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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4a5e0e9 | Red tape has killed more people than bullets... | Ben Bova | ||
| 4af12f0 | But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. | William Goldman | ||
| 70621c1 | Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover. | poem poetry don-t-you-forget-about-me dan-humphrey gossip-girl | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| e8bd415 | Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief. | Jess Walter | ||
| 28b0ddd | Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 7dc8d6e | I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness. | romance rules-of-attraction queen-victoria historical queen historical-romance | Christina Dodd | |
| 17ad0cc | Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you. | dark romance love scent-of-darkness demon werewolf paranormal paranormal-romance | Christina Dodd | |
| c9e3b7c | Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe. | Jane Porter | ||
| 2b95743 | Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| e326ab8 | Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac. | pg-28 | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 7d09ba1 | The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. | poetry music stimulation character-building taste emotions intellect | Charles Darwin | |
| 95482fd | The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts, but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject. I love to amuse myself with trifles, by beginning a hundred things and never finishing one of them, by going or coming as I take either into my head, by changing my project at every instant, by f.. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| fee85b8 | If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, becaus.. | Harper Lee | ||
| 13f5e84 | In the twentieth century, astrophysicists in the United States discovered galaxies, the expanding of the universe, the nature of supernovas, quasars, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, the origin of the elements, the cosmic microwave background, and most of the known planets in orbit around solar systems other than our own. Although the Russians reached one or two places before us, we sent space probes to Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| a326fee | No amount of promises can guarantee love | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| ccfc36f | The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort." | status | Alain de Botton | |
| bbd5387 | Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraord.. | Alain De Botton | ||
| e78658c | He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction. | intelligence fault-finding mediocrity | Alain de Botton | |
| 30ff1b1 | At the heart of sulk lies a confusing mixture of intense anger and an equally intense desire not to communicate what one is angry about. The sulker both desperately needs the other person to understand and yet remains utterly committed to doing nothing to help them do so. The very need to explain forms the kernel of the insult: if the partner requires an explanation, he or she is clearly not worth of one. We should add that it is a privileg.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| bba7e93 | Love begins with the experience of being understood in highly supportive and uncommon ways. They grasp the lonely parts of us; we don't have to explain why we find a particular joke so funny; we have the same people; we both want to try that rather specialised sexual scenario. It cannot continue. When we run up against the reasonable limits of our lovers' capacities for understanding, we mustn't blame them for dereliction. They were not tr.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 53caf8a | Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 7994423 | Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche) | Edith Hamilton | ||
| 2b4bc48 | In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet. | war nuclear-weapons weaponry | William L. Shirer | |
| 6ad0ad8 | Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend. | Emily Giffin | ||
| dd284b8 | And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 0c25a7d | And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 87ff8aa | Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge. - "A DIVINE IMAGE" | William Blake | ||
| 10efec6 | And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sl.. | William Blake | ||
| c91b07e | Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when | William Blake | ||
| e09eab8 | I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog for a schoolmaster to my children I have blotted out from light & living the dove & the nightingale And I have caused the earthworm to beg from door to door I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just I have taught .. | William Blake | ||
| a7d9b38 | I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro' midnight streets I hear How th.. | poetry | William Blake | |
| 2e79d83 | excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand. | madness inspiration intellectual enthusiasm | William Blake | |
| a0b0a9d | The fact that you use the term "cunt" in the same breath as "sexist", shows that you display the same muddled, fucked-up thinking oan this issue as you do oan everything else." | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 6cf19f7 | Bruce, you're an ugly and silly old man. You're very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You're the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You're a mess. You've gone wrong somewhere pal. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d4037c8 | Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them." | men women freedom | Doris Lessing | |
| 245ba74 | What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?" | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 95fc3fd | I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 0f7de3d | If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents? | injustice system innocence justice police | Michael Connelly | |
| 20ef231 | To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 6a3a0be | If God saved my life, why didn't he save their lives? Is my life so much more valuable? So I'm special... and they're not? | Amy Harmon | ||
| 0b8c5cd | You can't control who loves you...you can't let someone love you anymore than you can make someone love you | Amy Harmon | ||
| 81e8b4b | I wanted to bite him hard enough to express my frustration, yet sweetly enough that he'd let me do it again. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 53c65c2 | The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink COW milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'? | Bill Watterson | ||
| 46d2017 | Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell? | Ann-Marie MacDonald |