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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 23c8cd7 | He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him back into that life which he had left as a child in the slums of San Giusto in Trieste, right back into the world of ugly squalor and besetting vice from which he had run with all his strength for thirty years and which, for a long time now, he had believed was behind him. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 9cc1277 | What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair. | Alfred (opera) | ||
| 9187d60 | Rule Britannia, rule the waves:Britons never will be slaves. | Alfred (opera) | ||
| 215100b | To be human means to feel inferior. | Alfred Adler | ||
| 850e366 | the phrase it is as if. This phrase is of course precisely the announcement of an analogy. And on reflection, it is admittedly a halting problem, but jumping out of it, there is something quite suggestive and powerful in this formulation, something very specifically human. Possibly this formulation itself is the deep diagnostic of all human cognition--the tell, as they say, meaning the thing that tells, the giveaway. In the infinite black s.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 9cf3c9b | It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. | Alfred Adler | ||
| fad50f7 | Man knows much more than he understands. | Alfred Adler | ||
| fc28075 | Lo, where huge London, huger day by day,O'er six fair counties spreads its hideous sway. | Alfred Austin | ||
| b36c582 | And Clara dies that Claribel may dance. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 0854dfe | Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law,Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 097e0b7 | Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 5f523f2 | He says, "We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. Try to be at peace with yourself, and help others share that peace. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life." | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 69e457a | Existence is the experiment itself. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 1fd3206 | It's like being Calvin and watching Hobbes turn back into a stuffed doll. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 937fa32 | Death is the looking-glass of life whereinEach man may scan the aspect of his deeds. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 7d6f715 | Words blur at the borders, fuzz into other words, not just in big clouds of connotation around the edges of the word, but right there in the heart of denotation itself. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 9d2a6ee | People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 534820c | Your logic may be good,But dialectics never saved a soul. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 520d650 | Never fear to weep;To keep it fresh and green. | Alfred Austin | ||
| c14df85 | Who loves his country never forfeits heaven. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 57bd67f | Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry. | Alfred Austin | ||
| b53f8e0 | Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. | Nonsense | ||
| 12b4e8d | To varnish nonsense with the charms of sound. | Nonsense | ||
| d184f0d | The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| f1f8c43 | Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower." Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!" | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 3c05fa8 | The smile, madame, is used by humans to hide the truth, the artist is only interested to reveal the truth. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 65c3f11 | Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 4ea8d03 | While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years old can't really work out. It had something to do with rejecting the Lord, with my mother, the Judge, being surrounded by guys who came from wealthy homes, even my headless snake. While I didn't think of it as camouflage, I now know that it wa.. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| c736432 | without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| e3d95c7 | a sentiment, coming from it is not to be trusted. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 566afde | Oupa took no notice of us just as he took no notice of his real grandchildren. | Bryce Courtenay (Author) | ||
| 87e8b79 | Life has a habit of going on. | Bryce Courtenay (Author) | ||
| 18cc852 | letter | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| c87e8a5 | around a proposition or an idea or story willingly. Some | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| e316c02 | is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 45fbfa4 | but I feel sure that if people played music rather than spoke to each other, this world would be a much better place. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 212b3c6 | But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is "too" something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too slow, too new, "too different" from what others think of as normal." | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 6a7fcf7 | in Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single flower to bloom. And If you would be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven ... This is the faith in God the cactus has. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 3973bb8 | In Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single flower to bloom. And If you would be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven ... This is the faith in God the cactus has. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| f801715 | First with the head then with the heart. | Bryce Courtenay (Author) | ||
| 0b85119 | ChorusPunch in the presence of the passenjare! | Nonsense | ||
| 59bc078 | Swaggering in the coffee-houses and ruffling it in the streets were the men who had sailed with Frobisher and Drake and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Hawkins, and Sir Richard Granville; had perhaps witnessed the heroic death of Sir Philip Sidney, at Zutphen; had served with Raleigh in Anjou, Picardy, Languedoc, in the Netherlands, in the Irish civil war; had taken part in the dispersion of the Spanish Armada, and in the bombardment of Cadiz; had fi.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 3e11a85 | On election day, Nixon was elected president with 43.4 percent of the vote to Humphrey's 42.7 percent, a margin of just seven-tenths of 1 percent. Clandestine maneuvering may have helped him win that narrow victory--"Nixon probably would not be president if it were not for [President] Thieu," his speechwriter William Safire once admitted--but Nixon's fear that the maneuvering might someday be exposed would eventually help bring about his un.. | Geoffrey C. Ward | ||
| c98aeb3 | The mind's well-being was the well that was poisoned. One doesn't own a little anti-Semitism as if it were a puppy that isn't big enough yet to poop a lot. One yap from the pooch is already too much. Nor is saying "it was only social" a successful excuse. Only social, indeed ... only a mild case. The mild climate renders shirt-sleeves acceptable, loosens ties and collars, allows extremes to seem means, makes nakedness normal, facilitates th.. | ezra-pound william-h-gass | William H. Gass |