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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d3c70cd | Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken | Abigail Adams | ||
| ddc6c05 | They recognized from the beginning that they were a rare match. There were so many topics they could talk about easily and just as many things they did not have to talk about at all. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| b7ee90a | But let us not forget, too, that it was John Adams who nominated George Washington to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. It was John Adams who insisted that Jefferson be the one to write the Declaration of Independence. And it was President John Adams who made John Marshall chief justice of the Supreme Court. As a casting director alone, he was brilliant. Abigail | David McCullough | ||
| a1c95c8 | Honestly, I understand why ladies are never the heroines of anything, they simply cannot get away from their kitchens long enough to rescue anyone. | Barbara Hamilton | ||
| 97ebd85 | What most upset her, was the widespread use of slave labor. ...It is true Republicanism that drives the slaves half fed, and destitute of clothing...to labor...while the owner walks about idle...white men considered idleness a virtue even if they owned only one slave or none. No white man would do work considered too menial for his race. | Lynne Withey | ||
| 142e1b3 | We will live in independence because we will live within our income. | Lynne Withey | ||
| d4e37be | A state of inactivity was never mean for man....There are hours when I feel unequal to the trial...Let no person say what they would or not do since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act...necessity has no law... | Lynne Withey | ||
| c72afb9 | The custom of confession seemed designed to encourage sin by granting ready forgiveness. Neither Abigail nor any member of her family ever wavered in their preference for life in America over life in Europe. In France they lived far grander style than they ever lived in Braintree. ...her unshakable belief was that America was superior to Europe - superiority based on simplicity, its supposed lack of extreme wealth and class distinctions, i.. | Lynne Withey | ||
| 7ffe861 | Women were responsible for raising next generation of citizens, they themselves needed to be well educated in order to teach their children. She never believed as many men of her time, women were innately inferior to men, she conceded they had different traits and talents, which fitted them for a social role different from men's. ...Marriage and family were among the basic props of social order, anything that undermined them threatened the .. | Lynne Withey | ||
| 38df7e5 | No man, even if he is sixty yrs of age ought to live more than three months at a time from his family... | Lynne Withey | ||
| d9969e5 | Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental exertions, internal comfort, were meaningless, and how are these to be acquired in the hurry and tumult of the world? | Lynne Withey | ||
| 26f4a4f | What a sad misfortune is to have body in one place and soul in another...I love to feel free... | Lynne Withey | ||
| 6389848 | Knowledge will teach candour, she who aims at attainment of it will find her countenance improved as her mind is informed and her looks enabled as her heart is elevated, thus may she become a pleasing companion to the main of science, sensibility, enabled to form the minds of her kids to virtue, knowledge, not less capable or willing to superintend domestic economy of her family for having wandered beyond the limits of kitchen. | Lynne Withey | ||
| d940b37 | To deny James an education was attacking principles of liberty and equality upon the only ground which it ought to be supported and equality of rights. If James could not go to school, how could he hope to equip himself to earn a living? | Lynne Withey | ||
| 8679879 | I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje) | Lynne Withey | ||
| b0ad49b | She blamed moral vices that weakened the whole society and worried that Americans were heading in the same direction.... Thought that so much land was owned by so few people and that so many ordinary people could never hope to own their land seemed to her the most damning characteristic of the Old World. ... I do not regret that I made this excursion since it has only more attached me to America. | Lynne Withey | ||
| 26567dc | she learned slowly and painfully that it was easier to overthrow a government than to create a one... | Lynne Withey | ||
| bb068b4 | Only to be expected!' Elinor's voice almost cracked. Belligerent as a Bull Terrier, she marched up to him. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 49d7a9e | Never develop a passion you can't afford. It'll eat your heart away like a bookworm. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 27ec20a | Some books you read, some you enjoy, | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 5708822 | aber keine von ihnen war so recht bei der Sache und das Gefuhl, das sich sonst sofort eingestellt hatte, wenn sie zusammen im Wohnwagen sassen, das Gefuhl von Geborgenheit, von Freiheit und Freundschaft, wollte sich einfach nicht einstellen. Als hatte der Wohnwagen plotzlich Locher und flusterte ihnen all das uber die Welt zu, was sie nicht wissen wollten. | die-wilden-hühner die-wilden-hühner-und-die-liebe freiheit freundschaft liebe | Cornelia Funke | |
| 35d3542 | only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world. Powerful. | power | Cornelia Funke | |
| bf8821b | Whenever he felt the sharp pangs of homesickness he had come back here to his old enemies, where he didn't feel quite so out of place. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 8a14cf1 | The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling." | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 3f50fe3 | Nar det gallde traditioner kunde man inte argumentera med dvargar, lika lite som med praster om religion. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| a00fe9f | Det var kejsarinnans far som hade stiftat en lag, att foremal, djur och manniskor med magiska egenskaper var skyldiga att rapporteras. For det var ju inte latt att regera i en varld dar ett guldtrad kunde gora en tiggare till kung och talande djur viskade rebelliska visdomsord till skogsarbetarna. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| c94faf8 | Una storia cambia continuamente vestito. Una storia cresce e germoglia come un qualcosa di vivo! Quelle che vengono chiuse nei libri, invece? Si, magari vivono piu a lungo, ma prendono vita solo quando i libri vengono aperti. Sono suoni pressati tra i fogli, e solo una voce puo dar loro fiato! | riflessioni scrittura | Cornelia Funke | |
| 2a8db7e | ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world? | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 76406ab | You cannot fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. Antonio Munoz Molinas, "Th.. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 1814f07 | I libri la rincuoravano quando era triste e scacciavano la noia mentre Mo tagliava, rilegava, incollava pagine ormai logore, rese fragili da anni e anni d'uso sotto le innumerevoli dita che le avevano sfogliate. | reading | Cornelia Funke | |
| 0089706 |
Depose sul tavolo la cartella in cui teneva i risguardi da inserire prima del frontespizio e prese a sfogliarli con aria assente. < |
reading | Cornelia Funke | |
| 447fa52 | Cio che un libro avrebbe potuto raccontarle non l'aveva mai intimorita. Anzi, di solito non vedeva l'ora di lasciarsi trasportare in un mondo nuovo, inesplorato, e la sua curiosita era tale che si metteva a leggere nei momenti meno opportuni. | reading | Cornelia Funke | |
| e7bf7cd | Oh, pestiferous parasols!" grumbled Sorrel." | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 080d050 | widened greedily, Meggie concluded they could only be discussing a book, | Cornelia Funke | ||
| b654894 | an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it ... yes, books are like flypaper--memories cling to the printed page better than anything else." He" | Cornelia Funke | ||
| eac10dd | Escucha! -exclamo-. Se que es dificil de creer, pero si algo puede abrir las puertas de las mazmorras del Castillo de la Noche son las palabras de esta carta... y la lengua de Meggie. Ella es capaz de hacer que la tinta respire, Roxana, igual que tu con tus canciones. Su padre posee el mismo don. Si Cabeza de Vibora lo supiera seguramente lo habria ahorcado hace mucho tiempo. Las palabras con las que el padre de Meggie mato a Capricornio er.. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| d674cdb | For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails ... and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ev.. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 2a1c4f7 | Although it's not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I'm sorry to say. I'm sure you could fill a hundred houses like this one to the roof with all the books that have disappeared forever. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| aa08011 | Ves esos nombres? -pregunto senalando las letras cinceladas que hablaban de personas ya desaparecidas-. Detras de cada nombre hay una familia, una madre o un padre, hermanos, acaso una esposa. Si uno de ellos averiguara que es capaz de despertar esas letras a la vida, que podria volver a ser de carne y hueso lo que ahora es unicamente un nombre, ?no crees que el o ella harian todo lo posible por conseguirlo? | Cornelia Funke | ||
| d4eb77e | They had gone. Had left him alone with all the blue, that clashed with the red of fire. Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and sme.. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 989084c | when scores of indicted criminals sit in parliament who could believe in the rule of law... | Donna Leon | ||
| a21f00c | They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends - daring and knowledgable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored while Mo cut leather and fabric to the right size and re-stitched old pages that over countless years had grown fragile from the many fingers l.. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 93cd5b1 | E allora? Tutti gli scrittori sono svitati! | scrittura | Cornelia Funke | |
| 6b2b30d | I know why you're here ... This world doesn't frighten you half as much as the other one. You have nothing and nobody to lose here. Except Fox, and she clearly worries more about you than you do about her. You've left all that could frighten you in the other world. But then Will came here and brought it all with him. | Cornelia Funke |