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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 00b681e | Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote to nihilism. Without the hope that the future will be better than the past, they could not go on. | John Gray | ||
| ee10eca | If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is. | love thonolan | Jean M. Auel | |
| ca53fcd | The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out. | introversion privacy | Anne Carson | |
| effe4e6 | Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour o.. | Euripides | ||
| e1f434c | I understand too well the dreadful act I'm going to commit, but my judgement can't check my anger, and that incites the greatest evils human beings do. | Euripides | ||
| 1e4b42d | There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a leisurely lifetime. Whoever writes a new one can afford a certain complacency in the knowledge that his is a new picture agreeing with no one else's, but likely to be haugthily disagreed with by all those who believed in some other Africa. ... Being thus all things to all authors, it follows, I suppose, that Africa must be all thin.. | Beryl Markham | ||
| afaf963 | It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 37826da | limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. | Jack London | ||
| 65e79dc | A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| dc20924 | If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it... | little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 4847bd5 | I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman, and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience. It is natural to think of.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8bab417 | We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~ | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 11b1822 | Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam rises high, And sturdily wash, and rinse, and wring, And fasten the clothes to dry; Then out in the free fresh air they swing, Under the sunny sky. I wish we could wash from our hearts and our souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they; Then on the earth there would be indeed A glorious washing-day! Along the path of a useful .. | purity | Louisa May Alcott | |
| a116c50 | I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 90d2280 | If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! | malediction | Charles Dickens | |
| dfddfb7 | Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief." | sorrow trial | Charles Dickens | |
| a22aff2 | A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars. | passion | Charles Dickens | |
| 485837e | All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c0cb5ea | Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 024d421 | The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder -- its DNA -- Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| e897a4f | Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 33b924d | I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 36b68c6 | It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone. | farewell noir velma | Raymond Chandler | |
| 6c47059 | The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. | mystery-suspense noir | Raymond Chandler | |
| 9293f04 | That's it?" Jason asked. "You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?" No, not dying, Son. Living." | Ted Dekker | ||
| c41238c | Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 8b7e048 | Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou! | Ted Dekker | ||
| e19d11c | no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars. | jail | Ted Dekker | |
| 06b1c1d | An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school." | lifelong-learning | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 731eb8c | Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| ccd49b3 | We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you. | individualism success | Stephen R. Covey | |
| bcd882c | Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 1763f75 | Wake up! If you knew for certain that you had a terminal illness - if you had precious little time left to make use of your life and consider who you are, you'd not waste time on self-indulgence or fear, lethargy or ambition. Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all. | life | Dan Millman | |
| 8ac095a | I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or tres fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful. | Truman Capote | ||
| b695df1 | He'd always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist. | o-henry-memorial shut-a-final-door | Truman Capote | |
| 60946a3 | Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one. | Truman Capote | ||
| 96a8835 | How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it? | Douglas Adams | ||
| e703e7f | He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 075ab9c | Lemon??!! | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5c7d62e | Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you. | hitchhiker-s-guide panic | Douglas Adams | |
| 2e900b7 | The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules | relationships | Douglas Adams | |
| f5a38c4 | High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 008f911 | What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? 'Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' " "I reject that entirely," said Dirk sharply. "The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbably lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is that it is hopelessly i.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f73e8da | No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her. | Douglas Adams |