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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5844595 | ends up sleeping in your bed. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 0a06b5f | I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around. | Marian Keyes | ||
| d869e04 | I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, and wind up with the one they're supposed to be with. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 2609711 | Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 3ab2e76 | If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| c8a2167 | When she finally was able to order a martini, the first sip nearly knocked her head off. It was so strong. And how surprised she was that scotch tasted more like iodine than butterscotch candy. Two of the great disappointments in her life. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 3b0396a | The friction began at this first meeting. O'Neill was not initially impressed with Reagan and said to him, "You've been a governor of a state, but a governor plays in the minor leagues. You're in the big leagues now." (O'Neill had said the same thing to Jimmy Carter four years before.) Reagan replied, "Oh, you know, no problem there." Despite the genial response, O'Neill's comment represented the very kind of Washington haughtiness that set.. | Steven F. Hayward | ||
| f249f57 | Reagan liked to quip about detente: "Detente--isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey--until Thanksgiving Day?" | Steven F. Hayward | ||
| 0c4c803 | One of the quips Reagan scribbled on a notepad after waking up after surgery was Winston Churchill's famous line from his autobiography My Early Life that "there is no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at without result." | Steven F. Hayward | ||
| a774ff2 | George Will's equally serviceable formula was "He does not want to return to the past; he wants to return to the past's way of facing the future." Reagan's variety of future-oriented optimism rooted in historical attachment has become almost unrecognizable in the age of a postmodernism that is openly contemptuous of history and historical experience." | Steven F. Hayward | ||
| ce8a1e2 | week before the election, the New Republic's Morton Kondracke wrote that "it seems more likely by the day that Ronald Reagan is not going to execute a massive electoral sweep. In fact, the movement of the presidential campaign suggests a Carter victory."14 David Broder had written: "There is no evidence of a dramatic upsurge in Republican strength or a massive turnover in Congress." Though polls in the days leading up to the election showed.. | Steven F. Hayward | ||
| 8f13f0d | you can't have compassion unless you have a certain loyalty to the human race. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| b98e706 | Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| c1e3a0b | Charles Munger, right-hand adviser to Warren Buffett, the richest man on the planet, is known for his unparalleled clear thinking and near-failure-proof track record. How did he refine his thinking to help build a $3 trillion business in Berkshire Hathaway? The answer is "mental models," or analytical rules-of-thumb4 pulled from disciplines outside of investing, ranging from physics to evolutionary biology. Eighty to 90 models have helped C.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9d5b046 | Now, I'm not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on progressing the women have got to run things. The trick is to do it without them knowing it. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| ad9873c | Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was | Fannie Flagg | ||
| b5ff296 | and now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place! | fannie flagg | ||
| ec729b0 | Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county courthouse, rolled down her window, and tossed her mother's head that she had just chopped off in her kitchen at a State policeman and hollered, "Here! This is what you wanted," and drove right back down the courthouse stairs. Now that's what a.. | menopause small-town-life | Fannie Flagg | |
| 053ac45 | His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 9705c1a | They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle, | Fannie Flagg | ||
| bd082d7 | I eat out of stress," she told Robbie, and now, between work and her nephews driving her crazy, she was just on the verge of having to switch from her MEDIUM to her FAT AS A HOG wardrobe again, which meant she was going to have to switch shoe sizes as well. Robbie said she was the only perwon in America who gained weight in her feet." | Fannie Flagg | ||
| eb3c9ae | I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 6eaeaa3 | I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. I | Fannie Flagg | ||
| db282a6 | You think people are some kind of pure, white feathered birds flying in the clouds. They're not. They're pigs and they love to wallow in the mud and dirt. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| d6011be | You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature ... and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they? | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 3ff04fa | In America, no matter how poor you started out or where you came from, you could go as high as you wanted if you were willing to work for it. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| e0ba3f6 | Men are necessary up to a point, but women are the natural leaders in society and in the home. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 266b3c2 | He was worried about his country. Something was rotting from the inside--a slow decay of what was right and wrong. It was as if hundreds of cynical little rats were chewing at its very fiber, gnawing away year by year, until it was collapsing into a vat of gray slime and self-loathing. It had oozed under the doors of the classrooms, the newscasts, and in the movies and television shows and had slowly changed the national dialogue until it w.. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| f256de2 | Quando sentirai il telefono che non suona, saro io che non chiamo. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 8612f33 | It's kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| f241c00 | These interreflecting themes, the prerequisites of creation, are playfulness, love, concentration, practice, skill, using the power of limits, using the power of mistakes, risk, surrender, patience, courage, and trust. Creativity is a harmony of opposite tensions, as encapsulated in our opening idea of lila, or divine play. | Stephen Nachmanovitch | ||
| f1c1ba8 | Giving up drugs is easy compared to dealing with the emotions drugs protected you from." Learning to be vulnerable without shame and accepting our emotions without judgment becomes much easier when we realize that we are more than our emotions, our thoughts, our fears, and our personalities. And the stronger the realization, the easier it becomes to move from struggle to grace. The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it.. | Arianna Huffington | ||
| deaeddf | But somehow, even when we are grown up and "adjusted," everything we do and are--our handwriting, the vibrato of our voice, the way we handle the bow or breathe into the instrument, our way of using language, the look in our eyes, the pattern of whorling fingerprints on our hand--all these things are symptomatic of our original nature." | Stephen Nachmanovitch | ||
| 8641285 | Episode 5: Meanwhile, they'd all lost touch, because they didn't have Facebook and phones were expensive or whatever. (You do have to feel sorry for the older generation. I mean, all this "pay phones" and "telegrams" and "airmail." How did they cope?)" | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 13773c9 | But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing. Maybe not the easy thing--but the right thing. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| ed6eea7 | I had a choice: Follow my heart or don't break his. I think in the end I broke a bit of both our hearts. Which | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| dbbd958 | Io non mi sono mai sentita vecchia. Nessuno si sente vecchio. [...] Io mi sono sempre sentita cosi: una ragazza di vent'anni, per tutta la vita. L'aspetto esteriore e solo... un involucro>> | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 49d1f33 | And the point is, it's something to aspire to, something to hope for. One day my life will match my Instagram posts. One day! | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 2c9879c | It's amazing how an otherwise intelligent person can become a credulous fool as soon as you mention the words "organic," "authentic," and "Gwyneth Paltrow." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 593806d | It doesn't matter," she says, her voice soft. "Don't beat yourself up for not knowing all the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes it's enough just to know what you're going to do next." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| c3dc920 | You have no idea how many people there are in the world until you start getting freaked out by them. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 58471ca | It won't be forever. You'll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you'll come out...My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it's the best stuff...If rhubarb needs time in the dark maybe you do too. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 14ab5b2 | like that time I used false eyelashes with dodgy glue from the market, then tottered into the bathroom the next morning to find one eye glued shut with what looked like a dead spider on top of it. Really attractive, Lexi. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 1571980 | Procession For Ye Bride who Changed Her Minde. No | Sophie Kinsella |