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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 626959e | sitting in the booth and I get the same result. Either his battery is dead--it happens fast on flights if you forget to put it on airplane mode or to turn it off--or his phone was off. Perhaps | Steve Martini | ||
| 960c967 | frequency, which tend to swallow | Steve Martini | ||
| 75e6148 | with aides while he wrote his memoirs, Mein Kampf, meaning 'My Struggle,' in which he gave the world's leader fair warning about what was to come. Of course, they didn't listen to him. They never do. "When Hitler got out of Landsberg, there was a gift waiting for him. One of his followers had managed to find their flag, blood and all. They presented it to Hitler as a memento of the Beer Hall Putsch, the incident that brought him to national.. | Steve Martini | ||
| 0ad87f4 | He wondered if American jails were better than those in Russia. He | Steve Martini | ||
| 5924865 | Nick, putting you on any committee would be an act of anarchy. The only administrative position for which you're qualified is emperor, and that would only work in hell and then only if there were bars on the windows. | Steve Martini | ||
| 20a4419 | With books as with most things in life, when you're successful, it's always good to have a second act. | Steve Martini | ||
| e266978 | desk to me. "She had her hair cut like Meg Ryan, the movie star. Everybody" | Steve Martini | ||
| 4211658 | We are a society that sheds spouses and takes on new lovers faster than a raja can work through his harem. We dissolve entire families on a whimsy of lust. We pursue bald ambition as if it were the true religion, leaving our children to come home to empty houses, to fix their own meals, to cope with the crippling insecurities of adolescence, while we engage in an endless chase after the grail of possessions. And we have the audacity to wond.. | Steve Martini | ||
| 1629f50 | Susan Hawley, I suspect, is a woman much in demand in the rarefied zone of political nightlife in this city. She is the ultimate ornament to be hung from the arm of important political figures or captains of industry during quiet dinner meetings. In her commercial dealings, hundred-dollar bills appear in considerable quantity in her purse the morning after, like fishes and loaves in the basket after the Sermon on the Mount. | Steve Martini | ||
| 6cd4c20 | that. | Steve Martini | ||
| d453157 | The reach of federal criminal statutes was troubling to Joselyn. They had become so broad that they virtually mimicked every state crime. The protection of double jeopardy had become a joke. If a defendant was acquitted at the state level, but the crime violated notions of political rectitude, the defendant would be tried again at the federal level. This was now done routinely in high-profile cases where political points could be made by a .. | Steve Martini | ||
| 7c22e9c | big brown eyeballs do a quick roll around the inside of the room. | Steve Martini | ||
| b43100c | My partner has no use for what passes as journalism these days, particularly on the tube. According to Harry, they spend too much time in deep admiration for politicians who show particular skill in lying, so much so that they have now institutionalized the destruction of public ethics by elevating deceit to a statecraft called "spin." It is no longer the lie that matters but the qualitative fashion in which it is told. We" | Steve Martini | ||
| 41425bf | Do you know that months now go by and the military isn't paid? Soldiers and sailors, who were once gods, are now treated like trash," said Mirnov. "When a government starts doing that, they are asking for trouble." He" | Steve Martini | ||
| b1da21f | considerably | Steve Martini | ||
| 2ab8728 | It was Jefferson who warned that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." There" | Steve Martini | ||
| 3056a24 | Good-paying jobs were shipped to Mexico or Asia where they could be downgraded to sweatshop wages while the president made empty gestures about job training and touted the benefits of the global economy. It didn't matter whether they were Republicans or Democrats, they all sang the same song. | Steve Martini | ||
| 6b80c27 | The film industry began in 1910 with the production of D. W. Griffith's movie In Old California and grew by bounds. | Susan Orlean | ||
| 92970a7 | Steampunk!" Cisco whooped with excitement. "Yes! Now all is forgiven." | Susan Griffith | ||
| 512b269 | You wouldn't happen to know where the Nikola Tesla exhibit went, would you?" "Who?" The kid regarded them with a frown. "The horror!" Cisco grabbed at his heart and staggered back. Barry smiled, withholding his own pained expression. "He was one of the most incredible scientist in the twentieth century! He was responsible for figuring out the alternating current electrical system we have today. Not to mention the rotating magnetic field we .. | Susan Griffith | ||
| e30bb80 | Felicity's voice came dark and sinister. "Bring me the head of Nikola Tesla." | Susan Griffith | ||
| fb5d0e6 | If I can't acquire an item from a public museum, I should give up the business. | Susan Griffith | ||
| 5619aff | I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat. It's important to have that layer of fat. You can't have guys hitting you in your muscles all the time. But that extra padding also cushions the blow for your opponent's fists, which allows him to slug you longer and with more abandon. So that layer of fat is both a good and a bad thing, I guess. It works both ways is what I'm saying. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 328abdf | I was just turning away to leave when I noticed a slight distortion in the air in the shape of a hole at the point where Blinky had disappeared. It was so faint you couldn't see it if you were looking directly at it. You had to kind of catch it out of the corner of your eye. I put my hand in the middle of this distortion and not only did my hand vanish, but I could feel it being sucked down deeper into the hole. I yanked it out, after some .. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 9a63e4d | Now, I'm not the most observant of men, which is unfortunate, because I'm a private eye. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 42075c1 | Any calls?" I asked. She didn't look up from her magazine. "What am I, your secretary?" "Yes." "Look, just leave me alone." | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 85991fe | Everybody loves a good car chase. There's something in it for everyone: plenty of high-speed action, lots of crashes and explosions, romance possibly, and all the property damage you could reasonably want. And nobody ever seems to get seriously hurt. I lost track of how many times a cop car behind me crashed and burned and all I could hear back there was: "Are you okay?" and "Of course I'm okay." And whenever I crashed my truck I yelled out.. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| d42e4e3 | I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried. So I try to stay upbeat." | John Swartzwelder | ||
| b4d8f45 | As my exciting story opens, I am being punched in the stomach. But I guess a lot of stories start that way. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 6fa97c7 | couldn't see it at the time, but she was absolutely, perfectly tuned to her entire environment, something one can only do paranormally. The down side, of course, is that in being that way you quickly lose your identity. | Joseph McMoneagle | ||
| 3934bdb | The ease with which one is capable of deluding oneself in this field is legendary. | Joseph McMoneagle | ||
| 94b8088 | And it came to her that the pleasure and stability of dining rooms had always occurred against such a backdrop, against the catastrophic background of universal chaos; such moments of calm were things as fragile and transitory as soap bubbles, destined to burst almost as soon as they blew into existence. Groups of friends, rooms, streets, years, none of them would last. The illusion of stability was created by a concerted effort to ignore t.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| cd6a99f | I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort." --The Dalai Lama," | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| e7e64fb | This is why tigers have ranges of hundreds of square kilometers," Vlad said. "Robber barons are not really very efficient." | robber-barons | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| a03876a | We cannot trifle with this reality, this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world. No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| d202955 | He is dead already who doth not feelLife is worth living still. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 55ab138 | 'Tis a worldWhere all is bought, and nothing's worth the price. | Alfred Austin | ||
| f6b9dfd | Towns can be trusted to corrupt themselves. | Alfred Austin | ||
| b02e1a0 | The Devil is an echoOf search unsatisfied. | Alfred Austin | ||
| 9210247 | In our mostly active lives and fast-paced culture, waiting is not a popular pastime. It is not something we anticipate or experience with great joy. In fact, most of us consider it a waste of time. Perhaps this is because the culture in which we live is basically saying, "Get going! Do something! Show you are able to make a difference! Don't just sit there and wait." But the paradox of waiting is that it requires full attention to the prese.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 4b8b5bf | When we lift the cup of our life and share with one another our sufferings and joys in mutual vulnerability, the new covenant can become visible among us. The surprise of it all is that it is often the least among us who reveal to us that our cup is a cup of blessings. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6ebafe2 | One good way to listen is to listen with a sacred text: a psalm or a prayer, for instance. The Hindu spiritual writer Eknath Easwaran showed me the great value of learning a sacred text by heart and repeating it slowly in the mind, word by word, sentence by sentence. In this way, listening to the voice of love becomes not just a passive waiting, but an active attentiveness to the voice that speaks to us through the words of the Scriptures. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 4f3525d | When we dare to speak from the depth of our heart to the friends God gives us, we will gradually find new freedom within us and new courage to live our own sorrows and joys to the full. When we truly believe that we have nothing to hide from God, we need to have people around us who represent God for us and to whom we can reveal ourselves with complete trust. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| b22354b | Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These needs will never be satisfied; they will only increase when you yield to them. But every time you do something for the glory of God, you will know God's peace in your heart and find rest there. | Henri J.M. Nouwen |