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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 214a43c | I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again. | Clive Cussler | ||
| ad40374 | It was too late to tell Dally. Would he have listened? I doubted it. Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world.. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 0fff642 | What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast! | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 0127d91 | In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 5d01b45 | The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 09231a1 | I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword. | Max Barry | ||
| 416da10 | Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 8725523 | And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my designs! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me - against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before.. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 01f6f32 | It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 716275f | It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em," Ben said. "Then everybody'd know not to mess with our womenfolk." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| b9bff99 | Say it," she said, and he said, "I love you. I'll always love you. Forever. It's a life sentence. Now put the damn ring on." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 2f42e82 | I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She wouldn't do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end. Also people didn't do things like that in Southern Ohio. A sawed-off shotgun, that was the ticket. | romance crusie | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 387cb85 | Looking at suicide--the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind--is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 216384a | Be less than what you are so that you can become more. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 43def4d | I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..." I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west; But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest. I let them rest from nine till five, For I am busy then, As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they are hungry men. But different folk have different views;.. | rudyard-kipling | Rudyard Kipling | |
| d6fff92 | The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fa2a865 | Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 31de250 | The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a2d415e | Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d7784b5 | but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b1e5336 | The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell. | Toni Morrison | ||
| c28686c | Jump, if you want to, 'cause I'll catch you, girl. I'll catch you "fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I'll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I'm not saying this because I need a place to stay. That's the last thing I need. I told you, I'm a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain't got no name, never sta.. | relationships love | Toni Morrison | |
| 32614fb | Whose house is this? Whose night keeps out the light In here? Say, who owns this house? It's not mine. I dreamed another, sweeter, brighter With a view of lakes crossed in painted boats; Of fields wide as arms open for me. This house is strange. Its shadows lie. Say, tell me, why does its lock fit my key? | Toni Morrison | ||
| 5cbc02f | A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 7b4ad42 | If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 2fca7e8 | Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 7117a68 | You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet--you've not got your niche in creation. But some day that will come, and meanwhile don't shrink from yourself, but face yourself calmly and bravely. Have courage; do the best you can with your burden. But above all be honourable. Cling to your honour for the sake of those others who share the sam.. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| aae8bfc | time wasted is not always a waste of time. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| ad2dbcf | Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws -- always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pas.. | prohibitionism | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 8c09a25 | The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value. | price value | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| f144633 | Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is about eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents - a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect? | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 10dcafa | But I like it | - Stephen Crane | ||
| 3668478 | There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. | names places | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 127eaa2 | You're my religion. You're all I've got. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 06c8c77 | The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless. | suffering | Mary Balogh | |
| ceee9a1 | Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others. | life | Christopher Pike | |
| 3fea28e | This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 047fac0 | Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| aa2c586 | It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| d3d636a | If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word "coincidence" exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists." | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 8f7c650 | Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder you are, and experiencing awe before this mystery....The second is a cosmological dimension, the dimension with which science is concerned - showing you what shape the universe is, but showing it in such a way that the mystery again comes through.... The third function is the sociological one - supporting a.. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 2d32b81 | The LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is--to me at least--more interesting. It is an intentionally achieved schizophrenia, with the expectation of a spontaneous remission--which, however, does not always follow. Yoga, too, is intentional schizophrenia: one breaks away from the world, plunging inward, and the ranges of vision experienced are in fact the same as those of a psychosis. But what, then, is the difference? What is the difference .. | metaphor yoga shamanism drowning lsd mysticism schizophrenia | Joseph Campbell | |
| 21e85fc | Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)" | god | Joseph Campbell | |
| a41ddb2 | Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress--stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth. | Timothy Ferriss |