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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 872c49d | My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| fea1d4e | How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can? | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 9726fc2 | You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e9bb73c | Circumstances should never alter principles! | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7fb7754 | There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 83e9b0e | Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe, and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings sublte memories with it, a line from a piece of music that you had ceased to play--I tell you Dorian, .. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| aa01859 | I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c588f78 | I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said...Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 2b3b19a | When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b1bffcb | I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a42f861 | No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 681b33d | Movement in new direction helps find new cheese. | Spencer Johnson | ||
| dc0b256 | I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey... | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b83d33d | Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f77e21b | He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 31190e2 | Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6f3951e | The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89) | education | Joseph Campbell | |
| e65f5ac | We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss." We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain." | Marshall B. Rosenberg | ||
| c7ee0a5 | It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move." | friendship heartache heartbreak love unrequited-love | Rachel Cohn | |
| d8e22ff | Even if he got shanked, even if his precious little ego and his dumb-ass little heart got shattered into a million pieces, it was time to stop the bullshit. It was time to be a male. As Blay started to straighten, like a message had been received, Qhuinn thought, That's right Buddy. | qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| 3652491 | Okay, so, Beth, follow me. 'I, Beth, a totally awesome chick ...'" Beth barked out a giggle. "I, Beth ..." "Where's the 'awesome chick' part? What? Come on, I have a license from the Internet. I know what I'm doing." Wrath nodded at his . "He's right. You are, in fact, awesome. I think we need to hear it." "Can I get an amen!" Lassiter shouted. "Ammmmmmmmmen!" echoed throughout the mansion. "Fine, fine, fine," she said. "I, Beth, a totally.. | wedding-vows | J.R. Ward | |
| d6b51af | Vishous: "...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you." Jane: "I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't need to use that gun on your hip to blow a hole in a wall if I ran into one, okay? Havaheart traps and rolled newspapers work just as well. Plus, you don't need a Sheetrock patch and plaster job afterward. I'm just saying." | J.R. Ward | ||
| b8e8e9b | Do not kill him. That shit would totally bum Jane out. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 0da19b0 | Sometimes, you didn't get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 869fdf1 | There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel. [...] I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 09d4425 | Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. In the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks, to follow so exactly the line of his nose, they .. | Marcel Proust | ||
| cb9bc32 | It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| ea3b2bc | It is never a mistake to say good-bye. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 48f4e46 | We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 42550c7 | A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes! | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 2b649c1 | Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. | america bombs communism communists vietnam vietnam-war | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 0cac5ea | Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 087fc75 | Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen. | expertise | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 45035ce | It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b367ff1 | I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to enslavement, I should regard being the slave.. | frederick-douglass religion slavery | Frederick Douglass | |
| 760be91 | Let me tell you a little story. You may have heard it before. It's a story about a butcher named Barry. Once upon a time, in central city, there was a butcher named Barry. Barry loved to chop up meat more than anything in the world. But one day, when Barry got tired of just chopping up cows and pigs... ...He found something NEW to chop up-- PEOPLE. And so, he went out night after night in search of fresh meat. Eventually, Barry was caught,.. | barry-the-chopper ed edward-elric fullmetal-alchemist hiromu-arakawa morbid roy-mustang | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| 576b7e7 | I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them. | john-green john-green-quotes looking-for-alaska looking-for-alaska-quotes | John Green | |
| 0264726 | Hazel Grace," he said, my name new and better in his voice. "It has been a real pleasure to make your acquaintance." "Ditto, Mr. Waters," I said. I felt shy looking at him. I could not match the intensity of his waterblue eyes. "May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice. I smiled. "Sure." "Tomorrow?" he asked. "Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I.. | John Green | ||
| e69cc18 | That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered. | John Green | ||
| a2a598b | Ben starts. "I Spy with my little eye something I really like." "Oh I know," Radar says. "It's the taste of balls." "No." "Is it the taste of penises?" I guess. "No, dumbass." "Hmm," says Radar. "Is it the smell of balls?" "The texture of balls?" | John Green | ||
| 7067fb1 | Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska? | John Green | ||
| f044e88 | The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. | John Green | ||
| a87c3b0 | Pain demands to be felt. | tfios | John Green | |
| 5445f30 | Being vulnerable is asking to get used. | John Green |