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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c05243b | Taking on Washington was the fastest way to commit political suicide in the revolutionary era. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 4482d83 | First, it is crucial to recognize that Washington's extraordinary reputation rested less on his prudent exercise of power than on his dramatic flair at surrendering it. He was, in fact, a veritable virtuoso of exits. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 7c2877d | Madison's experience at both the state and the federal level had convinced him that "the people" was not some benevolent, harmonious collective but rather a smoldering and ever-shifting gathering of factions or interest groups committed to provincial perspectives and vulnerable to demagogues with partisan agendas." | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| c0a5558 | The term American, like the term democrat, began as an epithet, the former referring to an inferior, provincial creature, the latter to one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 37e5a78 | Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who are not around to defend themselves. | history truth | Joseph J. Ellis | |
| 486bcbe | In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center who would always hold. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| f147260 | For Adams it was especially distressing to witness such conspicuous failure "in the first formation of Government erected by the People themselves on their own Authority, without the poisonous Interposition of Kings and Priests." There was, to be sure, such a thing as "The Cause," but the glorious potency of that concept did not translate to "The People of the United States."16" | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 8eafc2b | Lamentations about the tribulations of public life, followed by celebrations of the bucolic splendor of retirement to rural solitude, had become a familiar, even formulaic, posture within the leadership class of the revolutionary generation, especially within the Virginia dynasty. Everyone knew the classical models of latter-day seclusion represented by Cincinnatus and described by Cicero and Virgil. Declarations of principled withdrawal fr.. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 9aaaef1 | Over the ensuing decades and centuries, to be sure, the Bill of Rights has ascended to an elevated region in the American imagination. But in its own time, and in Madison's mind, it was only an essential epilogue that concluded a brilliant campaign to adjust the meaning of the American Revolution to a national scale. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 97ef621 | There was in Madison's critical assessment of the state governments a discernible antidemocratic ethos rooted in the conviction that political popularity generated a toxic chemistry of appeasement and demagoguery that privileged popular whim and short-term interests at the expense of the long-term public interest. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| f5131f1 | creation: "If I could not go to heaven but with a party," proclaimed Thomas Jefferson, "I would not go there at all."1" | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| af4de0e | Perhaps, in that eerily instinctive way in which he always grasped the difference between the essential and the peripheral, he literally felt in his bones that another term as president meant that he would die in office. By retiring when he did, he avoided that fate, which would have established a precedent that smacked of monarchical longevity by permitting biology to set the terminus of his tenure. Our obsession with the two-term preceden.. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| f143e3d | Madison's experience at both the state and the federal level had convinced him that "the people" was not some benevolent, harmonious collective but rather a smoldering and ever-shifting gathering of factions or interest groups committed to provincial perspectives and vulnerable to demagogues with partisan agendas. The question," | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 9d48606 | Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 2c5d721 | Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| d4f36e2 | The patients there were mostly teenaged girls, with the occasional boy. I thought of us all as tigers with thorns in our paws. We were beautiful beasts who'd gotten injured by life, by loss or trauma or shock, and if we could just get the splinters out of our paws, we'd be fine. My thorn was the fact that my mother had left me. Megan | Luanne Rice | ||
| f5c2f74 | In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.' | Luanne Rice | ||
| 2454d63 | Conhecia a natureza do corpo humano: que era formado por 97 por cento de agua. Que as suas veias continham agua salgada, tal como os afluentes sujeitos as mares. Que uma vez por mes, bem, antes da gravidez, o ciclo do seu corpo ecoava o movimento da Lua nas mares dos oceanos | Luanne Rice | ||
| 84b5af9 | All I know is we're 16 and ready to be kissed, kissed kissed. | love | Luanne Rice | |
| bb650d2 | Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter to the other. "Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. "Now there is no more loneliness; now you are two persons but there is only one life before you. "Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your life together. "And may your days be good and long upon the earth and in heaven." | Luanne Rice | ||
| 9361dfd | Love is the greatest blessing there is, and when you love someone as much as he loved you, you can't let go lightly. You just can't. | Luanne Rice | ||
| c6cdfe1 | She had to learn this painful lesson. And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 4e298d9 | Treat your family like guests and your guests like family. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| b0a2554 | My story will change, and so will yours. We'll just go on changing, making a new set of choices, then living them out. That's what life is anyway, just a long string of choices. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 326566b | caterpillar must shed its skin five times before it forms the chrysalis. The caterpillar doesn't just change. It completely transforms. The old form dies and the new is reborn. That's the miracle that gives us hope. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| dbe5697 | To her mind, when you were drowning and a rope was thrown your way, you didn't waste time thinking about what to do. You just grabbed it, then kicked and swam like the devil to safety. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| fd1be93 | No knowledge is wasted, | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 8c2938b | Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness --- one that I believe is found in all living creatures. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 40e08c9 | Our children are grown, we've enjoyed some success in our lives, and we're looking for something else now to fulfill ourselves....It's like being adolescents all over again, only this time we don't care if everyone likes the way we look or the clothes we wear. Or even if people like us at all. That nasty competition is over. I see this as a time to be who we've always seen ourselves as being, deep in our hearts. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| b6d3239 | Synchronicity (life) isn't a series of random events at all, but an expression of a deeper order. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| eadbc71 | She closed her eyes as his full weight stretched over her. They fit together perfectly and as they clung together her woman's body felt that at last she had found the man's bones from which she'd been created, and she was overcome with desire to become one flesh. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 42fdb00 | Sully's brooding blue eyes sparked to life when they kissed, like his truck when he fired the engine. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 3e5a305 | When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone. --John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 89f6625 | After living at sea for twenty years or more, the female loggerhead returns to the beach of her birth to nest. She travels hundreds of miles through the Atlantic, her three-hundred-pound, eddish-brown carapace filled with hundreds of fertile eggs. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 1d3f037 | I thought of my mother and her wise advice. She'd always been there for me. Even when I was at my worst. She made me want to be a better son. | family mental-illness stronger | Mary Alice Monroe | |
| 0826d68 | A mother was only as happy as her most unhappy child. | family mother-s-love | Mary Alice Monroe | |
| d340547 | When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." --EDMUND BURKE" | Brad Thor | ||
| 0897796 | Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with. | Brad Thor | ||
| 8614daa | My point is that bureaucrats--like everyone else--have a mind-set. The longer they work for government, the more they believe government is the answer, and the less they trust the everyday citizen. In fact, they begin to believe that certain groups of citizens are the root of the nation's problems. They see them as a threat. If those citizens can be brought to heel, the bureaucracy sees itself as doing the citizenry at large a greater good,.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 4d1049d | 1. Decrease current human population below five hundred million and keep it in perpetual balance with nature. 2. Guide reproduction wisely--improving fitness and diversity. 3. Unite humanity with a "living" new language. 4. Redistribute global wealth under the more acceptable term "global public goods." 5. Rebalance personal rights with "social duties." 6. Replace passion, faith, and tradition with reason. 7. Make clever use of new technolo.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 6b14e04 | The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance. | Brad Thor | ||
| 9098ad4 | The worth of a culture, in his opinion, could be boiled down to one thing--how well that culture took care of its weakest members, particularly its women and children. | Brad Thor | ||
| 64ddcc1 | The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you. | Brad Thor | ||
| 3f37fd3 | The rain forests of the Congo Basin contained so much water that they caused their own weather system, and were known as the "Lungs of Africa." | Brad Thor |