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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6178158 | Peter speaks of a church at Babylon; Paul proposed a journey to Spain, and it is generally believed he went there, and likewise came to France and Britain. Andrew preached to the Scythians, north of the Black Sea. John is said to have preached in India, and we know that he was at the Isle of Patmos, in the Archipelago. Philip is reported to have preached in upper Asia, Scythia, and Phrygia; Bartholomew in India, on this side the Ganges, Phr.. | William Carey | ||
| 30e6330 | The camera observed me, but there was nothing in my bag except a pashmina, purse, and Lorazepam. I carried emptiness. Doors opened. Another camera recorded my progress. Doubtless there were thousands of my days repeated thus, interred digitally in limbo. I ascended two steps with nothing to look forward to, | Peter Carey | ||
| 011842f | One exhibition to which Tom Norman became particularly attached was his family of midgets. It consisted of two midgets, billed as man and wife and always brought into town in a specially constructed miniature coach drawn by ponies. In each town on the tour he made a point of closing the show down for a few days so as to allow the lady midget to 'give birth to her baby'. A new-born infant would then be hired to stand in for the hypothetical .. | Peter Ford | ||
| ae85f6e | Pritcha za peperudata: Biakh v Bogota i chakakh da doide edna moia priiatelka. Biakh vliuben, beshe predi mnogo-mnogo godini. Chakakh tseli tri dni. Biakh gladen, no ne smeekh da izliaza za khrana, da ne bi tia da doide, a men da me niama. I togava, na tretiia den, se pochuka. Spusnakh se po stariia koridor, no v'n, na sl'nchevata ulitsa, niamashe nikoi. - Samo - kaza Vins Dzhoi - edna peperuda otlitashe. | Питър-Кари | Peter Carey | |
| 32ded51 | Said he the fact of the matter is I am a rat charmer. Thats very nice but do you want the flour or not I can't stand here all day discussing it. I'll give you my two pennies said the old fellow and the benefit of my rat charming. I have no rats. Thats for me to know. What do you mean by that you stinky old galoot do you think I do not know my own house and what is in it? Never you mind what I mean my name is Kevin the Rat Charmer and that i.. | Peter Carey | ||
| 1039e7f | Democracy] is as without plans as it is without energy, as incapable of harm as it is incapable of good. It is powerless and passive. It lets society marcher tout seul without trying to direct it. Well, in the present state of affairs, it is perfect, no? In order to prosper? America does not need either leadership or deep-laid plans or great efforts, but liberty and still more liberty. The reason for this is that no one yet has any interest.. | Peter Carey | ||
| ac1a57c | Whenever we describe the genome we talk about it in very two-dimensional terms, almost like a railway track. Peter Fraser's laboratory at the Babraham Institute outside Cambridge has published some extraordinary work showing it's probably nothing like this at all. He works on the genes that code for the proteins required to make haemoglobin, the pigment in red blood cells that carries oxygen all around the body. There are a number of differ.. | Nessa Carey | ||
| 27eb06f | You're discussing recreational drugs?" He stood and shut the door and came back looking very serious indeed. I was chastened, as I should have been. "Sorry. What have I never minded about?" "Well, I have truthfully always imagined it was my talent, my gift to introduce my friends to each other. Not one I could ever use for my own happiness, I must say." | Peter Carey | ||
| d429a2d | Harry saw his death as if it was someone else's. He watched himself from outside his body and he wasn't scared at all... he found that he could slide between the spaces in the air itself. Ecstasy touched him. He was stroked by something that felt like trees, cool, green and leafy. It occurred to him that he died, and he got scared. He felt walls like membranes which shivered with pain and a sound, a terrible sound which promised meaningless.. | Peter Carey | ||
| fb358ea | I saw Frau Helga counting money in the stable. I saw the fair down on her arms. Once I dreamed I might kiss her. Long ago. I was at the stream washing, naked, teetering on razor shale which can amputate your toes. When Sumper touched my shoulder I jumped in fright. My private parts shrivelled like gizzards in a stockpot. He was armoured in his leather apron, a beak in his hand, but I did not know that then. He said, "You will have been resp.. | Peter Carey | ||
| 0ae547c | fulfilled with the grand opening there, on 3 September 1883, of the Gaiety Palace of Varieties. | Peter Ford | ||
| edb3eb4 | A mother can have no secrets in a settler's hut but she cannot so much as break wind and all her children must hear what she has done but now she were far away from Fifteen Mile Creek and no longer could I guess her life. I were told she took laundry and perhaps she did but I am sure she only did what she must do. She had a mother and father and brothers and sisters but in the end she were a poor widow and she had 7 children and all of them.. | Peter Carey | ||
| 417ced7 | So far as the facts in the case are concerned, Dr Howell and I had called our book a 'true' history. | Peter Ford | ||
| cf63910 | On October 11 Peter died. "Peter dead!" screamed Dolly. How much more could she suffer? William soon learned. It was not enough that there was no faithful Kitty there to comfort her in her grief - not friends of any kind in Mudnabati - but William himself was completely distracted by problems with the burial. For it seemed no one would help. "I can't get the carpenters at the plant to make us a coffin," William told Felix out of Dolly's hea.. | Sam Wellman | ||
| 34ac4f8 | And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with. | life pain | Mike Carey | |
| 8c49a4b | All Butcher's previous politeness was revealed as so much bad milk floating in a cup of welcome tea... | Peter Carey | ||
| bd8b481 | Joel was only twenty-six but there was about him the sense of something over-ripe and gone to seed. He was not tall, and not exactly fat. But once noticed, immediately, those large red lips, which hovered on that balancing point where sensuality becomes greed. His fleshy face was a trifle too smooth and the skin glistened like a suspect apple which had been waxed to give it extra sales appeal. | Peter Carey | ||
| eb0da4b | Sex makes a man dishonest with himself, as is well known. I feared the slippery ambiguity of false feeling, of expediency, of things not being exactly true. | Peter Carey | ||
| a338d72 | Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways. | peter-carey | Peter Carey | |
| 5243667 | He would never believe, in his wildest dreams ,that she no longer loved him. She had said it once, but he would dismiss these sorts of things as "temperament" or "wine" as if a bottle contained an infusion of foreign thoughts with which she had innocently poisoned herself." | Peter Carey | ||
| 20c4961 | She could see herself still blushing and he was looking at her with those big dark eyes, as if he knew. But that was a trick of his, not an intentional trick but a misleading sign. He saw nothing.It looked as if he could see everything and people always gave him credit for it. | Peter Carey | ||
| 37091c1 | At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man | Peter Carey | ||
| 92116d6 | He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience | don-t-hold-back no-holding-back performing please-like-me please-others selflessness | Peter Carey | |
| 4259b79 | People feel ashamed of being depressed, they feel they should snap out of it, they feel weak and inadequate. Of course, these feelings are symptoms of the disease. As far as the depressive being weak or inadequate, let me drop some names of famous depressives: Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud. Terry Bradshaw, Drew Carey, Billy Joel, T. Boone Pickens, J. K. Rowling, Brooke Shields, Mike Wallace. Charles .. | Richard O'Connor | ||
| 6bdbd8b | Another time, the souls of a husband and wife came through to validate their presence to their daughter with a very specific shtick. The dad had me yell, "Bingo!" at which point Mom's soul said, "They don't have bingo on TV. It's !" The daughter laughed so hard and said that game show was her parents' favorite. She used to call them when they were alive, and they'd say, "We need to call you back. The Big Deal is on right now!" When the dau.. | Theresa Caputo | ||
| fdbc2c3 | I went to him unhesitatingly. He drew me against him, his lean body clad in black velvet doublet and breeches, with the de Morhban crest on his shoulder. I felt the dark tide of desire loose in my marrow, as one hand clasped hard on my buttocks, pressing me to him, and the other grasped the nape of my neck, entangled in the mesh caul, drawing my head back. He kissed me, then, hard and ruthlessly. I had chosen this. For what had happened bef.. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 2a655ea | Lifting his head, Quincel de Morhban looked at me with something like awe. "It's true," he whispered. "What they say ... Kushiel's Dart. It's all true." "Yes, my lord," I murmured; if he'd told me the moon was locked in his stables, I'd have said the same, at that moment. De Morhban released me, turning away to pluck a great silvery rose, mindful of its thorns. "You see this?" he asked, placing it in my hand and folding my fingers about the.. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 2991ade | We can never add more truth to what is true already, nor make that true which is false. | Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle | ||
| 7ab8682 | The issuing city/region requires payment from each household of, say, 10 Civics/quarter... | Bernard Lietaer | ||
| b41c71c | Preserved pufferfish. Former flounders. Ex-eels. | lol | Sy Montgomery | |
| 3710d73 | Just about every animal," Scott says--not just mammals and birds--" can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy." Once you find the right way to work with an animal, be it an octopus or an anaconda, together, you can accomplish what even Saint Francis might have considered a miracle." | Sy Montgomery | ||
| f5c93c4 | As he did with the electric eels, Scott is trying to figure out a way to induce the toads to show themselves. How? "You need to get within the mind of the toad," he says." | Sy Montgomery | ||
| a9defe6 | Being friends with an octopus-whatever that friendship meant to her-has shown me that our world, and the worlds around and within it, is aflame with shades of brilliance we cannot fathom | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 31b58ab | teachers are all around to help you: with four legs or two or eight or even none; some with internal skeletons, some without. All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear their truths. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 8929539 | species from elephants to monkeys purposely eat fermented fruit to get drunk; dolphins were recently discovered sharing a certain toxic puffer fish, gently passing it from one cetacean snout to another, as people would pass a joint, after which the dolphins seem to enter a trancelike state.) | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 99330ee | voles make up 85 percent of the diet. (One feature of vole biology that inadvertently helps out hawks is that these rodents mark their territories with urine, which Scandinavian researchers recently discovered reflects ultraviolet light. Hawks can see UV light--and may well use the voles' territorial markings as signposts to the nearest restaurant.) | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 87446b0 | The Buddha denied the existence of persisting selves. At the end of life, the self may dissolve into eternity like salt in the ocean. To some, this might seem distressing. But to lose the lonely self in the ocean of eternity could also be a release, an enlightenment, as the mystics promise. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 500d814 | Rose and Ash were the kind of sickeningly cute couple that made Gin want to puke, especially when they acted all weird, doing things they thought were hilarious, but were just stupid as far she was concerned. Gin didn't know why Rose embarrassed herself in public like that. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 0eb14bf | Gin was smart enough to know if she had limited the party to just her girlfriends, it would be a very small one: namely her and Sandy. It's not that the girls at school didn't like Gin. It was more like they tolerated her. Not that Gin wasted any energy trying to be friends. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| c924892 | The weird part was that Gin kind of wanted the woman to suspect that something was going on. The best part of being up to no good is when people know you're up to no good, but can't do a thing about it. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 28fb88f | When Gin first told her she was going to throw a party, a Rainbow Party, Sandy's mind was full of Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. She knew it sounded odd, since Gin rarely liked childish things like that, even for their retro appeal. But Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake stuff were sold at Hot Topic next to Good Charlotte, Metallica and Iron Maiden. Sandy assumed that rainbows from the '70s were the new "in" thing." | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 085715d | Gin was always so calm around guys. Sandy wished some of that would rub off on her. Obviously, she didn't want all of Gin's habits to rub off, but a few of the useful ones might be nice. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 497d6f9 | Sandy was ready for a bit of excitement in her life too. She was tired of being treated like she was so immature, like she didn't know anything about boys or sex or anything. While it was true that she didn't have any experience, she was more than ready to learn. She was ready to say goodbye to Sandra Dee. At least, she thought she was. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| d3a5419 | On the surface, the Celibacy Club was one of the more contradictory groups at school. It was the kind of club where kids (mostly girls) would walk past the classroom a couple of times before they went inside for the meeting, as if they were embarrassed to join a club whose members proudly declared their intention to wait until marriage. | Paul Ruditis |