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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc7c690 | Soon Covenant was lost again; the complexities of the | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| b6e23a1 | When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| fc0ee35 | redolent | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 14fc4ad | everything that passes unattempted is impossible." At" | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 74b0ec2 | she watched his face because she hoped it would betray some indication of her own reality - some flicker of interest or concentration of notice which might indicate that she was actually present with another person. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 3cf1ba5 | this library is another desert. A wasteland of words instead of sand. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 20f0071 | The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Master Gilbur and the arch-Imager Vagel, and produce peace on earth. While composing great music with her free hand. Instead of doing all that, however, she concentrated with a pure white intensity .. | irony reality sarcasm | Stephen R. Donaldson | |
| 56770e9 | The purpose of life, Cirrus Kindwind had once assured him, is to choose, and to act upon the choice. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 9f22410 | There's no such thing as failure. Sort of progress is better than nothing. Under the circumstances, it's probably impressive. We can only do what we can. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| b7a9998 | power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 8d2c58b | He had no idea where he was headed, but he knew he had to go. On each breath that panted through his locked teeth, he whispered hate as if it were a question. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 9e85033 | I have no special virtue to make me resent him. One must have strength in order to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty." This" | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 0265cb3 | Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general--or a stalker. | Candace Schuler | ||
| 1f1ddd9 | Nothing ever seems so good as what one keeps to oneself. | Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm | ||
| ef29827 | Up ahead there will be: Slights. Dismissals. Little fuck yous. One-sided compromises. You'll get yelled at. You'll have to work behind the scenes to salvage what should have been easy. All this will make you angry. This will make you want to fight back. This will make you want to say: I am better than this. I deserve more. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8b6929e | while something would be happening inside. I do not believe in evil absolute. I have recounted that philosophy in specific elsewhere in the Annals, and it affects my every observation throughout my tenure as Annalist. I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another. In our war with the Rebel, eight and nine.. | Glen Cook | ||
| c83b782 | I guess I was getting blase about windwhale-riding. | Glen Cook | ||
| 48fe710 | Its front sags against its neighbor to the right, clinging for support like one of its own drunken patrons. | Glen Cook | ||
| b11616f | Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies. | Glen Cook | ||
| 9bd01af | I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. | Glen Cook | ||
| 3d82d50 | One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down. | past past-life yesterdays | Glen Cook | |
| 253c032 | Pull up a step, Ace," I told him. He did, but he had the fidgets. He kept looking for his lucky exit. I told him, "I didn't really want you. But I can't get ahold of Winger." Not that I'd tried. "What? Who?" "Your girlfriend. Big blond goof with no common sense, always has an angle, never tells the truth if a lie will do. Her." "Part of that fits everybody in this thing," Morley said. "Even up on the Hill, they turned the truth to quicksilv.. | Glen Cook | ||
| f336e83 | Relway mused, "Now that it's happened I'm not so sure I'm happy with the outcome. Spared their racial theories The Call would've been good for TunFaire." He would appreciate their interest in law and order and proper behavior. "Here's a challenge you still need to meet. Glory Mooncalled. He's weak now but he's still out there somewhere. If you don't get him now he'll try to put something back together someday. He can't help himself." "It's .. | Glen Cook | ||
| 7494396 | A man lay before me. He had sunk as low as any I had ever known. Then he had fought his way back and back and had become worthy. A man far better than I, for he had located his moral pole star and set his course by it though it had cost his life. | Glen Cook | ||
| 71257dc | The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It's the mortar holding an army together. | Glen Cook | ||
| a6c4565 | Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony. | Glen Cook | ||
| 7828189 | will ever really understand. Not even those who shook our hands when we left. Not even those who welcomed us back with mighty hugs and no conception whatsoever what it was like to sit there watching the life bleed out of a man whose throat you'd cut so you could go on, undetected, to murder some other poor boy whose bad luck had placed him in your path at the wrongest time possible in the entire history of the human species. So that someday.. | Glen Cook | ||
| d5b347e | Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all together into one apparently unshakable, immortal edifice. Then came the wasters, who knew no responsibility and squandered the capital of their inheritance upon whims and vices. And fell to other conquerers. | Glen Cook | ||
| 017804d | Singe stopped. "You are quite right about Medford Shale, Garrett." Great-uncle Medford had figured prominently in the case where I'd first made Singe's acquaintance. "Just as you were right about me needing no distractions if I am to follow this trail. Perhaps I can have Doris knock you out, then have Marsha knock Doris out, then pray that a building collapses on Marsha." "Or we could all take a hint and save the chatter till later." "You c.. | Glen Cook | ||
| bd98800 | These boys both fell out of the ugly tree at a young age, hitting every damned branch on the way down. Then their mommas whupped them with an ugly stick and fed them ugly soup every day of their lives. They were Uh-glee, with a couple of capital double-ugs. | Glen Cook | ||
| f560dc4 | The law isn't always about what's right. Or wrong. A lot of times it's about somebody being guaranteed an advantage over somebody else. And that's human nature. That's the nature of any sentient species, | Glen Cook | ||
| be84088 | The Dead Man once told me that monsters aren't born, they're made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw material, we should permit no sentiment to impede us while we rid the world of the terror strewn by the finished work. It took me a while to figure out what he meant but I do understand him now. | Glen Cook | ||
| 9f5946c | The age is sorrowfully short of characters of the magnificently villainous vitality of those the Dominator took in olden times: Soulcatcher, the Hanged Man, Nightcrawler, Shapeshifter, the Limper, and such. Those were nastymen of the grand scope, nearly as wild and hairy in their wickedness as the Lady and Dominator themselves. | Glen Cook | ||
| 468183d | My guess is, six of one, half a dozen of the other. Crows | Glen Cook | ||
| d278295 | Herir a alguien es un acto de involuntaria intimidad | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| cacbd9b | But any explanation which analyzes one sector to the exclusion of all others is unbalanced, and thus wrong. The socio-economic, spiritual and psychological explanations look at the same phenomena from different aspects, and the very task of a theoretical analysis is to see how these different aspects are interrelated, and how they interact. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1314398 | The explicit royal stipulation that all forms of annotation would be excluded ensured that the difficulties created for the establishment by the Geneva Bible would be avoided--or so, at any rate, it was thought. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 1639241 | Nevroz vsegda mozhno poniat' kak popytku - neudachnuiu popytku - razreshit' konflikt mezhdu nepreodolimoi vnutrennei zavisimost'iu i stremleniem k svobode. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 6a0256c | The teaching authority of the magisterium had been seriously weakened through the obvious difficulties raised for such a concept of authority by the Great Schism, with the result that, in the absence of any magisterial guidance, theological opinions became confused with catholic dogma...Accompanying this erosion of the teaching authority of the church was an apparent disinclination (whether through unwillingness or inability) on the part of.. | christian-authority dogma east-west-schism great-schism magisterium reformation | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 7edddff | Take Lewis's "argument from desire." He basically argues that we experience desires that no experience in this world seems able to satisfy. And when we see these experiences through the lens of the Christian faith, we realise that this sort of experience is exactly what we would expect if Christianity is true." | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| ed7d6e5 | Lewis helps us to appreciate that apologetics need not take the form of deductive argument. Instead, apologetics can be an invitation to step into the Christian way of seeing things, and explore how things look when seen from its standpoint. Lewis's approach says, "Try seeing things this way!" If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into sharpest focus?" | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 88c4a60 | Jan van Leyden announced that a new world order [anabaptism] had been revealed to him and promptly began to implement it. Money was abolished; polygamy was legalized; marriage was made compulsory for women. Those who dissented faced execution. | christianity reformation | Alister E. McGrath | |
| e42d8d5 | Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 171c945 | Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will. | envy nostalgia suffering | Alister E. McGrath |