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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2d3e0ff | You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life. | Dave Pelzer | ||
| 89c002a | I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, the.. | happiness magic optimism seashore | Dave Pelzer | |
| ec638a2 | There are a number of things a woman can tell about a man who is roughly twenty-nine years old, sitting in the cab of a pickup truck at 3:37 in the afternoon on a weekday, facing the Pacific, writing furiously on the back of pink invoice slips. Such a man may or may not be employed, but regardless, there is mystery there. If this man is with a dog, then that's good, because it means he's capable of forming relationships. But if the dog is a.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8e92e5c | We'll go to a place that's quiet and dry and talk about precious things. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 509ccbb | Question: would I do it the same way all over again? Absolutely - because I learned something along the way. Most people don't learn things along the way. Or if they do, they conveniently forget those things when it suits their need. Most people, given a second chance, fuck it up completely. It's one of those laws of the universe that you can't shake. People, I have noticed, only seem to learn once they get their third chance - after losing.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6df6059 | At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 9332630 | LET'S JUST HOPE WE ACCIDENTALLY BUILD GOD. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 915b8c3 | I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| b94bb9d | Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| f0b9144 | Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| c6e7344 | most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair. | shopping | Douglas Coupland | |
| 04350ac | Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. | society | Howard Zinn | |
| 0a78d55 | We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we? - Sandry after the pirate attack | sandry tris | Tamora Pierce | |
| 53195c4 | The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon. | Tamora Pierce (Author) | ||
| 430e6b8 | But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.0.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| fcd91b5 | She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything. | strength | Rachel Klein | |
| de853c0 | Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had to live somewhere high up on a cliffside, on a ledge so narrow that there was room only for his two feet - and with the abyss, the ocean, eternal darkness, eternal solitude, eternal storm all around him - and had to stay like that, on a square foot of space, an entire lifetime, a thousand years, an eternity - it would be bett.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c447b21 | n lmSbyn bmrD lfkr@ lthbt@ yj`lwn mn lf'r@ jbl, wyrwn 'shy kthyr@ Hyth l ywjd shy lbt@ ! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 54d7acb | You mustn't ask too much of human endurance, one must be merciful. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4ea9072 | Being in love doesn't mean loving. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4858326 | What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?" | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4ce3801 | I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 691be6b | True love rules especially through memory. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| a07bc64 | For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| e0bc22b | It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes. | mistakes wise | John C. Maxwell | |
| df5841b | You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. | humor vegetarianism | Oscar Wilde | |
| 985a0d7 | T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made us richer by Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam, Vikram Seth, Monica Ali, and many others, is now one of the disguises for a culturalism, based on moral relativism and moral blackmail (in addition to some more obvious blackmail of the less moral sort) whereby the Enlightenment has been redefined as 'white' and 'oppressive,' mass illegal immigration .. | multiculturalism relativism rushdie | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 52b590f | I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator -- that's beyond my conceit. I therefore have no choice but to find something suspect even in the humblest believer. 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.. | authoritarianism religion | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 8fc4890 | Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 5cef7f8 | Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a m.. | 1968 1970s 1980s 1988 allegiance arguments arrest bad-crowds boredom bureaucracy charm charter-77 clichés commitment communism czechoslovakia detention dissent exile generosity gorbachev history humour irony kafka loyalty mediocrity moscow nelson-mandela police politics prague russia totalitarianism vaclav-havel zdenek-mlynar | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 5cc6f15 | It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you. | technology technology-addiction | Tom Clancy | |
| 767d6df | He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...] | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 686f2f5 | Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda) Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6ab4207 | Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there's a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she...Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8f32770 | Out of my way, Dark-Hunter, or I'll kill her. (Daimon) You know, you should have stayed in your bolt-hole one more day. Tonight's Buffy night, and it's a whole new episode, too. Have you any idea how angry it makes me that I have to come out here in the freezing cold to slay you when I could be at home all toasty warm, watching Sarah Michelle Gellar kick ass in a halter top? (Wulf) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9b4c631 | Remember what I've told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 018ba14 | Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary's Grandfather/Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8b5c8fa | Apollymi keeps a tight rein on them. (Kat) Death to the bitch-goddess! May she die in a flaming pit of Charonte spit! (Xirena) Damn, Kat, you can't win for losing. Is there anyone, other than you, who actually likes your family? (Sin) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| fb6ab94 | Hey, man. Where have you been? (Dev) Out and about. You? (Talon) (Dev gave him a wicked grin.) Mostly in and out. (Dev) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1f828c2 | Nick, space. Now. (Acheron) Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian's number on it. 'In case of loss, call my owner.' (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d01195b | It's a Belgian beer, sweetie. Please tell me you've at least heard of it. (Blaine) Boy, I was born in Brussels and the last time I checked, this was my new homeland, America, not my birthplace. So you can either order an American-made beer or I'll bring you water and you can sit there and act all superior until you puke, okay? (Aimee) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7d3b721 | I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian) Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d285f39 | You don't deal with anything, Savitar. You sit out here in the sun, catching waves, spewing bullshit philosophy you don't follow. (Acheron) You're right. I gave up trying to affect my destiny a long time ago. But that's because every time I tried to change the future, I fucked it up worse. Eventually the rat gets tired of pulling the lever and sits down in his corner to lick his wounds. So if you're ready to hang it up, come sit on the beac.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 3ff28d6 | Okay. That was nice. Clothes. You need clothes before I do something I might not regret. What was your size again, Steve? (Sunshine) Talon. (Talon) Talon. Size. Clothes. Cover him up. I'm going to go get Talon clothes. Keys. Need keys for car. Purse. Money for clothes. Shoes. Must have shoes to shop and keep feet warm. (Sunshine) What about a coat? It is wintertime. (Talon) Coats are good in the winter. (Sunshine) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |