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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 37a6e5b | We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ. | religion | John Piper | |
| ac34322 | Your mind was made to know and love God. | god love mind purpose | John Piper | |
| 2f1c43c | In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved. | love | Dai Sijie | |
| d38ee7f | There is a certain way of being human that is way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for . | individuals life self uniqueness | Charles Taylor | |
| 20aa092 | So, I heard you're this ninja or something. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 48b33ce | I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks, I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 8538084 | The fights are always the same | relationships | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 803c521 | He said it was the kind of book you made your own. | reading stephen-chbosky the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| b7baf78 | I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse. | intelligence iq nerd nerdiness nerds wisdom wisdom-vs-nerds | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 3b19053 | Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties. | lesson-for-life | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| ff0672c | The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| e27d733 | Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 430af04 | Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage." "Courage?" he asked with confusion. "Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet." | cale | Lynsay Sands | |
| 4c53967 | racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only racial indifference, as Martin Luther King Jr. warned more than forty-five years ago. | Michelle Alexander | ||
| aab3d7a | On the parable of the Good Samaritan: "I imagine that the first question the priest and Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But by the very nature of his concern, the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 5afe619 | In his grave, we praise him for his decency - but when he walked amongst us, we responded with no decency of our own. When he suggested that all men should have a place in the sun - we put a special sanctity on the right of ownership and the privilege of prejudice by maintaining that to deny homes to Negroes was a democratic right. Now we acknowledge his compassion - but we exercised no compassion of our own. When he asked us to understand .. | Rod Serling | ||
| 1f3911a | Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being 'disturbers of the peace' and 'outside agitators.' But they went on with the conviction that they were a 'colony of heaven' and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be 'astronomically intimidated.' They brought an end to such ancient evil.. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 210b60c | If someone had asked him, "Ben, are you lonely? , " he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and his dreams; he had his Revell models; he had a gigantic set of Lincoln Logs and built all sorts of stuff with them. His mother had exclaimed more than once that Ben's Lincoln Logs houses looked better than some real ones that came from blueprints.. | Stephen King | ||
| 61fd03e | This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. | faery humor letter paranormal revenge sookie-stackhouse urban-fantasy | Charlaine Harris | |
| 75aacb4 | My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7bc25c2 | My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| a39b8b6 | Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| cb6a71e | Hardy! Hardy --" He had come for me. I nearly lost it then. In the wild torrent of relief and gratitude, there were at least a dozen things I wanted to tell him at once. But the first thing that came out was a fervent, "I'm so sorry I didn't have sex with you." I heard his low laugh. "I am too. But honey, there are a couple of maintenance guys with me who can hear every word we're saying." "I don't care," I said desperately. "Get me out of .. | hardy haven humor travises | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 0c776dc | I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere of his mothers prayers. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldnt be me. -Liberty Jones | heart-break liberty-jones sugar-daddy travises | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 3080c1f | It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 2a532de | To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight. His expression turned quizzical. "What's so amusing?" Amelia toyed with a button on his coat. "I was just thinking . . . tonight those two old hens will probably go to their beds, cold and alone." An impish grin curved her lips. "Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night." | bed cam hathaway old-hen rohan stony-cross-park | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 56db99b | I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| a1813f0 | I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| eee2d4d | The bargain..." she mumbled. "You said I could kiss you," came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. "But, my love...you didn't specify where." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| fc82505 | I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| e2ea651 | And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears. | John Irving | ||
| 33314a1 | If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like a deity on an altar, passionless and calculating. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 01b2900 | He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are called for, we can find a larger ball and chain." The queen turned and disappeared into the partment. "Oh, dear," Eugenides muttered as he followed...The queen's sterner measures, dispensed by the Eddisian Ambassador, arrived before dawn." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| f5e2524 | The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might have calmed her, but she couldn't draw one. She wondered if she was ill, and she even thought briefly that she might have been poisoned. She felt Attolia reach out and take her hand. To the court it was unexceptional, hardly noticed, but to Eddis it was an anchor, and she held on to it as if to a lif.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 63b66e4 | The room was full of people. "Ninety-eight days," said the queen, folding her hands in her lap. "You said it would take six months." Eugenides picked at a nub in the coverlet. "I like to give myself a margin. When I can." "I didn't believe you," the queen admitted with a delicate smile. "Now you know better." The king smiled back. They might as well have been alone. The queen turned her head to listen. There was shouting in the guardroom. C.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| c87c0ad | Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me, and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-seeker to his pipe. I wou.. | bibliomania travel | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 0d38ace | I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| cb4276f | Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 30dbc32 | There are some arenas so corrupt that the only clean acts possible are nihilistic. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4ba1a9d | You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important. | Irving Stone | ||
| e44e17a | When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. | merit payment | Gene Wolfe | |
| 2600d80 | By the following morning, Anthony was drunk. By afternoon, he was hungover. His head was pounding, his ears were ringing, and his brothers, who had been surprised to discover him in such a state at their club, were talking far too loudly. Anthony put his hands over his ears and groaned.Everyone was talking far too loudly. "Kate boot you out of the house?" Colin asked, grabbing a walnut from a large pewter dish in the middle their table and .. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 69be48c | When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie. | wyman-manderly | George R.R. Martin | |
| a8e9c94 | The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: "In the beginning was the Word." | imagination language | Alan Moore |