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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ffb1f31 | While he may not often curse, Ray Bradbury does cry. Often. Tears of joy. Tears of sorrow. He cries when watching the news; he cries when people say kind things to him; he cries when recalling fond memories. Sometimes he cries several times a day. | Sam Weller | ||
| 4ba80d2 | Eres un verdadero filosofo, Sam -dijo el senor Pickwick. -Debe ser de familia, me parece, senor -respondio Weller-. A mi padre, ahora, le da mucho por ahi. Cuando mi madrastra le pega, el silba. Ella se pone furiosa y le rompe la pipa; el sale a la calle y se compra otra. Entonces ella chilla fuerte y se pone histerica; y el fuma tan tranquilo, hasta que ella vuelve en si. Eso es filosofia, ?no es verda, senor? -Un buen sustituto de ella, e.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 816a8b9 | What do they call a bed a rope for?' said Mr. Pickwick. 'Bless your innocence, sir, that ain't it,' replied Sam. 'Ven the lady and gen'l'm'n as keeps the hot-el first begun business, they used to make the beds on the floor; but this wouldn't do at no price, 'cos instead o' taking a moderate twopenn'orth o' sleep, the lodgers used to lie there half the day. So now they has two ropes, 'bout six foot apart, and three from the floor, which goes.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| bd0b585 | There would be no evidence collected, no trial, no justice and without justice, there was no crime. | Roxane Gay | ||
| 6bd3e53 | But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollectio.. | M.J. Rose | ||
| c4a545c | In your way that I have come to know and appreciate, you did not say anything. You didn't push me to say more. You waited. Your patience is a gift. You trusted our silence. | M.J. Rose | ||
| e577b9a | Politicians are fools and the games they play are fools games. | M.J. Rose | ||
| b3536cd | Fear stretching out... is how you live 'forever'. You torture the seconds with worry, you anticipate everything that awaits you, you trouble time, and it becomes an agony of isolated, unconnected moments. | M.J. Rose | ||
| 17d8eeb | The business of living can steal away the wonder of life. | life steal wonder | M.J. Rose | |
| 188b8b9 | One of the great mysteries," he said, running his finger down my cheek, "is what makes two people right for each other." | M.J. Rose | ||
| fa819b3 | Sometimes I think we spend too much time trying to figure out the how of things - the war, man's inhumanity, destiny, genius....one simple kiss that the whole world fits into. All that matters is that we try to live the best things and turn our backs on the worst. | M.J. Rose | ||
| 8dd6564 | Always love to the point of madness," he said, "or else what is the point of love?" | M.J. Rose | ||
| 2ac8ab3 | One and whole, together, the loss and repair belonging to each other," Picasso said. "Over time, all paintings are damaged one way or another. A painting cannot survive a long time unscathed." | M.J. Rose | ||
| 8ed9882 | I think beauty can be a great lie. Sometimes the greatest lie. | deception lie | M.J. Rose | |
| 49f1bac | Patterns, Mr. Tiffany once said, be they found in events, in nature, even in the stars in the firmament, are proof of history repeating itself. If we see randomness, it is only because we don't yet recognize the pattern. | patterns repeats | M.J. Rose | |
| 8b0ef5a | Once there was a single being, a complete whole, a man and a woman as one entity in paradise. As punishment, they were cleaved apart. And for eternity forced to spend their lives trying to find their perfect puzzle other half. When you find your perfect puzzle other half, Delphine, it is blasphemy to walk away, to deny the pleasure that is due you. | M.J. Rose | ||
| 688db26 | S)cents connects us to a past we can't always see, that seems lost but can so easily be conjured up and found. | M.J. Rose | ||
| a2474bb | But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollectio.. | M.J. Rose | ||
| 3ba2e7c | Money is like a mischievous cat; if you chase it around the neighborhood, it eludes you. It hides up a tree, behind the rose bush, or in the garden. However, if you ignore it and focus on what attracts the cat, it comes to you and sits in your lap. | M.J. DeMarco | ||
| f047323 | Money is like a mischievous cat; if you chase it around the neighborhood, it eludes you. It hides up a tree, behind the rose bush, or in the garden. However, if you ignore it and focus on what attracts the cat, it comes to you and sits in your lap. Money isn't attracted to selfish people. It is attracted to businesses that solve problems. | M.J. DeMarco | ||
| bbf4215 | Every story begins with a tremble of anticipation. At the start we may have an idea of our point of arrival, but what lies before us and makes us shudder is the journey, for that is all discovery. | M.J. Rose | ||
| 8a874ba | into the Ecole, I was sure he would be excited by the idea of | M.J. Rose | ||
| 6962965 | reached the edge of the pond. I didn't know how deep the water was, but that didn't matter. If a child was in danger, if there was a life to save, I had to attempt it. | M.J. Rose | ||
| 6a92af9 | My mother was called to be a shopper the way some women are called to the nunnery, | M.J. Rose | ||
| b6e88a9 | I've just always viewed marriage as a job, and it's not the job I want for myself in the foreseeable | M.J. Rose | ||
| d0e8dac | Acheson immediately understood the urgency of this message. He summoned Ambassador Franks and told him that the United States resolutely opposed "the use of force or the threat of the use of force" against Iran, and that Truman himself had "stressed most strongly that no situation should be allowed to develop into an armed conflict between a body of British troops and the Persian forces." | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 67d4e1a | was brought into the firm, but his network of global contacts quickly paid off. Within the firm he became known as "the little minister." Although he often worked in Europe, he also became the firm's key man for deals in Latin America. During his first year as an associate, with help from former colleagues" | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 92a729f | nations just as it breaks the will of human beings. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| a057918 | About 90 percent of the one billion Muslims in the world today identify with the Sunni tradition. Of the remainder, most are Shiites, the largest number of whom are in Iran. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 27e194e | General Federico Tinoco, | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 055cc7e | Exceptionalism"--the view that the United States has a right to impose its will because it knows more, sees farther, and lives on a higher moral plane than other nations--was to them not a platitude, but the organizing principle of daily life and global politics." | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 62f3921 | Diem complained about "all these soldiers I never asked to come here." | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| c0580af | In the mid-1950s Winston Churchill advised his American friends to recognize that Ho Chi Minh was unbeatable, accept his victory, and try to make the best of it. This the Dulles brothers could not do--because they were Americans. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| dec72f9 | the former colony itself becoming colonialist. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 5a5388d | McKinley could not believe that Aguinaldo's insurgents would be so stupid as to resist the power and benevolence of the United States. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 941dcb5 | Opponents denounced the treaty as an imperialist grab of a distant land that shamed American ideals | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| cc3e3ee | That strengthened the planters' opposition to democracy, since universal suffrage would most likely have produced a government dominated by nonwhites. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 72d73f8 | When her brother turned Pearl Harbor over to the Americans in 1887, she wrote in her diary that it was "a day of infamy in Hawaiian history." | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| e24ad2c | Imbued as he was with the idea that only whites could rule the islands efficiently, he was able to consider this a form of patriotism. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| a5e7f6d | Bernays was one of the first masters of modern mass psychology. He liked to describe himself as the "father of public relations," and no one disagreed. His specialty was what he called "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses." | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 2f054dc | Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . . | Garth Nix | ||
| 97e55f6 | What is remarkable about the discussion on October 29, 1963, is that a broad array of top officials voiced doubts about the coup, including JFK himself, without any actual effect on the course of events, | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| d735d70 | President Kennedy does not announce a clear decision, but the group proceeds as if the United States does support the coup. | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 7cbda70 | siblings ran the overt and covert arms of foreign policy. | Stephen Kinzer |