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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6a8f59d | It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9cf4300 | To belong to one was to deny himself the privilege of belonging to all. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 3df38e6 | Ah well, Liang was her husband and she would never have another. Even had she been young and beautiful she would not have run from man to man as women did nowadays. But she was neither young nor beautiful and she was grateful for Liang. It was honorable to be his wife, and if he had a peevish temper at home, he might have been worse. He had never beaten her, and she had learned, after all these years, how to torture him. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| f549f4c | The gift he had been given was sometimes heavy to bear, the ability always to understand why the other person was as he was. Wounded, yes, but never angry, and there were times when he longed to feel fierce personal anger. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 022e350 | Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience." Yul-chun" | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 54e2f05 | steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 276bc7e | We are compelled to choose," he sometimes complained, "between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| b08c06f | Attachment," Buddha had said, "is the cause of grief." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 7859f17 | thing and it could be sold for a heap of silver and sometimes | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 525a212 | wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman, | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| ce6fdd7 | weak? You must learn to take from a person that which is his best and ignore all else. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 512257a | It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 5174457 | lacerating pilgrimage...the disruptive and expensive treks from specialist to specialist, city to city, trying to buy hope." Or what Pearl S. Buck, years earlier about her own retarded and autistic child, calls, "That long journey of which parents of such children know so well...Driven by conviction that there must be someone who can cure...we" | Karl Taro Greenfeld | ||
| 89af9df | Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when he was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 812b4b6 | Fresh tadpoles coming out in the spring should be washed clean in cold well-water, and swallowed whole three or four days after menstruation. If a woman swallows fourteen live tadpoles on the first day and ten more on the following day, she will not conceive for five years. If contraception in still required after that, she can repeat the formula twice and be for ever sterile... This formula is good in that it is effective, safe and not exp.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 218e8cc | Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are those who utter loud lamentations but whose tears do not flow and this may be called howling; there are those whose tears flow but who utter no sound and this may be called weeping. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| ba18452 | There should be a deep attachment, heart should be tied to heart between parent and child, for unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfillment. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 6e502f9 | We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own. That God has been our country and our nation. In sorrow and wailing and woe for all that we have lost has been our union. And our rabbis have so taught us, generation after generation. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 4b5368b | The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| dd5da9f | Peter groaned loudly. "Sonia Pan! She's ugly." Mris. Liang would not yield. "Ugly girls can be fixed now. It is not like before. And she is very good. She does not waste money." "It would be no use for her to waste money on herself," Louise murmured." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 11882fe | Families are only a means of exploitation,' he declared. 'Parents treat children as capital assests and children wait for parents to die so that they will have an unearned income.' 'So children spy on fathers,' Mercy put in, 'and sons are sent far from their parents--' 'That the young may not inherit the prejudices of the old. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 8f4dc2e | The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 233354d | You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| ed12801 | The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them." | distraction idolatry materialism | Pearl S. Buck | |
| c43b723 | He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 367f20b | To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all he could to perform his belief. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 43a4eed | To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)" | land man nature pearl-s-buck the-good-earth | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 49dfd3e | We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs" (Buck, 105)." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 13b58fd | Life is the wonder with which we are all infused. ... | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 3d08b89 | People everywhere do not concern themselves much beyond the common round of everyday, and this is the chief problem for a democratic government, whose success depends upon an informed and responsible citizenry. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 476f46a | demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without violence--ah, that is a challenge to intelligence! | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 21218f3 | We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 621494e | I am always moved, with grateful wonder, by the goodness of people. For the few who are prying or meanly critical, for the very few who rejoice in the grief of others, there are the thousands who are kind. I have come to believe that the natural human heart is good, and I have observed that this goodness is found in all varieties of people, and that it can and does prevail in spite of other corruptions. This human goodness alone provides ho.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| be513d0 | Drive out the tiger by the front gate and let in the wolf by the back gate,... | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| cba4ddc | But no, it was not the small single moment which had killed him. It was the anger of all his life here in this house which he himself had built and lived in and hated all his years. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 4ade0dd | was not death for which she grieved, but life, life which had carved his mouth into such sorrow and had set hollows underneath his eyes, which had given him dreams of love in his youth and then had robbed him, had given him dreams in his age of free islands in a blue and tropic sea and had held him locked in a drab house in a little town. And as cruel as anything was death, which revealed him like this, when he was helpless any longer to hi.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 562ed1e | When there were none but these two left in the hall, Wang the Tiger leaned forward out of his carven seat and he said in a hard, hoarse voice, "Woman, you are free. Choose where you will go and I will send someone to take you there." And she answered simply, with all the boldness gone out of her, except that she could look at him in the eyes while she said it, "I have chosen already. I am your bondswoman." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 46f6f1c | Here was that question: Was life sad or happy? She did not mean her life or any one life, but life itself--was it sad or happy? If she but had the answer to that first question, Peony thought, then she would have her guide. If life could and should be happy, if to be alive itself was good, then why should she not try for everything that could be hers? But if, when all was won, life itself was sad, then she must content herself with what she.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| df9ea26 | As life has proved, it is true that a woman's body is more important than her mind. She alone can create new human creatures. Were it not for her, the race of man would cease to exist. Into her body, as into a chalice, Heaven has put this gift. Her body therefore is inexpressibly precious to man. He is not fulfilled if she does not create. His is the seed, but she alone can bring it to flower and fruit in another being like himself. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| e9c2519 | But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor's. "He who raises his head above the heads of others," Mr. Kung said, "will sooner or later be decapitated." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| a0160a7 | Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.' Pearl S. Buck | Atticus Aristotle | ||
| 0285d99 | The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit, | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| d073a1a | What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 6225d0e | Spring passed and summer passed into harvest and in the hot autumn sun before winter comes Wang Lung sat where his father had sat against the wall. And he thought no more about anything now except his food and his drink and his land. But of his land he thought no more what harvest it would bring or what seed would be planted or of anything except of the land itself, and he stooped sometimes and gathered some of the earth up in his hand and .. | Pearl S. Buck |