1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5211
5212
5213
5214
5215
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 34ca4d4 | and with great solemnity, 'I'm glad yer stopped 'em fighting. I'm scared | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| cf9b926 | overnight. It had been | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| 3f1fb78 | Because people are always afraid of what they do not know, what they do not understand, the unfamiliar or the different, and that fear invariably turns to hate. Unreasoned hatred that makes no sense. In | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| 086103d | carried a nosegay of summer flowers. Winston | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| 8ab8cbb | I already have. Not at all that far from where we were, but far enough away. Actually, we're both fortunate and unfortunate. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 0fcdeb3 | Narrow, yellow eyes with no visible pupils sparkled with merriment, but the sort of merriment that came from pulling the wings off flies or the arms off experimental subjects. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 3ae2d81 | Krasus raced along the landscape. all sense of dignity forgotten. Dignity was for those with both time and patience, commodities not available to him and his companion. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 6d37403 | U.S. District Judge William W. Schwarzer, a Republican appointee, is not known as a light sentencer. Thus it was that everyone in his San Francisco courtroom watched in stunned silence as Schwarzer, known for his stoic demeanor, choked with tears as he anguished over sentencing Richard Anderson, a first offender Oakland longshoreman, to ten years in prison without parole for what appeared to be a minor mistake in judgment in having given a .. | Michelle Alexander | ||
| 7cbee2a | In some cases, these liberal "progressives" show contempt for their fellow Americans who are lower class, poorly educated, sinking economically--and white. White male privilege is real, but that phrase probably mystifies a fifty-nine-year-old Walmart greeter in southern Ohio. A study by two Princeton researchers shows widespread despair among poor whites that often feeds bigotry, misplaced anger, and the racism that Donald Trump leveraged t.. | William H. Willimon | ||
| d0a3bc6 | William awoke one morning to find that -- despite having no memory of it - he'd send a message to the Requisitions Department demanding ten thousand gallons of sleep (73% concentrate, with acetic acid stabilizer). The request had been rejected, but someone from Requisitions sent back a blanket and a pillow. | sleep | Bryce C. Anderson | |
| 0777996 | I too long sometimes for the prairies but S. Dakota has changed so much it is a disappointment when we go back. I think going back anywhere is apt to disillusion anyone. With | William Anderson | ||
| 0c5b6fa | But the real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong. With | William Anderson | ||
| 949f306 | Brummel was a man somewhere in his thirties, single, a one-time hotshot city cop with a big buck lifestyle that belied his policeman's salary. He always came on like a likable guy, but Marshall never really trusted him. Come to think of it, he didn't like him that much either. Too much teeth showing for no reason. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 767ebc6 | Crime was up, especially among the youth; simple, common trust in one's neighbor was diminishing; never had the town been so full of rumors, scandals, and malicious gossip. In the shadow of fear and suspicion, life here was gradually losing its joy and simplicity, and no one seemed to know why or how. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 519f671 | So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 4a87e7f | I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like. | freedom jesus-christ piercing-the-darkness salvation | Frank E. Peretti | |
| f33867f | Nevertheless, as we follow the invisible warfare swirling around the life of one wounded, searching sinner, the core message rings clear: No amount of lies, no matter how cleverly couched, will ever outstrip or outlast God's truth, nor will any lie ever outreach His grace. The Lord knows those who are His, His sheep hear His voice, and the arm of | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| b1e43ea | I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department." - John Barrett Jr." | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 68e2e29 | The goddess is not an out-there force among the far stars or beyond death, but is here and now and living. In philosopher Mary Daly's concept of active creation, she is a verb rather than none and is women's Be-ing. Since the goddess is everyone within and all around us, the powers of divinity and creation are both individual and shared by all. She is the power to make of women's lives what women will. With the tenant, "Thou Art Goddess", f.. | Diane Stein | ||
| 30bf60f | Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experi.. | R.B. Bernstein | ||
| b92bbaa | Chick forced himself to turn his head away, to walk in view of that window, to take the ten exposed steps down to the chestnut's stall. | Dick Francis | ||
| 68736da | Thought before action, if you have time | Dick Francis | ||
| 31fcbb2 | Reason said it was wasn't long enough. Instinct said it was. | Dick Francis | ||
| 09543e8 | their water and hay, hours lying awake at night listening to the stamp of the horses below and the snores and mumblings from the row of beds. Over and over again I thought my way through all I had seen or read or heard since I came to England: and what emerged as most significant was the performance of Superman at Stafford. He had been doped: he was the twelfth of the series: but he had not | Dick Francis | ||
| a2355c1 | In fact, it seemed to me that every single item on the news - concerning economic doom and political hypocrisy and social breakdown - was not "news" at all. What I could hear was just a series of utterly transparent ploys to frighten and alarm the listeners - and frighten them, moreover, about the wrong things. The" -- | Lynne Truss | ||
| 7156cb2 | I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" | Lynne Truss | ||
| 69ab0b9 | As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 385bac5 | Although I would appreciate it if you tried not to sound so bloody sarcastic. Beelzebub himself ticked me off the other day for not getting the proper respect from you blasted cats. He came all the way from Pandemonium because he found out that the Captain had started calling me "mate." I said to him: it's a different world nowadays, Beelzebub. It's not as respectful as it used to be. People on mobile phones; people cycling on the pavement;.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 8be5b70 | That's why they came up with the emoticon, too--the emoticon being the greatest (or most desperate, depending how you look at it) advance in punctuation since the question mark in the reign of Charlemagne. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 459f1a3 | In Beachcomber's hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain perversely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: "For every apostrophe omitted from an it's, there is an extra one put into an its." Thus the number of apostrophes in circulation remains constant, even if this means we have double the .. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 6b489b9 | Come inside," it says, "for CD's, VIDEO's, DVD's, and BOOK's." | Lynne Truss | ||
| e180d6d | Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy. | duty freedom obligation social-pressure stephen-maturin | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 6c31b10 | She then recovered her wits and averting her eyes from the wreck of her house she shook Babbington's hand, embraced Stephen tenderly, greeted all the officers, young gentlemen and seamen she knew, and said she would not get in their way - would go and sort her baggage and draw breath in one of the loose-boxes: there was nothing she preferred to a really commodious loose-box. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| c64e5a1 | Patrick O'Brian is an incredible Naval Author. During WWII he drove ambulance during the Blitz. As a Paramedic myself, it is good to know an "ambulance driver" can become an exceptional naval author." | Roger Litwiller | ||
| 1b809b0 | It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sig.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 705973c | It occurred to him that she had spent these last few years entirely among men, seeing no women apart from a few like Louisa Wogan; she spoke rather as men, and somewhat raffish, moneyed, loose-living men, speak when they are alone together. 'She has forgotten the distinction between what can and what cannot be said,' he reflected. 'A few more years of this company, and she would not scruple to fart. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| d071328 | Still, the farther hills remained as untouched as the sea; high, remote, arid, dark and sterile, poisoned with the sun. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| f57e2eb | Since then he has said nothing and although from time to time I have thrown out what I hope were delicate hints and suggestions he has not seemed to notice them; and with a man Lucifer could not hold a book, bell or candle to for pride I cannot raise the subject directly. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| dcb6a8e | The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed. | victory | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 6c6c58c | Wittles is up' said Killick | wittles | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 8c53f93 | What is Catalan?' 'Why, the language of Catalonia - of the islands, of the whole of the Mediterranean coast down to Alicante and beyond. Of Barcelona. Of Lerida. All the richest part of the peninsula.' 'You astonish me. I had no notion of it. Another language, sir? But I dare say it is much the same thing - a putain, as they say in France?' 'Oh no, nothing of the kind - not like at all. A far finer language. More learned, more literary. Muc.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 26e4c90 | the modesty and diffidence that the penniless, unemployed Standish had brought aboard were now no longer to be seen; and the assurance of a monthly income and a settled position had developed a displeasing and often didactic loquacity. He was also, of course, incompetent. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| d338655 | but the poor boy is in a fair way to becoming an alto, a counter-tenor for life.' 'Hoot,' said Graham, grinning still. 'Does the swelling affect the vocal cords?' 'The back of my hand to the vocal cords,' said Stephen. 'Have you not heard of orchitis? Of the swelling of the cods that may follow mumps?' 'Not I,' said Graham, his smile fading. 'Nor had my messmates,' said Stephen, 'though the Dear knows it is one of the not unusual sequelae o.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| d13e097 | Smell is of all senses by far the most evocative: perhaps because we have no vocabulary for it - nothing but a few poverty-stricken approximations to describe the whole vast complexity of odour - and therefore the scent, unnamed and unnamable, remains pure of association; it cannot be called upon again and again, and blunted, by the use of a word; and so it strikes afresh every time, bringing with it all the circumstances of its first perce.. | Patrick O'Brian |