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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 588c10c | Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| af630e5 | But everything changes when you tell about life; it's a change no one notices: the proof is that people talk about true stories. As if there could possibly be true stories; things happen one way and we tell about them in the opposite sense. You seem to start at the beginning: "It was a fine autumn eveningin 1922." And in reality you have started at the end. It was there, invisible and present, it is the one which gives to words the pomp and.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| b06064a | A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 773af6e | A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b1073ee | We ignore the blackness of outer space and pay attention to the stars, especially if they seem to order themselves into constellations. "Common as the air" meant something worthless, but Hackworth knew that every breath of air that Fiona drew, lying in her little bed at night, just a silver flow in the moonlight, was used by her body to make skin and hair and bones. The air became Fiona, and deserving--no, demanding--of love. Ordering matte.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 14997c3 | They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| dabe980 | Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein everything resonates to the key of the heart? | Paul Murray | ||
| 1e9d0e9 | A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side. | insects fact flame | Michael Cunningham | |
| 471b02d | Wage war on death. Live for love. | Ted Dekker | ||
| bbb34c4 | God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 33ec271 | Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 57cf288 | The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It to.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ed3fddd | It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 21f876a | There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 9283818 | We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 6284670 | We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world. Self-awareness enables us to stand apart and examine even the way we "see" ourselves--our self-paradigm, the most fundamental paradigm of effectiveness. It affects not only our attitudes and behaviors, but also how we see other people." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| ab581f4 | It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously. | self-motivation | Dan Millman | |
| 65891a5 | This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network. | people innovation insightful | Steven Johnson | |
| cc55b28 | Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore. | good-ideas innovation | Steven Johnson | |
| b919146 | The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something -- but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out .. | Douglas Adams | ||
| cb535e8 | Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ff89da5 | A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e130295 | Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind." | Douglas Adams | ||
| a66790b | Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3a02f5f | Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a0b46a3 | The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion. | humour zaphod-beeblebrox waiter confusion effect service | Douglas Adams | |
| c646de4 | We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win." "I care about lots of things," said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly with annoyance, but partly also with uncertainty. "Such as?" "Well," said the old man, "life, the Universe. Everything, really. Fjords." "Would you die for them?" "Fjords?" blinked Slartibartfast in surpri.. | irony sci-fi | Douglas Adams | |
| 04da1d0 | to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e3bdadc | War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor, and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3cfd33e | Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us! | frodo tom-bombadil | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 685eea2 | Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. | free-will | Herman Melville | |
| a8f7eaf | Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore? But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God- so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be i.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 48690c3 | The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 25f4435 | Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods. | shakespeare writing writers | Ray Bradbury | |
| 818bdd9 | Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3a39e8b | The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6ab963c | Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| c614482 | When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding. | David Allen | ||
| 3cdc3d1 | Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 038e0e7 | Face it: You're always just a breath away from a job in telemarketing. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6e717cf | You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It is the realisation that the smiles that they wear in their daily lives are the same as the smiles worn by people who have been good-natu.. | ruined-youth nihilism | Douglas Coupland | |
| a00ced6 | You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0df1560 | How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before. | humor dry-humor | Douglas Coupland | |
| c3ffd8c | I don't understand beauty. | Douglas Coupland |