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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fea325f | Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]" | last-words love | Isaac Asimov | |
| 1155952 | The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday's love is part of today's and the confidence in tomorrow's love is also part of today's. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die -- I almost believe, rationalist though I am -- that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once i.. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 1c41317 | Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction. | Jules Verne | ||
| e4bdb14 | Who knows what I want to do? Who knows what anyone wants to do? How can you be sure about something like that? Isn't it all a question of brain chemistry, signals going back and forth, electrical energy in the cortex? How do you know whether something is really what you want to do or just some kind of nerve impulse in the brain? Some minor little activity takes place somewhere in this unimportant place in one of the brain hemispheres and su.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 18f68bf | The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world. | world | John Bunyan | |
| d02b43e | People can only be found in what they do. | Timothy Findley | ||
| d39840b | She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon . Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 1c7f2dc | I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature--not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not hap.. | literature purpose | Norman Maclean | |
| 3342816 | If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you"re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn"t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems." | Linda Howard | ||
| df24836 | Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it. | Kevin Brockmeier | ||
| 5a60c47 | I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake--forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck--'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook--he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? You.. | shel silverstein | ||
| 98c54a9 | Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| c07ebfb | The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her. | Michelle Sagara West | ||
| 61dab3d | Trent, do you have any weapons? Like a gun?" He looked at me in disgust. "You're here to protect me," he said as he closed the distance between us and stood beside me. "You didn't bring a weapon?" "Yeah, I brought a weapon," I snapped as I brought my splat gun out and aimed it at the ceiling where the sounds were coming from. "I just thought that since you're a freaking murderer you might have a gun, too (...)" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 85f6a82 | I had a veritable rnania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, "Never more!" | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 297d377 | He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were. | William Golding | ||
| 4f4cab6 | If I walked too far and wondered loud enough the fields would change. I could look down and see horse corn and I could hear it then- singing- a kind of low humming and moaning warning me back from the edge. My head would throb and the sky would darken and it would be that night again, that perpetual yesterday lived again. My soul solidifying, growing heavy. I came up to the lip of my grave this way many times but had yet to stare in. I did.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| e16de76 | Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock loo.. | hiking how-to-climb-mountains meditation montana mountains outdoors patience reflection rocky-mountains | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 47b67ff | Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 2d7c421 | Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 1fa8ce7 | And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose... I am a man. this miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before! I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the s.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 55a16b6 | Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. | science understanding | Brian Greene | |
| 4d36e05 | Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. | physics truth | Brian Greene | |
| 392c1e5 | Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. "I had enough," he said coldly. "You got no rights comin' in a colored man's room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus' get out, an' get out quick. If you don't, I'm gonna ast the boss not to ever let you come in the barn no more." She turned on him in scorn. "Listen, Nigger," she said. "You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?" Crooks stared helplessly at her.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1668349 | He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Jua.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 922790b | When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 48344d3 | I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare." | funny meta shakespeare | Ellen Raskin | |
| 41ee8aa | A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 2c7db1d | Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 868d325 | You have to believe in it to get it... | dream opportunity | Nora Roberts | |
| 4e5daaa | But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out | respect | Nora Roberts | |
| 4446c16 | Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point? | romance | Nora Roberts | |
| 0d771c0 | The human mind has a primitive ego defince mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called denial. | Dan Brown | ||
| 588c558 | Never forget you are a miracle | Dan Brown | ||
| 62f5a7b | Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'! | Dan Brown | ||
| 569573c | Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. | Dan Brown | ||
| 12f4357 | Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive. | book-reading books feel lived lives reading vicarious | V.C. Andrews | |
| 47586d3 | Seek the tarnish and you shall find | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 0da1c31 | Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats | Napoleon Hill | ||
| 2a621a3 | When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process. | Rick Warren | ||
| 3da8924 | Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. | Rick Warren | ||
| df179bc | Dare: a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy. I dare you. Three stupid words. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 87b03de | With murder, the victim is gone, and not forced to deal with what happened to her. The family must deal with it, but not the victim. But rape is much worse. The victim has a lifetime of coping, trying to understand, of asking questions, and the worst part, of knowing the rapist is still alive and may someday escape or be released. Every hour of every day, the victim thinks of the rape and asks herself a thousand questions. She relives it, s.. | John Grisham | ||
| cf5744c | You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks | Sarah Mlynowski |