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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| adc9353 | I wanted to die. Where were my parents to take me in their arms, to reassure me? | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 4305e12 | In retrospect, I can see that I had always known that it wouldn't between us. But after my pitiful love story in Vienna, I needed to believe in someone again... | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 6e62f0c | It's wonderful to have international friends. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| fb7c1e5 | To educate myself, I had to understand everything. Starting with myself, me, Marji, the woman. | books | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 1cddc20 | I read "The Second Sex." Simone explained that if women peed standing up, their perception of life would change. So I tried. It ran lightly down my left leg. It was a little disgusting. Seated, it was much simpler. And as an Iranian woman, before learning to urinate like a man, I needed to learn to become a liberated and emancipated woman." | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| eb88b4c | with these decisions forever. - Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you. - It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong. - The guy who gets killed is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn't care anymore, who has said, "I'm already dead--the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself," is the most f.. | Robert Kurson | ||
| d1648ac | For all its wickedness, however, Port Royal seemed to tolerate everyone. Quakers, Catholics, atheists, Jews--all were free to worship and believe as they pleased, and they lived peacefully alongside one another as Port Royal became the richest town in the New World. Pirates and buccaneers continued to arrive, welcomed by a public that understood the wellspring of its good fortune, and who ate, drank, and lived among these fast-living men. | Robert Kurson | ||
| c7dce03 | This is the greatest pirate story ever," Bowden said. "And no one knows about it." -- | Robert Kurson | ||
| f80c234 | Stories were heirlooms in these parts. | inspiration leadership legacy motivation narrative parenthood storytelling | Robert Kurson | |
| 9206fba | Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw. | distraction spiritual-warfare suffering thought-life | Robert Kurson | |
| 9f033fe | It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore. | maturation mission parenthood risk | Robert Kurson | |
| 44eb68a | Even their downtime was epic. | boldness goal-setting leisure | Robert Kurson | |
| 1e2d02f | more John Doe than Mike May. He played with this changing | Robert Kurson | ||
| de8d97c | Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword. | fear reputation | Robert Kurson | |
| bea004a | only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 2ed52b1 | the only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach. | Robert Kurson | ||
| eb003df | treasure is crisis, because what you get in the end is yourself. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 3dd8e64 | If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. - If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. - Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. - Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. - Exami.. | Robert Kurson | ||
| dc239a8 | and when he sat against trees to catch his breath he marveled at how full life felt when a person got to be excellent, | Robert Kurson | ||
| 3e99c26 | The same thing as you, the same as she. The same as anyone who has ever been doubted or told to go away. To prove myself better. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 896a8a0 | Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print | printing | Matthew Pearl | |
| 188fded | Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. MATTHEW 13:45 | Anne Graham Lotz | ||
| ffcc118 | When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing, | Matthew Pearl | ||
| b33f427 | What's the use of having eyes if we can't see the world we pass through? | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 357c596 | believes the world is against him. Nothing | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 27a2d9d | It is my conviction that we make ourselves who we want to be and not chain ourselves to the notions of busybodies who wish to judge us. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 3adfdc7 | Benjamin Franklin]. Not only one of our nation's founding geniuses but a printer and publisher, too... He knew that to form the soul of America, one must control the presses. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 3b53a16 | It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 785c31a | People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 8ad092e | Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, my dear reverend president, she will not have succeeded in that high sense which alone makes a nation out of a people. That which raises it from a dead name to a living power. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 79d628e | Beware the camel's nose--for its whole body will soon follow. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| b21f0cf | When you ask one friend to dine, give him your best wine. When you ask two, the second best will do. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| f683e89 | Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| d4915ce | He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining. | love | Matthew Pearl | |
| 2aea9e9 | that bookshops will one day disappear altogether and be replaced by mail order, that eventually books themselves would be finally and fully buried by that awful foe, so much cheaper and easier to carry: newspapers. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 6ccec44 | Now, on his way to another lecture, the very thought of entering a room full of students, who still thought it was possible to learn all about something, made him yawn. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 19283f1 | A man was leaning idly against an elm. ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle, too old for a student and too worn for a faculty member, stared at him with the familiar, insatiable gleam of the literary admirer. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 1fe2db6 | These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves. | writers | Matthew Pearl | |
| cffefce | When I ply the cutlass and make the equivalent of sixpence, idiot conscience applauds me. But if I sit in the house and make twenty pounds by writing, idiot conscience wails over my neglect and the day wasted. No, to come down covered with mud and drenched with sweat and rain after some hours in the bush. To change, rub down, and take a chair in the verandah, that makes for a quiet conscience. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| e97a60d | Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot, and turn to attack you (Matthew 7:6). | Stephen Lampe | ||
| 906ddd9 | Stevenson threw back his head and made a slow murmuring sound, "If only I could secure a violent death." "Pardon?" "What a fine success!" Stevenson continued, spurring Jack into a canter as he lost himself in his thoughts. "I wish to die in my boots, you see, Mr. Porter. To be drowned, to be shot, to be thrown from this horse into a ditch, Mr. Fergins--aye, to be hanged, rather than pass through the slow dissolution of illnesses!" | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 545a43d | Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow farer true through life, Heart whole and soul free, The August father gave to me. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 4a824e2 | Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on... | inspiration inspire writers | Matthew Pearl | |
| 12efac3 | This same Jesus, though, didn't say we had to be in relationship with everyone. We are not to 'throw [our] pearls to pigs.' (See Matthew 7:6.) He didn't deeply entrust his heart to Pharisees. You see him slipping through the throng of people bent on killing him. Often he withdrew from crowds in order to be with his Father. His is a story of connection with others, yes, but it's also a reminder that relationships don't come with an easy-to-u.. | friendship jesus | Mary E. DeMuth |