“Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail.” IfsShouldWellsLinesFailingQuietSickAppealsCompassionateIrrationalHumaneAuthoritarianismUnforgettableMonotheismPolytheism Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.” Would BeLinesBattleQuietTablesChosenBreakfastLucy Author:Lisa Kleypas
“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.” PeopleTryingBelieveDifferentSometimesReasonWholeActionMovingLinesActingFrontsThousandQuietTenRingsIntimacyIntimateWrestlingGoing OutAdrenalineInside And Outside Author:Dave Bautista
“If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.” IfsReasonFeelingsLinesNiceEffectsWallDependsBalanceQuietPatternsArchitectureJudgementVerticalHorizontalGood Judgement Author:William Morris
“I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.” FeelsMindMomentsOrderLinesAliveSpecialParticularSonQuietTrainHearingMy SonRidingBikeI'm AliveNew WordsQuiet MomentsSpecial Moments Author:Alicia Keys
“They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.” WellsLittlesHardShowsActorsFunLinesActingWonderfulQuietEnjoyedTeaseGood ActorsAndy Griffith Show Author:Betty Lynn
“Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.” PeopleKnowsMindBelieveFightingLinesQuietStandingBeing TruePassiveBellyMessyParadigmFittingBeing Quiet Author:Eve Ensler
“For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.” MenBookHandsLinesWatchesFrontsObjectsFlowerQuietGardenDelightFlatsFragilePassiveShelvesOld FashionedGardener Book:The Post Office Girl Source: The Post Office Girl
“Tell her to be quiet, and she got louder. Tell her to stay back, and she pushed me into the line of fire. Tell her to watch for our pursuers, and she hovered at my shoulder instead. Open the door to listen, and she wanted to drag me back inside. Ah. The beginning of a beautiful friendship.” WantedBeautifulLinesWatchesFireDoorsQuietShouldersDragBeautiful Friendship Book:The Awakening Source: The Awakening
“Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.” ThinkingWorldGivingMeanTwoImportantCharacterStoriesTurnsReadingSoundLinesAbilityBrainFictionNovelQuietSkillsComplexesFollowingDisappearFasterStayingBitesEmpatheticSound Bites140 CharacterReading Fiction Author:Ann Patchett
“I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantLongWholeHelpingMotherLinesQuietAngryScaredWhat You WantWhole LifeUpsetBusYellingKentPharmacy Author:Sara Zarr
“I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.” SaidLightNightGirlFatherSidesLinesMinesColdQuietHusbandFingersWarmChosenWearyWoven Book:Sever Source: Sever