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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 55a252b | And here comes The Aeneid, right on schedule," Martine said. Paul looked at her, but if it was a joke, she wasn't smiling." | Tad Williams | ||
| 1fec14f | If only men would do what they should. | Tad Williams | ||
| 98cef22 | You were not required to study the Grail process, Ms. Dedoblanco, but I would have thought it worth your while." Wells frowned." | Tad Williams | ||
| 0e5b000 | sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation. | Tad Williams | ||
| e40ccf9 | To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity--a waste of precious time and effort. | Tad Williams | ||
| c8e5115 | I asked that goddess for help, and all we got were these stupid monkeys. | Tad Williams | ||
| 130e272 | We go into unknown places." "As do all mortals," | Tad Williams | ||
| 126e4b1 | Code Delphi. Hmmm. My choice of a code phrase to mark out these entries begins to seem . . . rather Delphic. In any case | Tad Williams | ||
| 4db2b6a | Even the most unpleasant inhabitants of the Edwin Meese Gardens housing project had never tried to shove a basilisk into Ramsey's codpiece. | Tad Williams | ||
| 678ff2b | But it is only possible to talk clearly about less important things. The greatest truths lie within, always within. They cannot be given. They must be found | Tad Williams | ||
| 63e8faa | Order. I must find some order. If the universe has none, or at least none we can discern, well, then it is our job to give it some. I have always believed that. | Tad Williams | ||
| 7e2af7f | But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. | Tad Williams | ||
| 6505ab9 | John Wulgaru, she thought when she got back. Her hands were shaking. Is that his name, then? Am I the only person who knows that? Or the only person still alive? | Tad Williams | ||
| 7e862ce | Yes, look," said Martine. "The Other has played his knight." | Tad Williams | ||
| 054d06b | And Jinnears--engineers! Who works with machines? Engineers and . . . and techs. Jinnears and Ticks. Renie let out a hysterical giggle. But that means I'm a Jinnear, too--I have a degree and everything. Why didn't the Other make me a killer ghost-jellyfish as well? | Tad Williams | ||
| 65dd208 | If you spare a dog he will never bite you, but men are not so trustworthy. | Tad Williams | ||
| 59d5979 | Xabbu was taught by his people to absorb everything the world gives him and then, after sifting out the most important details, to act on them. But he is also clever and supremely flexible. Faced with a new world, he did not try to force it to comply with his expectations, but began all over to learn the rules, without prejudice as to where the information came from. | Tad Williams | ||
| b1477e6 | Still, it was better than being trampled by teddy bears. | Tad Williams | ||
| 5246983 | strange days are upon us. Tradition served us, but now it shackles us. | Tad Williams | ||
| 8cae95b | The world is a ball of dung and we are the worms that live in it and eat each other.' He turned his back on her, pausing only to add: 'The one who eats all the others wins - but he is still the last living worm in a lump of shit. | Tad Williams | ||
| 312afcc | Bhojujik mo qunquc,' as my people say." Binabik made an expansive gesture around the clearing. "'--If the bears do not eat you, it is home." | Tad Williams | ||
| c15a8d9 | Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them." | Tad Williams | ||
| 3c54c8d | The Stone Girl looked down at the ground for a long moment, then up at Renie, squinting her pockmark eyes as though against a fierce sun. "Before I met you," she asked with a certain delicacy, "did you sort of . . . fall down? Maybe on your head?" | Tad Williams | ||
| 93befef | I hope not, but hope makes a flimsy armor, | Tad Williams | ||
| deee9e2 | Never make your home in a place," the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. "Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it--memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things." Morgenes had grinned. "That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home--unless you lose your head, of course . . ." | Tad Williams | ||
| 91c4cd7 | For fortune delights to strike down those who are too high and to raise those who are low; and if we do not anticipate trouble, should it come, we shall face it with greater fortitude. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 8f38436 | think the Princess should read the New Testament both night and morning, and also certain selected portions of the Old Testament. She must become fully conversant with the gospels. She should, I believe also study Plutarch's Enchiridion, Seneca's Maxims, and of course Plato and Cicero." He glanced at his friend. "I suggest that Sir Thomas More's Utopia would provide good reading." | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 4e7dd7d | his lips. "I fear, Mama, that I am not. But I am innocent in this case." | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 4c4b353 | Yet a simple ceremony in an English church, with no jewels, no brilliant company, no crown, could have made her the happiest woman in the world, providing the right man had shared that ceremony with her. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 368a868 | Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them. | children | Jean Plaidy | |
| 0eab8ca | Only by judging the Borgias against their own times can they arouse our sympathy, and only if they arouse our sympathy can they be understood. Below | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 070f598 | I no longer fight, I accept. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 351923c | all greatness must first take its shape in dreams. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| d079f1a | In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The" | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 3963dbe | To love was the greatest adventure life had to offer; but to love was to suffer. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 4b259b4 | Vale la pena luchar por la libertad; vale la pena pagar un alto precio por ella, porque morir por la libertad es dejar esta vida en un derroche de gloria que destruye nuestras debilidades del pasado y nos vuelve uno con los heroes | queen-elizabeth-i | Jean Plaidy | |
| a221873 | sisters and brothers should never quarrel; they must always stand together against the rest of the world if need be. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| 55e39ef | before the | Jean Plaidy | ||
| d655b9f | Harris's basic arguments are hardly original, but they have an unfortunate pedigree. For more than three hundred years, from the French philosophes to Marx, Lenin, and the "death of God" theologies of the 1960s, we have been assured that, freed from the superstitions and imbecilities of organized religion, rational secularists could make the world into a utopia. The results have invariably been horrific--from the Terror of the French Revolu.. | Robert J. Hutchinson | ||
| 2cc67b9 | Eles amaldicoam e proibem as minhas palavras todos os dias e todos os seus pensamentos sao para me fazer mal... vigiam cada passo que dou, como podem conduzir a minha alma para uma armadilha... obstruem o meu caminho, para que nao consiga escapar. | Robert Hutchinson | ||
| 676fa0e | Zeeland coastal towns of Flushing and Sluys against the Spanish, to | Robert Hutchinson | ||
| 1d1f1ac | I put my chin on my chest. I was afraid to look at any of the people who were watching us. My lips kept moving without making sounds: Please stop, please stop, everyone's watching. . . . But at the same time I was thinking, Good for you, Mama, good for you. What courage--to scream in front of the whole restaurant. Poor Daddy. Good for you, Mama. | Gene Wilder | ||
| 12b73ec | There is one strange irony that I haven't told you. One April afternoon, three weeks before she died, Gilda walked up to me in our living room and said, "I have a title for you, 'Kiss Me Like a Stranger' . . . maybe you can use it some day." I had no idea why she said it or what the title meant; I just thanked her." | Gene Wilder | ||
| edda1fc | When I walked out of the movie theater I started thinking about my second-grade teacher, Miss Bernard, who used to put up paintings from almost all of the other boys and girls in my class on the classroom walls--paintings that she considered worthy--but she never put up one of mine. She never told me why or gave me an encouraging word, but I got the message: "You're no good at art, Jerry." | Gene Wilder |