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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3df454c | If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable. | youth humor | Oscar Wilde | |
| cb3cff7 | I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss. | humor | Oscar Wilde | |
| db6518d | In the square below,' said the Happy Prince, 'there stands a little match-girl. She has let her matches fall in the gutter, and they are all spoiled. Her father will beat her if she does not bring home some money, and she is crying. She has no shoes or stockings, and her little head is bare. Pluck out my other eye, and give it to her, and her father will not beat her.' 'I will stay with you one night longer,' said the Swallow, 'but I cannot.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 28cbec5 | Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 653da84 | Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man. | religion god oscar-wilde ideal prophecy | Oscar Wilde | |
| 631ce54 | La unica manera de librarse de la tentacion es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b6060bf | Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| f3c7831 | I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c571fb9 | Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other. | Toni Morrison | ||
| c9b5bb1 | It's nice when grown people whisper to each other under the covers. Their ecstasy is more a leaf-sigh than bray and the body is the vehicle, not the point. They reach, grown people, for something beyond, way beyond and way, way down underneath tissue. They are remembering while they whisper the carnival dolls they won and the Baltimore boats they never sailed on. The pears they let hang on the limb because if they plucked them, they would b.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 7b53b87 | the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. | Toni Morrison | ||
| cab794f | It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose." | James A. Owen | ||
| 28d5079 | Secret #1 : One minute Goal Setting "People who feel good about themselves produce good results" | Ken Blanchard Spencer Johnson | ||
| 34204b9 | I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the workings of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby. II. What else should he be set for, with his staff? What, save to waylay with his lies, ensnare All travellers who might find him posted there, And ask the road? I guessed what skull.. | Robert Browning | ||
| 7f2ff11 | If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 92e2c68 | I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 7f68e99 | Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a54d637 | Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere! | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 3dbdffc | You bitch,' he said. 'You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6467bbb | Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on. I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays an.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6b1978c | Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 82168a9 | But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no difference in the night except that it was an even better time. If people br.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 58c74ff | Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it. | pain touc avoid | Mary Balogh | |
| 3d870f9 | You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure you that I will still love you when I have only the strength (and the scant teeth) left to gum those puckered lips. I shall love you when your bones are sharp enough to pierce my fragile flesh. I shall love you when the light in my own eyes fades for good and yours is the last sweet face I see. Because I am and ever shall.. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| fc4ec95 | Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm. | jedi peace justice | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| d1ecb46 | The soul is a circle | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 8f5b7bd | Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 86de6d6 | We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 5435c57 | Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come | Joseph Campbell | ||
| d5c7b6e | Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 3ed4d86 | He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 1ad28a8 | By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 30cbc0b | The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game" | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 04f5658 | I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. | friendship love nick-o-leary norah-silverberg crazy | Rachel Cohn | |
| 64247bf | It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us." | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 3809415 | I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance free this evening? | romance humor teen | Rachel Cohn | |
| 9674331 | But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself | J.R. Ward | ||
| 763a55d | And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him wanted to debate this break up until they both gave in and kept trying. But that wasn't fair. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 4c23b4a | Xhex couldn't stop herself from torturing them both. She sent him a mental scene, drilling the image right into his head : the two of them in a private bathroom, him up on the sink and leaning back, her with one foot planted on the counter, his sex deep in hers, the two of them panting. While he stared accross the crowded room, John's mouth parted, and the flush on his cheeks had nothing to do with embarrassment and everything to do with th.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| da3422c | Hey" V said into the darkness. "Hey" V went forward, rounding the foot of the bed, using the wall to navigate. Lowering his ass onto the mattress, he sat beside his best friend." | jr-ward vishous butch | J.R. Ward | |
| f8c03c0 | Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| d5fc4cd | Yes. He knows I'm dying, but he can't really accept it and he'll be all alone when I'm gone. Can't you help him? | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| eaf5738 | understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 4d3eb0c | There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former. | Malcolm Gladwell |