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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 436ff72 | He was a wanderer between two worlds and must ever wander... | James Hilton | ||
| 1986d1c | The best excuse for the fallen ones is that Madame Justice herself is one of them. | Alfred Nobel | ||
| f8ec8f4 | Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight. | Alfred Nobel | ||
| bdc8ff2 | Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. | Alfred Nobel | ||
| cf643cf | Lying is the greatest of all sins. | Alfred Nobel | ||
| 9502ce9 | That cat hates me." - Ian "Why should it be different from everybody else here, Lucian?" - Eisenhower" | Gordon Korman | ||
| 562aedb | Home is where I work and I work everywhere. | Alfred Nobel | ||
| 688504f | Although scheduled to start in early March, the House and Senate took more than a month to muster quorums. In a significant piece of symbolism, the House met on the ground floor of Federal Hall and provided open galleries for visitors. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 3500908 | They were married though they needn't have married, and though both had sworn they never would be. It is hard to explain--in that game of musical chairs--why they should have stopped, finally, at each other. Kindness, as a quality, had something to do with it. Many things were easy to find on those dance floors, but kindness was rare. Her husband was kinder than any man Leah Hanwell had ever known, aside from her father. And then of course .. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 236ab52 | I am a citizen as well as an individual soul and one of the things citizenship teaches us, over the long stretch, is that there is no perfectibility in human affairs. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 8e8e979 | It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| 6c6d80b | shorthand contents of his steno pad. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 9eb858a | Those of us who imagine we have a big caste of permanently wealthy Americans are just much more wrong than we think. Even when generations manage to hold onto wealth, the gymnastics they must perform are risky and laborious, the failure rate is high, and the casualties can be enormous. (Exhibit A: the Hilton family.) | James Poulos | ||
| 0b095db | Without thought or knowledge, one could have guessed that this bleak world was mountain-high, and that the mountains rising from it were mountains on top of mountains. A range of them gleamed on a far horizon like a row of dogteeth. | James Hilton | ||
| 2ed34a4 | It was not a friendly picture, but to Conway, as he surveyed, there came a queer perception of fineness in it, of something that had no romantic appeal at all, but a steely, almost an intellectual quality. The white pyramid in the distance compelled the mind's assent as passionlessly as a Euclidean theorem, and when at last the sun rose into a sky of deep delphinium blue, he felt only a little less than comfortable again. | mountains theorem | James Hilton | |
| 136c101 | His was one of those well-groomed reputations that get the most out of everything; any unusual holiday acquires the character of an exploration, and though the explorer takes care to do nothing really original, the public does not know this | travel-writing | James Hilton | |
| f123ad8 | He had suddenly come to realize a single facet of the promised jewel; he had Time, Time for everything that he wished to happen, such Time that desire itself was quenched in the certainty of fulfillment. | time | James Hilton | |
| ac01244 | And then, in the midst of the still-encompassing dream, he felt himself master of Shangri-La. These were his beloved things, all around him, the things of that inner mind in which he lived increasingly, away from the fret of the world. His eyes strayed into the shadows and were caught by golden pinpoints sparkling in rich, undulating lacquers; and the scent of tuberose, so faint that it expired on the very brink of sensation, lured him from.. | shangri-la | James Hilton | |
| ef6455d | There came a time, he realized, when the strangeness of everything made it increasingly difficult to realize the strangeness of anything; | James Hilton | ||
| 524b9a3 | Mallinson, who had been somberly enduring these pleasantries, now interposed with something of the shrill acerbity of the barrack-square. "Our stay won't be long," he announced curtly. "We shall pay for anything we have, and we should like to hire some of your men to help us on our journey back. We want to return to civilization as soon as possible." "And are you so very certain that you are away from it?" The query, delivered with much sua.. | James Hilton | ||
| c0bdd57 | Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| 0dcc670 | The parallel is not quite exact. For those Dark Ages were not really so very dark--they were full of flickering lanterns, and even if the light had gone out of Europe altogether, there were other rays, literally from China to Peru, at which it could have been rekindled. But the Dark Ages that are to come will cover the whole world in a single pall; there will be neither escape nor sanctuary, save such as are too secret to be found or too hu.. | James Hilton | ||
| 8cad67e | tribesmen came forward from all directions, surrounding the machine and effectively preventing any one from getting out of it except the pilot. The latter clambered to earth and held excited colloquy with them, during which proceeding it became clear that, so far from being Fenner, he was not an Englishman at all, and possibly not even a European. Meanwhile cans of gasoline were fetched from a dump close by, and emptied into the exceptional.. | James Hilton | ||
| 1864f7f | Grins and disregarding silence met the shouts of the four imprisoned passengers, while the slightest attempt to alight provoked a menacing movement from a score of rifles. Conway, who knew a little Pushtu, harangued the tribesmen as well as he could in that language, but without effect; while the pilot's sole retort to any remarks addressed to him in any language was a significant flourish of his revolver. Midday sunlight, blazing on the ro.. | James Hilton | ||
| d8babde | He said this with such simplicity that Conway could not help responding: "I'm not much of an authority on what people call high finance." It was a lead, and the American accepted it without the slightest reluctance. "High finance," he said, "is mostly a lot of bunk." "So I've often suspected." "Look here, Conway, I'll put it like this. A feller does what he's been doing for years, and what lots of other fellers have been doing, and suddenly.. | James Hilton | ||
| e29d870 | It fitted Baskul and Delhi and London, war making and empire building, consulates and trade concessions and dinner parties at Government House; there was a reek of dissolution over all that recollected world, and Barnard's cropper had only, perhaps, been better dramatized than his own. The whole game was doubtless going to pieces, but fortunately the players were not as a rule put on trial for the pieces they had failed to save. In that res.. | James Hilton | ||
| a1cc7e3 | Now let me begin by sketching for you a very agreeable picture. You are still, I should say, a youngish man by the world's standards; your life, as people say, lies ahead of you; in the normal course you might expect twenty or thirty years of only slightly and gradually diminishing activity. By no means a cheerless prospect, and I can hardly expect you to see it as I do--as a slender, breathless, and far too frantic interlude. The first qua.. | James Hilton | ||
| 9705c07 | Think for a moment. You will have time to read--never again will you skim pages to save minutes, or avoid some study lest it prove too engrossing. You have also a taste for music--here, then, are your scores and instruments, with Time, unruffled and unmeasured to give you their richest savor. And you are also, we will say, a man of good fellowship--does it not charm you to think of wise and serene friendships, a long and kindly traffic of t.. | James Hilton | ||
| 7ddffc0 | Conway answered: "As good a word as most, no doubt. I don't know whether you classify the people who come here, but if so, you can label me '1914-18.' That makes me, I should think, a unique specimen in your museum of antiquities--the other three who arrived along with me don't enter the category. I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked fro.. | James Hilton | ||
| 4c25d19 | I was deeply impressed by your story of the past, but to be candid, your sketch of the future interests me only in an abstract sense. I can't look so far ahead. I should certainly be sorry if I had to leave Shangri-La to-morrow or next week, or perhaps even next year; but how I shall feel about it if I live to be a hundred isn't a matter to prophesy. I can face it, like any other future, but in order to make me keen it must have a point. I'.. | James Hilton | ||
| 086e6ad | But that was not all. He foresaw a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, would rage so hotly over the world that every precious thing would be in danger, every book and picture and harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless--all would be lost like the lost books of Livy, or wrecked as the English wrecked the Summer Palace in Pekin. | James Hilton | ||
| 4f970d2 | Barnard caught the word. "Comfortable?" he echoed raucously. "Why, of course we're comfortable. We're just enjoying the trip. Pity we haven't a pack of cards--we could play a rubber of bridge." Conway welcomed the spirit of the remark, though he disliked bridge. "I don't suppose Miss Brinklow plays," he said, smiling. But the missionary turned round briskly to retort: "Indeed I do, and I could never see any harm in cards at all. There's not.. | James Hilton | ||
| 29e0a86 | Chang bowed his thanks for the information. He took a keen interest in languages and liked to weigh a new word philosophically. "It is significant," he said after a pause, "that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?" | James Hilton | ||
| 5768a42 | Perhaps the exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom, if you care to alter the proverb. | James Hilton | ||
| 8401dba | He was surprised to find that beyond his puzzlement he had few misgivings, and none at all on his own behalf. There were moments in life when one opened wide one's soul just as one might open wide one's purse if an evening's entertainment were proving unexpectedly costly but also unexpectedly novel. | James Hilton | ||
| f9e7080 | Conway said quietly, "If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen. The War was rather like that. One is fortunate if, as on this occasion, a touch of novelty seasons the unpleasantness." "You're too confoundedly philosophic for me. That wasn't your mood during the trouble at Baskul." "Of course no.. | James Hilton | ||
| 9b75ce4 | Rutherford assented. "Yes, I liked him a good deal too, though I also saw surprisingly little of him, if you measure it in time." And then there was a somewhat odd silence, during which it was evident that we were both thinking of some one who had mattered to us far more than might have been judged from such casual contacts." | James Hilton | ||
| 6ac7c03 | But here, at Shangri-La, all was in deep calm. In a moonless sky the stars were lit to the full, and a pale blue sheen lay upon the dome of Karakal | James Hilton | ||
| a150953 | Laziness in doing stupid things can be a virtue. | James Hilton | ||
| d9070da | Conway said quietly, "If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen." | James Hilton | ||
| c6c9b0b | You're sort of like the Paris Hilton of wine," Martin had offered. She'd nearly keeled over in horror." | Julie James | ||
| da92e7d | Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked, "What do the lamas do?" she continued. "They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom." "But that isn't doing anything." "Then, madam, they do nothing." "I thought as much." | James Hilton | ||
| 35ede85 | _ What do the [monks] do? [...] _ They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom. _ But that isn't *doing* anything. _ Then, madam, they do nothing. _ I thought as much. | James Hilton | ||
| 9b011ae | They were all, too, except himself, affected by the altitude. Even Barnard had sunk into melancholy under the strain. Mallinson was muttering to himself; it was clear what would happen to him if these hardships went on for long. In face of such distressful prospects Conway found himself quite unable to restrain an admiring glance at Miss Brinklow. She was not, he reflected, a normal person, no woman who taught Afghans to sing hymns could be.. | James Hilton |