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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6ab4652 | Human love can be only a pale reflection of the emotion that God must feel for what He has created | creation emotions feelings god human love | Graham Greene | |
| f6b7f17 | He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy. | gender gender-relationships men men-and-women morals sex women | Graham Greene | |
| 4ae27ac | What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity. | Graham Greene | ||
| c3156e6 | She was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest. | Graham Greene | ||
| 0694b75 | There was no scene, no tears, just thought -- the long private thought of somebody who has to alter a whole course of life. | Graham Greene | ||
| 65c76fa | You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But "they" can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care." | Graham Greene | ||
| b6cb226 | She always harboured my criticism: it was only praise that slid from her like the snow. | Graham Greene | ||
| 3582604 | You have a sense of humour. I am in favor of jokes. They have political value. Jokes are a release for the cowardly and the impotent. | Graham Greene | ||
| e815574 | There are men whom one has an irresistible desire to tease: men whose virtues one doesn't share. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8ccfed6 | One can't always be wise, can one, in a world like this? | Graham Greene | ||
| 3347154 | for aren't lovers nearly always innocent? They have committed no crime, they are certain in their own minds that they have done no wrong, 'as long as no one but myself is hurt', the old tag is ready on their lips, and love, of course, excuses everything--so they believe, and so I used to believe in the days when I loved. | Graham Greene | ||
| 6fbe063 | She had often disconcerted me by the truth. In the days when we were in love, I would try to get her to say more than the truth--that our affair would never end, that one day we should marry. I wouldn't have believed her, but I would have liked to hear the words on her tongue, perhaps only to give me the satisfaction of rejecting them myself. But she never played that game of make-believe, and then suddenly, unexpectedly, she would shatter .. | Graham Greene | ||
| e841907 | There were occasions when Shakespeare was a very bad writer indeed. You can see how often in books of quotations. People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations. | graham-greene quotes travels-with-my-aunt william-shakespeare | Graham Greene | |
| a23aff8 | As one grows old I think one becomes more attached to family things- to houses and graves. | family graham-greene nostalgia travels-with-my-aunt | Graham Greene | |
| d9cc455 | Once for five minutes seven years ago they had been lovers--if you could give that name to a relationship in which she had never used his baptismal name: to her it was just an incident, a scratch which heals completely in the healthy flesh: she was even proud of having been the priest's woman. He alone carried a wound, as though a whole world had died. | Graham Greene | ||
| 7f4322e | As long as there is a Church, there will be little Torquemadas | Graham Greene | ||
| b5bfff2 | With goodness one can feel secure; why wasn't I satisfied with goodness, why did I always ask her the wrong questions? | Graham Greene | ||
| e0442a4 | malnutrition is much safer for the rich than starvation. Starvation makes a man desperate. Malnutrition makes him too tired to raise a fist. The Americans understand that well - the aid they give us makes just that amount of difference. Our people do not starve - they wilt. | Graham Greene | ||
| fe03911 | When you're not a good man yourself you respect a good man. Now I'd prefer to die with a good man around. A good man teaches a lot of nonsense and a bad man teaches truth [...] I'm not the one to teach the boy nonsense. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1bede0b | Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. | Graham Greene | ||
| f7b6411 | Read Emily Dickinson. Read Graham Greene. Read Italo Calvino. Read Maya Angelou. Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are Escape Routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind. | escapism possibilities reading reasons-to-stay-alive | Matt Haig | |
| 092524b | There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp." | Graham McNeill | ||
| 104054f | So long as Man endures, so too does Chaos. | Graham McNeill | ||
| 01eac4a | A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself. | warhammer | Graham McNeill | |
| fdbaa6a | I suppose that's all a man can hope for during his lifetime,' nodded Horus, 'to set an example, and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history | Graham McNeill | ||
| 6a66d6e | Common decency and civil behaviour are just a thin veneer over the animal at the core of mankind that gets out whenever it has the chance. | Graham McNeill | ||
| 61f66f2 | He liked being the bigger man of the two, even though it wasn't by much, he liked the way his solid rugby player's build matched and countered Jonah's athletic strength. But there was something about Jonah's body hair, that incontrovertible evidence of his masculinity, that made Ben feel...not that he was less manly, precisely, but that Jonah was more so. | K.J. Charles | ||
| 0cb617c | Get your sticky fingers away from my cookies," Ben ordered, without turning his head, to see Jaxton trying to steal one from the cooking tray. "You weren't saying that last night," Jaxton retaliated, coming up to Ben's side, to give him a nudge. They were both smiling, while looking down at the counter, where Ben was making his delicious rosemary cookies. "In fact, I seem to remember you grabbing my sticky fingers and putting them in your m.. | cello friendship gay lgbt love mm music notes novel relationship romance short-stories | Elaine White | |
| 5dd96c2 | OBAMA'S FRUSTRATION WITH HIS critics boiled over during a lengthy trip to Asia in the spring of 2014. In the region, the trip was seen as another carefully designed U.S. effort to counter China. We'd go to Japan, to bring them into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)--weaving together twelve Asia Pacific economies into one framework of trade rules, environmental protections, and labor rights. We'd go to South Korea and discuss ways to incre.. | china foreign-policy international-relations usa | Ben Rhodes | |
| e6fe053 | The relationship between cricket (that most English of sports) and spying (at which the British have always excelled) is deep-rooted and unique. Something about the game attracts the sort of mind also drawn to the secret worlds of intelligence and counter-intelligence - a complex test of brain and brawn, a game of honour interwoven with trickery, played with ruthless good manners and dependent on minute gradations of physics and psychology,.. | Ben Macintyre | ||
| ab3ad8c | I think it's designed to flower open like a Chocolate Orange." Me and Lesley then had to explain Terry's Chocolate Orange to Nightingale. "Not unlike a practitioner's hand opening to reveal a werelight," said Nightingale. "Not unlike at all," I said. Yeah, exactly like that I thought." | broken-homes rivers-of-london | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 8c80444 | He was one of those people who constantly seems to be having a conversation with someone other than the person he's actually talking to--presumably someone much more politically committed. And interested. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 5808422 | I'd found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 120a34c | Norwich station has your standard late-Victorian brick, cast-iron, and glass shed retrofitted with the bright molded plastic of various fast-food franchises. I gratefully staggered in the direction of Upper Crust and considered asking if I could stick my head under their coffee spigot but settled for a couple of double espressos and a chicken tikka masala baguette instead. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ae23329 | but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 8c2922a | People are conditioned by the media to think that black women are all shouting, and head shaking and girlfriending and "oh no you didn't" and if they're not sassy, then they're dignified and downtrodden and soldiering on and "I don't understand why folks just can't get along." But if you see a black woman go quiet the way Tyburn did, the eyes bright, the lips straight and the face still as a death mask, you have made an enemy for life, do n.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 8555c0c | Dominic tooled up five minutes later in a ten-year-old Nissan pickup truck that had been painted a non-standard khaki, dipped in dried mud up to the wheel arches and then randomly smacked with a sledgehammer to give it that Somali Technical look. I found myself checking to see if there was a mount for a fifty-caliber machine gun in the back. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 3ee8806 | The railway hit Harrow on the Hill in 1880 and it's been downhill ever since, culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built. As a result, your average shopper has only to spend ten minutes inside to be reduced to a state of quiet desperation. Primark has the right idea, being right by the e.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| c5ddec4 | The word 'bollocks' is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster. And | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 968c9b3 | Jazz vampires,' said Stephanopoulos. 'I wish I hadn't started calling them that,' I said. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| d9d0288 | I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them. | irony social-services | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 08c3e0c | Leslie said that the capacity not to notice a traditional Dutch folk-dancing band walk up behind you was not a survival characteristic in the complex fast-paced world of the modern policing environment. I'd like to point out that I was trying to give directions to a slightly deaf tourist at the time and anyway it was a Swedish dance troupe. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ff102a1 | It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater, | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 9aef9f7 | If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they'll say it's the variety. | Ben Aaronovitch |