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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 841650e | One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7c429e4 | She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 82f2060 | I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass. | Graham Greene | ||
| c8ddfba | I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8a07a6b | Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. | Graham Greene | ||
| 2b52027 | My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 97c8bf0 | The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 528e6cb | don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 3ca19a9 | In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. | Will Durant | ||
| 41f6338 | If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy. | Andy Warhol | ||
| 327ecd9 | For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food. | food humor memoirs | Anthony Bourdain | |
| d6a663a | Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time. | indifference love | Peter Kreeft | |
| 2c86327 | Mr. Beaumaris, who had picked Ulysses up, paid no heed to all these attempts at self-justification, but addressed himself to his adorer. "What a fool you are!" he observed. "No, I have the greatest dislike of having my face licked, and must request you to refrain. Quiet, Ulysses! quiet! I am grateful to you for your solicitude, but you must perceive that I am in the enjoyment of my customary good health. I would I could say the same of you... | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ef19494 | The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next - though one rapidly learns to expect the worst! | spontaneity virtue | Georgette Heyer | |
| 6e4faac | Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6d45791 | If we don't have each other, we don't have anything. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 938a8bc | He sure put things into words good. | irony | S.E. Hinton | |
| 78ae7f6 | And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and re.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 31a466b | Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 99b0ce5 | Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea." | nostalgia remorse tea youth | T.S. Eliot | |
| 1c704d7 | The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| c4d757c | Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss To pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus. His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake, And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake. Yet he was, in his youth, quite the smartest of Cats -- But no longer a terror to mice or to rats. For he isn't the Cat that he was in his prime; Though his name was quite famo.. | cats has-beens theatre | T.S. Eliot | |
| d80ffe4 | Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. Oh, when may it suffice? | William Butler Yeats | ||
| a8de611 | Say, 'Thank you, Phin.' " "Oh, please." "Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. " "I don't think so." "Say, 'You are a great lover, Phin.' " "I'm out of here." | humour | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 261c192 | I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there u.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 6ef9a54 | I realized that it was not that I didn't want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn't know why I wanted to go on | grief love | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 677c7ef | You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play. I tell you Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 96c529e | My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d4b651c | We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. | britain english | Oscar Wilde | |
| d0e2cdc | One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 9b98215 | I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 3209ab3 | Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 65a4bed | The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. | writing | Oscar Wilde | |
| fd84440 | Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. | oscar-wilde the-picture-of-dorian-gray wilde | Oscar Wilde | |
| e685918 | Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. | humor marriage women | Oscar Wilde | |
| 0766e09 | because to influence a person is to give one's own soul. | oscar-wilde the-picture-of-dorian-gray | Oscar Wilde | |
| e4c9351 | Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 734345e | Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis. | jesus morality scripture | Richard Dawkins | |
| 795012c | These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man. | crocodile curiosity greed kite | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 03b4abb | Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she s.. | cat cave himself man tame walked wild woman | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 04df791 | Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other. | Spider Robinson | ||
| fb1f9b5 | You your best thing, Sethe. You are. | Toni Morrison | ||
| deed95f | You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions. | life people | Robert Fulghum | |
| eb9a566 | Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. But never trees. As for people, well, the Solomon islanders may have a point. Yelling at living thing does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. | Robert Fulghum |