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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3f632bf | A NATION'S STRENGTH What makes a nation's pillars high And its foundations strong? What makes it mighty to defy The foes that round it throng? It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand Go down in battle shock; Its shafts are laid on sinking sand, Not on abiding rock. Is it the sword? Ask the red dust Of empires passed away; The blood has turned their stones to rust, Their glory to decay. And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown Has seemed to nati.. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| ec46f0a | True manliness is about the determination to act according to a noble definition of what it means to be a man. This is within the reach of every man, no matter how he looks or sounds. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| cca99c6 | SOMEONE ONCE TRIED TO SUMMARIZE A PRINCIPLE IN Aristotle's epic work Poetics with these words: "Action is character." Now Aristotle was describing the elements of drama when he wrote his Poetics, so he didn't necessarily mean what I mean here. Still, his basic premise is true: we know what a person's character is by what he does." | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| e42c896 | NOTHING GREAT WILL EVER BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT GREAT MEN, AND MEN ARE GREAT ONLY IF THEY ARE DETERMINED TO BE SO. FOR GLORY GIVES HERSELF ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALWAYS DREAMED OF HER." --Charles De Gaulle, from The Army of the Future (Vers l'armee de metier), 1941" | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 1146279 | Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. --Helen Keller, from The Open Door (1957) | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 279c2b9 | HAVING THUS CHOSEN OUR COURSE, WITHOUT GUILES AND WITH PURE PURPOSE, LET US RENEW OUR TRUST IN GOD, AND GO FORWARD WITHOUT FEAR AND WITH MANLY HEARTS." --Abraham Lincoln, Address to Congress, July 4, 1861" | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 5acea3d | In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle said, "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 0ec42a2 | Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 2112c0a | Churchill wrote, "In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing." | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| bc3bad3 | Charlemagne's support for brewing enhanced an already vibrant Christian beer culture in the medieval church, one that is difficult to exaggerate. An example comes to us from a letter that Pope Gregory wrote to Archbishop Nidrosiensi of Iceland. In it, Gregory describes how some children in the medieval period were baptized not with holy water but with beer. This was likely because beer was cleaner than water and for the baptizing priest it .. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| c444c71 | That's why you brought me here, isn't it? You knew I wouldn't fu*k her." "I suspected. It was a gamble. If you'd touch her, I would have known that you wern't in love with Kimber." | Shayla Black | ||
| d332f4a | sedan, | Shayla Black | ||
| 8fd5457 | Hunter found the edge of the sink to lean against; watching her mind hunt and wrestle the issue with a strategic defense against the danger to the pack was making it really hard to focus. It was so damned sexy to witness that he could barely breathe. | girl-power lovers not-intimidated real-love respecting-others soldier-girls strong-women | L.A. Banks | |
| 9b9467c | The next hour, nothing happened. The fourth compound stayed closed up tight. I started to get bored. I started to wish the hobo hadn't left. We could have chatted awhile. Then I saw the third truck of the day come heading in. I raised the field glasses and saw California plates. Same type of truck, dirty red color, rumbling in off the highway, heading for the end compound. It went through a different routine from the first two. It went in t.. | Lee Child | ||
| 640c3a7 | the many hours Amy and I spent there, she sitting on the bank reading from a book of poems or some dreary political stuff, me with my skirt off and my drawers rolled up, wading in the water. Me turning over stones to see what was under them, she begging me not to eat what I found. The scavenging orphan in me does die hard, I must admit, and I know that sometimes I am a scandal to other, more well-bred people--in this and other ways. "All" | L.A. Meyer | ||
| 1f762d0 | Those pricks down the hall, flying high above it all on this hillside, they're the kind of people whose faces end up on money or a new library so that kids will have a new place to hang out while realizing that no one ever taught them how to read. Their wealth doesn't insulate them from the world. It creates it. Their bank statements read like Genesis. Let there be light and let a thousand investment banks bloom. They shit cancer, and when .. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 9a5442b | Respect for the environment, and respect for what was naturally occurring in nature: that was the bedrock of all original peoples. Harmony, coexistence, not conquest and conquer. | ecosystem harmony inspirational-quotes native-american-wisdom peace | L.A. Banks | |
| f674974 | reached into the closet, his broad shoulders framed in the doorway. "I have plenty. But, the thing is, I don't know anything about this deposit in his bank account. What do you make of that?" "No idea." Jo opened the middle drawer in the stand next to the bed. There" | L.A. Dobbs | ||
| 723cf2f | Tu hai gli occhi irlandesi, ragazzo mio. Un giorno vedrai con occhi che non sono i tuoi, sentirai con il cuore di un'altra persona. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 02f4fd8 | He reached out, ran his finger down the fine, ultra-smooth flesh of her cheek and knew he had never touched anything so soft. The memory of her pretty pink lips forming those words had his lips quirking. He leaned close, feathered her hair from her ear and whispered, "Never dare me." She jackknifed in the bed. Her eyes flew open, and a scream of pure terror erupted from her lips with such a suddenness that he couldn't counter it. He cursed.. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 655138d | Your girl needs to be spanked, Lance. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 06f27f5 | You have a claim on her, Jacobs? I think I might like to keep her. | keep-her | Lora Leigh | |
| 2182c45 | If we were perfect, we'd be Wolves, right? | perfect wolves | Lora Leigh | |
| cbd8e29 | Never dare a Coyote. Ever. It was a law, even the council knew to never dare them. They always accepted a dare. They always triumphed. | dare | Lora Leigh | |
| ac1027c | I love you, Coya," he whispered. "Live for me, baby. Live for me. Because I can't live without you." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 90c85b8 | What did you do to me?" Her fists clenched at her side. "I don't know." He shook his head wearily. "Whatever it is, I did it to myself as well." | mating-heat | Lora Leigh | |
| d95288a | just walked away. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 376b870 | Malachi had warned her that a Breed, once certain that the woman he wanted was drawn to him, could only be turned away if he knew the object of his lust, his affection, or whatever they called it, if her objections were stronger than her need. Breeds didn't force the sexual aspects, they didn't stalk, nor did they harass. They charmed, cajoled and teased. They built the hunger and the need until their potential lovers fell willingly into th.. | Lora Leigh | ||
| e626570 | Your boss has no doubt had me so thoroughly investigated that the lot of you know the last time I masturbated." She didn't even flush as she made the statement. Innocence, sensuality and pure bravado. Damn, she should have been born a Breed. "The masturbating part we're actually uncertain of," he stated with a grin. "But next time you go there I wouldn't mind an invitation to join you." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 2442148 | He touched her cheek, his throat tightening as he fought past the confusion, the disbelief that this woman could love him. That God, in all his bountiful mercy, had finally adopted him and given him this gift he never though he could have. | Lora Leigh | ||
| f2263d6 | There's a fine line that divides pleasure and pain," he told her as he removed the butt plug from the tray, and the tube of lubricant. "It's so slim, that if went about the right way, the pain adds to the pleasure, in a dark erotic manner." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 3e41708 | Do you think I wouldn't protect you? That where I took you I would allow you to be in any danger? | Lora Leigh | ||
| d483035 | All he has to do is listen to the animal inside him. All he has to do is find his mate, and protect her." She blinked back at him. "Who is his mate?" "Fawn," Stygian said softly behind her. "Son of a bitch, that's why he's so enraged. She's his mate. The bastard isn't feral, he's in mating heat." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 9d69e52 | a grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 50280b1 | Loving you, Tess," he promised. "With everything I have. With all I am, I love you." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 9535791 | the agency? Had his own sexuality been influenced by something more | Lora Leigh | ||
| 962e9d4 | a grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents. They | Lora Leigh | ||
| a41be1b | Maybe it's hungry," she suggested, her voice low but definitely goading now. "Do you keep kitty kibble around?" Silence" | Lora Leigh | ||
| f29ae67 | And this is the most gorgeous ass in the world," he growled. "I almost started collecting panties for you, but somehow that just struck me as obsessive, don't you think?" She shook her head. "Good, then you won't be surprised when I pull out the few pairs I collected for you, no more than a few dozen, and ask you to wear them for me. Silk and satin and lace so delicate it's no more than a whisper against your flesh. I'll come just thinking.. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 4bb2bf1 | Blind obedience was never what I wanted. Yet, you seem determined to keep us in the past, where every act, every response, is either black or white, when you know damned good and well our lives never existed on such a plane. | Lora Leigh | ||
| be6a563 | through | Lora Leigh | ||
| 99a206f | rippling response stroking over his cock. | Lora Leigh | ||
| e9dead0 | He had whispered the dark promise that he would fuck her ass, take her there, make her scream for him. She bit her lips, her fingers moving, one inserting into that tiny, dark hole while she wished she hadn't packed her vibrator so quickly. | Lora Leigh | ||
| b199f9d | At its base, the male, whether human, animal or Breed, has a core nature equal to that of a sullen child denied a favored treat. And the male can react accordingly-- | Lora Leigh |