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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8bfaa91 | A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it? | harper-lee mob mob-mentality to-kill-a-mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
| 221f3db | I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. | Harper Lee | ||
| f159eac | Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry... | Harper Lee | ||
| 7e7504e | If chance be the Father of all flesh, Disaster is his rainbow in the sky, And when you hear State of Emergency! Sniper Kills Ten! Troops on Rampage! Whites go Looting! Bomb Blasts School! It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker. | inspirational philosophy religion | Steve Turner | |
| 95d4ff4 | Every cup that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world's water supply holds enough molecules to mix 1,500 of them into every other cup of water in the world. No way around it: some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc. How about air? Also vital. A single breathful draws in more air molecules than there are breathfuls of air in Earth's entire atmosphere. Th.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| a20a417 | Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list.. | intelligence life | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| b0a3774 | There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 7acc05e | But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| c7bd37b | He who is too well off is always longing for something new. | the-bird the-mouse | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | |
| 3f925da | Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 427f05a | When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 79e8a55 | O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use." | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 27aa976 | Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| da33e74 | Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| a50b25d | If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. | David Mitchell | ||
| e11c992 | In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process. | Michael Connelly | ||
| fa80ed1 | Just so you know, everyone has regrets, but it's fucked up to be continually punished for them. | Tiffany King | ||
| be3db3e | Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most. | David Mitchell | ||
| af073eb | He was doing quite well until the last sentence, but if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one. | David Mitchell | ||
| bd64c52 | I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1327447 | Persuasion is not about force; it's about showing a person a door, and making him or her desperate to open it. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9f59ec9 | Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn't notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn't have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us.. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| ec5a480 | Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3b807ff | History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. | masses | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 0315b95 | Your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. | depression desperation light | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 91e229a | Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| c7f5d18 | My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| c31af4a | Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important. | Colum McCann | ||
| c2f7d72 | It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. | Colum McCann | ||
| 89d3ca6 | She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. | Colum McCann | ||
| 1f745ac | Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity. | philosophy | Peter Singer | |
| e4219c4 | Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 0586eb3 | To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear. | love | Erich Fromm | |
| 8814399 | The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to. | John Guare | ||
| c8e8150 | I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e421987 | You should've let me twist his head off," Mahon said. "You can't let people insult your wife, Curran. One day you'll have to choose diplomacy or your spouse. I'm telling you now, it's got to be your wife. Diplomacy doesn't care if you live or die. Your wife does." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| be99f8d | How many of these houses do you own?" "We own, and all of them." "Do we own anything else?" "We also own the woods directly behind us." Those woods extended for quite a while. There used to be a huge golf course and a shopping center behind us, but trees and brush had swallowed it long ago. "How many acres?" "Five hundred and twelve." I opened my mouth and nothing came out. "I thought of calling it the Five Hundred Acre Wood," Curran.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6992b7d | Did you think I was sitting on my hands?" "I thought you might be injured." He looked at me. "We've met, you and I?" I deliberately took a big step back. "What?" he growled. "I'm making room for your ego." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 8256f1b | When some supernatural filth tries to carry off the children, call Roman so he can wade through blood and sewage to rescue them, but when it's something nice like a wedding or a naming, oh no, we can't have Chernobog's volhv involved. It's bad luck. Get Nikolai. When he finds out who I'm going to marry, he'll have an aneurysm. His head will explode. It's good that he's a doctor, maybe he can treat himself. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 8628ffe | Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don't want to go to work, we don't want to do our chores, and we don't want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we're aware of the consequences which will follow if we don't. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e565fba | Curran growled. "Later, babycakes." Asshole. "Good hunting, sugar woogums." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 77eeac1 | People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead--because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 74d88f1 | Are you happy? When I can get out of my own way. And the rest of the time? The rest of the time I'm in a state of silent panic. I'm afraid it will end. I'll lose him. Lose everything. I've done that. Lost everything. It's a bitch. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 013d16f | This was heaven. "Hey, baby," Hugh said. Heaven just got canceled." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews |