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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 99052a5 | Ted, po valce, se vsak sebeobetovani ceni vyse nez umeni prezit. | Reinhold Messner | ||
| 92268f2 | There is no single, correct objective in mountaineering; there are only possibilities. One of them leads beyond the impossible. - Reinhold Messner | Bernadette McDonald | ||
| c75c277 | What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way. -Reinhold Messner | Bernadette McDonald | ||
| f083a20 | one of the most decisive factors enduring a borderline situation is the WILL TO SURVIVE. -Reinhold Messner | Bernadette McDonald | ||
| 00773ec | Being together, like being able to see certain stars only with your peripheral vision, isn't something you can create. It's just something that happens to you. | Polly Horvath | ||
| 2839702 | You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things---a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, good or bad. | Polly Horvath | ||
| 6a4f685 | She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise. | Polly Horvath | ||
| a3fb81a | My deception was believed because it was built on a foundation of truth ... Hitler's first layer is an undeniable truth, such as: The German workers are poor. The second layer is divided equally between flattery and truth: The German worker deserves to be prosperous. The third layer is fabrication: The Jews and the Communists and Jews have stolen what is rightfully yours. | Bette Greene | ||
| 6b272e6 | Still, they must have got a few things right," Malcolm says. His green eyes sparkle. "You turned out beautifully, if I may say so." "Oh, you can say it," I reply, taking a drag off my cigarette. "Whether or not I'll believe you is something else entirely." | hitting-on sassy | Jane Lotter | |
| 2d009c7 | The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them. | Lauren Bacall | ||
| 2b90290 | like this - I'd thought it would be neat and tidy, one reporter at a time. I didn't know then how Charlie Einfeld | Lauren Bacall | ||
| 0a4b8f8 | She felt that she was channelling Lauren Bacall in the 1940s. Her hair, swept to the side with light curls at the end added to the look, as did her pearl brooch. With the 40s on her mind, she thought of authors from the era, and made a mental note to read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn when she next had the chance. Perhaps it's time to change era for a while, she thought, feeling excited. | Anthea Syrokou | ||
| 81c2c3b | The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place on October 26, 1881. It took about thirty seconds to write a chapter in American history that will never be forgotten. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| dc02e6a | O'Reilly also shared another significant Ailesian trait: he understood television news was nothing but a show. "Bill O'Reilly is one of the greatest bullshitters in the world," Ailes's brother, Robert, said. "He can talk about any subject, he can get the best out of his guest by taking the opposite point of view even if he doesn't believe it." | Gabriel Sherman | ||
| 3344167 | In the days following the Zimmerman verdict, Bill O'Reilly used his Fox News program to call attention to "the disintegration of the African America family," which he identified as the ultimate source of "so much violence and chaos" in black communities. So long as 73 percent of black children are born to single mothers, said O'Reilly, blacks will find themselves overrepresented among delinquents." | Jason L. Riley | ||
| 9a8f345 | Lincoln has become so addicted to the telegraph's instant news from the front that he still can't let go of the need for just one more bit of information, even though the prospect of another great battle is slim. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| e20b9b8 | Most people live their lives as if the end were always years away. They measure their days in love, laughter, accomplishment, and loss. There are moments of sunshine and storm. Yet life can end in less time than it takes to draw one breath. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 4b354f2 | On the night of September 13, Bill O'Reilly had an exchange with Sam Husseini, a former spokesperson for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, that characterized Fox's position as it was developing. "Here's what we're going to do, and I'll let you react to it," O'Reilly said. "We're going to take out this Osama bin Laden. Now, whether we go in with air power or whether we go in with a Delta force, he's a dead man walking. He's th.. | Gabriel Sherman | ||
| 3dd470c | I'm gonna make race the basis of politics in this state, and I'm gonna make it the basis of politics in this country." Later, at his inaugural, he proclaimed, "I have stood where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this cradle of the Confederacy, this very heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom ... Let us rise to the call of freedom-lovi.. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| d95627d | I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. That there is a sacredness to individual rights! | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 9dda441 | Franni knew I loved these tours, but one year she said to me in frustration, "You don't see Bill O'Reilly going on USO tours." "That's not fair, honey," I said. "He has no talent." | Al Franken | ||
| e05fa88 | Gen. George S. Patton Jr. fears no one. But now he sleeps flat on his back in a hospital bed. His upper body is encased in plaster, the result of a car accident twelve days ago. Room 110 is a former utility closet, just fourteen feet by sixteen feet. There are no decorations, pictures on the walls, or elaborate furnishings--just the narrow bed, white walls, and a single high window. A chair has been brought in for Patton's wife, Beatrice, w.. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| b8e2ffc | I hated as hard as I could. I thought about Nazis. Air pollution. The Twilight books. Bill O'Reilly (beginner's mistake; political hate is notoriously hard to channel). Calculus. | Mike Resnick | ||
| 22172f4 | Antwerp | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 96d8027 | the Secret Service is now saying that Hinckley could have been stopped. All it would have taken was for Delahanty and the other Metro Police officers on the rope line to continue facing the crowd as Ronald Reagan departed the Hilton. It is a question that will dog Thomas Delahanty the rest of his life. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 53ac154 | It has been widely pointed out that the two men had much in common. In fact, the parallels are amazing: Lincoln was first elected in 1860, Kennedy in 1960. Both were assassinated on a Friday, in the presence of their wives. Their successors were both southerners named Johnson who had served in the Senate. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808, Lyndon Johnson in 1908. Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846, while Kennedy was elected to the House .. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 55a99ab | Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street. | pearl-street | Joe Eszterhas | |
| 4779c0e | My body isn't designed for walking. It's entirely the wrong shape. The legs are far too short and the whole trunk is shaped exactly to fit into seats and be carried comfortably to its destination, preferably by something fast and exciting, such as a sports car or a helicopter. | Joe Simpson | ||
| d4c4c68 | Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah. | Joe Eszterhas | ||
| 65dd33c | They were liberating Harrisonville, showing the hypocrites and phonies and $$$-squirrelers and chokeragged Yesmen some puffed-up balls. They were widening the mental horizons of a town more narrow-minded than its streets; they were missionaries laboring amon their bloodkin: montheytheistic theocentric cousins and uncles who swore allegiance to Uncle Sam, Jim Crow, Oral Roberts, and Dale Carnegie; they were waging their impudent revolution a.. | harrisonville jim-crow oral-roberts | Joe Eszterhas | |
| 10db76a | There is something about mountains that moves the soul. They arouse a powerful sense of spiritual awareness and a notion of our own transient and fragile mortality and our insignificant place in the universe. They have about them an ethereal, evocative addiction that I find impossible to resist. They are an infuriating and fascinating contradiction. Climbing rarely makes sense but nearly always feels right. | Joe Simpson | ||
| 3921c61 | Chabot Gun Club, in the hills above Berkeley. One day, a Cal law student and a friend happened also to be on the club's range. "That afternoon I noticed a group of three or four men shooting at the far left of the range, dressed in camos and shooting what I thought was an M-1 Carbine," he recalled. "Sometime while my attention was on my own target, I heard someone to my left let loose a three-shot burst that sounded like a fully automatic w.. | Jeffrey Toobin | ||
| 6ad2769 | He was still grinning, and his confidence was infectious. Who said one man can't rescue another, I thought. We had changed from climbing to rescue, and the partnership had worked just as effectively. We hadn't dwelt on the accident. There had been an element of uncertainty at first, but as soon as we had started to act positively everything had come together. | Joe Simpson | ||
| e1d6233 | He had sat numb, repeatedly questioning why his own tumble had been held on the same piton just before the Japanese leader had fallen and ripped it out. A day later he was his normal self again: an experience absorbed, shelved in his memory, understood and accepted, and left at that. | Joe Simpson | ||
| ce6bc97 | EGAD was a coffeehouse, built for the kids of Harrisonville by a middle-aged Jesus Freak. Its letters meant "Everybody Give A Damn!" | harrisonville | Joe Eszterhas | |
| 5bc3238 | They were hometown hippies who primped in the cracked mirror of their egos and saw themselves as more intelligent, more humane, more real than their plastic deodorized elders. They were the victims of a freeze-dried generational racism which would not forgive their long loathsome hair and their scuzzy tramp-clothes. So now, cast in a psychodrama partly of their own design, they grew their hair even longer and let their jeans get grubbier. T.. | Joe Eszterhas | ||
| 87a5e91 | But you know what, baby, that's how you know you love someone with all your heart, when the world get so cold without them. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 19483b1 | Throughout the night, a part of him always touched a part of her. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| 4974e64 | The Guardians perceived cycles, not finality. | Ronlyn Domingue | ||
| fa2650a | But underneath, in the place of dream and feeling, she is going places that she, on the surface, would not understand. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 40d99ec | She couldn't feel anything inside herself now but flat metallic strength. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| bbe720d | There's no love in you because there's no sex in you. Sex is light and fertility and life and communication! You only have this...pornography and submission and blackness and death! You're like a faggot! | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 0eb2198 | Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 9d132e9 | I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race. | Mary Gaitskill |