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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ebb04f4 | Vaughn?" she inquired. "One of them. Neil. It's a family business." Winsome and Gerry showed their warrant cards and Neil Vaughn invited them inside. The side of an old cardboard box served as a doormat, and they wiped their feet as best they could without reducing it to shreds. Vaughn seemed to be the only person around. After he asked them to sit down, he returned to a desk littered with papers and swiveled his chair to face them. The ins.. | Peter Robinson | ||
| ee547b8 | sit. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 04b8c80 | even | Peter Robinson | ||
| df6120c | that the event would | Peter Robinson | ||
| 21d07cd | Five goalkeepers have scored in the Premier League. They are Peter Schmeichel, Brad Friedel, Paul Robinson, Tim Howard and Asmir Begovic. | Chris Carpenter | ||
| 58fe2ef | waif standing by the seashore on the opposite wall. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 4059a0a | Banks smiled. "Don't worry," he said "it's my balls on the chopping-block, not yours. I'll cover for you. My word on it." Susan smiled back. "Well, that's the first time not having any balls has ever done me any good." | Peter Robinson | ||
| 2309573 | Something piqued his curiosity and he wanted to know more. There was no order to it, neither in his mind nor in his filing system. He would plunge into a subject with cavalier disregard for its chronological development. And | Peter Robinson | ||
| 4a29838 | fronts for Rothwell's illegal activities. As Susan was wondering if Robert Calvert's money | Peter Robinson | ||
| 77ad24e | Death is a process as straightforward as mowing a lawn. | Antonella Gambotto-Burke | ||
| ed977b3 | I think my parents were bewildered by my oddity. | Antonella Gambotto-Burke | ||
| e430c07 | For he loves each one of us," she said to herself, "as though there were only one to love." | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 991d13f | From the standpoint of the present, the future is always a derangement of ambitions. | Antonella Gambotto-Burke | ||
| dbdf783 | To think about failure was to invite failure. | Michael Connelly | ||
| a85ee15 | The conversion of mass to energy and light is the prerogative of every star. | Antonella Gambotto-Burke | ||
| 8576e47 | I am left to defend the 'dead' Constitution. | Antonin Scalia | ||
| 0f4bb99 | Sorrow and Suffering withdrew a little, as they always did when the Shepherd was present, leaving him to talk with Much-Afraid alone. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 89fd255 | Amar es maravilloso; pero no deja de ser terrible el hecho de que el verdadero amor no quiere ver nada indigno en el ser amado>>. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 72eee3f | The Shepherd laughed too. "I love doing preposterous things," he replied. "Why, I don't know anything more exhilarating and delightful than turning weakness into strength, and fear into faith, and that which has been marred into perfection. If there is one thing more than mother which I should enjoy doing at this moment it is turning a jellyfish into a mountain goat." | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 4514aa9 | The Voice of my Beloved! Through all my heart it thrills, He leaps upon the mountains, And skips upon the hills. For like a roe or young hart, So swift and strong is he, He looketh through my window, And beckoneth unto me. "Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away with me, Gone are the snows of winter, The rains no more we see. "The flowers are appearing, The little birds all sing, The turtle dove is calling, Through all the land 'tis s.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 89f6be3 | So remember this; as long as you are willing to be Acceptance-with-Joy and Bearing-in-Love, you can never again be crippled, and you will be able to go wherever I lead you. You will be able to go down into the Valley of the world to work with me there, for that is where the evil and sorrowful and ugly things are which need to be overcome. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| bd83f3a | Anything else I should know, | Michael Connelly | ||
| b2a0559 | As for the other three, they have made off into some hiding place, and are not likely to trouble you again in the same way now that they realize that I am within call. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| c3c62a1 | The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills" (Song of Solomon 2:8). When asked what the verse meant, she looked up with a happy smile of understanding and said, "It means there are no obstacles which our Savior's love cannot overcome, and that to him, mountains of difficulty are as easy as an asphalt road!" From" | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 38f2da9 | Many a quiet, ordinary, and hidden life, unknown to the world, is a veritable garden in which Love's flowers and fruits have come to such perfection that it is a place of delight where the King of Love himself walks and rejoices with his friends. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 6be1718 | Then she looked at the Shepherd and suddenly knew she could not doubt him, could not possibly turn back from following him; that if she were unfit and unable to love anyone else in the world, yet in her trembling, miserable little heart, she did love him. Even if he asked the impossible, she could not refuse. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 665e64a | Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 01a0f6b | The High Places and the hinds' feet do not refer to heavenly places after death, but are meant to be the glorious experience of God's children here and now--if they will follow the path he chooses for them. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 9dfb0eb | But the High Places of victory and union with Christ cannot be reached by any mental reckoning of self to be dead to sin, or by seeking to devise some way or discipline by which the will can be crucified. The only way is by learning to accept, day by day, the actual conditions and tests permitted by God, by a continually repeated laying down of our own will and acceptance of his as it is presented to us in the form of the people with whom w.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 314b3eb | The third thing that I learned was that you, my Lord, never regarded me as I actually was, lame and weak and crooked and cowardly. You saw me as I would be when you had done what you promised and had brought me to the High Places, when it could be truly said, 'There is none that walks with such a queenly ease, nor with such grace, as she.' You always treated me with | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| ed0b081 | the same love and graciousness as though I were a queen already and not wretched little Much-Afraid." Then she looked up into his face and for a little time could say no more, but at last she added, "My Lord, I cannot tell you how greatly I want to regard others in the same way." | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| a337c08 | Accept and bear and obey the Law of Love, and nothing will be able to cripple your hinds' feet or to separate you from me. This is the secret of the High Places, Grace and Glory, it is the lovely and perfect law of the whole universe. It is this that makes the radiant joy of the Heavenly Places. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 47e0977 | Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment. | Antonin Scalia | ||
| 7132078 | Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but they also help shape and mold our character. Therefore, when we don't take our time to communicate with our kids, then we rob them of critical life lessons that we and our forefathers learn the hard way - lessons that they would needlessly have.. | family-conversations guidance life-antidotes life-lessons parenting pep-talk proven-solutions real-life real-talk storytelling talking-with-children teachable-moments trial-and-error warnings | Drexel Deal | |
| 41729e3 | Parents need to see that every situation that their kids find themselves in is a teaching situation, and they need to take the time to explore cost and effect. So talking to your children, explaining things to children as to why things happen in the world. Getting them to see cost and relationships between events is the best way to increase comprehension skills. Daynette Gardiner, the best School Psychologist in The Bahamas. | cost-and-effects cost-and-relationships learning-opportunities parenthood teachable-moments teaching-situation time | Drexel Deal | |
| b594783 | You have to talk to your children about things, a lot of our parents don't do that. You have to explain things to children as to why certain things happen. I think that a good way of improving comprehension is to read the newspaper with your child. A lot of times certain sensational things happen and children want to find out why it happened. And sometimes you would hear them talking to each other passing on erroneous information. Daynette .. | erroneous-information helping-children improving-comprehension newspaper parenting reading-to-children right-information sensational-news talking talking-with-children | Drexel Deal | |
| 5c72f89 | As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'. | conflict-resolution conflicts cut-a-movie letting-go parenthood parenting parents peace-maker resolving-problems simple-issues street-violence walking-away youth-violence | Drexel Deal | |
| db1de94 | School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers with 30 plus kids in your classroom you have to take the time to get to know them, and not just see them as people you have to teach. And if they want to learn they will learn, and if they don't want too then too bad. But you have to see them as your surrogate children. Charles Chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of R. M. Baile.. | children classroom education homeroom-teachers learning microcosm-of-society relationships school-principals schools students surrogate-children teachers | Drexel Deal | |
| b755b91 | One day I was through Strachan's Corner just hanging out, and they must have picked up Scrooge earlier for a pep talk, so they were now dropping him back home in one of their police vehicle. Supt. Strachan was in the back seat talking with him, while a male officer was driving. So I asked her, what were some of the things you used to say to Scrooge? I used to tell him it is not worth it, You are hurting people. You are only going to end up.. | caring-cops change community-policing crime-prevention encouragement gang-intervention gang-members gangsters going-to-die good-cops law-enforcement not-worth-it police-outreach reaching-gang-members rebellion-raiders the-grave toughness turn-around woman-police | Drexel Deal | |
| 68bd543 | How many close encounters with death can one person survive? At the age of 21, I had surpassed more than 10 such close encounters with death, which began when I was but 5 years of age. This enemy who has been hotly pursuing me for more than 16 years has no shame to his game at all. At least with me there were certain things I would've never done, and knowingly hurt a child was just one of them. | death enemy hot-pursuit near-misses principles street-code survival | Drexel Deal | |
| 0490de0 | A person who takes a gun holds it to somebody's head, and intimidates them for money or take their property from them. The person who gets into an argument and his only resort is to take a gun or some offensive weapon and eliminate the other person. I understand that many of these persons do not have reasoning skills. They do not have the basic conflict management skills, to resolve basic issues between themselves and others. So they resort.. | anti-social-behavior arm-robbery at-risk-youth conflict-resolution criminal-behavior juvenile-delinquents law-enforcement police-officers reasoning-skills senseless-violence street-crimes | Drexel Deal | |
| e08966d | According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the definition of the word 'rebellion' is 'an act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention. Extensions of the expression include to fly in the face of danger and to fly in the face of providence, both of which carry a sense of reckless or impetuous disregard for safety.' Because we did not grow up with our fathers, we became reckless with our l.. | broken-homes disregard eradicate family fatherless-homes gang-prevention marriage rebellion rebellion-raiders reckless right-conditions root-causes single-mothers single-parent-homes strong-communities symptoms two-parent-homes | Drexel Deal | |
| 0d32ea3 | We had a genuine love for each other, and we loved being around each other, and in the gang was where I felt love. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison | gangs love loyalty unity | Drexel Deal | |
| bdbf494 | When I look at it carefully, by examining the interviews and the various social scientists' studies, it becomes easy for me to see that we all were just rebelling. Regardless of the area we grew up in or the gang we were affiliated with, or which part of the Western world we found ourselves in, we all were rebelling. We were rebelling and crying out for our fathers. We were rebelling against the home conditions that existed in our communiti.. | at-risk-communities black-community broken-homes fatherless-homes gang-intervention gangs interviews love rebelling rebellion-raiders root-causes single-mothers social-ills strong-communities | Drexel Deal |