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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 577edc6 | eyes | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 712b705 | You always run to answer the bell, Agatha, and when you see me, your face always falls in disappointment, as if you were expecting someone else. | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 2a0164d | Well, murder comes before illegal hooch. | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 73e536e | Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 1f45d2f | Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 420dd56 | True Patriotism, it seems to me, is based on tolerance and a large measure of humility. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| e1443c5 | Laws are never as effective as habits. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 526a4fc | Mine is not a success story. Mine is, simply, a true story. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 660b2fa | Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 240506e | A hungry man is not a free man. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| df9bda7 | The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| fc8b46a | There is no evil in the atom, only in men's souls. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 735ab8e | Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 68e8136 | Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 3265735 | My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| b47eefb | Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 5b7ff89 | now Bannon's Zeitgeist moment had arrived. Everywhere there was a sudden sense of global self-doubt. Brexit in the UK, waves of immigrants arriving on Europe's angry shores, the disenfranchisement of the workingman, the specter of more financial meltdown, Bernie Sanders and his liberal revanchism--everywhere was backlash. Even the most dedicated exponents of globalism were hesitating. Bannon believed that great numbers of people were sudden.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 4c4daef | Cartile sunt pentru aceia care nu au vieti adevarate. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8722b01 | A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House... | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 8f0a74e | Jesus heals the whole person. | Bill Johnson | ||
| 6baae21 | He who slings mud generally loses ground. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| b3ecbfd | The kids"--Jared and Ivanka--exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family finances. "Ivanka is terrified," said a satisfied Bannon." | Michael Wolff | ||
| c2b7288 | We mean by "politics" the people's business -- the most important business there is. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 136a3ce | We have confused the free with the free and easy. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 21d577d | tunnel into Ocher Bar, the long cavern below the Counting Room. | Tad Williams | ||
| 4530934 | They take everything I've ever said and exaggerate it," said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. "It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated." | Michael Wolff | ||
| c67d359 | The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| abd5b54 | For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 3e7bec5 | A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 5390262 | Like every great writer before or since, Jonson understood that the best poets 'are both made and born'. That all great writing has to be hammered out and all great poets stand or fall by that 'second heat', their laboured revision. | James Shapiro | ||
| 92a6e42 | WHEN SCHOLARS TALK ABOUT THE SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, they almost always mean printed books like Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles | James Shapiro | ||
| 100c6b0 | you there was, or might be, such a man / As this I dreamt of?"--he can only answer like a Roman, "Gentle madam, no," | James Shapiro | ||
| 13d5115 | Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one. | James Shapiro | ||
| e11e0ab | Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects? | James Shapiro | ||
| 9f89c35 | And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life. / Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more. / Never, never, never. Pray you, undo / This button. Thank you, sir. O, O, O, O! | James Shapiro | ||
| c56cabe | Lear wills his own death: "Break, heart, I prithee break" | James Shapiro | ||
| 34c5c84 | Sonnet 55 that "Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme" [1-2])." | James Shapiro | ||
| 1eacb50 | The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne most. We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (24.318-21) | James Shapiro | ||
| a8f4c66 | Albany had declared that "All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings" (24.297-99)." | James Shapiro | ||
| 8a2af20 | I am a man more sinned against than sinning" (Lear, 9.60)." | James Shapiro | ||
| fd33f0c | Sonnet 138, which begins: "When my love swears that she is made of truth, / I do believe her though I know she lies")." | James Shapiro | ||
| cc619a9 | Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms--that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man--but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide. | James Shapiro | ||
| 49b7aff | he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation. | James Shapiro | ||
| 204228e | Antony and Cleopatra: "what love, what accomplishments, what repetitions of natural affections passed between them is not for vulgar minds to imagine, none but so great hearts know them." | James Shapiro |