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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6bcf5e2 | We, the women, who rule thatif you make a scholar out of your wife, you will need another wife to do the daily chores. | Narendra Jadhav | ||
| 5a88e6a | There is no better place or time to be philosophical than when you are airborne. Suspended between heaven and earth, introspection becomes inevitable. The plane may be traveling at supersonic speed but the mind travels faster than light--seemingly without a sense of direction, but almost always with a definite purpose. | Narendra Jadhav | ||
| 0105acc | For the millionth time I asked myself why they couldn't judge me on where I stood. Why did they always have to judge me on where I came from. | Narendra Jadhav | ||
| 47e0715 | I stood knocking at the doorsteps of heaven as I died... "Who are you...?" I was asked. "My entire existence on earth could not tell me who I was... And that is what I have come to ask you..." | Narendra Jadhav | ||
| 02ccb21 | It is an unfortunate truth of our society that whatever heights a man might scale, his caste is never cast off; it remains an inseparable part of his identity. His caste always remains a cause for scorn or contempt. Only the type of humiliation changes. | Narendra Jadhav | ||
| c32b26e | The story of the ugly duckling and its scornful brethren holds special significance for the Dalits. I wonder how many swans waste their lives thinking of themselves as ugly ducklings, trapped and punished by the inequities of our caste system. | Narendra Jadhav | ||
| 41a435b | the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines. | wine | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | |
| e8efac8 | He had nothing against cherry tomatoes except that any attempt to cut them shot them off the plate with a velocity that could lay out a gemsbok at fifty paces, and putting them in the mouth whole and biting down was a not entirely pleasant experience that could result in doing the nose trick with tomato seeds. | vegetables | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | |
| 9d56db3 | God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender; God bless - no harm in blessing - the Pretender; But who Pretender is, or who is King, God bless us all - that's quite another thing! John Byrom: To an Officer in the Army | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| d09a12c | mum always ought to be, getting tea. Women and food: how they locked on to your heart, taking it so young that if you had ever been properly loved and nurtured, you could never quite untangle them again. And did you ever, ever get over losing your mum? It seemed absurd after so long, and at his age, to be seized with such a yearning to go home; but she was gone, beyond reach, and a grown man wasn't allowed to feel like this. The | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| 50febe2 | leading the way was his boss, Commander 'Dave' Carpenter, in a suit so sharp you could peel mangoes with it. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| a74f27e | One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie. | practicality | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | |
| cf2397a | Joanna had the fisherman's pie. 'What's under the mashed potato?' Slider asked. Joanna chewed thoughtfully for a moment and then looked down. 'Something white,' she said at last. 'With little bits of something pink.' She chewed again. 'I am eating, aren't I?' she appealed for reassurance. 'It's so hard to tell without some sensory input, like taste or texture. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| bbcc302 | Father Ramsay smiled his sphingine smile. 'You know my opinion of buttermilk,' he said. 'I'll wait for the ale. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| fb09b0c | somewhere, waiting for you. Nothing is ever lost. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| 131722e | Crafty Collins took up with him. You wouldn't have thought they had a thing in common. I mean, Crafty, he had enough upstairs. He wasn't stupid by many a long mile. But this Bates bloke, he was college educated and everything. Smart as a whip. Well, he | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| a6ba416 | The former Mary Loveday was a thin woman in whose face any youthful beauty she may have possessed had been extinguished by years and unhappiness. There were unbecoming shadows around her eyes, two lines of discontent drew down her mouth corners, and her skin had the dry and unnourished look of a woman without a lover. Her | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| 2d465a6 | The Yorkshire was something of a landmark, and facing it across the river was another, Botterill's Horse Repository, a startling and ornate building in red and yellow brick. Here the gentlemen who rode or drove into York could leave their horses. The stalls were arranged on several storeys, with ramps leading up from floor to floor - the equine equivalent, Teddy supposed, of one of those new blocks of 'flats' one heard about in London - and.. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| b37ab85 | Of course one has to give diplomacy a chance, but it would be better for us, if we are going to have to fight them, for the Cabinet to start now before the Boers are ready for us.' 'Well, public opinion is all for war, for what that's worth.' 'The Cabinet would never be swayed by public opinion.' 'Perhaps not, but with that dreadful newspaper whipping people up into a blood lust, we shall have demonstrations in the street before long if we .. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| de0dd1e | Instead, the Daily Mail's editor picked out only the 'brightest' items of news, digested them, and rewrote them so as to turn them into 'stories'. These always had to be short, strongly prejudiced in some direction, and either sentimental or sensational. The headlines were calculated to provoke, rather than merely to suggest what the paragraph was about; scandals and crime figured largely in its pages, and for preference there must always b.. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| 787cdfc | True, Mama, but he'll find it a difficult job to govern the country with nothing but the High Tories to support him. And whatever you think of their politics, Huskisson and Palmerston are very able men the country can ill afford to lose. William Lamb was doing a good job in Ireland, too.' 'Poor William Lamb,' Lucy said -- his name always seemed to couple itself with the epithet quite automatically. 'He needs office to keep his mind from his.. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| 2c933d5 | I could refer you to a colleague who specialises in such things - or, as it happens, a clinic has just opened in Holloway to advise on birth control and dispense devices. You might find that more anonymous. Have you heard of Marie Stopes?' 'Didn't she write a book? I seem to remember something - didn't she say that women and men should be equal in marriage? It sounded rather sensible to me.' 'She believes that a woman cannot be free unless .. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| d4e70c4 | Asquith, in the House, had shocked many people by opposing the franchise for women on the grounds that woman was not the female of the human species but a distinct and inferior species of her own, and disqualified from voting in the same way that a rabbit was disqualified. When it was reported there were angry letters and much protest in the press, together with several satirical cartoons about the lapine origins of various public figures. .. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| 58ed144 | All days are nights to see till I see thee,And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. | Absence | ||
| 26e2e5b | You can't save the world from itself. If people are intent on destroying themselves, they will. And sometimes they don't care if they bring others down with them. That's selfish but it's human nature. | Charles Todd | ||
| bd86acc | He ran out of possibilities. Still, Blevins could perhaps help him there. Or Mrs. Wainer. On the other hand-- Hamish said it for him. "I wouldna' be in haste to show it." Getting to his feet, Rutledge found a flat leather case lying in a corner of the room, a coating of dust covering it, and a cobweb linking it to the frame of the bottomless chair beside it. The grip was broken at one end, but it would do. Rutledge looked around him a last .. | Charles Todd | ||
| f7a4d8c | What could have been Henry Cutter's | Charles Todd | ||
| 4b4aca1 | Time? Learning to forgive? To forgive yourself most of all? I can't cure you. But you may be able to cure yourself . . . | Charles Todd | ||
| e2dbeeb | They fear me, Hastings; the criminals of your England they fear me! When the cat is there, the little mice, they come no more to the cheese!" "I don't suppose the greater part of them even know of your existence," I said, laughing. Poirot looked at me reproachfully. He always imagines that the whole world is thinking and talking of Hercule Poirot. He had certainly made a name for himself in London, but I could hardly believe that his existe.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| cb3de97 | mother's eyes widen | Charles Todd | ||
| 6b95366 | men showed. I'd grown up on the tales of feuds and clan | Charles Todd | ||
| 14979ca | or mop up vomit and other bodily fluids from | Charles Todd | ||
| 34fc393 | Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." --Charles Mingus" | Todd Henry | ||
| c040d45 | and take good care of it." "Henri's neck" | Charles Todd | ||
| 9b68c64 | For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the slender evidence of appearance. | Charles Todd | ||
| 9f8a2d3 | Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, was well into his sixties. His wife, the Empress Elisabeth, had been assassinated years before by an anarchist, his only son had died in a murder-suicide pact, and now the Archduke, his heir, was dead. The fate of Europe might well depend on what a bitter old man decided. | Charles Todd | ||
| bf8220c | Hughes has to say. In the cold light of morning, | Charles Todd | ||
| a488537 | gorilla | Agatha Christie | ||
| 9a88eec | without it. | Charles Todd | ||
| 0491f4e | One story that circulated about (U.S. Minister to Russia Charles S.) Todd concerned his conversation with a lady-in-waiting at an Imperial reception in the Winter Palace. In his bad French with a Kentucky accent, he mispronounced the word for year, so that an explanation of his travels came out: "I was an ass in Paris, part of an ass in London, almost an ass in Germany, and I am two asses here." To which the lady reportedly responded, "And .. | russia u-s-history | Norman E. Saul | |
| 382235c | Boys have never been to war. It's easy to believe that it's all a game. That the dead will get up off the grass in time for tea. | Charles Todd | ||
| 5d509f5 | She grinned. "I seen that you was sleeping in the sitting room" | Charles Todd | ||
| d9dba3a | a rough sort of child with a bullying nature and a particularly unclear concept of personal property. | Charles Todd | ||
| f1c5c0f | explain to Mark what the woman had told me | Charles Todd |