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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 00f6504 | Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake, but you're not supposed to question adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules. Maybe they know best, but maybe they don't. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn't at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up, and joining with the other side? I mean, valley of death that's pretty salty stuff. That.. | Michael Lewis | ||
| e0d2b3b | Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected. | probability | Michael Lewis | |
| 8931a9b | I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due. | James Frey | ||
| a2bfea6 | We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways--the ways we react and behave when we love someone. | John Gray | ||
| 0f88c47 | It's human; we all put self interest first. | play tutor | Euripides | |
| 91f11bc | I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. | Euripides | ||
| b496d8b | A word grows to a thought - a thought to an idea - an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take. | Beryl Markham | ||
| 77cc62f | What if there's another fire? You're not going to be there to save me." "I'll always save you." Because I would. I'd move heaven and earth. I'd willingly walk into hell and stay there. I'd give up anything and everything for him." | Katie McGarry | ||
| b90227d | I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3a0c235 | she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| d1ed12f | And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round! | Charles Dickens | ||
| ecb279e | It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was. | writer writing | Charles Dickens | |
| 2893695 | You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman." | devil englishmen englishwomen lucifer match | Charles Dickens | |
| a4bab2d | He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the star.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 353d18b | And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c568136 | Gold is the corpse of value... | money value | Neal Stephenson | |
| 2879115 | If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 22ebe66 | People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children--especially, apparantly, their daughters. | ignorance | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| f6dcbc5 | Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 915ea9d | Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues | Ted Dekker | ||
| f9a15f2 | The window was still open," Mr Lisbon said. "I don't think we'd ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b799536 | It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a92f88e | It was called evolutionary biology. Under its sway, the sexes were separated again, men into hunters and women into gatherers. Nurture no longer formed us; nature did. Impulses of hominids dating from 20,000 B.C. were still controlling us. And so today on television and in magazines you get the current simplifications. Why can't men communicate? (Because they had to be quiet on the hunt.) Why do women communicate so well? (Because they had .. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| f44ce91 | With most people suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The two other bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty. | jeffrey eugenides | ||
| 097a24e | The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it." You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5310821 | Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| b8ddf54 | They've got as much sex appeal as a road accident. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 550e641 | I think we have different value systems." --Arthur "Well mine's better." --Ford" | science scifi | Douglas Adams | |
| 88af053 | Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4f1a9d2 | But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 25570ff | Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling! Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. Down along under the Hill, shining in the sunlight, Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter, Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water. Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing? Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o, Goldber.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| cc49048 | Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder." - Gandalf" -- | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 890213c | Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, 'a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.' Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b4af4d4 | Well, I've made up my mind, anyway. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf - mountains; and then find somewhere where I can rest. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| dbcc82c | We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them." | lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9bc723f | Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?" | knowledge the-two-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8551bcc | When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 3b53743 | Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way! | Herman Melville | ||
| e192599 | Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially when my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off- then, I accoun.. | modified okay so this | Herman Melville | |
| d94a02b | It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O ma.. | self strength | Herman Melville | |
| 19cd64a | I'd like to know what a place is when I'm . I'd like to be . | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 06a0dbb | But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.' Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're .. | fahrenheit-451 reading | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7e04650 | It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. | fahrenheit-451 government ray-bradbury technology | Ray Bradbury | |
| e4f920f | I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell. | inspirational life | Ray Bradbury |