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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5cdc42a | El amor podia llegar de repente, sin presentirlo, del sitio mas inesperado, y quedarse un tiempo antes de alejarse hacia un lugar inalcanzable. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 7753190 | de Maria la Sanguinaria; y cuando, al cabo de cinco tristes anos, esta murio sin haber tenido hijos, a Susan no le asombro que en Inglaterra la religion continuara siendo un tema sin resolver. Solo | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| a0e4bb6 | frowned, | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| ca2d2ff | Forest? | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| a71f995 | Los ricos, los de clase media y los pobres se codeaban sin mayor problema, al igual que lo sagrado y lo profano. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 485f700 | Pero la desearias si no te rehuyera? Esa es la pregunta que cabe hacerse sobre una mujer.>> | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| edc7691 | impeachment. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 295f5c4 | Que tengamos diferentes puntos de vista no implica que tengamos que ser enemigos, ?sabes? Sea como sea, las cosas no son tan simples. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 495001b | but he'd managed to get his hands on a big estate | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| e90d9ab | La Iglesia existe con el fin de atraer a los hombres a Dios, pero los obispos y los papas son hombres, igual que los reyes, y experimentan las mismas pasiones. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| fd9995b | Dicen --explico el boyardo de Vladimir-- que Alejandro ha dejado instrucciones a su familia para que le den Moscu cuando sea mayor. --!Moscu! !Esa ciudad miserable! --No es gran cosa --convino el otro--, aunque no esta mal situada. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| b1803d2 | There it is, Toto.' Anna was pointing. [...] 'The Statue of Liberty.' There was hardly any need to move to the rail. The mighty statue towered over them. Its upraised arm, torch in hand, seemed to scrape the sky. Salvatore gazed up in silence. So this was America. [...] ...as the Mediterranean boy looked up, he understood what he saw. Power. The colossal, pale green, pagan god rose alone on its huge pedestal above the waters. Hundreds of fe.. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 794236f | have had to pay for a visit to the discreet mansion near the Opera--into a fund. And tonight they were going to draw lots to discover which of them was to take the money and visit La Belle Helene. But before the lottery took place, they would drink champagne and enjoy the show at the Moulin Rouge. Roland de Cygne had never been to the Moulin Rouge before. He'd often meant to go. But as a regular patron of the rival Folies-Bergere, which was.. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 3cc3b82 | O habria sucumbido al terrible habito frances de la arrogancia, igual que todos los demas? Francia | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 82da5a1 | Francia era la mejor nacion, la mas culta e inteligente del mundo, eso repetian y repetian; asi pues, por tanto, no tenia nada que aprender de los ordinarios alemanes, de los toscos anglosajones ni de nadie mas. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| e3b65be | La vida del aristocrata frances estaba llena de fantasmas, de reyes, antepasados y grandes acontecimientos que se desplazaban cual sombras en un desolado jardin. Como los fantasmas, impregnados de una extrana frialdad. Se sentia aparte, de una manera que apenas se explicaba a si mismo, a una distancia que Marie Blanchard ni compartiria ni probablemente desearia compartir. Ella le aportaria el calor que necesitaba. Pero ?podria tolerar el es.. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| ce77a47 | Que un hombre soltero de su clase tuviera una amante se podia tolerar, pero las mujeres debian regirse por unas normas mucho mas severas. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 65bff42 | Immediately across the bridge he encountered the other two. On his left, the Grand Palais, and on his right, the Petit Palais. If the great fair of 1889 had bequeathed Paris the Eiffel Tower, the next fair at the turn of the century had left these two magnificent pavilions: a facing pair of exhibition halls that started as handsome stone museums and, as they rose, turned into soaring Art Nouveau glass houses. They were like opera houses mad.. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 052029a | La calle del Faubourg Saint-Antoine era muy larga. Comenzaba en lo que antes habia sido un faubourg, un barrio de las afueras, situado al este de la ciudad antigua. Mucho antes de la Revolucion, ya era una zona de artesanos, donde se encontraban la mayoria de los carpinteros y ebanistas. Pese a las ideas republicanas, y a veces radicales, que en general defendian, muchos de aquellos habiles artesanos y pequenos comerciantes eran, como Petit.. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 92b0225 | Al igual que toda institucion gigantesca y poderosa, la Iglesia constituia un blanco natural para la satira. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 726f514 | estaban | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| d86c60d | Iglesia anglicana. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 5540894 | Ella era su antigua amante, su confidente y su amiga. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 0072fe2 | propio del prejuicio es que aquel que lo tiene no es consciente de ello en absoluto. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| e7029f3 | I don't want you to marry an ignorant man; and believe me, a happy marriage is a sharing of minds as well as of other things. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 1d50eb2 | Hacia apenas un mes que habian robado en el Louvre el famoso cuadro de Leonardo da Vinci. Habian detenido a Apollinaire, un escritor considerado anarquista, y despues a un amigo suyo, un joven pintor desconocido, un tal Picasso. Seguian siendo sospechosos, pero hasta el momento no habian encontrado pruebas de su culpabilidad. Tampoco habian detectado ni rastro del cuadro. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 5282273 | New York was always materialist. But it was also the city of excellence, of art, music, of endless possibilities. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| ffcefc8 | All through her childhood, Sarah had known what food she would eat. Friday was chicken. Wednesday lamb chops. That was the meat. Tuesdays meant fish, and Thursdays egg salad and potato latkes. Only Monday was unpredictable. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 6bb6c44 | He walked quite contentedly, therefore, unaware that he was an undesirable. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| b804662 | then, | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| cb5d5b0 | People in the city developed antennae that sent warning signals whenever trouble came near. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 9ad7386 | Sviatopolk tenia la impresion de que ya no podia seguir odiando, pues el odio que se habia nutrido con el ano tras ano, impulsandolo hacia delante como un cruel jinete que hinca las espuelas en los flancos de su caballo, habia acabado por agotarlo. | Edward Rutherfurd | ||
| 6b29dee | I have committed numerous crimes, and know not with what punishments I may be seized... | Aurangzeb | ||
| 48c12a6 | Even in seemingly independent jobs that rely on raw brainpower, our success depends more on others than we realize. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 9d67f8b | With gentle hand, as seeming oft to pause,The purple curtains of the morn she draws. | Aurora | ||
| f7b64e6 | Aurora had but newly chased the night,And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light. | Aurora | ||
| 6a9a91d | But when Aurora, daughter of the dawn,With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn. | Aurora | ||
| f209d75 | Zephyr, with Aurora playing,As he met her once a-Maying. | Aurora | ||
| 0f834e7 | The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference. | Auschwitz concentration camp | ||
| 41ef1d1 | Gentlemen do not behave in such a way. | Austen Chamberlain | ||
| 0f5ffd1 | Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life. | Austin Grossman | ||
| c791137 | If you want to develop character, go to Australia. | Australia | ||
| d3269ba | God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. | Australia | ||
| 09be190 | Yeah mate I bloody was like a rat up a drainpipe in one of them runs there. | Australia |