.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| bc9c902 | But the moment passed and was followed by an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love. Aching from the effort, he forced the memory of warmth into the thin, shivering body in his arms. Gabriel stirred. For a moment they both were bathed in warmth and renewed strength as they stood hugging each other in the blinding snow. | Lois Lowry | ||
| f904ed3 | You can stand at the edge of the meadow and look across to Sweden! | Lois Lowry | ||
| 3409edb | I am like the Census," he said, "broken down by age, sex and religion." | John Banville | ||
| 2d82f3f | importance of constant learning as the key to being a successful ruler. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 5f940a9 | Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| c85890b | Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," he" | Jack Weatherford | ||
| e835fd0 | He admonished them never to think of themselves as the strongest or smartest. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it, he warned. When the animals climb to the top of the mountain, they are even higher than it is. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 6de63b1 | Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 53e90d3 | Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| dc1c7ee | They quickly discerned the advantages of utilizing columns of numbers or place numbers in the style of Arabic numerals, and they introduced the use of zero, negative numbers, and algebra in China. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 0d14ca3 | Printing with movable letters probably began in China in the middle of the twelfth century, but | Jack Weatherford | ||
| de12018 | on free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| de0f934 | Maintain your soul as one in the night and the day. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 1a5de8d | Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph could not be partial. It was complete, | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 35039fc | Although Genghis Khan recognized the superior leadership abilities of his daughters and left them strategically important parts of his empire, today we cannot even be certain how many daughters he had. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 614008d | The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 08d9048 | tranquility, and its same small scale indicates that it lacked sufficient grazing for the number of animals needed to support a large army or even a large court of retainers. The location indicates | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 5f35d08 | Following the example of Genghis Khan, the early Mongol rulers clearly recognized that knowledge constituted their most potent weapon, and controlling the flow of information served as their organizing principle. Genghis | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 1516bac | The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever the Christian church had the power to do so. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 580162d | In twenty-five years, the Mongol army subjugated more lands and people than the Romans had conquered in four hundred years. Genghis Khan, together with his sons and grandsons, conquered the most densely populated civilizations of the thirteenth century. Whether measured by the total number of people defeated, the sum of the countries annexed, or by the total area occupied, Genghis Khan conquered more than twice as much as any other man in h.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 6698dd8 | As the Mongol warriors withdrew from the cities of the Jurched, they had one final punishment to inflict upon the land where they had already driven out the people and burned their villages. Genghis Khan wanted to leave a large open land with ample pastures should his army need to return. The plowed fields, stone walls, and deep ditches had slowed the Mongol horses and hindered their ability to move across the landscape in any direction the.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| a8403a3 | highest mountain always had the title of khan. Rivers and lakes that never ran dry bore the title khatun, | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 6cf9889 | The Mongols loved competitions of all sorts, and they organized debates among rival religions the same way they organized wrestling matches. It began on a specific date with a panel of judges to oversee it. In this case Mongke Khan ordered them to debate before three judges: a Christian, a Muslim, and a Buddhist. A large audience assembled to watch the affair, which began with great seriousness and formality. An official lay down the strict.. | Jack Weatherford |