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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 37a47ed | the sweetness had gone so quickly from her | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 32cb7a9 | Maybe he was. Maybe he had something to smile about these days. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 34bd464 | tiddled. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 35e7fb9 | For Ben, watching the bad guys blow up buildings and try to shoot down airliners just never got old. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 9e017bb | Our eighty-year-old bookkeeper slash office manager. I love Miss Joyce to pieces, but I seriously doubt she's interested in starting a new relationship. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 1650d81 | something?" "Relax," Lizzie said. "Granny never mentioned it. But she kept a scrapbook. She clipped all the newspaper articles about the disappearance of ... what was his name again?" "Russell Strickland." As Josephine whispered the name, she" | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 05400ba | Christian name hell! I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson! | character-quotes choices-based-on-acceptance quoting-books street-literature urban urban-fiction | Donald Goines | |
| 249074c | My interest in reading novels of various fiction was roused at a very early age. And the thought-provoking storylines of the great Donald Goines had been included in my very first library collection. ("Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1," 2018)" | cat-ellington donald-goines quotes reading reading-books reviews-by-cat-ellington | Cat Ellington | |
| 19a29be | It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same. | regret regrets | Sang-Sun Park | |
| 7365b3a | I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11) | Richard A. Posner | ||
| eae8c4d | The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18 | Richard A. Posner | ||
| 27f600a | Marcuse also believed that sexuality was a political., an ideological, category, not found but made. | Richard A. Posner | ||
| 0b3aab7 | Italian reporters uncovered evidence that the Vatican had invested in Istituto Farmacologico Serono, a pharmaceutical company that made birth control pills, as well as Udine, a military weapons manufacturer (there were also unconfirmed newspaper reports of church money in gunmaker Beretta, a Monte Carlo casino, and a printing firm that published pornographic magazines). | Gerald Posner | ||
| 8f09005 | Bordoni and his wife fled to Venezuela, where he used some of the stolen money to buy a $3 million home and citizenship.103 | Gerald Posner | ||
| 68ccc82 | I can tell you that I have taken all the names I have found in the newspapers and looked them up myself. I didn't find a single one of these names. This Mafia boss, this politician, Osama bin Laden. None of them have accounts here, nor are they delegates to accounts. | Gerald Posner | ||
| a459bef | The result was a remarkable December 30 decree that gave the Vatican its first ever anti-money laundering law, set to go into effect the following April 1.27 "The Prevention and Countering of Illegal Activities in the Area of Monetary and Financial Dealings" was issued as a motu proprio, a document historically signed personally by the Pope. Benedict took full responsibility for the decision." | Gerald Posner | ||
| b9d379b | Ratzinger was afraid to intervene on a deadlocked Roman Curia, with reformers on one side, and the money changers on the other," wrote author Gianluigi Nuzzi. "So he decided to create a clean slate by bowing out and paving the way for the election of a strong Pope."34" | Gerald Posner | ||
| 2b5c18e | In exchange for some wide-ranging modifications demanded by the socialist government to the church's 1929 concordat, Italy agreed to underwrite the remainder of the $406 million settlement.53 The changes to the concordat would have once been unthinkable. The church dropped its insistence that Roman Catholicism be the state religion. Moving forward, the state had to confirm church-annulled marriages. Parents were given the right to opt their.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| c8a419d | Thirty-four companies--many of them still household names today, like Krupp, AEG Telefunken, Siemens, Bayer, and IG Farben--made fortunes from the tortured labor of Jews, Russians, Poles, some Allied prisoners of war, and German prisoners of conscience. | Gerald Posner | ||
| a553930 | Gianluigi Nuzzi, the author of the 2009 book that precipitated the string of events from Caloia's exit to the motu proprio, expressed the feelings of many Vaticanologists: "A few years ago, an anti-money-laundering law in the Vatican and the Holy See would have been unthinkable. They used to say, 'We're a sovereign state; these are our affairs.' The important thing is that they created an anti-money-laundering law and an authority to enforc.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 510368e | Castillo Lara believed it might not be possible to demolish the parallel IOR without making the Vatican Bank crash in on itself. At every turn, he adeptly blocked Caloia's efforts to make the bank more transparent.66 Some reformers meanwhile suspected that the cardinal was more than just an obstacle to reform. They thought the powerful APSA boss was the source of press leaks that made it appear that it was Caloia's team that had failed to r.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| b2d3b40 | Late that autumn a Venezuelan attorney, Alberto Jaime Berti, cooperated with Italian magistrates in return for immunity from prosecution on charges that the IOR was at the center of laundering several hundred million dollars through Swiss and Panamanian banks on behalf of a handful of senior Opus Dei officials.72 The Italian media reported that Berti fingered De Bonis as his Vatican Bank connection and produced dozens of documents with the .. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 08b5e60 | It took the OSS nearly two years after the IOR's formation before it stumbled across intelligence that Hitler's Reichsbank was transferring money to the Vatican and disguising its origin by using a Swiss bank as an intermediary.62 | Gerald Posner | ||
| d160fbb | In World War II, Pius XII's silence helped protect a complex web of interlocking business interests with the Third Reich, relationships that yielded significant profits for the Vatican. In some cases they are dealings the Church has denied to this day. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 893ce5a | As in 1917, the drift towards authoritarian government under Putin was enabled by the weakness of the middle classes and public institutions in post-Soviet Russia. Subjected | Orlando Figes | ||
| a400e6d | Case Closed, de Gerald Posner; Legend, de Edward Jay Epstein (una chifladura a lo Robert Ludlum, pero divertida); Oswald: un misterio americano, de Norman Mailer; y Mrs. Paine's Garage, de Thomas Mallon. El ultimo ofrece un brillante analisis de los teoricos de la conspiracion y su necesidad de encontrar | Stephen King | ||
| 1f20e5d | Play, don't pray" was the mantra for some, who according to the insiders included dinner parties of clerics and male prostitutes that ended in nights of drugs and sex." | Gerald Posner | ||
| 94c8c21 | common | Gerald Posner | ||
| fb8cad1 | A Catholic family had hidden a Jewish boy from the Nazis, and had learned that the Germans had murdered the child's parents. They brought the youngster to Wojtyla and asked him to baptize the child. In contrast to Pope Pius IX and his abductions and forced baptisms of two Jewish boys, Wojtyla refused. The boy should be raised Jewish in the tradition of his parents, Wojtyla told the parents. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 5e4d721 | Dick Clark was pleased with the group's success, but he was also happy to be rid of them. They had kept many of the other acts awake by practicing late at night on the bus, and Diane Ross had too many fights with other artists. Once, Ross had a spat with Brenda Holloway, who she thought had taken her can of hair spray. Another fight was with the Crystals' Delores Brooks, whom Diane accused of stealing a pair of her shoes. Their shouting got.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 2dace25 | The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had authorized the study.92 It concluded that 95 percent of American dioceses had at least one complaint of a sexual assault by a priest against a minor (the authors did not count incidents before 1950).93 During the five-plus decades, 4,392 priests had been accused of abusing 10,667 children, a figure that in some years was as high as 10 percent of all priests.94 At least 143 were serial molesters wh.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 773f304 | In 2009, Benedict faced a firestorm after he lifted the excommunication of Richard Williamson, a British bishop based in Buenos Aires.61 Bertone, who oversaw Williamson's vetting, had apparently not even Googled him. If he had, he would have discovered an interview the bishop gave only three days before to Swedish television, in which he said about the Holocaust: "I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against six million Jews hav.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| eea8865 | This was one of the most revealing scenes of the whole revolution - one of those rare episodes when the hidden relations of power are illuminated on the surface of events and the broader course of history becomes clear. | Orlando Figes | ||
| e5edf08 | For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as 'Soviet', the 1990s were little short of a catastrophe. They lost everything: a familiar way of life; an economic system that guaranteed security; an ideology that gave them moral certainties, perhaps even hope; a huge empire with superpower status and an identity that covered over ethnic divisions; and national pride in Soviet achievem.. | Orlando Figes | ||
| 831a801 | According to a poll of 2005, 42 per cent of the Russian people, and 60 per cent of those over 60 years of age, wanted the return of a 'leader like Stalin'. | Orlando Figes | ||
| d335e47 | is generally supposed that Conservatives are old people, and that those in favour of change are the young. That is not quite correct. Usually Conservatives are young people: those who want to live but who do not think about how to live, and have not time to think, and therefore take as a model for themselves a way of life that they have seen. Thus it was with Eugene. Having settled in the village, his aim and ideal was to restore the form o.. | Orlando Figes | ||
| e85ec89 | As we try to learn from the past, we form patterns of thinking based on our experiences, not realizing that the things that happened have an unfair advantage over the things that didn't. | Ed Catmull | ||
| ebef217 | Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet | Tony Horwitz | ||
| cac24eb | When a bad thing happens, people will draw conclusions that might include conspiracy or forces acting against them or, conversely, if a good thing happens, that they are brilliant and deserving. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 7cf30ed | Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love. | Beneficence | ||
| 1fbb1db | Answer me, little one. Knowing what we are, would you have sent me to eternal darkness?" She made a supreme effort to get herself under control. A part of her still could not believe this was happening. A part of her struggled to understand and be fair. "I told you I could accept you, even love you as you are, Mikhail. And I meant that then. The same is true now." She was so weak, she could hardly speak. "I know you're a good man, there is .. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 2e1ad25 | Of course the Bengalis have been extremely difficult to govern throughout their history. | Bengalis | ||
| 38a56f9 | When looking to hire people, give their potential to grow more weight than their current skill level. What they will be capable of tomorrow is more important than what they can do today. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 6fc9801 | My view was that we were all so far from achieving our goal that to hoard ideas only impeded our ability to get to the finish line. | Ed Catmull |