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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df60302 | It isn't every day I get to meet a legend. Dan Cahill, I presume? - Dr. Tagamayer | Jude Watson | ||
| 1d279bb | It will be so difficult to have to spend five days in Costa Rica, but hey, anything for you guys. - Nellie | Jude Watson | ||
| f674fd9 | You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement. | achievement bae-oh money | Jude Watson | |
| 2ed6ae6 | It's a decision you have to make for yourself every day. Every day, you will fight for a moment of peace. | Jude Watson | ||
| a5eea02 | Sure," Dan said. "He was one smart dude. Get married or go lie on a beach. No contest. Even with the volcano, the dude was ahead." | Jude Watson | ||
| 9e558f0 | And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved. | lonely-love sad-but-true thoughts-on-life | Jude Watson | |
| bf092ce | Aren't our problems so small when we look at something big, like the sky? | Jude Watson | ||
| a5d4d50 | You know that what makes us extraordinary can sometimes make us dangerous. Your ancestors are proof of that. It is your job to learn from their mistakes as well as their triumphs. Isn't that true? | Jude Watson | ||
| 86103d6 | pay attention everything counts | Jude Watson | ||
| 6a776bf | Just follow my first rule of life," Dan said as he got out of the Jeep. "Everybody's gotta eat." ... "How did you know a guy named Joe worked here?" Amy asked as they dropped the food bags on a table. "That's my second rule of life," Dan said. "There's always a guy named Joe." -- | Jude Watson | ||
| eb06ae8 | We fell into a grave," Dan said. "Because we were pushed. Then some goon tried to bury us alive." "Two of them chased me across the cemetery," Amy added. Nellie almost swerved off the road as she turned to look at Dan. "That's not funny." "I didn't think it was, either." | Jude Watson | ||
| 4cf1586 | He was able to invade a system designed by me. That narrows it down to maybe ten people on the planet. - Pony | Jude Watson | ||
| 71d41b5 | You don't know what it's like," he whispered. "To have the serum in your head." | Jude Watson | ||
| 497a776 | Six whiskers from a leopard?" Dan asked. "I'm glad this stuff is so easy. What are we supposed to do, run after it with a pair of tweezers?" | Jude Watson | ||
| 3528395 | April May had been hacked. | Jude Watson | ||
| 8b8157a | We push away the bad memories," Irina said. Bleak sadness deadened her voice. "We tell ourselves is better not to remember. It is not better. Better to remember everything, even pain." | Jude Watson | ||
| bdeca52 | She opened her Dictionary of Australian Slang. "I'll just put on my sunnies," she said, slipping on sunglasses. "I'll spit the dummy if you ankle biters take too long, but if you don't, she'll be apples!" "Speak English, please," Dan said. "If you take too long, dude, you're toast." "Got it." | Jude Watson | ||
| 11b7ab2 | I'm getting to the point where I'm never surprised when you pop up. - Alistair Oh | Jude Watson | ||
| 152f855 | They have to pay." "Revenge sounds so... Cahill," Amy said. "Not revenge," Dan said. "Justice." | Jude Watson | ||
| a39fe29 | Go, go, go!" the taxi driver shouted gleefully as he stomped on the gas, practically sending them through the roof. "I love Americans!" | Jude Watson | ||
| 087ae4c | Alistair Oh looked up at them sheepishly. "Greetings, young ones." "Greetings, weasal," Dan said." | Jude Watson | ||
| 55b543a | A green bubble being rowed down the Nile. This shouldn't attract any attention at all. - Dan | Jude Watson | ||
| 8f9f63a | This is not going to be good. - Dan | Jude Watson | ||
| 53213d8 | Alistair opened his eyes. "My dear, I haven't exerted myself in years." "Then it's way past time to start, old man." - Reagan" | Jude Watson | ||
| fd99bb9 | Why does Switzerland look like one big cuckoo clock to me?" Dan asked. "Because you have no sould," Amy answered." | Jude Watson | ||
| fabe9ec | You have a solid team behind you. So reach out." He smiled. "Just don't reach out and push me into a freezing river next time." | Jude Watson | ||
| 5f621b5 | Sorry. Only one art heist a week for me," Dan said." | Jude Watson | ||
| 1567910 | Had he really lost his childhood? Was that what the Clue hunt had done? | Jude Watson | ||
| 656c332 | Did you know Nellie could fly a plane?" Amy shook her head. "I guess it never came up." "Lots of things don't come up with Nellie. Until they do." -- | Jude Watson | ||
| 674850c | I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 7d12579 | Equally astonishing, the Democrats have never admitted their racist history, never taken responsibility for what they did, never apologized for it, never paid one penny of restitution for their crimes. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 524e871 | What intrigued me most was how one can get away with such a big lie. The answer is you have to dominate all the large megaphones of the culture, from academia to the movies to the major media. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fb429d4 | Early Near Eastern villages domesticated plants and animals. Uruk urban institutions, in turn, domesticated humans. | James C. Scott | ||
| 8ca8533 | The kind of knowledge required in such endeavors is not deductive knowledge from first principles but rather what Greeks of the classical period called metis, a concept to which we shall return. Usually translated, inadequately, as "cunning," metis is better understood as the kind of knowledge that can be acquired only by long practice at similar but rarely identical tasks, which requires constant adaptation to changing circumstances." | James C. Scott | ||
| bca1c1f | Telling a farmer only that he is leasing twenty acres of land is about as helpful as telling a scholar that he has bought six kilograms of books. | James C. Scott | ||
| cad7f51 | One of the major purposes of state simplifications, collectivization, assembly lines, plantations, and planned communities alike is to strip down reality to the bare bones so that the rules will in fact explain more of the situation and provide a better guide to behavior. To the extent that this simplification can be imposed, those who make the rules can actually supply crucial guidance and instruction. This, at any rate, is what I take to .. | James C. Scott | ||
| b2cfd05 | Granted, the Scott Paper story is one of the more dramatic in our study, but it's not an isolated case. In over two thirds of the comparison cases, we noted the presence of a gargantuan personal ego that contributed to the demise or continued mediocrity of the company.33 | James C. Collins | ||
| 58820f1 | Jon said, "Two hundred kilograms is four hundred forty pounds. That much C-4 takes up about eight cubic feet, which is your basic cardboard box." Amy" | Robert Crais | ||
| 3490d64 | Holston asked a class of nine-year-old children, most of whom lived in superquadra, to draw a picture of "home." Not one drew an apartment building of any kind. All drew, instead, a traditional freestanding house with windows, a central door, and a pitched roof." | James C. Scott | ||
| c736997 | Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958-1981. Section 5, Grave 40-2, Arlington National Cemetery." | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 2d480ff | Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy. | Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) | ||
| c4316e2 | It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition. | Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) | ||
| ca5eda4 | JFK toured Nazi Germany in the 1930s and came back effusive with praise of Hitler and his theory of Nordic superiority. "I have come to the conclusion," JFK wrote in his diary, "that fascism is right for Germany and Italy." Touring the Rhineland, JFK echoed Nazi propaganda at the time. "The Nordic races appear to be definitely superior to the Romans." Hostility toward Hitler, JFK insisted, stems largely from jealousy. "The Germans really ar.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 9b14755 | When possession is legitimized by force, where does the issue of theft arise? I'm | Dinesh D'Souza |