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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9b21b6b | It is one of the most annoying aspects of conspiracy that it compels one to blunder about the streets at night. I got lost several times trying to find the house of Laeca, and it is always embarrassing to have to pound on doors and ask directions. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| bb9d1db | I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO A good year. I always surveyed each new year with optimism, and events almost always proved my outlook mistaken. This year was to be no exception. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| d18c265 | Don't bother trying to tell me you're unbribable. You are a Greek, after all." "Do I look like I need money?" he asked. "I've already paid for my funeral, and I've bought a very decent tomb for my family out on the Via Tiburtina." "Everybody needs money!" Hermes protested. "Not necessarily," I said. "However, I shall be praetor next year, and very few men never need a favor, if not for themselves, then for some family member. How about it, .. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 7284581 | ROME AWOKE TO THE GREAT, collective hangover of the day after Saturnalia. All over the city hundreds of thousands of bleary eyes opened, the merciless light of morning pierced through them, and a vast groan ascended unto Olympus. Patrician and plebeian, slave and freedman, citizen and foreigner, all were afflicted and were half certain that Pluto had them by the ankle and was dragging them toward the yawning abyss; and, on the whole, they v.. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 7f6dbbd | Lowest of all were bankers and auctioneers, who made money without actually producing anything--activities that, to right-thinking people, had the aspect of a species of magic. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| cffde40 | The Sublician is the oldest of our bridges, although it has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. The very name refers to the heavy timbers of which it was once built, but the present bridge is of stone. For many generations it was the only bridge over the Tiber at Rome, because the Etruscans lived on the other bank, and Rome was strong enough to defend only one bridge at a time. The most famous story concerning the bridge is the one ab.. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 6521758 | Some men care only about power. That's Caesar. He wants to accomplish things and he has to have power to do so, so he has pursued power with a single-mindedness as I've never seen. It makes him uncomfortable to be around. I prefer a brute sensualist like Antonius. He wants power, but that's just so he can accumulate more wealth and more women and wine and food and houses. Power to him means things he can taste and feel. To Caesar'--I shrugg.. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 250cdeb | Pugilism is the silliest of all combat arts. It consists of taking the human hand, with its multitude of tiny, frangible bones, and smashing it against the human skull, a most unyielding target. | John Maddox Roberts | ||
| 18f05c7 | They're so obsessed with living to impress that they've forgotten to be alive. | Sean McMullen | ||
| cad9a11 | The beating soon had Laurelene nearly senseless. The carbineer began to tear away her hempcloth robe and when she tried to crawl away he dragged her back and punched her face until she lay unresisting, her legs bare and apart. He's done this before, so this is what it's like to be violated, she thought as he settled down on top of her with a long, shuddering sigh. Anything, anything, just no more beating, she thought, her eyes closed. | learned-helplessness powerlessness rape sexual-violence violated | Sean McMullen | |
| 78ba4c3 | and ... Love life! Too many people would rather be dead than be embarrassed or soiled. That is very foolish. Life is a brilliant and wonderful adventure. Never throw it away, and never hide from it. | life-quotes pride prideful survival survive uplifting-quotes | Sean McMullen | |
| c98f418 | We are commanded by fools and incompetents. | incompetent-person leadership | Sean McMullen | |
| a79680b | War is the way that gods breed cowards, | Sean McMullen | ||
| d4594e2 | The art of exorcising machines has been lost for so long that we have not a single book of prayers and ceremonies concerning it. | Sean McMullen | ||
| 6fb23e6 | There will be challenges." "So? Do what I do: shoot them." | Sean McMullen | ||
| ac8d2ca | If you waste only one year out of your lifetime, and that to please your father, the wastage is very small," said Tully." | Leonard Wibberley | ||
| 69e246d | Mandy Grunwald, the mysterious media consultant long immortalized in Clinton lore dating back to 1992, suggested Hillary do a sit-down interview with someone friendly, Robin Roberts, maybe. Hillary could explain that she'd done it for convenience and a lot of the emails were about Chelsea's wedding and yoga and planning her mother Dorothy Rodham's funeral. It would all be so relatable. | Amy Chozick | ||
| ac87bed | Neglect is usually better classified as child maltreatment defined by poverty rather than maltreatment caused by poverty. The main reason child protection services deal primarily with poor families is because of the way child maltreatment is defined. The child welfare system is designed to detect and punish neglect on the part of poor parents and to ignore most middle-class and wealthy parents' failings. Although the meaning of child maltre.. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| 9981575 | In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass an involuntary sterilization law, empowering state institutions to sterilize, without consent, criminals and "imbeciles" whose condition was "pronounced unimprovable" by a panel of physicians." | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| ad82f6d | Wreak Havoc- Skylar Grey A Little Party Never Killed Nobody- Fergie Gangsta- Kehlani You Don't Own Me- Grace Bonnie and Clyde- Kellie Pickler Kill of the Night- Gin Wigmore I Feel a Sin Comin' On- Pistol Annies Raise Hell- Dorothy Renegade Runaway- Carrie Underwood Black Widow- Iggy Azalea Hard Out Here- Lily Allen Fix- Chris Lane Make Me Wanna Die- Pretty Reckless Natalie- Bruno Mars Grenade- Bruno Mars Criminal- Fiona Apple Hunter- Ella F.. | A. Zavarelli | ||
| 9ce1fd7 | Dorothy Sayers challenged the thought of many nay-sayers of her time who claimed that doctrinal preaching led to boredom and a lack of interest. She wrote: Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as bad press. We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine--"dull dogma," as people call it. The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that make.. | Robert Smith Jr. | ||
| ec22e8f | Who was that came up the lane with you, Anne?" | Anne of Green Gables | ||
| 0ef6e20 | probably the most enduring rumor about Los Alamos, no doubt prompted by Dorothy's scavenging scarce baby clothes and cribs for new mothers on the Hill, was that it was a home for pregnant WACs. | Jennet Conant | ||
| ebc1163 | You can't tell what a warrior looks like. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 489706f | McCoy. It was also pretty clear | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| cb9eb44 | But I hate to ask my men to go through the inconvenience | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| c782434 | be pleased to have you join | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| bd7d6c2 | A good soldier goes where he is told to go, and does what he is told to do, and he smiles. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 7aeb6c8 | McInerney said. Weston looked at him in confusion. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| da91383 | personally, | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 16bf342 | ambassador, but knew nothing beyond that. The first impression Frade had of Ambassador | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 0b64bcd | Consequently, if we should get lucky | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 5ecc210 | Modem. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 04265ab | senior officer presumed to be a better judge of | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| d6ac7b1 | and quickly smoothed down. He checked | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 22049df | Six) 160 | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 0df297b | But he just knew how to fly. All they had to do was explain to him what the propeller was doing, spinning around like that. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 6fba118 | Diana Gabaldon's Series Order | Listastik | ||
| e3677b6 | Makin atoll before the arrival of the Nautilus. At 2100 hours the patrol craft was released as escort and the Nautilus got underway to rendezvous with the Argonaut off Makin Atoll. (Three) | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| d4af138 | Patricia Cornwell's Series Order Fern Michael's Series Order Robert Ludlum's Series Order Harlan Coben's Series Order Terry Pratchett's Series Order J.A. Jance's Series Order Tom Clancy's | Listastik | ||
| 964b2b4 | expend." "Yes," | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| b16fc58 | better to remain mute and thought the fool than to speak and confirm it. Again. | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| dcec75c | know," McCoy said. But he didn't protest" | W.E.B. Griffin | ||
| 2bb5c2b | When you really get serious about some female, Clete, take a good look at her mother. That's what your beloved will look like in twenty, thirty years. | W.E.B. Griffin |