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| 6aa7978 | Man has always been a venal animal. The growth of populations, the huge costs of war, the incessant pressure of confiscatory taxation - all these things make him more and more venal. The average man is tired and scared, and a tired, scared man can't afford ideals. He has to buy food for his family. In our time we have seen a shocking decline in both public and private morals. You can't expect quality from people whose lives are a subjection.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 5456bd7 | Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get... | politics reality police | Raymond Chandler | |
| 48235af | It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move." | traumatic-experiences | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 6a12140 | Who is this god person anyway? | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5bc73ea | He thought much but said little. | the-hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 22d7eb1 | When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept... "Why did I ever wake up!" he cried." | humor hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 765a021 | When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best! | loss song entwives longing | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 599b0cb | I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| afdad2e | Where are you going, Master?' cried Sam, though at last he understood what was happening. 'To the Havens, Sam,' said Frodo. 'And I can't come.' 'No, Sam. Not yet, anyway, not further than the Havens. Though you too were a Ring-bearer, if only for a little while. Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.' 'Bu.. | the-end-of-the-fellowship samwise-gamgee the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king j-r-r-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d880b7a | Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers) | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f8408fa | Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure! | coronation faramir gandalf frodo-baggins crown | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ecf6a8c | Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams | political service patriotism | David McCullough | |
| 4930d8b | The Men of Earth came to Mars. They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims. There was a reason for each man. They were leaving bad wives or bad towns; they were coming to find something or leave something or get something, to dig up something or bury something or leave something alone. They were coming with small dreams or large dreams or n.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cab92f5 | We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature. Solitude is a place where Christ remodels us in his own image and frees us from the victimizing compulsions of the world. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| dd61502 | To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqueness. It is not a competitive, but a compassionate choice. Our minds have great difficulty in coming to grips with such a reality. Maybe our minds will never understand it. Perhaps it is only our hearts that can accomplish this. Every time we .. | god-s-love | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 5c6aea6 | Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements? Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafarin.. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 0970ba2 | There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 945a572 | After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fac7cd3 | You don't make me miserable. You make me want to live. And I want to live with you. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| b116ae3 | There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe--Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia--were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of .. | freemasonry conspiracy illuminati | Thomas Pynchon | |
| b4daa97 | Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 373a298 | I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d1321db | She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to .. | libraries | Gary Paulsen | |
| f33dd3c | I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget.. | moving-on life love | Khaled Hosseini | |
| ce85050 | People...shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7cc170b | You're not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years. | tariq | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 065904a | Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| b8eb36b | No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole! | Gordon Korman | ||
| 2170d7e | And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his en.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7355c27 | I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and Ron wasn't going to stop him. That third night he found his way more quickly than before. He was walking so fast he knew he was making more noise than was wise, but he didn't meet anyone. And there were his mother and father smiling at him again, and one of his grandfathers nodding happily. Harry sank down to sit on t.. | harry-potter nothing-but-the-truth mirror-of-erised ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| a604ae8 | Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they've nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ebe53d3 | Are -- you -- insane?" said Hermione in a hushed voice. 'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0646491 | Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance | death the-casual-vacancy j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| dcdbfbf | You love someone, you've got to let something go. | Mark Haddon | ||
| feb19ad | She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5a63aa7 | The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6702551 | Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9efcec6 | In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever. | Nicholas Sparks / Barbara Delinsky / Dick Francis / Glenn Meade | ||
| aa732b2 | She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw.. | marriage love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 93be662 | A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 925a6bd | People find a way through just about anything. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| bf507f5 | Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, for, everything around you. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 7ba6b02 | It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on... An.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 421d52d | You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. [ Brihadaranyaka IV.4.5 ] | Anonymous |