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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| be75ccc | Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| a675920 | Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary lives. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 57db206 | In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress or to stimulate the male sex urge. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| f7d3fe2 | The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women's academy. To find out, he commandeered the men's academy shooting range and ordered the women to redo the test. There he watched in growing astonishment as bullet after bullet slammed home, right smack in the center of the target. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 8db0081 | The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| d6b9796 | They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 6f238ef | We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It's another war, I think. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e71a412 | We expected that the international community would put a stop to it. I believed that. I was worried about getting through a few days, that's all, while the world--how do you say?--got its act together. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 0f73c95 | How easy it was to give out morsels of wise counsel, and yet how hard to act on them. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 9bf5e67 | I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected it. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 6c13e5f | Well, I have five brothers--Rest, Thankful, Watching, Patience, Consider--and each one of them the very opposite of their name. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 8af0486 | I need, I suppose, to account for my life, and for my part in Caleb's crossing from his world into mine, and what flowed on from it. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 8bbe12a | one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 0aaebef | month--the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family budget. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 9c5c957 | I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child. | leisure | Geraldine Brooks | |
| b62443f | the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. | ministry | Geraldine Brooks | |
| c57f5bf | Disappointment is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| bf8c772 | There was malachite green, and red; the intense red known as worm scarlet--tola'at shani in Hebrew--extracted from tree-dwelling insects, crushed up and boiled in lye. Later, when alchemists learned how to make a similar red from sulfur and mercury, they still named the color "little worm"--vermiculum. Some things don't change: we call it vermilion even today." | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 1e9febc | matter. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 7afb9f0 | Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. | inspiration leadership novelty optimism | Geraldine Brooks | |
| e32ded7 | Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. | leadership manipulation persuasion pragmatism | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 8dca081 | The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him. | haste strategy | Geraldine Brooks | |
| ae835ba | David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. | openness | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 38af6e7 | When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared. | optimism pessimism planning pragmatism strategy | Geraldine Brooks | |
| f48f8bc | This was a woman raised in a turbulent house, who had learned early to master herself. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| f19823a | He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill. And this, too: our holiest men have always gone into the wilderness to hear the voice of the Name. Avram | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e3ce6b8 | The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. | gossip leadership legend popularity repetitions | Geraldine Brooks | |
| e74dd9f | He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it. | maturation self-confidence self-criticism solitude talent | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 271e104 | I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father's madness harrowed. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| eb39a2e | I have lived most of my life in soldiers' camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| f645960 | I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions. | leadership | Geraldine Brooks | |
| c3c6583 | used personal and place-names in their transliteration | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 0331210 | But it is one thing to transmit the divine through a blasting storm of holy noise, another thing entirely to write a history forged from human voices, imperfect memories, self-interested accounts. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 6baddd4 | He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 8c01302 | No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them. | statecraft | Geraldine Brooks | |
| e85ef3b | Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. | pride | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 8ef9354 | This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so. | leadership vulnerability | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 0269996 | David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly. | influence leadership | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 6584d47 | Curiosity - if not desire, if not plain kindness - might have led him to greater zeal. | ministry openness passion | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 3bba1bc | David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. | leadership stewardship | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 586447d | We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. | encouragement identity patriotism worship | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 218477c | The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free. | manipulation religion word-of-god | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 304795f | Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause. | intimidation statecraft | Geraldine Brooks | |
| b82c216 | David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants. | optics servant-leadership worship | Geraldine Brooks |