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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f0afca9 | He had long been her favorite, yet every eunuch knew that the favor of a ruler is less stable than sunlight in early spring. At any moment it can be withdrawn, and as soon can a eunuch's head tumble from his shoulders. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 7731b37 | the doctrine of isolationism and | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| a768520 | It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| c8c4e6d | The time had come for him to use a dangerous weapon. "Venerable," he said, "if the Emperor's manhood was destroyed, how is it that he begot a son and one so sturdy as the young Emperor?" | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 6d579e3 | many a woman would have let her mind lie idle while she worked in the fields, but I have ever seen this difference between you and other women, that your mind cannot be idle, and I say I never know what is coming out of you. And so I never tire of you, old woman. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 74b984f | rulers anywhere are always the first to fly, and the people must stay behind to be steadfast. And the noise of the battle grew more strong, hour by hour. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| eec6dfd | He had collected from every place where he had hid his little stores of gain and he had borrowed all he could, and he could not even have had this except by bitter, frugal living. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 5be230c | And will you understand me when I say I would fight to keep you free from such beliefs because for you they would be false, and at the same time I would fight to keep my mother in those same beliefs because for her they are true and necessary? She would be lost without them, for by them she has lived and by them she must die. But you and l--we must have our own beliefs to live and die in | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 11ad0f0 | island of Komudo, | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 6eaef6c | she began, "Truly it is a very shameful sight to see one who should be" | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| c24b719 | This country of his was not like some others he had heard of, where only in war was there work enough to be done. He had often sat listening in the tea shop to those who talked of things they had seen in foreign countries, and this he held was a main difference, that in foreign countries war was a business, but here it had never been. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 335d46a | The truth is I cannot hate wholly enough to kill a man. I always know how he feels, too. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 61fa274 | by some 220 years Gutenberg's lead-cast printing type in Germany in 1450. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| fa9636b | All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 28eff7c | Loneliness is only sweet to a man if it rids him of presences irksome and unwanted, and it is no longer sweet when the beloved presences are discovered. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 8a8dac1 | If it were true that there could be good men among the enemy, then indeed she must still be afraid. If righteous, the white men were stronger than she reckoned, and she kept this fear hidden in her so long as she lived thereafter. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| e76dc9e | The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 00e1df9 | You see how loving kindness conquers fear, even in animals. Let this lesson be engraved upon your hearts. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 712ccdb | A CLASSIC WAITS for me, it contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if taste were lacking, or if the endorsement of the right man were lacking. O clublife, and the pleasures of membership, O volumes for sheer fascination unrivalled. Into an armchair endlessly rocking, Walter J. Black my president, I, freely invited, cordially welcomed to membership, My arm around John Kieran, Pearl S. Buck, My taste in books guarded by the spi.. | Elwyn Brooks White | ||
| e041331 | This imperial woman, so diverse and rich in her genius, might have chosen her own greatness had she been able to single one gift above another, but she could not make her own choice of what she loved best to do, and so she did something of each and in all she excelled. As for those affairs of state which had absorbed her until | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 6551f30 | Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 81833e8 | In a strange and ominous way the fate of women everywhere in the world is linked with the trend toward fascism. To delay might mean to be compelled to silence. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 27de5c6 | Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can, | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 50cd82c | They stood, eyes meeting eyes, yet neither took the next step toward the other. "When I know what reward is great enough," she said, "then I will give it to you." "Because you live I am rewarded," he replied." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 3d54ab5 | Our united belief in social justice demands no less. | Alex Salmond | ||
| 01ca8d8 | there are at least | Catherine Coulter | ||
| aa78186 | Little Princess Little Lord | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2524941 | Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 23a72e2 | The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 2328a2a | During the late 1970s, a coded switch was finally placed in the control center of every SAC ballistic missile. It unlocked the missile, not the warhead. And as a final act of defiance, SAC demonstrated the importance of code management to the usefulness of any coded switch. The combination necessary to launch the missiles was the same at every Minuteman site: 00000000. Peurifoy | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 8484222 | Although European protest marches had focused mainly on the United States for the previous six years, it was the leadership of Western Europe who most strongly opposed creating a world without nuclear weapons. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| d15d12e | Although the original plans were scaled down, the completed bunker had miles of underground roads, accommodations for the prime minister and hundreds of other officials, a BBC studio, a vault where the Bank of England's gold reserves could be stored, and a pub called the Rose & Crown. * | Eric Schlosser | ||
| c4671c4 | It was faster that way, the violation seemed trivial, and officers in the control center had no way of knowing what the enlisted men were doing in the silo. The | Eric Schlosser | ||
| f31e475 | The drug use at Homestead was suspected after a fully armed Russian MiG-17 fighter plane, flown by a Cuban defector, landed there unchallenged, while Air Force One was parked on a nearby runway | Eric Schlosser | ||
| a745813 | Daniel Ford, a former head of the Union of Concerned Scientists, revealed that, among other things, the destruction of a single, innocuous-looking building in Sunnyvale, California, located "within bazooka range" of Highway 101, could disrupt the operation of Air Force early-warning and communications satellites." | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 76fb0f9 | The Snark eventually ran out of fuel and crashed somewhere in the Amazonian rain forests of Brazil. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| be8aa46 | When Agnew and Cotter showed the committee how the new lock worked, it didn't. Something was wrong. But none of the senators, congressmen, or committee staff members realized that it wouldn't unlock, no matter how many times the proper code was entered. The decoder looked impressive, the colored lights flashed, and everyone in the hearing room agreed that it was absolutely essential for national security. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 804cf08 | Every step appears as the unavoidable consequence of the preceding one," Einstein said. "In the end, there beckons more and more clearly general annihilation." | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 2a37ded | But one of Arnold's commanders was too cocky and nonchalant. He once removed a dummy weapon from a storage bunker in broad daylight, put it into the back of his pickup truck, covered it with a tarp, drove right past security, and disassembled it in front of his girlfriend. Arnold thought the move was stupid and irresponsible, as well as a major breach of security. Inside the bunker, the dummy weapons were stored beside the real ones. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| f0fea48 | We found very little correlation between turnover and profitability... | Eric Schlosser | ||
| d693664 | You can't have this kind of war," Eisenhower said at a national security meeting a couple of years later. "There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets." | Eric Schlosser | ||
| d1cdcd3 | A brand offers a feeling of reassurance when its products are always and everywhere the same. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 0bddb1f | Dangerous systems usually required standardized procedures and some form of centralized control to prevent mistakes. That sort of management was likely to work well during routine operations. But during an accident, Perrow argued, "those closest to the system, the operators, have to be able to take independent and sometimes quite creative action." Few bureaucracies were flexible enough to allow both centralized and decentralized decision ma.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 94fd7ce | Nuclear weapons may well have made deliberate war less likely," Sagan now thought, "but the complex and tightly coupled nuclear arsenal we have constructed has simultaneously made accidental war more likely." Researching The Limits of Safety left him feeling pessimistic about our ability to control high-risk technologies. The fact that a catastrophic accident with a nuclear weapon has never occurred, Sagan wrote, can be explained less by "g.. | Eric Schlosser |