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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 255d6d8 | If there are forty thousand people in an area that can only support thirty thousand, it's no kindness to bring in food from the outside to maintain them at forty thousand. That just guarantees that the famine will continue. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| bda8d17 | Borders are always tricky, intriguing things. [...] Feral children fascinate because they stand at the border of the animal world. Gorillas and dolphins fascinate because they stand at the border of the human world. [...] Shakespeare's fools fascinate because they live at the border between sanity and madness. The heroes of tragedy fascinate because they walk the border between triumph and defeat. The borders between prehuman and human, bet.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| d7e7a25 | once again I was thunderstruck--but this time by a feeling of profound relief, for I had been redeemed from oblivion. More, the error that caused me to live as an unwitting impostor for so many years had been corrected at last. I had been made whole as a person--not again but for the very first time. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 394171a | The world is a very, very fine place. It wasn't a mess. It didn't need to be conquered and ruled by man. In other words, the world doesn't belong to man - but it does need man to belong to it. creature had to be the first to go through this... creature had to find the way, and if that happened, then...there was no limit to what could happen here. In other words, man does have a place in the world, but it's not his place to rule...Man's p.. | teaching | Daniel Quinn | |
| 09eb9f7 | We don't need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what's actually there. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| c4c7322 | Where are you looking at it from?" "Oh. From above. From outer space." "What are you doing up there?" "I don't know." "Why aren't you down on the surface?" | Daniel Quinn | ||
| bca3ba5 | Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow. | humanity population-control | Daniel Quinn | |
| eaa5eb0 | Alaric, go after her. Since Daniel forced the blood bond on her, Quinn has been different. Lost. She deserves better than for you to abandon her and, priest or no, you know it. | day | Alyssa Day | |
| 66af7bb | In hierarchal organizations, the boss is a supreme being. In tribal organizations, the boss is just another worker. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| c93e0c5 | We've discovered that any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 47b84a2 | It applies to all species without distinction. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 993913f | The civilized want people to make their living individually, and they want them to live separately, behind locked doors--one family to a house, each house fully stocked with refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, and so on. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| fa7c063 | All the major world religions (always excluding animism, of course), are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object of creation, that man occupies a preeminent place in the order of creation, that man has a value in God's eyes that is transcendently greater than that of all other creatures, that this world of matter is illusory, transitory, and worthless. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| a29b3d4 | She often wished she was pale enough to disappear altogether. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 712b303 | She thinks I'm a hussy,' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that! | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 9a61ef8 | He didn't know her name, didn't know anything about her except that she dreamed of Rome and smelled like violets. And that she tasted like vanilla cream. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 8d762b8 | I was on the ground, I was in command, I had been given the mission, and I took the decision. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| b6a9912 | You bastards, she said. You lovely bastards. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 95b60bd | Michael had to clutch the end of the table to keep from rising. He could have had Shakespeare at his side to translate, and still not have been able to explain why Colin"s remark infuriated him so." -- | Julia Quinn | ||
| dd21a15 | I wonder where everyone is," she muttered. "Sleeping, if they have any idea what's good for them," Dunford replied acerbically. "I suppose we could get started on our own," she said doubtfully. For the first time all morning he smiled broadly and meant it. "I know less than nothing about stonemasonry, so I vote we wait." | humor | Julia Quinn | |
| f473698 | point it out," she muttered." | Julia Quinn | ||
| f254477 | He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit. | Julia Quinn | ||
| ec08b9b | Everything was better with bacon. Life was better with bacon. "Elizabeth" | Julia Quinn | ||
| 761e1fe | Michael felt something tearing in his chest. His heart, probably, but he was growing so used to the feeling it was a wonder he still noticed it. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 57c825b | We'll just forget about this little conversation, shall we? The last bit that is." She managed to stretch her lips into a smile, but what she really wanted to do was hurl the brandy decanter at him." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 830487e | Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word. By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal--a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge--he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5dfe16b | My heart swells," she mimicked. She snapped out of her caricature, and said sternly, "Woman don't like to be on the receiving end of sarcasm." "They only like to give it," he drawled." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 781be22 | Some had had to suffer through a few daughters before siring a precious son, | Julia Quinn | ||
| a144001 | But the duchess, God bless her, knew her role in life, and after a six-month recuperative period, she opened the connecting door between their bedrooms, and the duke once again commenced his quest for a son. Five | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9636290 | He wanted to laugh at the poetic justice of it all. After a couple of years of chasing after women and then a decade of having them chase after him, he'd finally been brought down by a slip of a girl, fresh out of Cornwall, whom he was honor-bound to protect. | love | Julia Quinn | |
| f2e603f | Baiting her was great fun. And he didn't feel the least bit guilty for it. For all her disgruntled behavior, he had no doubt that she enjoyed the verbal sparring every bit as much as he did. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 7f80b5f | It's just that when you agree to be mother to a child you haven't borne, your responsibility is twice as great. You must work even harder to ensure that child's happiness and welfare. | Julia Quinn | ||
| b94c639 | She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point. | Julia Quinn | ||
| b724614 | The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve. | regency-romance romance | Julia Quinn | |
| fc5fc38 | Oh, bloody hell," Anthony swore... "She's got the Mallet of Death." | the-mallet-of-death | Julia Quinn | |
| aed6d26 | Michael, I am most pleased to see you up and about and looking so fine and healthy." He inclined his head, thanking her for the compliment. She dabbed the corners of her mouth daintily with her napkin. "But now you must attend to your responsibilities as the earl." He groaned. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 41f766c | I very specifically told you to stay away from Ned Blydon." "I chose not to follow your advice. Ned is a very nice person. Handsome, personable--a perfect escort." "That is precisely why I wanted you to keep him at arm's length." -- | Julia Quinn | ||
| 3de3e31 | It is of no concern. I don't mind that I am not universally adored. If I wanted everyone to like me, I'd have to be kind and charming and bland and boring all the time, and what would be the fun in that? | hyacinth-bridgerton | Julia Quinn | |
| 13ffec0 | I do love it when I am right,' Hyacinth said triumphantly. 'Which is fortunate, since I so often am. | being-right sisters | Julia Quinn | |
| fae285a | Y el, que se habia acostado con incontables mujeres, de repente comprendio que hasta ese momento solo habia sido un nino. Porque jamas habia sido asi. Todo lo anterior habia sido su cuerpo. Esto era su alma. | Julia Quinn | ||
| a5862c2 | Her hayatta bir donum noktasi vardir.Bu oyle muazzam ,keskin ve belirgin bir andir ki insan kendini gogsunden vurulmus gibi hisseder,nefesi kesilir ve bilir...Suphenin en ufak golgesi olmaksizin hayatinin bir daha asla ayni olmayacagini kesinlikle bilir. | francesca-kilmartin-bridgerton julia-quinn kilmartin michael-stirling | Julia Quinn | |
| fe3be4e | Soru soran bir kadindan kork,cunku asla dogru cevap veremezsin. | eloise-bridgerton phillip-crane | Julia Quinn | |
| 259dd57 | Sophie picked her way through the forest, stepping over tree roots, and pushing aside low-lying branches, letting them snap back behind her with reckless abandon. The sun barely squeaked through the canopy of leaves above her, and down at ground level, it felt more like dusk than midday. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 1aebc0c | Simon korkutucu bir gorunume burunmek icin,dusunceli bir sekilde cenesini sivazladi. "Son derece rahatsiz edici genc bir kadinsiniz,Bayan Bridgerton,bunu biliyor muydunuz?" Daphne ona bakarak hafifce gulumsedi. "Cogu kisi beni iyi niyetli ve sevimli biri olarak tanimlar." "Cogu kisi," dedi Simon sertce, "aptaldir!" | simon-basset the-duke-and-i | Julia Quinn |