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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3acc391 | With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it. | epic-fantasy fantasy-fiction fiction light moon novel sun young-adult young-adult-fiction | Brian A. McBride | |
| ab66f51 | Martha, this hotel doesn't pay enough for you to play Wonder Woman. These fools look like they will stuff you in the trash compactor. Take that money, let these Negroes in that room, and stroll your ass down this hall like nothing happened. | Brian W. Smith | ||
| 0f965ae | He came to save sinners, to heal the sick, to preach the good news to the poor, and to live a common life hidden from his people for thirty years. He did not come to entertain kings and be served in palace dining halls. | Brian Kennelly | ||
| 9d6e0fb | As well as her benevolence toward the nation as a whole, a busy task, Salus also guards every individual. I was going to need her myself today. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 322444d | Any | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 0037588 | Aprender una lengua extrana: asimilas nociones de gramatica, vocabulario basico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante anos y de repente, sin saber por que, todo fluye, captas como funciona... | Lindsey Davis | ||
| bb61c85 | Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| eba560c | Petronius would take his free bread buns and run. I happened to know that since Petro had been elected to the watch he had never cast a vote. He believed a man on a public salary should be impartial. I didn't agree but I admired him being so stubborn in his eccentricities. Aufidius Crispus would be an unusual politician if he had allowed for such morality in the voters he was courting. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| feb65f2 | this was a solitary walk where the sun and the scents of wild flowers would act on a tortured mind like a soothing drug. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 6779670 | Spies have no sense of timing. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| d7283ad | We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 96fd6d2 | to scare them away. Wisely her thoughts around Ryder she kept to herself. When she'd finished speaking, Davy said, 'Well, firstly I have no doubt, from what you've told me, that someone did follow you home.' Lily sighed with relief that her husband believed her and didn't consider her to be foolish. 'Also, I wouldn't put it past Aunt Maud to do something like that. However, without being certain it was her, there's not much we can do. Even .. | Lindsey Hutchinson | ||
| 1708c47 | He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer. However, | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 261a578 | Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 16c0c34 | Curiosity is a terrible inducement. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 6afeff6 | Their work was undercover--yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 2ee28fa | Stevie thought that "Silver Springs" would be her dominant song on the new album; it couldn't fail. The only problem was that Lindsey hated the song. He said it was too much in his face, and he gave Stevie a very hard time about working on the song in the studio. To Lindsey Buckingham, "Silver Springs" was not a prophesy. It was a curse." | Steven Davis | ||
| ad1c0c9 | convey musically in her songs. Nobody else had this. As for Lindsey, he was angry about everything. He blamed Fleetwood Mac and the pressures of being in the band for the breakup with Stevie. He told his girlfriend Carol he didn't like Stevie, but he was still in love with her. Even decades later, he confessed to an interviewer: "I was devastated when she took off." | Steven Davis | ||
| f1d9b85 | legendary. 'Oh no! | Lindsey Davis | ||
| a304388 | Mathematics is a suspicious activity. All those hypotenuse drawings must be plans for assassination attempts. Algebra is treacherous code. When did you ever meet a student of infinitesimal calculus who didn't harbour rabid ambitions to rule the world? And anyone who tells you Archimedes was killed at the capture of Syracuse by a soldier who didn't know who he was, is ignorant of how military forces work. There will have been a secret order:.. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 9cd2d04 | the land. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 6737ad1 | By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antidote except moonbeams, and he would identify himself by etching a Greek letter onto the foreheads of all his victims as they twitched and gasped their last. The Omega Killer had been born, and it was my fault. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 47b5909 | In 1884, the American physician William Pancoast injected sperm from his "best-looking" student into an anesthetized woman--without her knowledge--whose husband had been deemed infertile. Nine months later, she gave birth to a healthy baby. Pancoast eventually told her husband what he had done, but the two men decided to spare the woman the truth. Pancoast's experiment remained a secret for twenty-five years. After his death in 1909, the do.. | Lindsey Fitzharris | ||
| fa4044f | Compose and perform your music free of egotism and with a conscious desire to gratify the listener. This conscious desire in time will become subconscious and a part of your natural way. Think of yourself as a channel through which the Divine strives to uplift mankind. What a privileged and honored position you have been placed in. Become aware of the good that you can do through your talents. Once you become aware and accept this responsib.. | Horace Silver | ||
| 1608d12 | Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will. | Bill O'Reilly (commentator) | ||
| aaba40a | And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called "karma." | Bill O'Reilly (commentator) | ||
| cf3341b | CNN has gone to the dark side. | Bill O'Reilly (commentator) | ||
| 5b8da15 | At the balls he took me to there were many beautiful young women who didn't say a word. They answered every question with a shrug or a smile. If champagne got spilt down their dresses they only sighed; when the full moon slid out from behind the castle they watched it in silence. I could not understand it. Had they sold their voices too? Even their bodies were silent, always upright, never loosening their lines. They walked like letters on .. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 0819403 | Love has failed us. We are essentially, irrevocably alone. Anything that seems to combat that loneliness is a trap-Love is a trap: | Shelby Foote | ||
| 6e0308b | She'd rouse me out of bed all hours of the night and I'd wait in the hall. They were mostly soldiers and sailors and merchant mariners, or businessmen down on convention. This is one lousy life, Mamma said, but I'm doing the best I can with what Ive got. I wish I could afford to send you to some kind of business school so you could learn to type.--She never did but I never blamed her. For one thing, she only turned the nicest ones over to m.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| b8df149 | So I had decided to do it the easy way. Make them believe he was insane and the scales would fall from their eyes; they would 'understand'; the fear, the hate would be gone, evaporated. "So thats it," they would say; "he's crazy. I knew it all along." They might even begin to pity and sympathize. Good old Hollywood Christianity: God's gift to the Defense." | Shelby Foote | ||
| 8160020 | Then one night at the very end of May he came home late with the smell of perfume on him. So thats it, I thought: after all these years. And I waited. Time after time I'd seen it happen to other men at such an age--a change of life: they get to thinking how much theyve missed, and they get scared. Just wait, I told myself, lying alone in bed those nights (it was June by then); it will play out on him soon enough. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 5eb34ce | It's true we have an affinity for evil. What she told me had occurred in an atmosphere much like that of Troilus and Cressida, in which the faithful are betrayed and the brave are slain. I was reminded of Emerson's "Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual." | Shelby Foote | ||
| ad9a6f5 | I told her the time to start worrying about a lawyer's fee was after he brought it up: which was a lie. Most people didnt pay them anyhow, I said: which at least was partly true, to a degree. | Shelby Foote | ||
| ca68e31 | That night I woke up hearing voices. They were driving some kind of bargain, in a whisper. I couldnt hear the words they said, but I found out next afternoon. Dont be scared now, Mamma said; he's just a big overgrown boy. Overgrown two hundred and forty-five pounds, I thought. All right, I said. And when she sent me to my room right after early supper, I found my gown already laid out on the bed, the new one with lace on the collar that she.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 62ed256 | Next morning at breakfast he paid Mamma four hundred dollars, cash on the table, for that one night. I watched him count the money out of his wallet, and while I watched I thought what a good thing it was I hadnt told even Mamma about the altar boys those times in the sacristy, behind the stacks of missals. All told, she got twelve hundred dollars for just the last three weeks of June, plus Pullman tickets for both of us back to New Orleans.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| ea4af62 | It came to Daffy then, how easily the worst in oneself could rise up and strike a blow. How even the most enlightened man had little power over his own darkness. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| c528976 | I heard a knocking in my skull, and kept running to the door, but there was never anyone there. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 89bc025 | The trial was two months off. The public was primed. Hardly a day went by that the Stevenson boy didnt run something in the paper. They ate it up. They were anxious to see the show--it's their only chance to see 'live' actors. Generally speaking, they wanted to see Eustis get the chair. There is nothing unusual about that: they are bloodthirsty enough by nature. Besides, it meant another show, at least an epilog, though it's true the audien.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| de3b972 | Thats the trouble with having money; you think about buying almost anything you see. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 0167e2f | Suddenly he felt his foot catch on something and he stumbled over one of the trailing cables that lay across the laboratory floor. The cable went tight and pulled one of the instruments monitoring the beam over, sending it falling sideways and knocking the edge of the frame that held the refractive shielding plate in position. For what seemed like a very long time the stand wobbled back and forth before it tipped slowly backwards with a cra.. | Mark Walden | ||
| b810e8a | Originally it was intended to put the names of the war dead on the signboard, the whites down one side and the Negroes down the other, with the American flag between. But the notion of having them all on one board caused so much ugly feeling -- there was even some talk of dynamite, for example -- that the service club whose project it was took a vote and decided that it would be better just to say something fitting about the spirit of our b.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 4524f00 | I asked myself, again and again: 'What does it mean? What does it mean?' And you know, I finally found the answer; one answer, anyhow. It dont mean a thing. Nothing. Why should it mean anything? I stopped thinking about it is what I finally did. It's what you better do, too. Dont think about it. | Shelby Foote | ||
| c6c0987 | He was always on hand for misfortune, among the first to arrive when tragedy struck, and for this reason was known as Light Hearse Harry. | Shelby Foote |