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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc07b67 | She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| dba952b | The value of Israel to the United States as a strategic asset has been much disputed. There have been some in the United States who view Israel as a major strategic ally in the region and the one sure bastion against both external and regional enemies. Others have argued that Israel, far from being a strategic asset, has been a strategic liability, by embittering U.S. relations with the Arab world and causing the failure of U.S. policies in.. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 7d20689 | Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough. | Michela Wrong | ||
| f6f7817 | I could see their menfolk patrolling nervously up and down toting sub-machine guns and draped in cartridge belts. They were wearing their trademark sunglasses, those gold rimmed feminine accessories which should look comic on a man but instead manage to look as sinister as the wedding dresses and blonde wigs worn by Liberia's drugged fighters. They are the modern equivalent of the wooden masks donned around night fires by warriors preparing.. | Michela Wrong | ||
| 8d030a9 | What constitutes charm? A presence, a capacity to command attention, an innate conviction of one's own uniqueness, combined, as often as not, with the more manipulative ability of making the interlocutor believe he has one's undivided attention and has gained a certain indefinable something from the encounter. | Michela Wrong | ||
| 615a943 | I saw their living mouths moving in conversation and their dead mouths grinning the taut-drawn grins of corpses. Their living eyes I saw, and their dead eyes still-staring. Had it not been for the fear that I was going crazy, I would have found it an interesting experience, a trip such as no drug could possibly produce. Asleep and dreaming, I saw dead men living; awake, I saw living men dead. | Philip Caputo | ||
| 8fd3daa | The beaver dam had been constructed on the ruins of a man-made one, built by the CCC back in the thirties and later dynamited by an irate Finn who'd objected to the government's meddling with nature. | Philip Caputo | ||
| 5ebcc7f | In love and mating, ambience is central. | Norman Rush | ||
| d31b4f6 | Partly because it is such a complex process, reading is not just a habit our a skill, it's a deeply satisfying emotional experience. Something in us knows that the slimmest insights, the trust wisdom, the most enduring knowledge come through this channel. The spleen word rushes by and is gone, but the written word remains. It ensures. It can be consulted over and over again. Forever. How wise then to surround oneself with books and magazin.. | Arthur Gordon Those Little Black Marks quoted in Norman Vincent Peale (c 1984) p. 56. | ||
| 5be5db9 | This shooting star had apparently been sedentarized in my bailiwick-so, good. | Norman Rush | ||
| dbc569c | What a datum! I couldn't help thinking over and over. | Norman Rush | ||
| 05eb1e1 | This might be good, I thought as I studied the crowd. There were several definitely intelligen t guys present, not strobe-lig ht intellects but people who could make you uncomforta ble in a debate if you got too much beyond what you absolutely had the facts on. | Norman Rush | ||
| d027ec8 | And something else came back, from that later first morning at Kensington Park Gardens: a sense that the house was not only an enhancement of Toby's interest but a compensation for his lack of it. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| f066669 | He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild frown of self-regard, a certain half-friendly awareness of being admired. It would live up to its fame. But really there was nothing to see. The upstairs windows seemed to ponder blankly on the reflections of clouds. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| d38a79d | Our lives feel fuller when we can weave them into stories, even if not all the stories are true and even if we are just filibustering, hoping our number won't be called--so long as we keep talking. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 9755061 | Our quest for heroism is awkward. Not the obvious heroism that earns medals and applause but the heroism of daily life. Go to Princeton and you're an educational hero; run a marathon and you're an athletic hero; make loads of money and you're a financial hero--the alpha hero of our culture. Each occupation and role in life has its own exacting rituals for advancement and reward, from the employee of the month parking space to stock options... | Jonathan Hull | ||
| ee4c9a9 | That's the thing about art. It really helps to be unhappy. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| d664ac9 | You can't expect people to dwell on the fact that they'll ultimately lose everything they have and love." "Why not? It might make them think about what really matters." "What does really matter?" I asked. "Having someone to love. Being compassionate. Being fully alive everyday so that you really see and hear and smell and feel things."..." | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 746467b | How about some commotion, a stir caused by the spreading news of my imminent demise? If the world would just wince momentarily at my passing. No need for flags at half-mast, but just a flinch, a brief pause before everyone returns to the busy business of life. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| f225769 | I often wondered why men will risk almost certain death in an attempt to save other men. I decided it was because men will do anything to give their lives some meaning and virtue. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 7c04918 | What is it about a beautiful face that makes it beautiful? | Jonathan Hull | ||
| dd1ff33 | In spite of all these concerns, in the morning when I left my hotel I went joyfully down the stairs, whistling all the while, and emerged into the street at ten or eleven, whenever I wanted. It was fun, I felt happy, and then I realized that it wasn't all much fun and I wasn't all that happy. Had a weight been lifted from my back? The weight of living? I had been born bowed down with grief. The universe seemed to me a kind of enormous cage,.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| a51c877 | To you, ladies and gentlemen, and dear comrades, who are all that is left from humanity, but with such leftovers one can still make a very good soup. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| db5a60d | Pofta de a ucide batrani.Batranii sunt scirbosi.Tinerii sunt mediocrii si nerozi.Tinerii mi-au fost intodeauna nesuferiti,mai ales cand eram tanar.Curtea pe care maestrii de gandire,umbla dupa clientela,o fac tineretului,e unul din lucrurile cele mai injositoare din cate cunosc.Cata lipsa de demnitate,ce lasitate,ce nonsens! | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 9fa3af9 | Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 5ab92cd | Eu nu sunt eu. Eu sunt altul. Sunt unul intr-altul. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| eae8c90 | Continuandu-si lectura, Domnul Smith, plescaie. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 8d28866 | We've eaten well this evening. That's because we live in the suburbs of London and because our name is Smith. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| c24c84a | Spuneti repede, domnule, ca n-am vreme. Eu sint la odihna. | time-management | Eugène Ionesco | |
| 687d766 | MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a confessor. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 67af965 | The Dog and the Cow," an experimental fable. Once upon a time another cow asked another dog: "Why have you not swallowed your trunk?" "Pardon me," replied the dog, "it is because I thought that I was an elephant." | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 1601111 | Zaci pe caldarim,in strada... E lume multa.Toti se grabesc.Isi inchipuie ca au o tinta,nu stiu cu adevarat incotro se duc.Strigi.Se dau de-o parte ca sa nu te calce in picioare,caci nu sunt cruzi,sunt doar nepasatori.Isi poarta in ei propria moarte,nu o pot purta pe a ta.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 84235ee | The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 2c35c0a | De fiecare data o iau de la inceput.Iau intodeauna un caiet nou.De fiecare data sper ca asta va duce la ceva,ca va fi o experienta constructiva,ca voi deschide o usa.Dar nu.Pana sa ajung la o usa oarecare,ma opresc in loc.Acelasi obstacol invizibil:daca ar fi vizibil,l-as ocoli.Invizibilul e ceea ce ma opreste in loc.Cel putin ar trebui sa incerc sa nu mai schimb caietul,sa incerc sa ajung pana la ultima pagina.Asta ar insemna ca voi fi spu.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 1762a7e | All too often high-income-producing UAWs spend countless hours studying the market--but not the stock market. They can tell you the names of the top auto dealers, but not the top investment advisors. They can tell you how to shop and spend. But they can't tell you how to invest. They know the styles, prices, and availability at various car dealers. But they know little or nothing about the various values of equity market offerings. As | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 1b71118 | Mrs. Rule wants to be free of financial worry before her sixty-fifth birthday. Each time she tabulates, she tells herself she is reducing her fear of never being able to retire in comfort. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| b07847d | most millionaires generally don't limit themselves to stocks, bonds, and related investments--they invest heavily in private businesses and real estate. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| eabeeb2 | UAWs tend to live above their means; they emphasize consumption. And they tend to de-emphasize many of the key factors that underlie wealth building. YOU | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| d929d8f | The foundation stones of financial success are: Integrity--being honest with all people Discipline--applying self control Social skills--getting along with people A supportive spouse Hard work--more than most people | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 5321ad0 | Twenty years ago we began studying how people become wealthy. Initially, we did it just as you might imagine, by surveying people in so-called upscale neighborhoods across the country. In time, we discovered something odd. Many people who live in expensive homes and drive luxury cars do not actually have much wealth. Then, we discovered something even odder: Many people who have a great deal of wealth do not even live in upscale neighborhoo.. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 8073868 | About one-half of the millionaires in America don't live in upscale neighborhoods. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| f383718 | Consider the level of car-purchasing knowledge Dr. South has recently acquired that will never pay capital gains or real dividends or enhance the productivity of his business. He now has knowledge about every Porsche dealer within a four hundred-mile radius of his home. Dr. South also can tell you immediately the dealer's cost on nearly every Porsche model, the cost of options and accessories, and the performance characteristics of most mod.. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 86d1457 | It is unfortunate that some people judge others by their choice in foods, beverages, suits, watches, motor vehicles, and such. To them, superior people have excellent tastes in consumer goods. But it is easier to purchase products that denote superiority than to be actually superior in economic achievement. Allocating time and money in the pursuit of looking superior often has a predictable outcome: inferior economic achievement. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 4534c59 | The majority either ignore their critics or use criticism as an inspiration to succeed. | Thomas J. Stanley |