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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8e6c776 | You don't feel any different as you get older. Only, you can't do so much. | Nevil Shute | ||
| dff89fd | An American, a soldier of fortune by profession. Wherever there is trouble in the world the Dwights of all nations foregather. There are not very many of them, thirty or forty perhaps, and they are all supremely competent men because the others have been killed. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 211c3cd | We are not like that, we engineers. We are men of understanding and of education, on whom is laid responsibility that men may travel in these aeroplanes as safely as if they were sitting by the well in the cool of the evening. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 9ab14a0 | Half a thou too small," he said. "The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it'ld be Right. As it is, it's Wrong, and you can't cheat about it." He smiled again. "Too bad when God gives you the mind of an Inspector, isn't it?" | Nevil Shute | ||
| 5c78e5a | When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 5f4fb61 | Many evils spring from power," he said. "Even from the power to do good. All power corrupts, and the intention to do good has little influence on the corruption. Either my words will last after me and be believed by men, or else they won't. Yet if one thing were required to kill them certainly, it is that my words should be spread after my death by the power of money. No teaching could survive a campaign of paid advertising." | Nevil Shute | ||
| 36cfd34 | I still think Connie was a human man, a very, very good one--but a man. I have been wrong in my judgments many times before; if now I am ignorant and blind, I'm sorry, but it's no new thing. If that should be the case though, it means that I have had great privileges in my life, perhaps more so than any man alive today. Because it means that on the fields and farms of England, on the airstrips of the desert and the jungle, in the hangars of.. | Nevil Shute | ||
| 0f1d751 | I want to drink hard liquor, as you call it, before lunch. I've got a mouth like the bottom of the parrot's cage. You wouldn't want me to throw a screaming fit in front of all your officers. | humor | Nevil Shute | |
| ea5b2a5 | Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape. | Nevil Shute | ||
| b4b3b34 | I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love. | love | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 313b453 | People are dupes, and wicked too. That is what makes it interesting to get them better. | T.H. White | ||
| a1b58c9 | at the same time so distant that unutterable thoughts of space and eternity would baffle themselves in his sighing breast, and he would imagine to himself how he was falling upward higher and higher among them, never reaching, never ending, leaving and losing everything in the tranquil speed of space. | T.H. White | ||
| 56857cf | I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not. | flying life suicide | T.H. White | |
| ffac790 | Why could Tolkien not be more like Sir Thomas Malory, asked [Edwin] Muir, in the third Observer review of those cited above, and give us heroes and heroines like Lancelot and Guinevere, who ' knew temptation, were sometimes unfaithful to their vows,' were engagingly marked by adulterous passion? But T.H. White had already considered that paradigm, was indeed rewriting it at the same time as Tolkien in The Once and Future King; and he had se.. | th-white tollkien | Tom Shippey | |
| 9a06556 | I am a failure in the world. I do not rule people, nor deceive them for the sake of power, nor try to swindle their livelihood into my own possession. I say to them: Please go freely on your way, and I will do my best to follow mine. Well then, Maria, although this is not a fashionable way of going on, nor even a successful one, it is a thing which I believe in--that people must not tyrannize, nor try to be great because they are little. | T.H. White | ||
| eea0b89 | He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that. | violence warfare | T.H. White | |
| 8c00707 | Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents. | revenge violence | T.H. White | |
| bff445c | They killed | T.H. White | ||
| c2d91d5 | Who said that?" asked Sir Grummore. | funny sword talkative | T.H. White | |
| a3bf42b | I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at which one can afford to let everything go hang. One has got to damn the public, chance one's living, say what one thinks, and be oneself. Then something may come out. | writing | T.H. White | |
| fd7fd9d | Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion," said Merlyn with the deepest sincerity, "are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force, a sort of fencing with points in order to gain a victory, not for truth. Opinions are the blind alleys of lazy or of stupid men, who are unable to think." | T.H. White | ||
| 2fdf7ac | When Other blood spurts from the knife, Then everything is fine. | T.H. White | ||
| 2f52f8f | One more try,' he asked, 'We are not quite done.' 'What is the use of trying?' 'It is a thing which people do. | T.H. White | ||
| a52473c | made of stone. It had no windows and only one door, through which you had to crawl. | T.H. White | ||
| f0a267b | Queen Morgause," said Gwenever thoughtfully, "must have been a strange person." | T.H. White | ||
| 78431bd | Grey damp would be around them, and the sun, a copper penny, would fade away. The wings next to their own wings would shade into vacancy, until each bird was a lonely sound in cold annihilation, a presence after uncreation. And there they would hang in chartless nothing, seemingly without speed or left or right or top or bottom, until as suddenly as ever the copper penny glowed and the serpents writhed. | T.H. White | ||
| 3acb3e2 | The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--.. | T.H. White | ||
| 4287db8 | The Queen dried her tears and looked at him, smiling like a spring shower. In a minute they were kissing, feeling like the green earth refreshed by rain. They thought that they understood each other once more - but their doubt had been planted. Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what giv.. | T.H. White | ||
| 16b9988 | It is like...I don't know what. Not like silk. It is more like pouring water, only there is something cloudy about it too. The clouds are made of water, aren't they? Is it a pale mist, or a winter sea, or a waterfall, or a hayrick in the frost? Yes, it is a hayrick, deep and soft and full of scent. | T.H. White | ||
| 5a3297f | For happiness is only a bye-product of function, as light is a bye-product of the electric current running through the wires. If the current cannot run efficiently, the light does not come. That is why nobody finds happiness, who seeks it on its own account. | T.H. White | ||
| e2a030e | If I were to be made a knight," said the Wart, staring dreamily into the fire, "I should insist on doing my vigil by myself, as Hob does with his hawks, and I should pray to God to let me encounter all the evil in the world in my own person, so that if I conquered there would be none left, and, if I were defeated, I would be the one to suffer for it." "That would be extremely presumptuous of you," said Merlyn, "and you would be conquered, a.. | T.H. White | ||
| ffc7eb0 | With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new. | loneliness solitude | Carolyn G. Heilbrun | |
| 38e4123 | A leader was surely forced to offer something which appealed to those he led? He might give the impetus to the falling building, but surely it had to be toppling on its own account before it fell? If this were true, then wars were not calamities into which amiable innocents were led by evil men. They were national movements, deeper, more subtle in origins. | war | T. H. White | |
| a7aae95 | The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotion except love. | T.H. White | ||
| d933f98 | The fortress was entered by tunnels in the rock, and, over the entrance to each tunnel, there was a notice which said: EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY | T.H. White | ||
| f0142aa | Who doth ambition shun And loves to lie in the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets, | T.H. White | ||
| 17a0515 | Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically - to those who hardly think about us in return. | T.H. White | ||
| 80b7065 | Whether a man dispassionately sees to the core of life or passionately sees the surface, the core and the surface are essentially the same, words making them seem different only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: from wonder into wonder existence opens. | Chris Prentiss | ||
| 2e32bd6 | There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That way is simply: Be happy. | Chris Prentiss | ||
| d7dcbf3 | We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed. | chris-prentiss drug-war headaches healing holistic-treatment pain passages-malibu pax-prentiss rehab remedies root-of-addiction war-on-drugs | Chris Prentiss | |
| 3e7ed5c | Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the individual issues at the core of dependency are just that- completely individual. | addiction-help addiction-philosophy addiction-treatment alcoholism change change-the-world-change-life chris-prenitss healing-addiction holistic-therapy non-12-step non12step one-on-one-therapy passages-malibu passages-ventura philosophy | Chris Prentiss | |
| 59dd835 | Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually. | inspiration life passages-malibu passages-ventura positive-thinking stress | Chris Prentiss | |
| eae2cd9 | Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities." | chris-prentiss happiness inspiration life philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| fbcbd33 | What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you. | chris-prentiss coincidences goals inspiration inspire motivation passages-malibu passages-ventura self-help self-improvement | Chris Prentiss |