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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0bb599d | Verbs. All of them tiring. | Charles Frazier | ||
| c2bdd31 | There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d1840c8 | It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ab473ab | Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder... | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 52ce444 | I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died. | William Faulkner | ||
| c56eca4 | Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. | William Faulkner | ||
| e8b8853 | The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes. | eyes hopelessness night stars | Elie Wiesel | |
| dad129a | More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 7a2fbb3 | For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 8bdb94e | The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it? | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| e3cc740 | The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 8f77723 | This soup tastes like windows | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 3066761 | Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots. | rudeness | Tom Robbins | |
| ea9713d | I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods. | Tom Robbins | ||
| f498738 | If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done. | Tom Robbins | ||
| b1454ff | The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ccf253d | Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do. | Brené Brown | ||
| 91ec3b6 | UnMarketing: "Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer." | Brené Brown | ||
| 701886e | Stay in your own lane. Comparison kills creativity and joy. | Brené Brown | ||
| bbdc7e6 | One of the biggest surprises in this research was learning that fitting in and belonging are not the same thing. In fact, fitting in is one of the greatest barriers to belonging. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be in order to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are. | Brené Brown | ||
| 16587ab | I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| f1785f1 | We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fb18eca | Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| f9e580c | I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value. | records value | Douglas Coupland | |
| 507ef16 | The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d3bb62c | I say 'Uhmm...' a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it's a CPU word. It means you're assembling data in your head - spooling. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fa5d1ab | Besides, animals don't even have time. Only humans have time. It's what makes us different. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 16750ca | You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| ece6892 | Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 844d32f | What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 1c86d11 | You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 94f830b | Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com. | individuality reading society | Douglas Coupland | |
| d473b12 | My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all) - that is still with us. One reason these.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 1e5e535 | Do you work for the government, any government?" "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes." | irony political | Roger Zelazny | |
| 8a656fb | Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it. - Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases" | crane daja lark rosethorn work | Tamora Pierce | |
| beaa20d | I'm to attend balls and banquets without my squire?" demanded Raoul, all innocence. "I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 3c03335 | I don't even know what I'm writing, I have no idea, I don't know anything, and I'm not reading over it, and I'm not correcting my style, and I'm writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you... My precious, my darling, my dearest! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b48b40c | I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3d85a6e | I'm drunk but truthful. | truthfulness | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 5e33804 | It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e2e04de | Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0fc82a2 | Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. | dignity equality sharing | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e5e6bd5 | bitter is a bad way to live! | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 536cc38 | I recall how miserable I was, and how one day you brought me to a realization of my miserable state. I was preparing to deliver a eulogy upon the emperor in which I would tell plenty of lies with the object of winning favor with the well-informed by my lying; so my heart was panting with anxiety and seething with feverish, corruptive thoughts. As I passed through a certain district in Milan I noticed a poor beggar, drunk, as I believe, and .. | Augustine of Hippo |