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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 16db633 | Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant." - First Chaplain Erebus" | the-black-library the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| 1690140 | Sam Altman is the current president of Y-Combinator and was previously a founder at Loopt, which sold to Green Dot Corporation for $ 43M. As head of YC, Sam often dispenses an entire guide's worth of information through his blog. Sam's "Startup Playbook" will walk you through everything a great startup should have from ideation to product instantiation, and is an invaluable tool for aspiring venture investors. Additionally, Sam's been kind .. | Bradley Miles | ||
| 895a39e | Best in Print The Quiet American (Graham Greene) Classic novel set in the 1950s as the French empire is collapsing. The Sorrow of War (Bao Ninh) The North Vietnamese perspective, retold in novel form via flashbacks. Vietnam: Rising Dragon (Bill Hayton) A candid, highly insightful assessment of the nation. Catfish & Mandala (Andrew X Pham) Beautifully written and thought-provoking biographical tale of a Vietnamese-American who returns to his.. | Lonely Planet | ||
| d28790e | All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! Ducks' tails, drakes' tails, Yellow feet a-quiver, Yellow bills all out of sight Busy in the river! Slushy green undergrowth Where the roach swim--Here we keep our larder, Cool and full and dim. Everyone for what he likes! We like to be Heads down, tails up, Dabbling free! High in the blue above Swifts whirl and call--We are down a-dabbling Uptails all! | Kenneth Grahame | ||
| afdd655 | Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107] | life | Graham Greene | |
| 47e9b46 | the Mirror * The Green Flash * Cameo * | Winston Graham | ||
| d329e28 | You're right, Mal, you and Erebus both. My father made me for immortality and the galaxy should know of me. Ten thousand years from now I want my name to be known all across the heavens." - Warmaster Horus" -- | the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| 052c001 | When we turn from one brother, we turn from them all." "Even when they have made a terrible mistake?" "Even then. We all make mistakes, lad. We need to appreciate them for what they are - lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, of course, but at least someone else can learn from ." | the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| fb9e9ee | The truth is useless if no one can hear it. | the-black-library the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| 9f1ec58 | When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen. ... That there will be something solid to stand on or you'll be taught to fly." - Warmaster Horus" | the-black-library the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| b7e447e | I have no trouble with my enemies, Miss Vivar. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my so-called allies, my damned allies, they're the ones who keep me walking the floors at night." - Warmaster Horus" | the-black-library the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| ba1badc | I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure. If being an iterator has taught me anything, it's that men of words - priests, prophets and intellectuals - have played a more decisive role in history than any mi.. | the-black-library the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| e45d9ac | You may think your tribute is paid in secret in the recesses of your heart, but it will out. We are a curious species when it comes to worship. The things that dominate our imagination determine our lives and our character. Therefore it behoves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." - Kyril Sindermann" | the-black-library the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| 3213fd3 | History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus" | the-black-library the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| 60aec41 | She is irrelevant." "Irrelevant? No one is irrelevant." "There's truth in that. But some are less relevant than others." | the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| 6f64610 | The headsman's axe knows not where it is to fall. It is simply a weapon directed by the hand of another." - Ahzek Ahriman" | the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| e9ccf6f | The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Ahzek Ahriman" | the-horus-heresy | Graham McNeill | |
| 1352f6c | Kallie entered through from the livery yard, to the right of the group. She carried the bantha prod from the Jabe incident, the latest in a series of items she was returning to the tack room in her ongoing effort to see Ben. She saw her dashing hero, all right--standing uneasily, with Veeka perched lasciviously on the counter with a leg on either side of him. | John Jackson Miller | ||
| ec01c40 | Apple Cider Vinegar and Circulation Many people also drink apple cider vinegar to improve circulation in their body. Apple cider vinegar is often touted as a natural cure for lower blood pressure and improved circulation, and you already know the benefits with regards to diabetes. Our circulation becomes poor as we get older, which can cause numerous problems. You can prevent this slow down with a daily supplement of apple cider vinega.. | Ben Night | ||
| 654461e | Every Wednesday Angela Belle came to town. And every Wednesday Dr. Montgomery "accidentally" ran into her. That Doc sat by the diner window for thirty minutes picking at a piece of pie until she rounded the corner did not go unnoticed. "Never seen a man so whupped," the Sheriff said, rolling a toothpick from one side of his mouth to the other. "Got him by the short hairs," Willie concurred. Naturally, every man in town thought Doc was gett.. | hooked southern | Paula Wall | |
| dfc38e9 | Pissed off by the lies, misrepresentations, and outright horseshit, I decided it was time to strike back. It was time to reclaim the Constitution. Besides, if the Righties were wrong about everything else--like health care, climate change, and the corporate tax rate--they had to be wrong about the Constitution. First, I did my homework. I read the Constitution and the amendments; perused The FederalistV and Madison's notes taken during the .. | Ed Asner | ||
| 6d4b2d6 | change my conviction. | Greg Iles | ||
| c3f9095 | I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way. | Greg Iles | ||
| 7adcca7 | There was a list, Kimberley imagined, and in an obscure subsection of that list, a section that had not been properly updated since George Bush was President, | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| af97aa4 | Sited a third of the way up Dartmouth Park Hill, it had obviously been designed by a keen admirer of Albert Speer, particularly his later work on the monumental fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 4d3a45e | Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the 'London once-over' - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 0f049e2 | Even at ten o'clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. 'What I'm saying here,' Seawoll had said, 'is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.' I don't know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don't | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 1f714e1 | By this point I was eager to emulate Guleed and merge unobtrusively with the imitation French farmhouse fittet cupboard and counter unit behind me. | humor | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| f2504a8 | Archway is where the post-war dream of the urban motorway died in the teeth of local opposition and the inability of the designers to answer basic traffic management questions. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 3b9b193 | Boss," I said into my Airwave. "It's getting needlessly metaphysical out here." "Ignore" -- | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 1dedabe | but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 237ccd3 | from uni5 | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a6150d9 | culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| cca12b1 | Asbo | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| d707636 | I, Anna Maria de Burgh Coppinger Isis solemnly swear on | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 55848cd | I know it's hard, Peter," she'd said. "But if you could contain your erudition and ready wit for just a little while we'd be most grateful." "Am I allowed to be cheeky?" I'd asked. "No you're fucking not," said Seawoll. "I'm" | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| e25283c | Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f377eb9 | MUCH AS I love the Jag, it's too conspicuous for everyday police work. So that day I was driving a battered silver ex-Metropolitan Police Ford Asbo that, despite my best efforts, smelled vaguely of old stakeouts and wet dog. I | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| b1d6e11 | We should tell forensics that the murder weapon may be archaeological," I said. "Archaeological?" asked Seawoll. "Could be," I said. "Is that your professional opinion?" "Yes." | murder-weapon | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| c690c60 | One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner. | modern-architecture | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| f096e23 | Richmond won on points, but only because one of them had a flask full of coffee. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| af636ea | This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers who made 'one mistake' and are forced to pay for it for the rest of their lives. They want to know what you're doing about the real criminals, the rapists and the paedophiles. Who want to know why you're wasting resources on them when we should.. | moral-relativism | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 2e859a0 | So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear. So | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| e34093e | Vikings," said Lesley. "Precisely," said Nightingale. "Bloodthirsty, but surprisingly erudite in a limited fashion." Well" | Ben Aaronovitch |