“She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied.”
― Jack Whyte, quote from Uther
“Their sudden intimacy was like the explosive combustion that engulfs and consumes a moth that has fluttered too close to a candle flame; a completely unexpected turn of events that took both of them unawares and swept them irresistibly up and out of themselves as it hurled them into each other’s arms.”
― Jack Whyte, quote from Uther
“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.”
― Jack Whyte, quote from Uther
“I knew even then, the first time that I saw you, that I loved you.”
― Jack Whyte, quote from Uther
“A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.”
― Jack Whyte, quote from Uther
Jack Whyte
Born place: in Johnstone, Renfrewshire,Scotland, The United Kingdom
Born date January 1, 1939
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“إن الإنسان لا يصير منشقا لمجرد أنه قرر يوما ما أن ينتمى إلى هذه هذه الطبقة المرموقة، لكنه يصير كذلك لأن شعوره الداخلى بالمسئولية مع مجموعات العناصر الخارجية وضعته فى هذه المكانة، فهو يطرد من الهياكل الموجودة، ويوضع فى مواجهات معها . فى البدايه لم يكن الهدف سوى أن يقوم بعمل جيد لا أكثر ولا أقل، وينتهى به الحال فى معسكر الأعداء.
إذن العمل الجيد هو نقد حقيقى للسياسة السيئة. أحيانا ما يكون موفقا، وأحيانا أخرى لا يوفق فى ذلك. لكن الناجحون فيها يتناقص عددهم ليس لعيب فيها.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“We must not confuse letting go of past injuries with feeling an obligation to let the injurers back into our life. The freedom of forgiveness often includes a firm boundary and loving distance from those who have harmed us. As my father likes to say, "We can let them back into our hearts without ever letting them back into our house.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
“one of the best ways to predict a student’s SAT score is to look at his parents’ income: the more money they make, the higher the score is likely to be.13”
― Christopher L. Hayes, quote from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
“For the next few weeks, we are going to perform scenes from the plays we read, starting with the age-old classic Romeo and Juliet.”
― Kaitlyn Davis, quote from Ignite
“23 He dreamed that a bomb was singing to him. From far away, the bomb was coming to marry him. The bomb was his destiny, falling on him, screaming.”
― William T. Vollmann, quote from Europe Central
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