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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 181a1d3 | I come here because it reminds me that there are other people who have nothing left in their lives except regret. If I stayed at home I'd lose sight of the fact that I'm not alone in misery - that I'm not the world's unluckiest man. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 26fff1c | What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism --Rufus, Dogma; View Askew Productions, 1999 | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 0292816 | Why do we only realise who we are at the end of a long journey in the wrong direction? | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 21b7323 | Men who say they feel nothing, usually feel the most. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 5f7072f | You know... clowns can get away with murder!" -- John Wayne Gacy" | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| b4e6170 | There would be no United States if some disenfranchised Brits hadn't stuck their fingers up to the Crown. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 5335b81 | droopy | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| b7a4ae9 | Not to mention the company I work for has just been murdered. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| fe0bcfa | He gave her a quick hug and a kiss on the cheek. He was sixteen and would have to stop such displays of affection soon, but tonight he was too excited to begrudge his mother a kiss. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 94a1470 | War does not determine who is right - only who is left." Bertrand Russell" | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 7aa792c | What the hell are you two doing?" Isaac demanded. "In my parents' bed? Are you two fucking?" | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| cae0fc1 | Stop convincing yourself that being a bitch is okay just because you've lost something. You're not the only one who's suffered at the hands of evil. You're not fucking special. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 2c00dbb | As much as we think we're gods, we're still just animals. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 1b4193e | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein" | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| c321878 | Spent my life chasing money, the big houses, the nice cars. Look at me now, as poor and as wet as anyone else. I wasted my life on the wrong priorities. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 42b2a87 | If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 2188140 | Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash, the poet Sadiq Khan once wrote. But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 196216b | The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. But everything has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see. Sometimes, we see the past .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b015948 | The wonder and sustaining solace of it all is that were not alone: we're never alone if we live and we journey onward to new cities, new adventures and new dreams in the search for meaning, and purpose, and love. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0bb223f | When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The comfort that does come, if it comes at all, is that strangely marbled mix of time and place and feeling that we usually call wisdom. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b50f9bd | No sega s'm po-samoten i pom'drial i znam, che nito zhestokostta, nito sram't okharakterizirat chovechestvoto. Proshkata - tia ni pravi onova, koeto sme. Bez proshka nashiiat biologichen vid shcheshe da se samounishchozhi v bezkraini otm'shcheniia. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 74ec741 | She did it for him. She would've done anything for him. Some women are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out--your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f00a322 | Black money runs through the fingers faster than legal, hard-earned money. If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 135585f | Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5498113 | At the moment, most of our ways of defining the unit of morality are similar in their intentions, but they differ in their details. So the priests of one nation bless their soldiers as they march to war, and the imams of another country bless their soldiers as they march out to meet them. And everybody who is involved in the killing, says that he has God on his side. There is no objective and universally acceptable definition of good and ev.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 166ec20 | The universe,' he continued, 'this universe that we know, began in almost absolute simplicity, and it has been getting more complex for about fifteen billion years. In another billion years it will be still more complex than it is now. In five billion, in ten billion--it is always getting more complex. It is moving toward ... something. It is moving toward some kind of ultimate complexity. We might not get there. An atom of hydrogen might n.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e77907d | it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0148810 | a man has to draw the line somewhere. Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0f67067 | Tell us Lin. I would like to know." "Well, if you press me, I'd have to say freedom." "The freedom to do what?" he asked, putting a little laugh in the last word. "I don't know. Maybe just the freedom to say no. If you've got that much freedom, you really don't need any more." | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| bb2b6a6 | But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a0b8e8f | There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b0408ca | How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me. 'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 86a792d | My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 135c9f5 | Bad cops are bad priests', she said. 'All confession, and no absolution. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dbec4b2 | There's no heart like the Indian heart. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d545521 | The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it's our will alone that leads us to one or the other. | fate glory hope love past prison | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 276c2cb | The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you're thinking. Didier's corollary to the rule was: always know what the other thinks of you. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f745f20 | When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things. I | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 70ad14e | I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve. All | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4b8acea | But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b2a82b9 | Well,' I laughed, 'I certainly don't know God, and frankly I'm inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I've come across.' 'Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.' He | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a016762 | Razbirate li, stradanieto e vid gniav. Nie se gnevim sreshchu nespravedlivostta, nepravdata na nashata t'zhna, okaiana uchast. I tova kipiashcho negoduvanie, razbirate li, tozi gniav, e onova, koeto narichame stradanie. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ec5992d | Kazhdyi udar chelovecheskogo serdtsa -- eto tselaia vselennaia vozmozhnostei. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 1f33068 | Takoi byvaet liubov'. ... Tvoe serdtse stanovitsia pokhozhim na peregruzhennuiu spasatel'nuiu shliupku. Chtoby ne utonut', ty vybrasyvaesh' za bort svoiu gordost' i samouvazhenie, svoiu nezavisimost'. A spustia kakoe-to vremia ty nachinaesh' vybrasyvat' liudei -- svoikh druzei i vsekh prochikh, kogo znal godami. No i eto ne spasaet. Shliupka pogruzhaetsia vse glubzhe, i ty znaesh', chto skoro ona utonet i ty vmeste s nei. | Gregory David Roberts |