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| 5ee77ef | The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will. In "Selected Civil War Letters of Edwine Willow," edited by Constance Mays. With" | George Saunders | ||
| f43dc2f | And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections, buttressed by an arsenal of hidden technology. | Lincoln Child | ||
| aa19c93 | We have, what, 66,000-odd guests here today? And not one of them retains even an infant's sense of self-preservation. They checked their fight-or-flight instincts at the door. That's what they're paying for. They see a fire, hear an explosion, feel their roller coaster begin to shear off its track--what are they gonna do? Laugh all the harder. Because they think it's part of the act. That makes every last one of them a sitting duck. | Lincoln Child | ||
| 496f5fb | Your hearing is fine. That's for sure. What's the longest word in the Gettysburg Address?" "Which symptom is that?" "Thinking." He thought. "There are three. All with eleven letters. Proposition, battlefield, and consecrated." "Now recite the first sentence. Like you were an actor on a stage." "Lincoln was coming down with smallpox at the time. Did you know that?" "That's not it." "I know. That was for extra credit on memory." | Lee Child | ||
| ad74943 | If you are going to walk on thin ice, he said, you might as well dance. | Lincoln Child | ||
| 1bb147d | And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I'm about to speak--though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain't no Nessie." This" | Lincoln Child | ||
| 6438b85 | The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look outside of his own mind and heart for help to endure a personal grief. It was the first time in his life when he had not been sufficient for his own experience." | grief trials weakness | Elton Trueblood | |
| a42a2a2 | With his ship faced with the danger of sinking, the Richard's chief gunner screamed to the Serapis, "Quarter! quarter! for God's sake!" Jones hurled a pistol at the man, felling him. But the cry had been heard by Pearson, the Serapis' commander, who called, "Do you ask for quarter?" Through the clash of battle, gunshot and crackle of fire the famous reply came faintly back to him: "I have not yet begun to fight!" Making good his boast, Jone.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a1a6a40 | In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the ne.. | corporate-culture corporate-world drama fake faking mask masks moral morality phony self-control smile smiling theatre | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 8c0441c | rather than hanging around like a fart under a duvet. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 45d89c3 | The night of the fireworks changed the course of many lives in England, though no one suspected the dark future as hundreds of courtiers stared, faces upturned in delight, at the starbursts of crimson, green, and gold that lit up the terraces, gardens, and pleasure grounds of Rosethorn House, the country home of Richard, Baron Thornleigh. That night, no one was more proud to belong to the baron's family than his eighteen-year-old ward, Just.. | historical-novel | Barbara Kyle | |
| 1084633 | When Richard Jackson calls obesity a "disease of the environment," the setting he's taking issue with is the one we've built with human ingenuity. The food we've tinkered with." | Barbara Natterson-Horowitz | ||
| ef17499 | Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves. Richard J. Leider | Barbara Meiklejohn-Free | ||
| d537130 | Hardy reinforces his narrative with stories of heroes who didn't have the right education, the right connections, and who could have been counted out early as not having the DNA for success: "Richard Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance as a student. Steve Jobs was born to two college students who didn't want to raise him and gave him up for adoption. Mark Cuban was born to an automobile upholsterer. He started as a barten.. | Carmine Gallo | ||
| 978119b | she couldn't quite see herself in it. When they were done, I read the Shakespeare sonnet that begins "Fear no more the heat o' the Sun," partly because it was appropriate to the occasion and one of the most beautiful poems in the language, but also because I hoped it might hide from my loved ones the fact that I myself had nothing to say, that while part of me was here with them on this beloved shore, another part was wandering, as it had b.. | Richard Russo | ||
| e37c5a5 | I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit...DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing. | financial-wisdom greatness lessons-of-life love marriage relationships soledad-francis success truth wealth | Brandi L. Bates | |
| 3451fbe | The online world could stuff that in its pipe and vape it. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 769f424 | Semper Vigilo - that's our motto,' Rebus said, | Ian Rankin | ||
| 003e64a | In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 92696ac | Effective people are busy people. Religious people are busy people. For millions and millions of people, busy-ness is The Way of Life. "How are you?" "Busy like crazy, but what else is new? And you?" Some busy people cannot even tell the difference between relaxation and narcolepsy, because the minute they sit down in a quiet place alone, they nod off." | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| df4e792 | The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs. | ascension atlanta belize brandi-bates human-nature knowledge locs love luxury mindfulness motivation natural-hair new-thought quotes science success vegan wisdom women-of-color | Brandi L. Bates | |
| ac03083 | When we arrived in this large room, Rockwell put a fluorescent marker down where we entered so we could find the way back out again. When Hurd failed to do that, her teacher corrected her. "In a cave," she told Hurd, "always, always look back. Every few minutes, turn around. Nothing looks the same coming out as it did going in, so you have to memorize the backsides of every boulder, the shape of the hole you've just come through, see the re.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| f9178e1 | Anyone who stands up in front of other human beings to speak knows what a frightful gift it is. This power of ours has no safety catch on it. We are as likely to make nothing out of something as the other way around. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| f0571bd | here is the testimony of faith: darkness is not dark to God; the night is as bright as the day. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 9cabb30 | The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become living words in the world for God's sake. For me, this willing conversion of ink back to blood is the full substance of faith. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 19db96e | Because Jesus died instead of ushering in the messianic age, Paul responded with a doctrine of atonement. Because the risen Christ struck his followers as very close kin to God, the early church responded with a doctrine of the Trinity. Because Christians did not turn out to be much better behaved than anyone else, Augustine responded with a doctrine of original sin. The doctrines are works of genius, for the most part, but like books they .. | doctrine | Barbara Brown Taylor | |
| 931b8f5 | I wanted to recover the kind of faith that has nothing to do with being sure what I believe and everything to do with trusting God to catch me though I am not sure of anything. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 6f62b76 | If Jesus were in charge of an average congregation I figure there would be about four people left there on Sunday mornings, and chances are those four would be fooling themselves. Jesus would greet newcomers by saying, "Are you absolutely sure you want to follow this way of life? It will take everything you have. It has to come before everything else that matters to you. Plenty of people have launched out on it without counting the cost, an.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 87bb0e9 | When visitors come to a worship service in my own religious tradition, a great deal depends on how warmly they are welcomed and whether they feel included or excluded by what they hear during the short time they are with us. We may have exactly one shot at communicating who we are to people who know nothing about us - or who think they already know a lot about us - but who, in either case, will remember us at the embodiment of our entire tr.. | first-impressions inspirational religion tradition welcome | barbara brown taylor | |
| b10be6e | For reasons no one may ever understand, God decided it would be helpful for people to be different instead of the same, if only because it would slow them down a little bit. God decided it would be good for them to have to stop on a regular basis and say, 'Could you say that a different way, please? I don't understand what you mean' or 'Can you show me with your hands?' God decided it would be good for them to stop taking their communicatio.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| e821802 | I have no idea. You know what's really scary?" "What?" "No one will tell you." "Like who?" "Anyone. It's the damnedest thing. I really want to know what I'm up against. So I ask my best friend, she's had two. She says, 'Oh, when you see what you get it's worth it.' That's no answer, right? So I ask someone else who didn't use any anesthesia. She says, 'Oh, you'll forget all about it when you see the baby.' That's not an answer either. And m.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| c321bd1 | WHEN YOU LIVE IN GOD, your day begins when you open your eyes, though you have done nothing yourself to open them, and you take your first breath, though there is no reason why this life-giving breeze should be given to you and not to some other. In the dark or in the light, with a stone slab under your back or a feather topper, your day begins when you let God hold you because you do not have the slightest idea how to hold yourself--when y.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 9fdcf88 | religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millennia. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 049e423 | Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 7053621 | People ask me: why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do? The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry. --M. F. K. Fisher | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 1f6ea93 | Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Wise people do not have to be certain what they believe before they act. They are free to act, trusting that the practice itself will teach them what they need to know. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c9e28f6 | As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people." | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 1c51b3b | Once, at the end of a field trip to the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, the imam ended his meeting with students by saying, 'Our deepest desire is not that you become Muslim, but that you become the best Christian, the best Jew, the best person you can be. In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Thank you for coming.' Then he was gone, leaving me with a fresh case of holy envy. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| b639bac | No threatening the cat!" Mr. Snuggly said." | humor | Charlaine Harris | |
| 849d305 | This larder of memories, of sex, of life, of family that we had built up, could always be called upon in the leaner times of our relationship... Everything we had built together over twenty years was there to be tapped into, summoned as evidence that we were made to last... I hadn't realized how much I counted on that trick working until the time came when it didn't. | Allison Pearson | ||
| 2b70d3d | The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question. | Allison Pearson | ||
| 25fcf0a | She laughed now, and the sound of it--clear as a bell, dirty as a rugby match--turned heads all along their row. | Allison Pearson | ||
| c363966 | When he laughed, Roy's mouth revealed a Stonehenge of ancient teeth. | Allison Pearson | ||
| d12ee5e | Emily hit the Terrible Twos and I bought a book called Toddler Taming. It was a revelation. The advice on how to deal with small angry immature people who have no idea of limits and were constantly testing their mother applied perfectly to my boss. Instead of treating him as a superior, I began handling him as though he were a tricky small boy. Whenever he was about to do something naughty, I would do my best to distract him; if I wanted hi.. | Allison Pearson |