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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c171592 | I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| b082ab4 | Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstancias mais extraordinarias, durante episodios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais distantes de casa e de tudo que nos e familiar, possam existir esses momentos de incontestavel alegria. | inspiration | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 2a70780 | It was the beginning of that long bifurcation that became my life: Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| e795326 | you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| f80bfb0 | Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 5adaf0e | To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history. | intriguing life readers secrets | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| df02a43 | Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition? | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 7960974 | Looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We are all vulnerable. | dracula historian history the-historian | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 353ef96 | I felt sure...that these creatures were never threatened by the grimness of history, either. | dracula history the-historian | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 575e408 | The thing that haunted me that day, however, as I closed my notebook and put my coat on to go home, was not my ghostly image of Dracula, or the description of impalement, but the fact that these things had- apparently- actually occurred. If I listened too closely, I thought, I would hear the screams of the boys, of the 'large family' dying together. For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: h.. | history history-as-a-guide truth vlad-the-impaler | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 2288599 | I felt like an orphan. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| b9ba2ad | For the first time in all the years I remembered, all the years in which my father had sheltered me from the loneliness of life with no mother, no siblings, no home country, all the years of his being both father and mother - for the first time, I felt like an orphan. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 8d57e01 | I hadn't realized before seeing him how thoroughly alone I'd felt on that rain, headed toward the unknown, headed perhaps toward the larger loneliness of being unable to find my father or even toward the galactic loneliness of losing him forever. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| b18c294 | I flipped through the rest of the pages--when you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| eee8cf2 | nave | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 5a10764 | I knew people who dreamed all the time about going somewhere else, and they let that ruin their lives. When you are not allowed to do something, it often becomes very important. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| af12f77 | History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 8a35bcc | The strange thing, you know, is that Stalin openly admired Ivan the Terrible. Two leaders who were willing to crush and kill their own people-to do anything necessary- in order to consolidate their power...Can you imagine a world in which Stalin could live for five hundred years...or perhaps forever? | ivan-the-terrible political-power stalin vlad-the-impaler | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| d2843a6 | But sometimes a man who is very good thinks, I am very bad, and it--destructs his life, everything. Because he does not believe that he has any right to do something, so he does less and less. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| afa2224 | It was the beginning of that long bifurcation that became my life: Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. I thought later how simply and quickly they had introduced that concept to me, as easily as breaking a little finger. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 4191786 | I understood in a flash that I must keep my mind safe, whatever came next. I believe now that it was not only enormous luck that brought me this understanding the very first day, but also my habit of living closely with my own mind, alone with it while I practiced. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 17b89ee | We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. | Admiration | ||
| fbe8f0f | Van Morrison | Peter Robinson | ||
| d75c647 | Haven't you sometimes thought that people's vices are often the only things that make them interesting? | Peter Robinson | ||
| 18a3898 | But what Nev does is he takes these kids' anger and channels it. He gives them someone to hate. He gives their rage some structure and provides them with real targets rather than nebulous ones. So they end up believing they're committing theft, assault and vandalism for a good cause. Isn't that what terrorism is basically all about, anyway? Add a few olde worlde patriotic values, a lot of guff about the 'true English homeland' and a bit of .. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 4a28376 | As psycholinguists Nick Ellis and Peter Robinson (2008: 3) put it: 'What is attended is learned, and so attention controls the acquisition of language itself.' Likewise, | Scott Thornbury | ||
| 011b7ba | Traditional police wisdom has it that if a case doesn't yield leads in the first twenty-four hours, then everyone is in for a long, tough haul. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 7fd55d4 | gong to stay at a friend's." "Who? A girlfriend?" | Peter Robinson | ||
| 838b437 | trouble. Events | Peter Robinson | ||
| 877eeba | Banks scanned the Yorkshire Post and The Independent reports to see if either newspaper knew more than the police. Sometimes they did, and it could be damned embarrassing all round. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 90c1f2f | Robert Louis Stevenson, sung by Bryn Terfel: Now when day dawns on the brow of the moorland, Lone stands the house, and the chimney-stone is cold. Lone let it stand, now the friends are all departed, The kind hearts, the true hearts, that loved the place of old. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 45e677c | Nice state of affairs, isn't it," said Hepplethwaite, "when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy." | Peter Robinson | ||
| 1b9c578 | It was the feel of the cigarette between his fingers he wanted, the sharp intake of tobacco smoke into the lungs, not some slow oozing of poison through his skin into his blood. Pity about the health problems. He felt rather like St. Augustine must have felt when he wrote in his Confessions: "Give me chastity and continency--but not yet!" | Peter Robinson | ||
| a79de7e | He watched Clint Eastwood for a while. He had never much enjoyed cop films or cop programs on television, but watching right here and now, he could identify with Dirty Harry tracking down the villains and dealing with them his own way. He had meant what he said to Blackstone. A few minutes alone with Pamela Jeffreys's attackers and they would know what police brutality was all about. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 94c8c6c | tight around her while she stood at | Peter Robinson | ||
| ade570a | A cadaveric spasm had caused Rothwell to grab and hold onto a handful of dust at the moment of death, and Banks thought of the T.S. Eliot quotation, "I will show you fear in a handful of dust," which he had come across as the title of an Evelyn Waugh novel." | Peter Robinson | ||
| c77bf67 | Our glorious warrior Jason is probably lying on some mortuary table, cut open from th'nave to th'chops as we speak, and the three bastards who put him there, the three brown bastards who put him there, are out walking the streets." He slammed the table again. "What do you think about that?" | Peter Robinson | ||
| 8b692ad | Something like this could increase our membership tenfold. Nice, pure Aryan lad, with his whole future ahead of him, murdered by Paki immigrant scum. That'll turn a few fence-sitters in our direction. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 869bfdc | You can't let someone you love suffer an agony that gets worse every day and has no possibility of ever abating or ending, except in an even more drawn-out and painful death. Would | Peter Robinson | ||
| cc91611 | You always admire what you really don't understand. | Admiration | ||
| b1fbb93 | Season your admiration for awhile. | Admiration | ||
| 5c46dc0 | Sir Ken Robinson put it in his excellent book Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, was subject to the division of labor: "Like an assembly line, students progressed from room to room to be taught by different teachers specializing in separate disciplines." -- | Peter H. Diamandis | ||
| 55fb4a4 | Rather glumly, he recalled the bit at the beginning of the Trollope biography he was reading, where Trollope considers the dreary sermons persuading people to turn their backs on worldly pleasure in the hope of heaven to come and asks, if such is really the case, then "Why are women so lovely?" | Peter Robinson | ||
| 3dbee13 | Ultimately, though, Reagan considered human history a comedy- not a trifle or an absurdity, but a solemn story that would end in happiness... because God was the author, and God was good, and that was the kind of story he'd write. Reagan taught me to appreciate the uses of humor, but he also taught me to appreciate the meaning of humor. The world contains more good than bad, more courage than cowardice, and more reasons for smiles than for.. | Peter M. Robinson |