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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9abba4b | In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves. | democracy leaders leadership peace peacemaking | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 346f4fd | A few days later, from a wall along the river, Martha Gellhorn watched the Soviet troops move on. 'The army came in like a flood; it had no special form, there were no orders given. It came and rolled over the stone quays and out onto the roads like water rising, like ants, like locusts. What was moving along there was not so much an army, but a whole world.' Many of the soldiers were wearing medals from the Battle of Stalingrad, and the en.. | Geert Mak | ||
| b84a63b | Cornered, she seemed to possess no mechanism for behaving well. By the same token, when not trapped or obliged to confront people or situations that upset her, she had a particular ability to think about them with apparently genuine pleasure. Martha | Caroline Moorehead | ||
| 857f5af | As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to now what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect. | self-respect truth | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 54d0f47 | none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in the dark waters of a cave; and were blind. | exposure soviet-russia travel | Martha Gellhorn | |
| ee684e1 | The manipulated millions could be aroused or soothed by any lies. The guiding light of journalism was no stronger than a glow-worm. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 3569900 | A dock worker from East Ham also spoke of freedom. "You'll never find the English going Communist" he said. "We don't like it. It's not true Communism, it dictatorial. We want to say what we think. I'm a republican myself and I don't like the Royal Family. They all look as if a good day's work would kill them"." | republicanism royal-family | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 3d57e0b | I am frightened and doubtful, and everyone who touches me must suffer. | frightened suffer | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 0500369 | I want to read and write and be very quiet. | writing | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 8eb1fdb | Someday our children, whom we love, may blame us for dishonoring America because we did not care enough about children 10,000 miles away [written, 1967]. | honor suffering-children vietnam | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 9823891 | Se sei un uomo di qualita, fonda la tua dimora, ama la tua sposa con passione, rendila felice per tutta la vita. Una donna dal cuore felice controlla l'energia vitale | Christian Jacq | ||
| 0a76ce0 | I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too. | Laura Dave | ||
| f22bd0a | Remember all those classic books you HAD to read in school? They sucked, right? Well, guess what? They are actually . . . classics. 'Brave New World', '1984', 'The Martian Chronicles' and even 'Animal Farm' are pretty cool it you're not told you HAVE to read them. If you discover them on your own or if you reread them without having a report due that sends you scurrying to buy CliffNotes or access Wikipedia, then you can actually relax and .. | Graham Elwood | ||
| 9fd9bff | I stopped paying attention to her. I stopped doing the things that someone does for the person he loves. Because I was tired. Because other things always seemed to matter a little bit more." He" | Laura Dave | ||
| ef75ea3 | My father never measured success the way he did - reaching the top-top of something, as if there was an objective tip-top. My father measured it by how well you figured out what you wanted for your life - what you needed to be happy" -Georgia" | Laura Dave | ||
| 0a9c349 | The impact movies make on us are affected by when we watch it, who we see it with, and where we are in our lives at the moment. - Suzy Nakamura | Graham Elwood | ||
| eea56d2 | In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure. | Laura Dave | ||
| fea1800 | This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to--how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly. | Laura Dave | ||
| 07db356 | only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else. | Laura Dave | ||
| 24eeb3a | Posa, Antai-Kelemen! Eltenni a deszkakat! - Igazgatohelyettes asszony, nem csinaltunk semmit! - eskudozott Ricsi, pocsek szineszi alakitast nyujtva. - Hogyne! Akkor csak kepzeltem, hogy egy diak leugrik a lepcsorol! - Talan a sok stressz - vakargatta az allat Dave, mire Maday homlokan kidagadtak az erek. - Felmayer, ne szemtelenkedj! | Laura Leiner | ||
| 9829370 | We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory. | Laura Dave | ||
| 65eb016 | Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else. | Laura Dave | ||
| 1953e74 | Beauty won't protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can't plan for. The one thing you can't save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right. | divorce marriage time | Laura Dave | |
| 5f48829 | Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn't test the people we love," he said. "We do, but it's shitty and ultimately, regardless of what they did or didn't do, we're the ones who feel like we failed." | Laura Dave | ||
| f7e255d | Be careful what you give up. | Laura Dave | ||
| 9fde765 | Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. | Dan Simmons | ||
| b43ffb5 | Hoyt's view of hell is tactile; it is the pain which moves in him like jagged wires pulled through his veins and guts. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 07aa774 | all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 6840130 | You should know a weapon doesn't make the man. | Akira Toriyama | ||
| bc32765 | Good explanations are like bathing suits, darling; they are meant to reveal everything by covering only what is necessary. | explanations revelations | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| 9980e3c | Ah," grinned Old Sludge, showing his one tooth, "going to the company store to get some algae chewies, huh?" "Goddamn poopoo," I would grin back at him." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 3933df4 | Spenser Reynolds was a bit shorter than Web average, but far handsomer. His hair was curled but cropped short, his skin appeared bronzed by a benevolent sun and slightly gilded with subtle body paint, his clothes and ARNistry were expensively flamboyant without being outre, and his demeanor proclaimed a relaxed confidence that all men dreamed of and precious few obtained. His wit was obvious, his attention to others sincere, and his sense o.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| d358bb9 | guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 801d1c7 | Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him. | knowledge understanding wisdom | Dan Simmons | |
| e2e3296 | so. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 692fb20 | She would follow him there. And she would die there -- and die soon. Of misery and of strangeness and of all the vicious, petty, alien, and unbridled thoughts that would pour into her like the poison from the Goldner tins poured into Fitzjames -- unseen, vile, deadly. | exploration inuit northwest-passage | Dan Simmons | |
| 97640e7 | Johnny-boy shook his head. Maybe he thought I wanted him to drink from the bottle. Hell, I have more class than that. There are paper cups over by the water cooler. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 84ba569 | I was full of piss and vinegar in those days, not to mention too stupid to know better, in other words still in my twenties, | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2426552 | Mountaineers know that all mountains are in a constant state of collapse--their verticality being inescapably and inevitably worn down every moment by wind, water, weather, and gravity--but | Dan Simmons | ||
| c9e8d60 | Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. "Martin, Martin, Martin," she said, "the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg's day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments." | humor reading satire social-commentary | Dan Simmons | |
| 70025bf | There has to be more than this," I said. The doctor looked up from his grim work with a bemused smile. "Is there?" he said. "Please show me." He lifted the man's heart and seemed to weigh it in one hand." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 4f675f6 | There will be no more offerings, neither child nor parent. There will be no more sacrifices. The time of obedience and atonement is past. Either help us as a friend, or go away! | religion | Dan Simmons | |
| d188f71 | The cybrid allows me to carry out my role in the datumplane community." "As poet?" Johnny smiled again. "More as poem," he said. "A poem?" "An ongoing work of art ... but not in the human sense. A puzzle perhaps. A variable enigma which occasionally offers unusual insights into more serious lines of analysis." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 1746885 | It was late morning when Kassad finished his story. | Dan Simmons |