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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a42078 | All the windy ways of men And is lightly laid again. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 891d14b | But oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 51662c1 | Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| de41f9a | Imam sklonnost k'm ezitsite, kher general, a darbata ne zasluzhava pokhvali. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 3f1e391 | More black than ash-buds in the front of March. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| d1de319 | We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 536afb1 | Insipid as the queen upon a card. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 21d8ec1 | So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| a8b7eea | The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need--carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. That" | Steve Krug | ||
| 36b4721 | The golden guess Is morning-star to the full round of truth. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 3aa2667 | A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| c807f88 | The song that nerves a nation's heart Is in itself a deed. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 209ff4f | Be patient. Our Playwright may show In some fifth act what this wild Drama means. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 0b3e0d8 | A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it's worth. Take | Steve Krug | ||
| b8be329 | PAY MORE, EAT LESS. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 4dc9a82 | Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what's left. --KRUG'S THIRD LAW OF USABILITY Of | Steve Krug | ||
| 4028896 | In our windy world What's up is faith, what's down is heresy. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 997e33d | EAT MEALS. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 43839e9 | A breath that fleets beyond this iron world And touches him who made it. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| ea3d051 | There's almost always a plausible rationale--and a good, if misguided, intention--behind every usability flaw. Another | Steve Krug | ||
| 5b7a03a | Making every page or screen self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better. | Steve Krug | ||
| 1637c56 | I usually call these endless discussions "religious debates," because they have a lot in common with most discussions of religion and politics: They consist largely of people expressing strongly held personal beliefs about things that can't be proven--supposedly in the interest of agreeing on the best way to do something important" | Steve Krug | ||
| 5b76197 | Around $300,000 of the total $600,000 that was raised by Augur's funding team comes from a man named Joe Costello. Costello is a successful tech entrepreneur, known to be one of Steve Jobs' top picks for the new CEO position of Apple itself. Following the smart money isn't always a dumb idea. Gambling or casino are terms never used by Joey Krug, a young Pomona college dropout, but also Augur's lead developer. He and the small team of just f.. | Jeff Reed | ||
| a27f2e2 | DO ALL YOUR EATING AT A TABLE. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 3d55f5b | When we're creating sites, we act as though people are going to pore over each page, reading all of our carefully crafted text, figuring out how we've organized things, and weighing their options before deciding which link to click. What | Steve Krug | ||
| 3248502 | Se voce quer ter uma boa vida, acerte na hora de casar. | Steve Krug | ||
| 70b03f9 | the main thing it usually ends up doing is revealing that the things they were arguing about weren't all that important. People often test to decide which color drapes are best, only to learn that they forgot to put windows in the room. | Steve Krug | ||
| 784e61c | Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 8f39586 | Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| 17f5342 | Quando morrem aqueles que amamos, temos de viver por eles. Temos de ver as coisas pelos seus olhos. Temos de lembrar como e que eles costumavam dizer as coisas, e usar as palavras que eles usavam. Temos de agradecer o facto de podermos fazer coisas que eles ja nao podem fazer, e tambem de sentir uma grande tristeza por isso acontecer. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 6cce15d | A pesar de su incalculable riqueza y poder marchaba hacia la muerte con el convencimiento de que moriria sin ser amado ni respetado, y que nadie lloraria por el; que su muerte ya estaba siendo precedida por una reunion de buitres, que finalmente su vida habia sido mas absurda y menos satisfactoria que la de un retrasado mental congenito sin extremidades ni organos de reproduccion. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| e7c1f95 | entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 81f2bdc | He noticed that a bedraggled and desiccated pink poppy was growing out of a crack where the wall of the teacher's house intersected with the cobbles of the street. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| eef3e13 | A todo o momento vejo coisas que gostaria que visses, gostaria que estivesses aqui para as veres com os teus proprios olhos. Procuro ver coisas para ti, e guarda-las na minha memoria, e tenho a fantasia de que se me concentrar mesmo muito, posso faze-las chegar a ti, para que tu as vejas nos teus sonhos. Como se a vida pudesse ser assim. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 69beb98 | I would say to the priest that God made me as I am, that I had no choice, that He must have made me like this for a purpose, that He knows the ultimate reasons for all things and that therefore it must be all to the good that I am as I am, even if we cannot know what that good is. I can say to the priest that if God is the reason for all things, then God is to blame and I should not be condemned. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| e6d15ad | This rule is that people always think that if they are very expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| c5461f1 | I am no philosopher, but I know this. Your religions cause wars and prevent marriages. There will be no peace on earth until every synagogue, every mosque, every church, and every temple is razed to the ground or made into a barn, and when that happens, no one will be happier than the Lord God Himself. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| a7e416a | Families embraced more than had been the habit; fathers who expected to be beaten to death stroked the hair of pretty daughters who expected to be raped. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 6068488 | There was once a painter who traveled into the cordillera in order to paint an invisible picture of Christ. When he finished, the local Indians scrambled up the rocks to examine it and found that it was, in fact, a picture of Viracocha. A Chinaman passing by went up to see what it was that was causing such excitement and found to his surprise that on the rock was a picture of the Buddha. The painter stuck to his assertion that it was Christ.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| d9c23ff | Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging on it were a woman, then I would believe it. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 40048af | I have often thought about this, and I have come to the conclusion that everything that I am is owed to you. You were like a gun that fired me a long way off, but the aim was yours. If you are proud of me it is because your aim was true." The General smiled. "I could have trusted you to come up with a metaphor that I would have understood. Did you know that a shell when it comes out of the barrel wobbles badly for the first part of its traj.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 4441291 | Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries' worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches. | devotion greece greek-orthodox prayer | Louis de Bernières | |
| 4c886c1 | We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that there were times when we did not obey any of them at all, knowing that they were likely to be countermanded almost immediately. | soldiers war ww2 ww2-books | Louis de Bernières | |
| a72930c | out the effects of the former. Do you think I don't understand economics? How many times do I have to | Louis de Bernières |