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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ce33914 | What it was he had chiefly gained: a fascination with the complexity of the intellectual bastions which men could construct to withstand the tides of disbelief. His own disbelief had remained unshaken. | P.D. James | ||
| ee8bfbf | The apparent suicide, the certified natural death, the brutal murder - there was a cord which connected them. Its strength might be tenuous and its path convoluted, but when he had traced it, it would lead him to the heart of the mystery. | no-shit-sherlock | P.D. James | |
| e51738f | When secrets are unspoken and unwritten they are lodged safely in the mind, but writing them down seems to let them loose and give them the power to spread like pollen on the air and enter into other minds. | secrets writing | P.D. James | |
| 0183669 | Here was normality, sanity, a world she recognized and knew. This emotion, suspiciously like regret, at witnessing the violent destruction of Nightingale House was really too ridiculous | P.D. James | ||
| f256cbc | human nature of their origins runs counter to the prevailing cultural view of the ancient Near East. In the Genesis narrative, we see man becoming a contributor under God in the ongoing work of creation, through the development of culture. We learn that city life is not to be seen as simply a punishment for humanity after the banishment from the garden. Rather the city has inherent capacities for bringing human beings together in such a way.. | Timothy Keller | ||
| 8e6c24c | More often than not, it was the hand of the needy and uncertain that extended the olive branch. History had shown the truth of that over and over again. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| f9e131d | No matter who won this battle, a race would be wiped out. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| be1cf13 | Teachers did not give knowledge and wisdom; they merely guided those who sought those things for themselves. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| b37a1a6 | Surak teaches us to find order in chaos," Spock pointed out. "He does not teach us to try to eliminate chaos or impose order on it." | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| 1726fc5 | main gate of Fort Huachuca. I turned | J.A. Jance | ||
| a8eed7b | Amos Warren walked with his shoulders stooped and with his eyes and mind focused on the uneven ground beneath his feet. The winter rains had been more than generous and this part of the Sonoran Desert, Soza Canyon on the far eastern edge of the Rincon Mountains, was alive with flowers. Scrawny, suntanned, and weathered, Amos was more than middle-aged but still remarkably fit. Even so, the sixty or seventy pounds he carried in the sturdy pac.. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 47d3afc | conversation on murder, child abuse, and | J.A. Jance | ||
| 08317c3 | he would wait. The guy | J.A. Jance | ||
| 8369a5b | my cross to bear in life, to always want to help, but to never quite measure up, never be there quite on time to do any good, always to miss the mark. | J.A. Jance | ||
| dd00c2f | time the feather had become quite bedraggled. | J.A. Jance | ||
| b2fbc99 | When are you going to give up and accept the inevitable? Automation and microchips are here to stay. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 1a5ebb4 | J. A. Jance is | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 3d2043b | You're sure good at that. I never have been able to work crossword puzzles." "I'm good at it, Wanda, because my mind is brimming over with useless facts and information." | J.A. Jance | ||
| 55da743 | Don't leave home without taking some Aleve. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 4729a11 | how easy it is to hand out advice and how hard it is to take it. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 0e89a26 | According to Occam's razor, the right answer is always the simplest answer, the one requiring the fewest assumptions. | J.A. Jance | ||
| ee8d2f6 | she began. Her use of Joanna's full name usually | J.A. Jance | ||
| 05acffc | Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook," but" | J.A. Jance | ||
| 6fbd20c | There are very good reasons why neither doctors nor detectives should work on cases too close to home. It warps perspective. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 98233bc | suspected that God would probably come across with a hell of a lot more Christian charity than either one of Jonathan Thomas's pious parents could muster. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 9c2e7c6 | Well," Ralph continued, "if you can find another one to do the job, hire him and pay the going rate. In the meantime, tomorrow morning" | J.A. Jance | ||
| 3a2969a | and why? Who was easier to answer than why. The people who called the drug-dealing shots in and around Nogales were members of the feared Nogo Cartel, based in Nogales, Sonora. For as long as he had been sheriff, Renteria had maintained a separate peace with the cartel, due in large measure to the fact that his cousin's son, Pasquale, a boy Manuel had once dandled on his knee, had risen to the top of the organization. Once Manuel was electe.. | J.A. Jance | ||
| ca1e9c9 | around with | J.A. Jance | ||
| 726025e | She had responded to a random act of violence with a random act of kindness. She had returned good for evil. Somehow that was as it should be. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 50bf28b | Being called names did hurt, and the wounds left behind never really healed over. Liza's heart still bore the scars to prove it. She had | J.A. Jance | ||
| 9112f1e | time to kill the fatted calf. No doubt | J.A. Jance | ||
| 45c7de7 | First you get old, and then you die. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 7cebcd3 | He who practices moderation and frugality will never be threatened with poverty. | Ali | ||
| 80cbb27 | Aren't parents ever right? They either do too goddamned much or too goddamned little, but they're never right, at least not as far as their kids are concerned. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 73beb6e | involved. It took that long for her to grasp what was | J.A. Jance | ||
| 0600e1c | I could tell it was one of those big four-wheel-drive jobs driven by somebody with the typical four-by-four attitude--the-world-is-my-ashtray mentality. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 8cdfb3d | me see | J.A. Jance | ||
| 50c34aa | Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which hand gets full first. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 5888840 | Why do they do that? People are in hospitals for a reason--to get better from an illness or to recover from surgery. If patients are sleeping peacefully, why wake them up to see if they're all right? Why not let them sleep until they wake up on their own, at which time they can ring the bell and let someone know if more medication is in order? But let's not even go there, because that's not the way hospitals work, and it isn't going to happ.. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 469e1a6 | not? Because some things are just too damned tough to talk about. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 62d794e | That's what friends are for," I said. "It doesn't matter if they're old friends or new friends. They're the kind of people who will listen as long as you need them to because, sometimes, telling the story and having someone listen is the" | J.A. Jance | ||
| 323be3e | Back in those homophobic good old days, as far as most of us were concerned, the word "gay" had meant nothing more nor less daring than "happy." | J.A. Jance | ||
| 0641d9a | zipped into the bag and loaded onto a gurney. I didn't | J.A. Jance | ||
| 00460b1 | who lived along the U.S. side of the border. | J.A. Jance |