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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 36b68c6 | It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone. | velma farewell noir | 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. | success individualism | 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. | shut-a-final-door o-henry-memorial | 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 | ||
| bff8a78 | If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b4a4de7 | Gandalf and Pippin came to Merry's room, and there they found Aragorn standing by the bed. 'Poor old Merry!' cried Pippin, and he ran to the bedside, for it seemed to him that his friend looked worse and a greyness in his face, as if a weight of years and sorrow lay upon him; and suddenly a fear seized Pippin that Merry would die. 'Do not be afraid,' Aragorn said, 'I came in time, and I have called him back. He is weary now, and grieved, a.. | tolkien athelas riders-of-rohan return-of-the-king meriadoc-brandybuck merry-brandybuck peregrin-took pippin-took pippin gandalf merry pipe j-r-r-tolkien rohan supper lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5475901 | The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone When Durin woke and walked alone. He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells; He stooped and looked in Mirrormere, And saw a crown of stars appear, As gems upon a silver thread, Above the shadow of his head. The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall Of mighty kings in Nar.. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| 9fad88d | I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure! | hope | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ac5dfda | My name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to. | tolkien the-two-towers language name | J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 106eaf1 | Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand. | victory | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0dde786 | On their deathbed men will speak true, they say. | truth deathbed | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2835a5d | That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b54a380 | Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs? | metaphor sadness cynicism | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| bd58331 | Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're ma.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 34e7687 | We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 8e22913 | Who ain't a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way-- either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content. | Herman Melville | ||
| 83d3466 | Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. | Herman Melville | ||
| 278946c | It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow. | friends friendship descriptions together friend shadows running childhood | Ray Bradbury | |
| cc9d52f | So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need. | love | Ray Bradbury | |
| 6a3fd20 | When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8e1f9e4 | It was September. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 9bd389e | Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist. | gtd value | David Allen | |
| 254fd2c | Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 7627f33 | Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 4b0d716 | That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty | David Guterson | ||
| eaec273 | i will stay alive. | Dave Pelzer |