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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ddba79b | Refrigeration works, you must know, my dear Frau Asher, by compression of ammonia gas, much better than the old sulfur dioxide system. Sulfur dioxide--that's a chemical compound--has the inconvenient habit of becoming corrosive and eating up the machinery which stores it. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| f79cb7f | From them her hands moved on, random as her passing thoughts. She sketched vagrant airs, or snatches of jigs and reels, slowed and touched with the shadow of an inevitable grief that waited in the hidden darkness of future time. Through them she moved to the ancient tunes that held the timeless pull of the ocean in their cadences; sorrows that drew the heart from the body, or joys that called the soul like the distant glitter of Stardust ba.. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 36c58e9 | It is the blood that feeds the flesh," Ysidro said. "We can--and do, at need--live upon the blood of animals, or blood taken from the living without need of their death. But it is the death that feeds the powers of our minds. Without the kill, we find our abilities fading," | Barbara Hambly | ||
| c7fb594 | Dave, I didn't make it to work Monday because I was helping a wizard rescue a baby Prince out someplace between Barstow and San Bernardino? | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 2413817 | If a Jewess from the East - her family comes from Cairo, I gather - were to find herself in need of help in Paris, where would she go?' 'To her family,' replied ben-Gideon promptly. 'I'm not sure she has one in Paris.' 'Benjamin, my mother spends eleven and a half hours out of twenty-four going from sister to sister, from aunt to aunt, from the houses of her sisters-in-law and second-cousins to the grandparents of my father's old business-p.. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| a5ef673 | Only a fool wants to go back to the land of childhood . . . Or perhaps it is the longing for the certainties of childhood that makes a man a fool. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| ce766a3 | That's the damn thing about falling in love with your second-in-command," and resumed his stride up to the balcony with its row of arched doors, Starhawk unsmiling at his heels. "They are with you too long and they know you too well." | Barbara Hambly | ||
| bd8b10f | We command the fire and the serpents and the stinging insects, but we cannot wield the power that sends fever away. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| ce836eb | the jury was overwhelmed by the tangle of conflicting tales of Austrian spies, slave-smugglers, mysterious veiled ladies, nameless hired bravos, Italian politics, and enraged divas | Barbara Hambly | ||
| cb9abb9 | She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted. | insecurity | Barbara Hambly | |
| 910e9f8 | However, her own lack of power had taught her a curious appreciation for small joys and hard beauties and for the simple, changeless patterns of life and death. | powerlessness | Barbara Hambly | |
| 55aa76a | The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 66d3bb3 | Maggots from meat,'" quoted John, "'weevils from rye, dragons from stars in an empty sky." | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 0dc94e8 | The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great--it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking. | power | Barbara Hambly | |
| aa0df4f | The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great--it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking. Knowledge--power--to know what songs the stars sing; to center all the forces of creation upon a rune drawn in the air--we can never give over the seeking of it. It is the stuff of loneliness. | knowledge power | Barbara Hambly | |
| 354f490 | Jenny froze...cut by an unexpected pang of a hot jealousy she had thought that she had long outgrown--the bitter jealousy of her youth toward those who had greater skills than she. All her life she had worked to rid herself of it, knowing it crippled her from learning from those more powerful. | jealousy | Barbara Hambly | |
| d75a155 | There are real problems, not just money and power, in my own lands. | perspective power | Barbara Hambly | |
| bc16ced | She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| fa2b513 | Holding his icy hands, she slid for a moment into the outer fringes of the healing trance and whispered to him by his inner name. But it was as if she called at the head of a descending trail along which he had long since passed--there was no answer. | healing | Barbara Hambly | |
| 9a7e30b | Pitiful, puling, like all your kin the slave of time that rots the body before the mind has seen more than a single flower in all the meadows of the Cosmos. | humanity mortality | Barbara Hambly | |
| 1362d2a | The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now." " The flower dies," Jenny said softly, "having lived. The diamond will never do either." | diamond life love | Barbara Hambly | |
| 1abf0e9 | January opened his mouth and then closed it. At the time -- in the days of his childhood, his slavery -- the endless, intricate dance of slave and master, of work and avoidance of work, had seemed to him the only manner in which life could be conducted. Looking back on it, he was still amazed that grown men and women should be astonished by their slaves' efforts to evade tasks that they themselves found too hard or too nasty, tasks demanded.. | slavery work | Barbara Hambly | |
| 42fb8e8 | Slavery, January understood now as he never had before, made you fear change almost more than anything else. | slavery | Barbara Hambly | |
| a72083c | once you pack in all the Lafrenieres, Bores, Macartys, Chauvins, Viellards, Boisclaires, Boisblancs, and Lebedoyere connections, even if they don't have dancing afterward--which they will, | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 9b89d63 | the birth of children is too important a matter to have been allowed to depend upon such an accident as proximity. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| dbe392a | Hidden within the heart of the great rose of music, he could forget time and place, forget the sting of his cut lip and the white man who'd given it to him, who had the right by law to give it to him; forget the whole of this past half year. For as long as he could remember, music had been his refuge, when grief and pity and rage and incomprehension of the whole of the bleeding world overwhelmed him: It had been a retreat, like the gentle h.. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| a488e18 | Women so frequently turn out like their mothers I don't know why I was even surprised. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| f15e023 | Don't bargain with them, Jamie,' said the old man again. 'Don't help them, don't believe them, don't let them live one moment beyond what it takes to destroy them safely. No matter what they tell you, about why it is so necessary that you help them do whatever it is they're asking you to help them do. They are lying. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 52c6e86 | Honor is honor, whether one bargains with the honorable or the dishonorable. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| 2ad9d92 | so that even a Woman in reasonable health can journey several furlongs northward without much difficulty-- | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 8769b31 | The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. | B. F. Skinner | ||
| 88fa926 | Osserva quella miserabile creatura. Quel Punto e un Essere come noi, ma confinato nel baratro adimensionale. Egli stesso e tutto il suo Mondo, tutto il suo Universo; egli non puo concepire altri fuor di se stesso: egli non conosce lunghezza, ne larghezza, ne altezza, poiche non ne ha esperienza; non ha cognizione nemmeno del numero Due; ne ha un'idea della pluralita, poiche egli e in se stesso il suo Uno e il suo Tutto, essendo in realta Ni.. | science-quotes | Edwin A. Abbott | |
| 4874f0c | True," said the Sphere; "it appears to you a Plane, because you are not accustomed to light and shade and perspective; just as in Flatland a Hexagon would appear a Straight Line to one who has not the Art of Sight Recognition. But in reality it is a Solid, as you shall learn by the sense of Feeling." He" | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| eeadf62 | Well, then, if a Point by moving three inches, makes a Line of three inches represented by 3; and if a straight Line of three inches, moving parallel to itself, makes a Square of three inches every way, represented by 32; it must be that a Square of three inches every way, moving somehow parallel to itself (but I don't see how) must make Something else (but I don't see what) of three inches every way--and this must be represented by 33." "G.. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 3f82c21 | All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily figure, caused perhaps (if not congenital) by some collision in a crowd; by neglect to take exercise, or by taking too much of it; or even by a sudden change of temperature, resulting in a shrinkage or expansion in some too susceptible part of the frame. Therefore, concluded that i.. | humor logic morality punishment right-and-wrong | Edwin A. Abbott | |
| 8bf440d | Avoid exaggerations. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| d5d0c5f | There are not wanting, it is true, some promulgators of paradoxes who maintain that there is no necessary connection between geometrical and moral Irregularity. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 622049e | Well, they're splendid to amuse children with," said Diana. "Fred and Small Anne look at the pictures by the hour." "I amused ten children without the aid of Eaton's catalogue," said Mrs. Rachel severely." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a3ccd53 | lw knt rjlan mnTqy - m` 'nny 'rtb b`D lshy fy kwnk rjl - l'nk tmtlk fym ybdw Swt wHd, wlkn lw knt ldyk dhr@ mn lmnTq, lstm`t l~ Swt l`ql, 'nt tTlb mny 'n 'Sdq 'n hnk nw` 'khr mn lHrk@ Gyr tlk lty 'rh kl ywm , w 'n bdwry 'Tlb mnk 'n tSf blklmt 'w tbyn `n Tryq lHrk@ dhlk lkhT lakhr ldhy ttHdth `nh, wlknk bdlan mn 'n ttHrk tmrs nw` mn lHyl lsHryW@ llkhtf wm`wd@ lZhwr mr@ 'khr~, wbdlan mn 'n tqdm ly Swr@ wDH@ l`lmk ljdyd, tkhbrny fqT b'Twl nHw .. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 6f1b876 | S]uddenly the course of events was completely changed by one of those picturesque incidents which Statesmen ought never to neglect, often to anticipate, and sometimes perhaps to originate, because of the absurdly disproportionate power with which they appeal to the sympathies of the populace. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 58ac22a | n lrD `n ldht mrdf llnHTT wljhl, wTmwH lmr khyr lh mn qn`@ zy'f@ t`my `ynyh wtGul ydyh, | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 4f68d34 | Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 6e43931 | nW lrD `n ldht mrdf llnHTT wljhl, wTmwH lmr khyrun lh mn qn`@ zy'f@ t`my `ynyh wtuGlW ydyh | conviction flatland satisfaction | Edwin A. Abbott | |
| acc2a91 | This omnividence, as you call it--it is not a common word in Spaceland--does it make you more just, more merciful, less selfish, more loving? Not in the least. Then how does it make you more divine? I. "More merciful, more loving!" But these are the qualities of women!" | Edwin A. Abbott |