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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 87f054f | He believed the future of the nation was at stake, and he returned day after day to fight his war against the "slaveocracy." And Quincy voters sent him back to Congress again and again. Louisa fretted about his health and safety, but she had lost all influence over him and could do nothing to restrain him. He was unstoppable--a meteor spiraling out of control in the political firmament." | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 74ef7c6 | Contrary to the writings of some historians, Monroe's proclamation was entirely his own creation-not Adam's. The assertion that Adams authored the "Monroe Doctrine" is not only untrue, it borders on the ludicrous by implying that President Monroe was little more than a puppet manipulated by another's hand. Such assertions show little insight into the presidency itself and the type of man who aspires to and assumes that office; indeed, they .. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 9b457ce | You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? | money shakespeare youth | James Joyce | |
| a8a5b07 | I am no longer an artist interested and anxious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn in their lousy souls. --Paul Nash, Artist 1899-1946 Paul Nash served with the Artists' Rifles and the Royal Hampshire Regiment in the Great War. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 2bef06c | But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good. | war | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| 3741aea | I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy" Brenda to Maisie Dobbs" | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| d608375 | If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. --KAHLIL GIBRAN | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 4ba6437 | The depression we find ourselves in here, and which is causing havoc in America, is allowing people to give weight to that which divides them, rather than to the shared experiences and elements of connection they see mirrored in their fellow man. | humanity unity | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| dc49a4c | There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news. | maisie-dobbs sorrow tragedy | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| baf86f9 | One always has riches when one has a book to read. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| b4e636c | Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them. | silence wisdom words | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| 332d1f9 | we saw a lion take down a gazelle - I mean at close quarters. It quite took my breath away. It was as if something happened to the gazelle at the moment of capture, something awe-inspiringly terrible and wonderful at the same time - as if, in knowing the gazelle was to die a dreadful death, ripped apart by the jaws of the lion, the Creator had given the captive a reprieve by taking her soul before she was dead, so that no pain would be felt.. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| b281040 | But for Maisie the case notes would not be filed away until those whole lives were touched by her investigation had reached a certain peace with her findings, with themselves, and with one another - as far as that might be possible. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| c18e3bf | Maisie] "Tell me, Dr. Dene, if you were to name one thing that made the difference between those who get well quickly and those who don't, what would it be?" [Dr. Dene] "...In my opinion, acceptance has to come first. Some people don't accept what has happened. They think, 'Oh, if only I hadn't...' or... 'If only I'd known...' They are stuck at the point that caused the injury. "...I would say that it's threefold: One is accepting what has .. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 490fa93 | Solitude was her soul's hermitage. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 1cf5bcb | in a | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| d2f4b0c | In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about the human condition. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 13e13ba | Perhaps we shouldn't try to answer the questions now - let's just note them down. Maurice always said the power in a question is not in the answer, it's in the way the imagination gets busy when the question is at work. | questions-and-answers | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| 40e28d1 | The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 3de817e | Never follow a story with a question, Maisie, not immediately. And remember to acknowledge the storyteller, for in some way even the messenger is affected by the story he brings. | jacqueline winspear | ||
| 4c6868b | That was it. ... A simple line, an aphorism, that seemed to suggest the selling of manure. But it had a meaning that went so much deeper, alluding to the fact that where you find filth - where you find dirt; where you find the detritus of life - you'll also discover someone making a profit. Much money can be made from the most dirty jobs. . That was another one. And it occurred to her that in her lifetime she had seen nothing more filthy t.. | maisie-dobbs profiteering war | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| 9e8f444 | In a time of war the supply and movement of money becomes even more crucial than ever. Money is a powerful tool, and wars are about powerful men and how they use the tools at their disposal. The military is involved in a number of ways. | power war | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| b51a06a | only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| fdd21b8 | Pay attention to the reactions of your body. It is the wisdom of the self speaking to you. Be aware of concern, of anticipation, of all the feelings that come from the self. They manifest in the body. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 8367a9d | I dreamt that I took William Burrough's penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting...In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their Volkswagen, crushing his chest slowly against a brick wall. As he screamed in agony larger than representation can accommodate, they referred to his text and had orgasms. Later, they jumped up and.. | dreams j-g-ballard psychoanalysis sexism william-burroughs | Sarah Schulman | |
| 8781697 | With the exception of those natural disasters that are not caused by human misdeed, most of the pain, destruction, waste, and neglect towards human life that we create on this planet and beyond, are consequences of our overreaction to difference. | Sarah Schulman | ||
| 22934f8 | Perpetrators increasingly are the ones to call the police, threaten legal action, send lawyer letters, or threaten or seek restraining orders as part and parcel of their agenda of blame and unilateral control. It is an agenda designed to avoid by any means necessary having to examine their own behavior, history, or participation in the Conflict. Actively violent and truly abusive people are hard to convict, and innocent people are convicted.. | Sarah Schulman | ||
| e3753fb | So while police intervention can importantly separate violent adults from their victims or each other after violence has begun, this job of "stopping violence" has shifted from stopping the causes of violence to reacting punitively to the expressions of those unaddressed causes. What was even more distracting and confusing was that the job of punishing the expressions of patriarchy, racism, and poverty was assigned to the police, who also c.. | Sarah Schulman | ||
| 2bee736 | I realized that I'm not a lesbian anymore. I realized that women don't have fun together. I realized that that's not love. I realized that men are heroes after all..." "What is your definition of a hero?" she asked. "A hero is someone you can be proud of," the woman said. "To be proud of someone he has to be bigger than you so you can look up to him. You can feel safe when he is near you. Especially a man who has soft skin. When a man is ne.. | internalized-homophobia | Sarah Schulman | |
| 444aa22 | All along, he had believed instinctually that his broken heart had something to do with the collapse of culture. He wanted to blame it on economics instead of on the fact that she was a fucking bitch. | Sarah Schulman | ||
| a494599 | I dreamt that I took William Burrough's penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting...In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their Volkswagen, crushing his chest slowly against a brick wall. As he screamed in agony larger than representation can accommodate, they referred to his text and had orgasms. Later, they jumped up and.. | dreams j-g-ballard psychoanalysis sexism william-burroughs | Sarah Schulman | |
| e328972 | Do most gay women love each other?" Doc asked. "A lot of them love closeted movie stars." | Sarah Schulman | ||
| b3d8b84 | The past is never dead. It is not even past." --WILLIAM FAULKNER" | Sarah Schulman | ||
| 881e339 | One of the organizing principles of gentrified thinking is to assess everyone based on what they can do for you, and then treat them accordingly. | Sarah Schulman | ||
| ab29eb2 | The drag queens who started Stonewall are no better off today, but they made the world safe for gay Republicans. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but the people who make change are not the people who benefit from it | Sarah Schulman | ||
| 1917782 | You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 982a3da | Ironing was a particularly galling waste of time. You'd spend twenty minutes pressing one shirt front and back, spraying starch and getting the creases sharp, but once the man of the house put it on, it would wrinkle as soon as he bent an elbow; plus, you couldn't even see whether the danged shirt was ironed or not under his suit coat. | ironing | Jeannette Walls | |
| 5835cfe | The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights boldly growing in the cold night, the only lights for miles around in the inmense darkness of the range. | ranch-life range | Jeannette Walls | |
| 48b7ad1 | She kept saying that the flood was God's will and we had to submit to it. But I didn't see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail--the gumption to try to save ourselves--isn't that what he wanted us to do? | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 4d5acf1 | Job, chapter fourteen, verse seven," Aunt Al said. " 'For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.' " | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 4058a8c | spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, | Jeannette Walls | ||
| dca6f85 | I think you'd make a wonderful teacher. You have a strong personality. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| cf21a3a | When Dad wasn't telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad's engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a glass staircase. The Glass Castle would have sol.. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| c7dc2fe | You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies. | oklahoma poor | Jeannette Walls |