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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d84cddc | Un filosofo de la vida debe echar siempre mano del lapicero porque no tiene derecho a que sus pensamientos se desperdicien. De lo contrario se convierte en un pensador inofensivo, como un leon que ha perdido sus colmillos, y no hay cosa peor que un leon obligado a regimen vegetariano. | Sergio Ramírez | ||
| e2b989b | FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH centuries were decisive for all the people of God. It was a particularly crucial period for the Christian West, which had not only succeeded in catching up with the other cultures of the Oikumene but was about to overtake them. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| b10cfeb | The Strongman continued his mental review. "And the petty little saints in the town were . . . obscure, don't you see, far from help, far from the mainstream, alone amid the rolling farmlands . . . unknown. It was a perfect place to begin the process." His beastly face grew tight and bitter. "Until they started praying. Until they ceased being so comfortable and started weeping before God! Until they began to reclaim the power of the . . .".. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| b3c08d8 | So what do you do while you're living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| d70619d | Tom, remember my last letter, when I talked about guilt? I haven't forgotten any of those thoughts; as a matter of fact, they are still churning in my head, and I don't know where they will eventually carry me. Since I last wrote, I did come up with one challenging proposition about guilt: that it could be a fact, and not just a feeling. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 7f46840 | difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans, we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. I know, indeed, that some honest men f.. | R.B. Bernstein | ||
| d774808 | unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes, and they were simply open but seeing nothing. | Dick Francis | ||
| 6d11e30 | Tyrants come and go, tyranny is constant. | Dick Francis | ||
| f614d3a | Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering mind and erupted through his nerves instead. | Dick Francis | ||
| 280e40a | Lightheartedness was a treasure in a world too full of sorrows, a treasure little regarded and widely forfeited to agression, greed and horrendous tribal rituals. | truth-of-life | Dick Francis | |
| be216b1 | ones. I could see that I would be inevitably eased out, and not by doubt but by concern. | Dick Francis | ||
| d9c22c0 | I smiled into the clever eyes. "Find out for me," I said, "whether Oliver" | Dick Francis | ||
| 4952045 | The house was dark. Upstairs, behind the black open window with the pale curtain flapping in the spartan air, slept Arthur Morrison, trainer of the forty-three racehorses in the stables below. Morrison habitually slept lightly. His ears were sharper than half a dozen guard dogs', his stable-hands said. | Dick Francis | ||
| 156f266 | Impulses like that, I answered myself, that seemed to come from nowhere, they weren't really impulses at all, they were decisions already made but waiting for an opportunity to be spoken aloud. | Dick Francis | ||
| 7a89789 | and thought of Peter and the | Dick Francis | ||
| 1edfef5 | the Gold | Dick Francis | ||
| c54660b | her to me and asked if I | Dick Francis | ||
| 6b55f02 | Infinite sadness is not to trust an old friend. | Dick Francis | ||
| a77898f | Dick armastas elu osadeks lahutada, parajasti nii vaikesteks, et neid oleks voimalik talletada; ta teadis, et tervik voib osistest kvalitatiivselt erineda, kuid inimesel, kes seisab neljakumnendate eluaastate lavel, naib elu tervikuna haaramine kaivat juba ule jou. | Francis Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 301b271 | Be grateful for villainy, I thought. The jobs of millions depended on it, Gerard's included. Police, lawyers, tax inspectors, prison warders, court officials, security guards, locksmiths and people making burglar alarms. Where would they be the world over but for the multiple faces of Cain. "Gerard," I said." | Dick Francis | ||
| fe73f02 | But,' I said, 'what if the money just sits in | Dick Francis | ||
| 397b1c3 | they were carried out. He was a tyrant, not so much in the quality of the work he demanded, as in the quantity. There were some thirty horses in the yard. The head lad cared | Dick Francis | ||
| 1046019 | Dick turned around slowly. "Did you expect her to be dead because I was tight ?" His tone was pleasant. "Nicole is now made of-of Georgia pine, which is the hardest wood known, except lignum vitae from New Zealand-" | Francis Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| c4064cb | newspapers," I said. I unrolled the Quindle Diary so" | Dick Francis | ||
| 36be066 | He clicked his fingers to his companion, who removed a single beige-colored sheet of | Dick Francis | ||
| e12b9bd | BOOK OF THE WEEK SWITCHED FORTUNES John Rabe PS7.99 Austin Macauley Making a change from the manuals and the marque history books, this engaging thriller takes on added impetus when the author shares his knowledge of cars with the reader. Author John Rabe is a self-confessed car nut and has written a traditional adventure story around racing driver Kevin Richardson, who gets involved in international intrigue but still manages to put in a .. | John Rabe | ||
| f5c2bb9 | Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss. | John Golden | ||
| cce8a49 | Once someone has shown you a convincingly different way of looking at the world, it's hard to remember how you saw it before. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 0168210 | fulcrum | Lynne Truss | ||
| 446230a | There is even a rather delightful publication for children called "The Punctuation Repair Kit", which takes the line "Hey! It's uncool to be stupid!" - which is a lie, of course, but you have to admire them for trying." | Lynne Truss | ||
| 1d7125c | L'insulto e l'arma del debole. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 1c2da2c | We read privately, mentally listening to the writer's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it. Picking up the book in the first place entails an active pursuit of understanding. Holding the book, we are aware of posterity and continuity. Knowing that the printed word is always edited, typeset and proof-read before it reaches us, we appreciate its literary authority. Havi.. | reading | Lynne Truss | |
| f6475f3 | for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, "grammar." And" | Robert Lane Greene | ||
| 715455a | like most normally constituted writers Martin had no use for any candid opinion that was not wholly favourable. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 2836277 | Dr. Maturin?' asked young Mowett, and stopped short, quite shocked by the pale glare of reptilian dislike. However, he delivered his message; and he was relieved to find that it was greeted with a far more human look. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 4e0db62 | Calligraphy," said Plato, "is the physical manifestation of an architecture of the soul." That being so, mine must be a turf-and-wattle kind of soul, since my handwriting would be disowned by a backward cat; whereas yours, particularly on your charts, has a most elegant flow and clarity, the outward form of a soul that might have conceived the Parthenon." | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| d3062b5 | Let me look to your pistols,' said Jack, as the trees came closer to the road. 'You have no notion of hammering your flints.' 'They are very well,' said Stephen, unwilling to open his holsters (a teratoma in one, a bottled Arabian dormouse in the other). 'Do you apprehend any danger?' 'This is an ugly stretch of road, with all these disbanded soldiers turned loose. They made an attempt upon the mail not far from Aker's Cross. Come, let me h.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 809b48f | Never mind the disappointment. Salt water will wash it away. You will be amazed how unimportant it will seem in a week's time - how everything will fall into place. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| db58f5f | It was quite unlike their friendly discourse of some days before, and presently Stephen grew sadly bored: lies or half-lies, he reflected, had a certain value in that they gave a picture of what the man would wish to seem; but a very few were enough for that. And then they had a striving, aggressive quality, as though the listener had to be bludgeoned into admiration; they were the antithesis of conversation. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| f4feb12 | poachers and Methodies, of course. Oh, | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| dae7333 | Take it easy, Teague,'said another. But Peter would not take it easy: he hesitated, trying to quell the wild indignation; but he failed; it possessed him, and with a furious shriek he hurled himself upon his country's oppressors. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 157072b | There are some midshipmen who will never have the decency to lie down and die, whatever the circumstances. Because they are born to be hanged, no doubt,' added the lieutenant darkly. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 9ac2fa3 | was an officer holding out his sword, | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 1d17e41 | Of course she will put on a cap,' said Sophie, with a pitying look. 'How could she possibly receive strange gentlemen without a cap? But her hair must be dressed under it. | Patrick O'Brian |