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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 92af3fb | It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8d031f9 | you will always love, and you will always be loved | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c508268 | It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e7e7f46 | You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks. | Toni Morrison | ||
| afcc0ef | Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. | people the-bluest-eye | Toni Morrison | |
| e5ce6a5 | I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 5e8b9ab | How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. | human-condition | Toni Morrison | |
| b7b760a | I can't afford it' shut down your brain. it didn't have to think anymore. besides, it also brings up sadness. a helplessness that leads to despondency and often depression. 'How can I afford it?' opened up the brain. forced it to think and search fro answers. it also opens up possibilities, excitement and dreams and created a stronger mind and dynamic spirit. | Robert Kiyosaki | ||
| 53dfbed | Most people fail to realize that in life, it's not how much money you make, it's how much money you keep. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 1e2dff7 | Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?" Bryce: "No." Huxley: "Seabags Brown does." Bryce: "I don't see what that has to do..." Huxley: "What do you know about Gaelic history?" Bryce: "Not much." Huxley: "Then why don't you sit down one day with Gunner McQuade. He is an expert. Speaks the language, too." Bryce: "I don't..." Huxley: " What do you know about astr.. | ego humor marine-corps superior | Leon Uris | |
| d7d529b | Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity. | intentions | James A. Owen | |
| f94fe9d | I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them. | job promotion | Og Mandino | |
| 6f53a95 | No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain. | religion | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 4b7aefd | Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. | Hemingway Ernest | ||
| ec87575 | What sort of man could you love for a lifetime?" he asked her. She was silent for a while. He guessed that she was considering her answer. "A kind man," she said. "When we are young and foolish we do not realize how essential a component of love kindness is. It is perhaps the most important quality. And an honorable man. Always doing the right thing no matter what." His heart sank-on both account. "And a strong man," she said. "Strong enou.. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 7486e03 | No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it. | religion | Christopher Pike | |
| f69e7b1 | It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 04c75f2 | The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 17a35eb | I stand up from the table and wiggle my index finger at Nick. He'll never get it, but I borrow from Heathers as I leave him to follow Tris. A true friend's work is never done," I singsong. Bulimia is so '87, Heather," he answers. HOLY SHIT squared. I think I just had my first orgasm." | Rachel Cohn | ||
| b6cf7fd | Don't think I was the only reason he healed. You're his light, Marissa. Don't ever forget that. | marissa vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| af68823 | If I can live through the events," she said, "I can get through the memories." | J.R. Ward | ||
| ed10cf6 | Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, was not the kind of male anyone addressed like that. Except, apparently, for Wrath. In this case, the Brother with the tattoos on his face and the perverted reputation and the hand of death did exactly what he was told. He shut the fuck up. Which said volumes about Wrath. Did it not. | bdb lover-reborn vishous wrath | J.R. Ward | |
| 307808b | Fuck my cousin, it's got nothing to do with my cousin for me. If you were alone, I'd still be right on this carpet, on my knees, wanting to be with you. If you were mated to a female, if you were dating someone all casual and shit, if you were in a million different places in life ... I'd still be right here. Begging you for something, anything one time, if that's all you've got. | lover-at-last qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| 15bccc2 | In his fantasy, he kissed his best friend again, pulled back, and... "I love you," he said into the spray of the shower. "I... love you." As he closed his eyes against the pain, it was hard to know how much of what ran down his cheeks was water, and how much was something else." | J.R. Ward | ||
| c43f651 | The kiss that was pressed against his own mouth was reverent, the contact no heavier than the warm, still air in the room. It was the consummate lover's kiss, the kind of thing he had wanted even more than the hot sex they'd just had. | qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| 06280c6 | Man, this angel crap... it's so fucking hard to influence anything. I've never had a problem with free will before, but for shit's sake, I wish I could just I Dream of Jeannie you to where you need to be." As Tohr winced, the angel muttered, "It's okay, though. We'll get you there somehow--" "Actually, I'm cringing at the vision of you in a pink harem costume." "Hey, I have a great ass, I'll have you know." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 9b59547 | Carving?" "Your name. My back. I can't fucking wait." Jane whistled under her breath. "Do I get to do it?" He barked a laugh. "No!" "Come on. I'm a surgeon, I'm good with knives." | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 0cdec0c | Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine | J.R. Ward | ||
| f639f5b | Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 66ae513 | I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 6b5c5bc | I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| c91979c | Nothing in this book is true. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 14ee712 | He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 1737bc5 | But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 61dedfc | I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 0f7ef93 | Humor was the enemy of desire. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d245548 | Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification--then you learn to value it differently. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| aea295f | Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| c6dd07c | The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 1c52405 | You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry! | hassan | John Green | |
| 025a6e4 | He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising. | humor | John Green | |
| 5a46c84 | She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn. | twilight-saga vampire | John Green | |
| c2f8fb8 | if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. aaa | hurricane life love qoute rain reality she woman | John Green | |
| 75622f6 | Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are. | live-lessons people-suck people-will-hurt-you | John Green |