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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d3b53c2 | Treachery can't be forgiven. Michael could have forgiven it, but people never forgive themselves and so they would always be dangerous. | treachery | Puzo Mario | |
| cda62e9 | In short, the gabbellotto was a mafioso who for a certain sum of money protected the real estate of the rich from all claims made on it by the poor, legal or illegal. When any poor peasant tried to implement the law which permitted him to buy uncultivated land, the gabbellotto frightened him off with threats of bodily harm or death. It was that simple. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 6dfa234 | Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 1e0b982 | Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty. | Mario Puzo | ||
| ca0656c | Strangers decide their lives. | Mario Puzo | ||
| ded4c30 | Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that. | Mario Puzo | ||
| bd52506 | Don Tommasino also controlled the water rights in the area and vetoed the local building of any new dams by the Roman government. Such dams would ruin the lucrative business of selling water from the artesian wells he controlled, make water too cheap, ruin the whole important water economy so laboriously built up over hundreds of years. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 73890cd | My father is a businessman trying to provide for his wife and children and those friends he might need someday in a time of trouble. He doesn't accept the rules of the society we live in because those rules would have condemned him to a life not suitable to a man like himself, a man of extraordinary force and character. What you have to understand is that he considers himself the equal of all those great men like Presidents and Prime Minist.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 3cba969 | With children he was playful in that particularly spiteful Sicilian style which is one of the less pleasant sides of the island character; he would nip their ears with his scissors and sometimes cut their hair so short that their heads looked like billiard balls. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 9d8786c | The fabulous land where there was justice for the poor, where the government was not the lackey of the rich, where the penniless Sicilians rose to riches simply by good honest labor. | Mario Puzo | ||
| a1fccbd | But above all with a patriarchal love for his followers. Virtue was rewarded. Injuries avenged. A livelihood guaranteed. | Mario Puzo | ||
| e6eb8d9 | What manner of men are we then, if we do not have our reason," he said. "We are all no better than beasts in a jungle if that were the case. But we have reason, we can reason with each other and we can reason with ourselves. To what purpose would I start all these troubles again, the violence and the turmoil?" | Mario Puzo | ||
| 7f1ed2a | was written before it became too embarrassing for the Republican party to hold its 1972 convention in San Diego, and I preferred not to follow the convention to Miami Beach. | John Lange | ||
| cdaa56f | Quand Anna ouvre la porte, elle demeure figee sur le seuil, un melange de stupefaction et de colere sur le visage. Comment sa fille a-t-elle ose laisser sa chambre dans cet etat ? | John La Galite | ||
| bf78a88 | Certaines responsabilites ne se choisissent pas, on les accepte sans reserve. | John La Galite | ||
| 769c960 | Lang | John Grisham | ||
| 85474f5 | On peut choisir ses amis, mais on ne peut pas se choisir soi-meme. | John La Galite | ||
| 9ccbebe | There's a famous old quote about writing maintainable software: Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. --John Woods comp.lang.c++ | Jeff Knupp | ||
| db87b6b | all religions are confusing," nikos said. "that's how the priests stay in business." | John Lange | ||
| 34bdd77 | Knox could not fail to see what was so patent: many books of the German reformers may have come in his way; no more was wanted than the preaching of George Wishart in 1543-45, to make him an irreconcilable foe of the doctrine as well as the discipline of his Church. | Andrew Lang | ||
| 1f4052d | The idea that you can and should hack serendipity is a central theme of the book The Power of Pull, by John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison. | Keith Ferrazzi | ||
| 20e4313 | If you thought "Rabbie Burns" wrote "Auld Lang Syne," you'd be doubly wrong. Burns never signed his name "Rabbie" or "Robbie" (or, indeed, "Bobbie" Burns, as some North Americans insist on calling him). His signatures included "Robert," "Robin," "Rab"--and, on at least one occasion, "Spunkie." | John Lloyd | ||
| 903b09b | The enthusiasm which induced a priest, notary, and teacher like Knox to carry a claymore in defence of a beloved teacher, Wishart, seems more appropriate to a man of about thirty than a man of forty, and, so far, supports the opinion that, in 1545, Knox was only thirty years of age. | Andrew Lang | ||
| 3288750 | his first nonfiction book, Five Patients, and two more John Lange titles, Grave Descend and Drug of Choice. He also wrote Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues with his brother Douglas, and it was later published under the pseudonym Michael Douglas. After deciding to quit medicine | Jeffery Hudson | ||
| e3eb4b0 | he had never found anyone who knew what the name | John Lange | ||
| 21ac82f | Hij zegt dat je geleerd hebt je mond te houden als iemand op je hand gaat staan,' zei hij, terwijl hij bloedserieus naar het bericht keek. 'Ik ben blij dat je dat nu kunt... Hij zegt ook dat ik trots op jou mag zijn.' Ze keek hem weer aan. Zijn gezicht was ondoorgrondelijk en de stilte die er viel begon wel erg lang te duren. Uiteindelijk kon ze zich niet meer inhouden. 'En ben je dat ook?' flapte ze eruit. Will glimlachte. 'Zeker wel. Heel.. | John Flanagan | ||
| 4a2e855 | Og de gode borgere som spaserte langs Mellomveien pa sin obligatoriske sommersondagsformiddagstur, hva visste de vel om en liten jegers eventyr? De sa en bleik og forvokset guttunge lope om med et nett og et glass i neven. Merkelig beskjeftigelse, sa noen. Og andre syntes plutselig synd pa bade humle og veps og mygg, for i Tromso skal man ikke ove mord om sondagen. Iallfall ikke for middag. | friluftsliv jakt tromsø | John Giæver | |
| 32f34ec | It is better to live rich than to die rich. SAMUEL JOHNSON | John Lange | ||
| 81d5fd4 | De jongeman, die de toekomst niet kent, ziet het leven als een soort episch avontuur, een odyssee over vreemde zeeen en langs onbekende eilanden, waarin hij zijn krachten zal beproeven en bewijzen, en aldus zijn sterfelijkheid zal leren kennen. De man van middelbare leeftijd, die de toekomst heeft geleefd waarover hij eens droomde, ziet het leven als een tragedie, want hij heeft gemerkt dat zijn krachten, hoe groot ze ook waren, niet opgewa.. | John Williams | ||
| fe46451 | Jullie kijken ook nooit verder dan je neus lang is,' merkte Cassandra op. 'Ik ga wel. | John Flanagan | ||
| af18c65 | Sjolvingen sa goddag og spurte om det samme som betjenten. - Si meg nu, Thomas, er noen syk pa Slottet? - Naei. Men han far er sa rar og ho mor er sint og ho besta ho gret. - Noe er vel i veien da? - Ork ja, svarte vesle Thomas. - Det er hypoteken og tvangskusjon. (...) Vesle Thomas var nesten vaksen i oynene. Og der var en bekymring i dem, som handelsmannen visste ikke skulle fins i sa unge oyne. Han sa inntrengende liksom pa smatassen:.. | John Giæver | ||
| 546103c | It's a song soldiers in England used to sing to the tune of the New Year's song, "Auld Lang Syne." It goes, "We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here." | John Green | ||
| 56ce4aa | Calling All Cars was one of the earliest police shows on the air. It dramatized true crime stories introduced by officers of the Los Angeles and other police departments. The show was a crude forerunner of a type that reached its zenith years later on Dragnet: | John Dunning | ||
| e98211c | The Adventures of Gracie catapulted into the top ten. Meanwhile, Gracie's real brother, a publicity-shy San Francisco accountant named George Allen, had to go into hiding when reporters found him and invaded his life. | John Dunning | ||
| 135a551 | All art is personal. Otherwise, what's the point? | Jess Walter | ||
| e372122 | D'un cote ou de l'autre, on doit condamner tout homme dans la plaidoirie duquel percerait la mauvaise foi, la malveillance, la bigoterie ou encore l'intolerance, mais cela sans inferer ses vices du parti qu'il prend, meme s'il s'agit du parti adverse. Il faut rendre a chacun l'honneur qu'il merite, quelle que soit son opinion, s'il possede assez de calme et d'honnetete pour voir et exposer - sans rien exagerer pour les discrediter, sans rie.. | John Stuart Mill | ||
| 06c2a87 | The show ran only in areas where Rio Grande "cracked" gasoline was sold. The sponsor promoted its "close ties" with police departments in Arizona and Southern California, urging listeners to buy its product for "police car performance" in their own cars." | John Dunning | ||
| 769499b | There was little or no narration, the action being carried largely in dialogue. When a man walked across the street, a listener heard every step. This style would continue in Gunsmoke. | John Dunning | ||
| 7972153 | The 1954 syndications came packaged to a memorable signature. An opening musical sting was followed by the announcement: Bagdad! Martinique! Singapore! And all the places of the world where danger and intrigue walk hand in hand--there you will find Steve Mitchell, on another dangerous assignment! Lloyd Burrell played Mitchell on the transcriptions. | John Dunning | ||
| 55f7960 | Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety. | dangerous | Robert Ferrigno | |
| 076718a | Among other plotlines, these unfolded: Sam falls in love with Janet; Ruth Ann falls in love with Dr. Bob. But Ruth Ann frets over the impropriety of this, and Sam hides his feelings under a cloak of banter. The girls open a tea room; the theme of unrequited love stretches its way through the '30s. Sam, teasing, makes up a name of a girl he says he really loves--Marjory Carroll. Then a real Marjory Carroll arrives, and they all become friend.. | John Dunning | ||
| 8504801 | The leaders, drummer Carleton Coon and pianist Joe Sanders, had met in a music store and formed their group in 1918. They sang duets through megaphones: hot, roaring numbers, and Sanders's bubbly greeting--"Howdja do, howdja do, you big ole raddio pooblic"--gave further evidence of the unstilting of America. The nation charged into the new era with music that had never been heard outside small bistros and smoky Harlem speakeasies. Radio was.. | John Dunning | ||
| 1674ccb | His first New Year's broadcast aired on WBBM, Chicago, in 1927. His theme song, Auld Lang Syne, was already a traditional year-ender, and soon Lombardo became known as "the man who invented New Year's Eve." | John Dunning | ||
| 0db3f65 | But momentum picked up in Oakland. The fans had been primed--Goodman records were getting good West Coast air play, and the Oakland date was a boost for everyone. They drove into Los Angeles for the Aug. 21 date at the Palomar. This was the night swing was born: it was the watershed, critics would agree, that would change music for the next 15 years. | John Dunning |