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| 5f7b0b2 | They are afraid of him?' D'Harcourt raised his comedian's eyebrows. Danny Hislop's bright teeth flashed in his hairless, unremarkable face. 'If they were afraid, they'd tear him to pieces like schoolgirls. My guess is that he's gorgeous. A terrible tease and nasty at moments, but oh Maeve, he has such a way with him.... Is he gorgeous, dear Adam?' Adam Blacklock, thus addressed, said quietly, 'Undoubtedly gorgeous. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 9d7a946 | One escapes; but one always has to come back. I found too I disliked not being in command of myself. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| e5b85fa | Considering Lymond, flat now on the bed in wordless communion with the ceiling, Richard spoke. "My dear, you are only a boy. You have all your life still before you." On the tortoise-shell bed, his brother did not move. But there was no irony for once in his voice when he answered. "Oh, yes, I know. The popular question is, For what?" | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 858c705 | Julius brooded. He could see Julius despising the medical school of Pavia. Tobie said, "Nicholas managed the journey from Flanders all right. Deferred to you, joked discreetly with me, got on like a dyeworks on fire with the muleteers." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 9f5b189 | They play at gods,' said Piedar Dooly, and spat. 'French and English alike. Gods out of hell would you say, harrowing green land for their tennis courts and dressing lapdogs in treasure that would keep half Ireland in bread for a year. The heroes of Tara would have put them face to schisty face and used them for millstones. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f6a8ce9 | Zashchoto ako sin't ne kharesva bashcha si - kakto i da e. Tova e estestvenata smiana na pokoleniiata. No kogato edin m'zh se osmeliava da mrazi sina si - tova e neestestveno. | niccolo-rising | Dorothy Dunnett | |
| 1f0a8fd | Look. If you are having pains, scream. If you are seeing thousand-pound elephant birds with reinforced iron nests, tell us and we shall believe you. If you want to climb up and jump from the roof, let me tell you that we feel exactly the same. Only don't lock your door like a maiden aunt with the gravel. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 2e85c8f | You see,' said Marthe. 'I am not here to mock. I have worn out my revenge. You have guided me into a world which has been closed to me all my life. You have shown me that what I hold by, you hold by and more. You have shown me strength I do not possess, and humanity I thought belonged only to women. You are a man, and you have explained all men to me....' His eyes were closed, nor did he give any sign that he had heard her. Marthe smiled an.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 0e03db7 | It seems we are sparing no cliche. You impertinent oaf of a schoolboy.... It's because you can't have Francis Crawford that you want me. That's all. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| e023b41 | I have lost you before I have found you. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6e5fb47 | He will not, I think, find it logical to live with what he has done today. I have told him that you are his responsibility. While he believes that, he will continue to protect you. I tell you this, so that you will understand what is happening. He will measure his life by your helplessness. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ae9d5e9 | He said, 'I take your for granted as much as it is prudent for any person to do so. I trust you as far as is sensible. I enjoy your company as far as it is allowable. I will banter with you and expect you to banter with me just so far and no further. I have confided in you, by accident, more than was wise but probably not enough to make any difference. I shall not do it again. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| d2f837f | Jerott's voice was stony. 'I am prepared to go wherever I can be of most help. I meant only that I expect to be too occupied to give the attention I ought to Mile Marthe's safety. I think M. Gaultier should come with us.' 'Then who,' said Lymond agreeably, 'do you suggest looks after the spinet?' 'Onophrion?' 'Jerott,' said Lymond, with the thinnest edge beginning to show in his voice. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6db795a | She thought it was too bad it didn't work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But | Peter Straub | ||
| 13ea7eb | And I found a statement by Hawthorne which helped to explain his method: "I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spiritual mechanism of the faery legend should be combined with the characters and manners of everyday life." | Peter Straub | ||
| 7b39c08 | Everything here is a lie," Rose said. "Just because you saw it doesn't mean it really happened." Tom nodded. He was curiously reluctant to take up this hope she offered. If he reached out, it might bite his hand." -- | Peter Straub | ||
| e42fbaf | But this story ends when you open the door. It doesn't matter if you managed to guess which room is mine, which door I closed behind me. You put your hand on the door handle, you knock, it's all over. End of story. By choosing one, you chose the other, too. Do you understand why? Those two consequences are joined at the hip, they're Siamese twins. Even if you picked the door with the lady behind it--all questions answered, all explanations .. | Peter Straub | ||
| 41d5022 | I do know that nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side. | Peter Straub | ||
| d5953b9 | As for what I'm doing now," he said, "I guess I'm trying to bring the past to life." | Peter Straub | ||
| e944569 | It struck me that his innate elegance, the product of his character & bearing much more than of the handsome suit and the suede shoes, had been paid for by the surviving of a thousand unimaginable difficulties, each painful to a varying degree. Then I realized that what I meant by elegance was really dignity, that for the first time I had recognized actual dignity in another human being, and that dignity was nothing like the self-congratula.. | Peter Straub | ||
| 3dcf968 | She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate. | Peter Straub | ||
| 78d1879 | it didn't have a real ending. It just slipped backward when other things happened. | Peter Straub | ||
| 02b8a61 | But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,' Sears said. 'I don't know if I do or do not,' I said. 'Like most people. | Peter Straub | ||
| 75e0220 | Why did God make lonely people? Answer: He was lonely, too. | Peter Straub | ||
| 504d7c5 | It seemed that if you listened to that snow hissing long enough, you wouldn't just hear it telling you that it was waiting for you, you'd hear some terrible secret--a secret to turn your life black. | Peter Straub | ||
| 28b5f03 | Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even" | Peter Straub | ||
| 182fa2e | Charlie Carpenter rang Lily Sheehan's bell, and when she opened the door he gave her a blue rose. This stands for dying, for death. My daddy met the man who grew them, and when the man tried to run away my daddy shot him in the back. | Peter Straub | ||
| 7b620e0 | You guys, you people, you all run on one big engine, all the same for everybody, the whole world over. Know the name of that engine? Love? she speculated. | Peter Straub A Dark Matter | ||
| 49e55b2 | Dogs (like rats) are multitalented but they are also not very smart the way humans are. A recent book, devoted to the intelligence of dogs, is 250+ pages long (Stanley Coren, The Intelligence of Dogs: A Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companions, 1994). Interestingly, despite careful qualifications by Coren regarding definitions, the ranking of breeds by intelligence literally made newspaper headlines. We are .. | dogs dogs-and-humans non-aversive-dog-training pets puppy | Jean Donaldson | |
| 8adad41 | In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage -- so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old. -- GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 8dbbce4 | The great physician, humanitarian and Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer explained, "The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live." | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 47b763c | Life is an adventure in forgiveness. -- NORMAN COUSINS | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 080feb4 | Walking is the best possible exercise. -- THOMAS JEFFERSON | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 3b4b2bd | He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. -- EPICTETUS, Greek philosopher | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 1e42146 | The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. -- THOMAS EDISON | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 19595ed | Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -- LEONARDO DA VINCI | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 2f6922d | Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. -- RUDYARD KIPLING | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| fe39a5e | True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth. | being ego humility self-worth | Michael J Gelb | |
| 7e68449 | Da Vinci gave birth to a tradition that resulted in the modern discipline of "brainstorming." Prior to Da Vinci the concept of "creative thinking" as an intellectual discipline didn't exist." | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| edb3dcc | Education is the best provision for old age. -- ARISTOTLE | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| a405a83 | Benjamin Franklin cautioned, "When you're finished changing, you're finished." | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 13d4e1b | Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 867cb62 | A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful that God has implanted in the human soul. -- JOHANN WOLFGANG | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| d70ae5a | Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON | Michael J. Gelb |