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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ae67653 | All sin, at its root, is failing to give God glory. It is loving anything else more than God. | Rick Warren | ||
| 596b975 | Knowing your purpose gives your life meaning, simplicity, focus and motivation. It also prepares you for eternity. | Rick Warren | ||
| 7a3b69f | Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through worship, broader through ministry, and larger through evangelism. | Rick Warren | ||
| ba88157 | God is not waiting for you to get physically healthy or spiritually mature before he starts loving you or enjoying you. He loves you right now, and he will be cheering you on at every stage of your growth and development. He is not waiting for you to cross the finish line first. He is smiling at you as you run the race. | Rick Warren | ||
| 7659a18 | anyone in recovery will tell you, setbacks are part of the process in long-term change. Rather than beat myself up, I simply asked God and my friends to help me get back on track. | Rick Warren | ||
| 5e326ec | If God never did anything else for you, he would still deserve your continual praise for the rest of your life because of what Jesus did for you on the cross. God's Son died for you! This is the greatest reason for worship. | Rick Warren | ||
| 195c2cc | Beslenme bicimi, bir ulus hakkinda sanati veya edebiyatindan daha cok bilgi verebilir. ABD'de herhangi bir gunde yetiskin nufusun yaklasik dortte biri bir fast food restoranina gidiyor. Fast food sektoru oldukca kisa bir sure icinde, beslenme bicimimizin otesinde cografyamizi, ekonomimizi, isgucumuzu ve populer kulturumuzu de donusturdu. Ister gunde iki kere yiyin, ister uzak durun, hatta hic agziniza surmemis olun; artik fast food'dan ve s.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 812a035 | The usefulness of the market, its effectiveness as a tool, cuts both ways. The real power of the American consumer has not yet been unleashed. The heads of Burger King, KFC, and McDonald's should feel daunted; they're outnumbered. There are three of them and almost three hundred million of you. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 6c55836 | As part of that administrative process, Butler decided to look at every single target in the SIOP, and for weeks he carefully scrutinized the thousands of desired ground zeros. He found bridges and railways and roads in the middle of nowhere targeted with multiple warheads, to assure their destruction. Hundreds of nuclear warheads would hit Moscow--dozens of them aimed at a single radar installation outside the city. During his previous job.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 4c77b91 | What deters is not the capabilities and intentions we have, but the capabilities and intentions the enemy thinks we have. The central objective of a deterrent weapons system is, thus, psychological. The mission is persuasion. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 91113c0 | Dropping a nuclear weapon was never a good idea. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| e368470 | Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century -- a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete. We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 2844b8b | see: a man reach inside cattle and pull out their kidneys with his bare hands, then drop the kidneys down a metal chute, over and over again, as each animal passes by him; a stainless steel rack of tongues; Whizzards peeling meat off decapitated heads, picking them almost as clean as the white skulls painted by Georgia O'Keeffe. We wade through blood that's ankle deep and that pours down drains into huge vats below us. As we approach the st.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 5cfcf76 | The Army, however, found ways to adapt. It lobbied hard for atomic artillery shells, atomic antiaircraft missiles, atomic land mines. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 3dcb0de | According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than a quarter of the American population suffers a bout of food poisoning each year. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 04e5449 | When Elisa arrives at McDonald's, the manager unlocks the door and lets her in. Sometimes the husband-and-wife cleaning crew are just finishing up. More often, it's just Elisa and the manager in the restaurant, surrounded by an empty parking lot. For the next hour or so, the two of them get everything ready. They turn on the ovens and grills. They go downstairs into the basement and get food and supplies for the morning shift. They get the .. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 78ac114 | Perimeter greatly reduced the pressure to launch on warning at the first sign of an American attack. It gave Soviet leaders more time to investigate the possibility of a false alarm, confident that a real attack would trigger a computer-controlled, devastating response. But it rendered American plans for limited war meaningless; the Soviet computers weren't programmed to allow pauses for negotiation. And the deterrent value of Perimeter was.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 942311b | Sergeant Paul Ramoneda, a twenty-eight-year-old baker with the Ninth Food Service Squadron, was one of the first to reach the bomber. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 40e451e | And a few months later, an opinion poll found that 54 percent of the American people wanted the United Nations to become "a world government with power to control the armed forces of all nations, including the United States." | Eric Schlosser | ||
| bdafe1c | The BMEWS site at Thule had mistakenly identified the moon, slowly rising over Norway, as dozens of long-range missiles launched from Siberia. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| a731adc | Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music--combined. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 5877c0b | See that's exactly why I don't want a dog." "Why?" "Because it'll just die." "Everybody dies, Brooklyn." Like that makes it okay or something." | moving-on pets | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 42cc496 | I'm glad for the rain...It's good camouflage. | grief | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 2a09ff7 | La vida es mala con todo lo bueno. Los tiburones mortales con las hermosas estrellas de mar. Las olas gigantes con los castillos de arena. La ruidosa letra con el ritmo de la musica. La enfermedad hepatica con el amor de un padre e hijo. El regaliz con el limon y la lima. Es la vida. Dulce, hermosa, viento en tu cara, aire en tus pulmones, | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 7e19e0c | I grab a small container of glitter. Because this day, this wonderful, beautiful, glorious day just wouldn't be complete without a little, or a lot, of g i t r l t e | beautiful-day complete glitter inspirational | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 050f179 | he sketches a world of Darwinian struggle where all the savages wear three-piece suits. | Stephen King | ||
| e17a851 | The lacrosse game took place in the optimistically dubbed SuperDome, an air-inflated sports facility made from some sort of pliable material. Thomas was playing in an indoor league for the winter season. Ryan had come along too. He half watched his brother, half played catch in the corner with a couple of other kids. Ryan also kept looking over at his father. He did that a lot now, looked for his father, as though Adam might suddenly vanish.. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 5604e5f | The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The | John Grisham | ||
| d4437c1 | If John Grisham, Harper Lee, and Larry the Cable Guy were penned up in a remote cabin for a weekend with nothing but good bourbon, fine wine, and a couple of cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, something like Common Pleas (A Tale of Whoa!) might result... | humor southern-literature | J. Randolph Cresenzo | |
| 2482301 | Since most law-abiding citizens had no contact with the parole system, it was not a priority with the state legislatures. And since most of the state's prisoners were either poor or black, and unable to use the system to their advantage, it was easy to hit them with harsh sentences and keep them locked up. But for an inmate with a few connections and some cash, the parole system was a marvelous labyrinth of contradictory laws that allowed t.. | injustice injustice-quotes judicial-system jury justice parole prison-system | John Grisham | |
| 51d52b3 | He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral. | John Grisham | ||
| 339a6ff | Nor did she like society's way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy. | John Grisham | ||
| cc0d5fc | It was the eyes, the cold black eyes with layers of black wrinkles around them. Great eyes. Unforgettable eyes. His hair was white and thin on top with thickets around the ears, and the whiteness contrasted sharply with the rest of his face. When he spoke, the eyes narrowed and the black pupils glowed fiercely. Sinister eyes. Knowing eyes. | John Grisham | ||
| b16fb13 | Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, however slight. A confession obtained from an accused who has been threatened cannot be admissible. | John Grisham | ||
| dd6474d | The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects against self-incrimination, | John Grisham | ||
| 48eba15 | Miranda v. Arizona, the most famous of all self-incrimination cases, the Supreme Court imposed procedural safeguards to protect the rights of the accused. A suspect has a constitutional right not to be compelled to talk, and any statement made during an interrogation cannot be used in court unless the police and the prosecutor can prove that the suspect clearly understood that (1) he had the right to remain silent, (2) anything said could b.. | John Grisham | ||
| a5538bf | Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement. | John Grisham | ||
| 16e8bb3 | with the door locked, usually around 3:00 p.m. Everyone who worked at the law firm of Boone & Boone knew that Woods was upstairs, shoes off, feet on the desk, phone on Do Not Disturb, snoring away for thirty minutes every afternoon. "You can tough it out," his father added. Theo's problem at this moment was his habit of trying to avoid school. Headaches, coughs, food poisoning, pulled muscles, stomach gas--Theo had tried them all and would .. | John Grisham | ||
| ee0c7ef | In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila. | John Grisham | ||
| ddff0d0 | I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view. | John Grisham | ||
| 5e5ad1b | I'm in shock now. I'm not believing this, Mitch. This is like a bad dream, only much worse." "And this is only the beginning." -- | John Grisham | ||
| 786e97b | but | John Grisham | ||
| abe28d9 | The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised. | John Grisham | ||
| c42cf82 | Hubbard obtained the land from Sylvester's widow. | John Grisham |