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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe140f8 | Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming." | sf | Roger Zelazny | |
| 3ed65ef | Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world." | consequences niko sandry testing | Tamora Pierce | |
| b68acc0 | Lark: "You shouldn't yell at her." Frostpine: "Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, but our Water dedicates would try the patience of a ." -- Dedicates Lark and Frostpine when the latter found out that the Water Temple had run out of warded boxes" | lark patience stone | Tamora Pierce | |
| f88de77 | If her rump were any stiffer, she'd break it every time she rides', I thought to Pounce. 'If she fell on the steps, they would never be able to put her together again', he replied. | humor insults tamora-pierce | Tamora Pierce | |
| 7d275e5 | When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow. | inspirational keladry-of-mindelan squire tamora-pierce | Tamora Pierce | |
| 16c08cc | Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that. It's everything, everything, Whoever learns will at once immediately become happy, that same moment... "And when did you find out that you were so happy?" "Last week, on Tuesday, no, Wednesday, because it was Wednesday by then, in the night." "And what was the occasion?" "I don't remember, just so; I was pacing the room...it makes no difference. I stopped my clock, it .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ad748e9 | lns lTybwn l yntZrwn 'n yuHsn 'Hd lyhm Ht~ yHsnw lyh, nhm yHbwn mn tlq 'nfshm khdm@ mn hm f~ Hj@ l~ hdhh lkhdm@. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d7b5d97 | n`m nn nstTy` `nd llzwm 'n nkhnq Ht~ Hssn l'khlqy! nn nstTy` `nd llzwm 'n nHml l~ lswq kl shy fnby`h fyh: lHry@, lTm'nyn@ Ht~ rH@ lDmyr ! flttHTm Hytn dh kn fy dhlk s`d@ l'wly'k ldhyn nHbhm! w'kthr mn dhlk 'nn nlfq l'nfsn `ndy'dh sfsT@ khS@ fnryH Dmy'rn l~ Hyn, mswGyn '`mln qy'lyn l'nfsn: n m f`ln hw m kn ynbGy ln 'n nf`lh mdmn n`ml fy sbyl hdf nbyl wGy@ shryf@ ! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 647cc65 | I have a choice. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| ffcff00 | Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face. This alone I know, that without you all to me is misery, woe outside myself and woe within, and all wealth but penury, if it is.. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 40bed23 | Do ever respond to a question without asking another question? Does it bother you? No. But it does confirm my hypothesis. What hypothesis? He let out a heavy sigh, and with it, all the residual warmth from our flirty banther evaporated. " You're a shrink," he said. He might as well have accused me of being a traitor or a murder or a Kardeshian." | Penny Reid | ||
| 671d797 | You'll have to read the book, and don't interrupt me. It's distracting enough looking at you. You've already derailed my brain train with your face several times. | Penny Reid | ||
| c9b308b | Boy bands are sent by God to aid women of all ages in their quest to avoid reality, but specifically to trick young women into believing that males think about topics other than sex. | Penny Reid | ||
| 59cea10 | Don't set yourself on fire trying to keep others warm. | Penny Reid | ||
| d73b15d | I changed my mind." "You changed--" "My. Mind." I stopped short and faced him, placing my hands on my hips. "It's like underpants, Jethro." "Dirty and dark?" He smirked. "No." I scowled at his facial expression. "A mind is like underpants because people change them all the time." "But you don't." "I do change my underpants all the time, Jethro. And, for the record, I think it's mighty rude of you to assume I don't." He almost rolled his eye.. | Penny Reid | ||
| 8c008b9 | Blame is a thief. It robs us blind while it wastes our time, time we could be spending as a family, making memories, supporting each other. | Penny Reid | ||
| 53f4b04 | If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else? | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b679947 | I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this reason, I have never been able to see Zionism as a cure for it. American and British and French Jews have told me with perfect sincerity that they are always prepared for the day when 'it happens again' and the Jew-baiters take over. (And I don't pretend not to know what they are talking about: I have actually .. | antisemitism argentina atheism britain british-jews colonialism expansionism fascism france french-jews gentiles haifa hebron history israel israeli-palestinian-conflict israelis jewish-diaspora jews law-of-return nuclear-weapons palestine religion united-states zionism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 711fa7b | Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a world run by an oligarchy in possession of Teutonic genes, who may kill or enslave other 'races' according to need, is not more unrealizable than the idea that a single state, let alone the globe itself, could be governed according to the dictates of an allegedly holy book. This mad scheme begins by denying itself the talents (and the r.. | caliphate death-of-osama-bin-laden fascism islam islamic-banking jihad nazis nazism nihilism osama-bin-laden racism somalia theocracy | Christopher Hitchens | |
| c099437 | The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate. | mother-teresa | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 6828069 | Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. "All the News That's Fit to Print," it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture. I myself check every day to make sure that the bright, smug, pompous, idiotic claim is still there. Then I check to make sure that it still .. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| a508dbb | I have often noticed that nationalism is at its strongest at the periphery. Hitler was Austrian, Bonaparte Corsican. In postwar Greece and Turkey the two most prominent ultra-right nationalists had both been born in Cyprus. The most extreme Irish Republicans are in Belfast and Derry (and Boston and New York). Sun Yat Sen, father of Chinese nationalism, was from Hong Kong. The Serbian extremists Milosevic and Karadzic were from Montenegro an.. | karadzic milosevic napoleon nationalism sun-yat-sen | Christopher Hitchens | |
| f04881f | There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflec.. | religion | Christopher Hitchens | |
| c98c0d7 | As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms .. | antisemitism assimilation atheism chabad-messianism christianity dialectics education enlightenment ethics evil exile free-thought germans haskalah intellect isaiah-berlin islam judaism life menachem-mendel-schneerson messianism monotheism moses-mendelssohn old-testament plagiarism prohibitions prophecy rabbis rebbes religion return rituals study thought voltaire | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 54f28ab | History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations | Arthur Koestler | ||
| f0a1484 | Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 2b66ebd | What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 901253f | The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity... | flannery-o-connor the-habit-of-being | Flannery O'Connor | |
| e66b55f | Tell me what happens if I throw this with all my power. (Savitar) (Acheron frowned until he saw an image in his head. It was the stone traveling through the air...it sped until it hit a man in his shoulder, wounding him. No, not any man. A soldier. His arm now lame, the stone's wound forced him to become a beggar...Eight score people would then die because the soldier could no longer protect them in battles that wouldn't even be fought for .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 57f98c7 | Simi? You got some free time? (Kat) Of course I do. You know akri on Olympus with that heifer-goddess I want to eat, but he won't let the Simi have no dinner. So why you calling me, little akra-kitty? (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4cbd7da | Someone please tell me that we're not seriously having a friggin' debate over the genius of 'Karma Chameleon' at seven o'clock in the morning? (Xypher) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5da762e | I hope you find peace, my brother. (Acheron) Peace walks hand in hand with a quite conscience. (Savitar) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 52c0152 | I don't give a damn if they throw me down into the deepest, slimiest pit for eternity. I belong here and no one is going to make me leave. No one! (Selena) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ce4ca18 | Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're not scared of his threats? (Amanda) Chere, the day I fear something like him is the day I lie down at his feet and hand him the knife to cut my heart out. The only fear I have is getting you back to your sister and convincing High Queen Hard Head to leave off this matter until I can locate Desiderius and s.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2d69e87 | Why are you worried about him? Des is a punk. (Urian) Desiderius is dead. Kyrian killed him. (Tabitha) Yeah, and I'm the Easter Bunny- see my fluffy tail? You don't just kill a Spathi, little girl. All you do is take him out of commission for a while. (Urian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 05d05f1 | Hi,Bas." "You want to hold him?" Tory asked. Terrified at the mere thought, Styxx shook his hed."I might break him and piss off Acheron" Tory and Bethany laughed. "you can't break him, sweetie" Bethany said. "I don't know. The lat time i held a child that age, I must break it 'cause it leaked all over me" -- | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 82d4409 | Sometimes you have to put your foot down... And sometimes you have to put it up their ass." -Hauk" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5fe4c67 | All right, the pendulum isn't working. Sometimes you need an accelerant to help it." - Death "Like gasoline?" - Nick "Yes, Nick. We're going to set the book and your pendulum on fire and then use them 'cause we're just that intelligent." - Death" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4724103 | Oh, no. We can't have that. Where you going, Mr. Meanie-Pants? You don't hurt people then run. That's just rude. Can the Simi barbecue him, or is he on the 'No Simi' eat list?" - Simi" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e3d7b3d | There's an old Ritadarion saying. You're never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 92678db | I'd rather be short, fat, and ugly than take after that man. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8751a98 | Mardi Gras, baby. Mardi Gras. Time when all manner of weird shit cuts loose and parties down. | mardi-gras | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| c264967 | So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 04573da | Oh, come on. I have to know about the who-do voodoo that you do. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |