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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4e1144a | My interest is a lonely one. I cannot trot it out at cocktail parties. I feel sometimes as if I have spent a large part of my life learning a dead language that no one I know can speak. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 1b5ce6f | the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of buttons polish, and a copy of 'The Vicar of Wakefield.' These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen. | incompetence | Anne Fadiman | |
| 67f2660 | To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall. | seasons | Anne Fadiman | |
| bb1fb5a | He wants to focus on what he calls 'cultural issues.' That makes sense, because when you're going to rob people blind you don't want to have them focus their attention on economic issues. | economics politics | Noam Chomsky | |
| 03dc61b | Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfulness too aware and intense for any cat. Charlie didn't understand what it was about those two [cats]. Both had a presence that set them apart from other felines. Maybe she just knew them better. Maybe all cats had that quality of awareness, when you knew them. | cats pets | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| 8602529 | Crystal shoes And a mare to ride on, A milk white mare, And a silver woven in my hair. | fairytale | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| 8e1e22e | The castle always looks so mysterious," she said, awed. "Is it wonderful, living there?" "It isn't so mysterious when you're there. I'd rather look at it from the hills. It's just--full of people, at least the servants' parts are, crowded and ordinary. Things should be mysterious, but there's nothing mysterious in the palace." "Should things be mysterious?" "There's mystery in the hills and in the wind on the grass. And in the stories you l.. | fairytale | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| 895a42e | You shall have," Gillie said, "the king's bread and goat milk." "The magical goat milk?" "The same." "Will it make me beautiful?" "It cannot. You are already that." | fairytale | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| eb5edea | And just as Catskin went to the ball, and Cendrillon, and Aschenputtel, so must you. The ball that will be given soon in the palace; I've heard talk of it in the kitchens. The servants say one is held each year. Have you never gone?" She shook her head. "Then you must go this year dressed in a fine gown as it is done in the stories." She sat staring at him. "Me, Gillie? I don't belong at the ball." "As much as Cinderella did." "But they are.. | fairytale | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| bc16705 | Gillie caught Delilah's hand before it struck, and held it firmly in his own. He stared at her for a long time, but said nothing. Then at last he spoke softly, "Don't you hurt her. Not ever. If you ever hurt her I will come back and witch you, old trollop, and you will wish you had never been born." His words were so soft, so measured, and so filled with meaning that a shiver went through the room." | fairytale | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| 27db79f | Gillie was grinning at the boy's indignant anger. He put a hand on the pages shoulder and looked coldly at Augusta. "Do you call my page a liar, old woman? And who are you to speak of this lady as your charge? My page is no liar, just as Thursey is not your charge. Not in any way. She is your landlord, for it is her inn you occupy. And it is to her you will answer for its keeping. She is beholden to no one, unless it would be the people of .. | fairytale | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| f8c16fa | And Anwin said, "It turned out just as an enchantment should." "But Anwin, it wasn't an enchantment really, it just--" "Yes, child, it was the greatest enchantment of all." He winked at the prince. "Gillie understood all along what the enchantment was." | fairytale | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| 3d89311 | I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone. | aloneness being-lonely | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | |
| 156255f | Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish... On these harsh terms the islands waited. | survival | James A. Michener | |
| e1d4a05 | Jan had never seen a really sumptuous establishment like Lancut, but he had worked often at Castle Gorka and could see the vast difference between how a count lived, with his fifty horses and forty servants, and how his peasants lived, with meat once a year, a new suit of clothes once every ten years, little medicine and less education. | James A. Michener | ||
| 91c991d | Why is it, Reverend Hale, that we must always laugh at our book, but always revere yours? | James A. Michener | ||
| 4bc614a | a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies | James A. Michener | ||
| 2e6fefe | The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did it establish its right to exist. | James A. Michener | ||
| cfdccec | Ibo, kogda u liudei gorit v serdtsakh religioznaia iarost', na glaza ikh v to zhe vremia spuskaetsia zavesa slepoty. | James A. Michener | ||
| fa7b683 | It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell. | south-pacific | James A. Michener | |
| 2ed7383 | The movement of animals across the bridge was by no means always in one direction, for although it is true that the more spectacular beasts--mastodon, saber-tooth, rhinoceros--came out of Asia to enrich the new world, other animals like the camel originated in America and carried their wonderful capacities into Asia. | James A. Michener | ||
| 180fdeb | Of all the men who were photographed that day, the chief's life had come closest to the American ideal, closest in observing the principles on which this nation had been founded. He was immeasurably greater than Chester Arthur, the hack politician from New York, incomparably finer than Robert Lincoln, a niggardly man of no stature who inherited from his father only his name, and a better warrior, considering his troops and ordnance, than Ph.. | James A. Michener | ||
| da23395 | wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you. | James A. Michener | ||
| 290df3a | There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we with it or not, from now on there will be immense traffic along that highway. | geopolitics | James A. Michener | |
| 8381fe3 | On samostoiatel'no doshel do ponimaniia, chto instinktivnaia nenavist' k evreiam sovershenno bessmyslenna, a v podderzhku ratsional'noi nepriiazni nel'zia privesti nikakikh dokazatel'stv.>> | James A. Michener | ||
| f0b554b | CATHOLIC: Let me understand what you're saying, Mrs. Paxmore. You believe that on some day to come, the religious leaders of this world are going to convene and state that what the Bible has condoned since the days of Abraham, that what Jesus Himself approved of and against which He never spoke ... You believe that our leaders are going to tell the world, "It is all wrong"? QUAKER: I expect to spend my life, Neighbor Steed, trying to convin.. | James A. Michener | ||
| e5d1b40 | Toi khong yeu chien tranh, nhung toi yeu long can dam ma nguoi binh thuong dung de doi mat voi chien tranh. | chiến-tranh | James A. Michener | |
| fa63160 | Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. | James A. Michener | ||
| e5b7f8d | From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten. | James A. Michener | ||
| fc69b65 | I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before. | James A. Michener | ||
| 6b71832 | how small he was and how wormy in manner, | James A. Michener | ||
| cc544ba | Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire. | James A. Michener | ||
| 5118e8d | A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. | marley-and-me | John Grogan | |
| 2fb2d46 | A un perro no le importa si uno es rico o pobre, educado o iletrado, listo o aburrido. Si uno le brinda el corazon, el respondera brindando el suyo | John Grogan | ||
| 772feed | could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus its preciousness. We take it for granted, but it is fragile, precarious, uncertain, able to cease at any instant without notice. I was reminded of what should be obvious but too often is not, that each day, each hour and minute, is worth cherishing. | John Grogan | ||
| 4fd758e | Whatever false sense of security the contraption had once offered us was gone. Each time we left, even for a half hour, we wondered whether this would be the time that our manic inmate would bust out and go on another couch-shredding, wall-gouging, door-eating rampage. So much for peace of mind. | John Grogan | ||
| b840581 |
Cuando creia que se le acababa la cuerda, el se recuperaba. Le cogi la cara entre mis manos y lo obligue a mirarme a los ojos < |
John Grogan | ||
| e438a01 | That's when it happened. So fast, in fact, that we didn't even realize it had happened. All we knew was that one instant we were sitting at a lovely outdoor table toasting the beautiful day, and the next our table was on the move, crashing its way through the sea of other tables, banging into innocent bystanders, and making a horrible, ear-piercing, industrial-grade shriek as it scraped over the concrete pavers. | John Grogan | ||
| 2db6d23 | the entire dining room table on his shoulders and bounce it around the room, could now barely pull himself up. He groaned in pain when he lay down, and groaned again when he struggled to his feet. I did not realize just how weak his hips had become until one day when I gave his rump a light pat and his hindquarters collapsed beneath him as though he had just received a cross-body block. Down he went. It was painful to watch. Climbing the st.. | John Grogan | ||
| ed88e44 | Sarah Pomeroy, in her careful study, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves, | Margot Adler | ||
| 527a82f | but now | Scott O'Dell | ||
| 12e0d5a | old people, | Scott O'Dell | ||
| 912f0e3 | My brother Ramo was only a little boy half my age, which was twelve. He was small for one who had lived so many suns and moons, but quick as a cricket. | Scott O'Dell | ||
| 0982f8c | beckoned | Scott O'Dell |