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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 91df0c4 | Michael Mendizza and Joseph Chilton Pearce's inspiring book Magical Parent-Magical Child | Bruce H. Lipton | ||
| afa9716 | To me the art of the Counter Reformation was a pure joy and I loved the churches of Bernini and Borromini no less than the ancient basilicas. And this in turn led me to the literature of the Counter Reformation, and I came to know St Theresa and St John of the Cross, compared to whom even the greatest of non-Catholic religious writers seem pale and unreal.19 | Joseph Pearce | ||
| ba840d0 | My descent into delinquency was aided and abetted by the progressive philosophy adopted by the school. No effort was made to impose discipline, which resulted in the triumph of anarchy in the classroom and the survival of the fittest in the playground. In the former, the disruptive elements made it difficult, if not impossible, for teachers to teach and for students to learn. In the latter, the school bully and his coterie of friends ruled .. | Joseph Pearce | ||
| 4daffdb | In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil. | Joseph Pearce | ||
| 9987989 | To go to seances with good intentions is like holding a smoking concert in a powder-magazine on behalf of an orphan asylum.'4 | Joseph Pearce | ||
| 60ac30f | Smythies, you recall, considered hallucination to be a normal part of every child's psychological life. | Joseph Chilton Pearce | ||
| 20ff7fa | growing up is about growing in wisdom and virtue and learning to curtail our selfishness so that we can give ourselves more selflessly to others. | Joseph Pearce | ||
| 789e8dc | On Christmas Day, the promise of peace offered a soft and shining light in dark times, an eternal flame that warfare could not douse, nor hatred extinguish. | Jennifer Chiaverini | ||
| b6326c6 | In his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the eighteenth-century British historian Edward Gibbon describes the scene of Romans fleeing the city of Nisibis in A.D. 363 after it was handed over to the Persians......Gibbon could have been describing a photograph from the 1994 genocide in Rawanda or the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. He could have been describing any number of forced migrations that have occurred all over the world in the last ten.. | Charles London | ||
| 21ea1e4 | all purebloods have a hunger, a dissatisfaction in their eyes, | David Mitchell | ||
| c54e269 | The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The" | Edward Gibbon | ||
| e03e743 | For all the hyperbole, as Edward Gibbon crushingly put it, the average "annual consumption" of martyrs in Rome during the persecutions was no more than one hundred and fifty per year during years of persecution.32" | Catherine Nixey | ||
| 3f74047 | One of the great advantages that we may derive from machinery is the check that it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the dishonesty of human agents. | Jennifer Chiaverini | ||
| 49d6198 | But as the years passed, he missed her more not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 423a502 | Humor is the ovum of dissent, | David Mitchell | ||
| b76d4cd | so intimate is the connexion between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| ac1c0d1 | Most of the crimes which disturb the internal peace of society are produced by the restraints which the necessary, but unequal, laws of property have imposed on the appetites of mankind, by confining to a few the possession of those objects that are coveted by many. Of all our passions and appetites, the love of power is of the most imperious and unsociable nature, since the pride of one man requires the submission of the multitude. In the .. | 180 covetousness power-corrupts property-rights wealth-disparity | Edward Gibbon | |
| f8f733d | The narrow policy of preserving, without any foreign mixture, the pure blood of the ancient citizens, had checked the fortune, and hastened the ruin, of Athens and Sparta. The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honorable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among slaves or strangers, enemies or barbarians. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 3abd45f | Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon? | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 9d6d210 | The attack of a man, equipped with erudition, and of perfectly sober judgment, on cherished beliefs and revered institutions, must always excite the interest, by irritating the passions, of men. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| b3c126f | but it was reserved for Augustus to relinquish the ambitious design of subduing the whole earth, and to introduce a spirit of moderation into the public councils. Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for him to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation, had much less to hope than to fear from the chance of arms; and that, in the prosecution of remote wars, the undertaking became every day more difficult, the.. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| dc32f78 | In the cool shade of retirement, we may easily devise imaginary forms of government, in which the sceptre shall be constantly bestowed on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community. Experience overturns these airy fabrics, and teaches us, that in a large society, the election of a monarch can never devolve to the wisest, or to the most numerous part of the people. The army is the only order of men sufficientl.. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 4083fc5 | Twenty-two acknowledged concubines and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes attested the variety of his inclinations; and from the productions he left behind him, it appears the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| f523a43 | whose one hundred and twenty-nine homilies are still extant, if what no one reads may be said to be extant.] | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 4d38182 | It is curious to compare Ibn Khaldun with Edward Gibbon who in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) presented that decline and fall as being due to barbarism and religion. By contrast, Ibn Khaldun presented barbarism and religion as the sources of empire, for, as we have seen, he believed that empires were regularly renewed by barbarian incursions and he believed that religion was a desirable supplement to 'asab.. | Robert Irwin | ||
| 445b4ec | The table and chair legs were like bars of the cage around me. This time they weren't keeping me in, they were keeping her out. | Jennings Michael Burch | ||
| 1a06dbe | Mr Lincoln suggested that the Lord sent us this terrible war as punishment for the offense of slavery and that the war may be a mighty scourge to rid US of it | Jennifer Chiaverini | ||
| 2aeda18 | People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. | growing teaching | Jennifer Chiaverini | |
| f535d6a | The moment a gentleman perfects an invention and petitions the government for aid, he ceases to be an innocent citizen and becomes a culprit, a man to be shirked, browbeaten, and sneered at. I have never heard of any mechanician, inventor, or natural scientist who failed to find the government all but inaccessible, and whom the government did not discourage and treat badly. | inventors scientists | Jennifer Chiaverini | |
| 8407ce4 | The world is never ready for any innovation," he grumbled. "The vast majority of people stubbornly cling to the past until people possessing foresight and a sense of adventure break a trail and bring them into the future." | Jennifer Chiaverini | ||
| f170fec | And of course you believed their wise counsel," said Elizabeth lightly, "because people who have never met me are always the best judge of my character." | Jennifer Chiaverini | ||
| ed42208 | There comes a time in every young woman's life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others. | Jennifer Chiaverini | ||
| 93a566e | I mean, really. Who needs Pilates when you've got a town full of demons? | Julie Kenner | ||
| 9138560 | My meeting with my alimentatore was at noon, | Julie Kenner | ||
| 25d6c96 | They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in." Brian nudged the girls until they obeyed. | book bookstore chapter-headings exciting hawthrone longfellow notes oliver-wendell-holmes paul-revere shelves thick | Caroline B. Cooney | |
| d3c99d7 | wanted is a good action book | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| ca5d886 | The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowned'. | sea | Caroline B. Cooney | |
| 4650c40 | How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 1c6edd5 | Eben was looking at Sarah in the way every girl prays some boy will one day look at her. "I will marry you, Sarah," said Eben. "I will be a good husband. A Puritan husband. Who will one day take us both back home." Wind shifted the lace of Sarah's gown and the auburn of one loose curl. "I love you, Sarah," said Eben. "I've always loved you." Tears came to Sarah's eyes: she who had not wept over her own family. She stood as if it had not occ.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 8005e92 | I guess even really annoying people can be right sometimes. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 7196315 | Her laughter began low and quiet then rose in pitch and flickered all over the room, like blood splatter. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 90f4659 | The dancing began. Along with ancient percussion instruments that crackled and rattled, rasped and banged, the St. Francis Indians had French bells, whose clear chimes rang, and even a bugle, whose notes trumpeted across the river and over the trees. "Mercy Carter!" exclaimed an English voice. "Joanna Kellogg! This is wonderful! I am so glad to see you!" An English boy flung his arms around the girls, embracing them joyfully, whirling them .. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| fc13547 | Bianca and Mindy crept into the room like great big fashionable mice. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 1cec63f | The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can't bear admitting I'm ignorant. It's as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer. | Caroline B. Cooney |