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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1698569 | From 2,272 text messages a month in 2008, American teenagers (ages 13-17) ballooned to 3,339 messages a month in 2010, an average of six per waking hour. Simply put, students in one of the most formative periods of their intellectual and emotional lives are interrupted 118 times a day for messages, totaling 90 minutes. | Jim Trelease | ||
| e01354f | In the madrassa, questions were not welcome; they were considered impertinent. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| 9ddf43b | Virginity is the obsession, the neurosis of Islam. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| 8471219 | Which Country Has the Best Readers? One of the most comprehensive international reading studies was conducted by Warwick Elley for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in 1990 and 1991. Involving thirty-two countries, it assessed 210,000 nine- and fourteen-year-olds.22 Of all those children, which ones read best? For nine-year-olds, the four top nations were: Finland (569), the United States (547.. | Jim Trelease | ||
| df8e1de | Contempt for women is inscribed in the works of Saint Paul. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| 10b940e | A mosque is an island of gender apartheid. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| 0771da5 | to my room. Sheriff John Moultrie blew through his teeth and pursed lips, making a sound more akin to a steaming teapot than a whistle. The tune was "On the Road to Alabam'," a melody he'd picked up from watching gangs of gandy dancers as a child; he'd forgotten the words, but the ditty remained part of his grain." | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 1af17e7 | something | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| e115bf4 | I rode toward Rudolfo Maldonado's house, planning to murder him before he got his morning shave. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| b7c703e | What we've witnessed this week in Afghanistan is a watershed moment in Western decline. | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | ||
| f272f32 | remembered something Blue Horse said to me back before Gilbert was born. He said wisdom is not a path, it is a tree. At the time I was too busy to give it much thought, so I nodded politely but didn't pay much attention. Now I see that he was surely right. I have been sad almost a whole year, thinking that taking that test was somehow the end of my learning and that not having that as a possibility in my future left a big empty spot in my l.. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 8afcdc8 | It is a funny thing how much more proud people can be of themselves if they never step back and take a good look in the glass. | Nancy E Turner | ||
| 819d99e | Maggy said. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| ec177fe | Life is short and must be lived. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 006e536 | I never want to be in a place where no one would come forward to say to a judge that they have known me as righteous. A life well-lived, in some respects, needs witnesses | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| ec22a98 | I never miss Meeting now," I said. "Do not look surprised. I have sent many a prayer heavenward on your behalf. And your father is not home yet. Your uncle sails under more danger of his own making. There is more to living in a town than I knew when you were young. Things have happened. It is important to go and to give to the poor and to keep in good graces with all who know us." | community friendship support togetherness | Nancy E. Turner | |
| 72296fd | I know all these people are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| bbc090c | Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me.. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| a1f36be | is a funny thing how much more proud people can be of themselves if they never step back and take a good look in a glass. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 7ed7df5 | I was going through the botanical theory book, and while I was reading I remembered something Blue Horse said to me back before Gilbert was born. He said wisdom is not a path, it is a tree. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 55bfc5e | pictured that one Indian man I stood so close to I could hear his breathing, and those filthy, awful men I killed, and I know Indians aren't no dirtier than any white folks and cleaner than some. Not stupid, either. But I saved my breath. The likes of her isn't going to listen nor be changed in the mind just from hearing sense. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| b96339f | My rosebush shouts beauty to the world. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 67cf1b2 | A week later, I walked to Gwyneth's house. She and Dorothy and I shared tea and we wept for Jacob. We talked. We smiled a little. Then I left and waited for Cullah, and thought what a great emptiness was left by Jacob's passing. At last, I sat at the front door, on the chair where Patience had died. I held my hands folded at my heart, and ached for all who had passed from my world | grief heartache mourning | Nancy E. Turner | |
| 90a8d28 | I make believe all my dear ones are not gone, just out of my line of sight beyond some curtain or cluster of people, or tree | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| b2b912e | I was sorting stamps in the slotted drawer at the post office when Garnelle Fielding came in to send a little package to Wilbur. She said she'd gone and signed up for the WAFS, and her mother and daddy drove her down to Sweetwater to take a test at Avenger Field, where the government was training hundreds and hundreds of women to be pilots. Trouble was, she didn't pass her physical because they said she was too short and too thin for the se.. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 2e2bd7a | that you had always felt to be safe before, it tended to leave a scar. 'But you knew her sister, I believe?' she pressed on. Diane looked puzzled. 'No, I don't think so.' And she wasn't lying either, Hillary thought instantly. She knew this type of witness. All her life, Diane Burgess had respected the law -- she'd probably been taught it by her respectable working-class parents, and then had it reinforced by her school teachers, and would .. | Faith Martin | ||
| 99a9ed3 | I do," he remembers the matronly lady saying. "You haven't missed much. She's such a greedy cunt." Wilson says he had a hard time keeping himself from spitting the soup out on the table. When he recovered, he said in his most courtly manner, "Baroness, I think you and I are going to have a lovely evening." | George Crile | ||
| 45ec6a0 | United States roused may well have inspired an entire generation of militant young Muslims to believe that the moment is theirs. | George Crile | ||
| 7434c08 | it is our sacred duty to make valuable the lives that these people are laying down. | George Crile | ||
| ed38a32 | Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue; | George Crile | ||
| 6c218e6 | The world was never conquered by intrigue; it was conquered by faith. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 8db0f32 | Palestine[-Israeli conflict]? One step forward, three steps back. | Ayad Allawi | ||
| 94681b7 | America is the last remaining superpower. | Ayad Allawi | ||
| 5c320f2 | Well, it is a hunt for him, isn't it? Hunting, capturing. Power. I watch the telly. I know how these serial killers work.' He tapped his chest. 'Just call me Patrick Jane.' Jacquie looked at him fondly. His eyes were either side of his nose and that was where his similarity to Simon Baker ended. 'No, darling,' she said gently. 'You're | M.J. Trow | ||
| b91bbb4 | but personally if I never drink another crocodile pee I shall be a happy man.' 'Crocodile pee?' 'I always assumed that that was the main ingredient in Gatorade, but I may be wrong. | M.J. Trow | ||
| c0f6da2 | We have an army without airplanes and without tanks. What sort of strength is this? | Ayad Allawi | ||
| abe935e | I can tell the difference between senseless terror and justifiable rebellion. | Ayad Allawi | ||
| 7b4bf0e | To me, it was just a matter of, if you want to do something, the only thing that's going to keep you from doing it is giving up," Leary says. "Because we were proof of that. If you just don't quit, you will succeed--that is the bottom line." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 1a45034 | Punk was not something to grow out of; it was something to grow with--it was a valid, sustainable way to live one's life. "That's when I started to focus on the idea of what we were doing as being real, of being a working model of a real community, an alternative community that could continue to exist outside of the mainstream--and legitimately, and self-supporting," says MacKaye." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 00f8e7c | We never had a manager. We never had a booking agent. We never had a lawyer. We booked our own tours, paid our own bills, made our own mistakes and never had anybody shield us from either the truth or the consequences. | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 88698d3 | Picciotto recalled when he was a teenager writing to obscure English punk bands like Rudimentary Peni, Dead Wretched, and Blitz. "Those fuckers wrote us back, and it blew my mind," recalls Picciotto. "It was so cool to feel that connection. I've always kept that in mind. If someone writes you, you send them a letter back. It's just a cool thing to do." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 6e2f46d | The best Haynes could do was line up perhaps a week of shows, a month in advance. So the band was never sure what the next few months would hold. They'd simply aim for parts of the country where they hadn't been and hope for the best. | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 95c556f | They developed this influence and this clout and they shared it. It's a very inclusive movement. | Michael Azerrad | ||
| d94101a | Still, the gross-out footage is what really embodied the band's aesthetic. "Listen, man, one has no choice but to laugh in the face of terror," Haynes explained. "I think probably most airline pilots, when they see the ground coming at them, just before they hit, go, 'Oh my god, we're in trouble! Ha-ha-ha!" | Michael Azerrad |