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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bda2095 | Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare. | daring bravery courage dare scared | Neil Gaiman | |
| e0bb0fe | I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I've seen, such that I see nothing for the first time. A bonny girl, her hair fiery red, reminds me only of another hundred such lasses, and their mothers, and what they were as they grew, and what they looked like when they died. It is the curse of age, that all things are reflections of other things. | wistful | Neil Gaiman | |
| dcac382 | I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 65952ac | The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back. | love | Neil Gaiman | |
| bd286df | It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2fa7e51 | You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 54142f8 | The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| 1a52184 | Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| caa8384 | We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 5fec71e | Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 97aa308 | Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? | music hell | George Bernard Shaw | |
| f934650 | Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian. DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan." | Jude Watson | ||
| 4e9175e | Just then a word floated out through the buzz saw of Zapata-speak: . Dan tuned back in. "...the most beautiful tomb in Egypt," Ms. Zapata was saying. "You probably know the queen because there's a famous bust of her." A photo flashed on the screen. Dan raised his hand. "That's Nefertiti," he said. "Different queen." Ms. Zapata frowned. She looked at her notes. "You could be right, Dan. Uh...let's move on." Another slide flashed on-screen. .. | nefertari the39clues | Jude Watson | |
| d2e31e0 | How true it was that one needed to be seen by others to be sure of one's own existence. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 83cd154 | The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal cortex) is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. This must be so, to be the supremely complex social species that we are. Ironically, it seems that the genetic program of .. | frontal-cortex genes | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| dc14f67 | True ownership can come only from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from a confidence in your own decisions, and from the use of your time in constant pursuit of education and improvement. | Robert Greene | ||
| c540c44 | There is a popular saying in Japan that goes "Tada yori takai mono wa nai," meaning: "Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge." THE UNSPOKEN WAY, MICHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, 1988" | Robert Greene | ||
| a4fbd1a | Don't leave your relationships to chance. Pray for godly people to come into your life with whom you can connect. Don't force relationships to happen. Pray for them to happen. Then when they do, nurture them with prayer. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| dd779b1 | By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right. | Scott B. Smith | ||
| f97d0d3 | And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. | human-nature | Mario Puzo | |
| e4e67d3 | Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone | friendship | Mario Puzo | |
| 190381f | And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. | secrecy | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 4c7ba8c | And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes." | Jess Walter | ||
| a24664a | I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 695da97 | I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| e51e49d | ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others. Of building loyalty and support. Of longevity. Of repeating and retaining your success. It repulses advantages and opportunities. It's a magnet for enemies and errors. It is Scylla and Charybdis. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cb0899b | The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e83b999 | This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this was impossible if you thought that these myths should be understood literally. Hence the furor occasioned by , published by Charles Darwin. The book was not intended as an attack on religion, but was a sober exploration of a scientific hypothesis. But because by this time people were reading the cosmogonies of Genesis as .. | evolution religion science | Karen Armstrong | |
| 94148ce | We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. | hopes reason truth | Charles Darwin | |
| a8c4dd2 | To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 2b77d49 | All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 09fe9e6 | There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits. | discussion rhetoric propaganda logic | Hannah Arendt | |
| 455f53e | Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches, when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to do things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's life. I sugg.. | Harper Lee | ||
| e06d52a | Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. | Harper Lee | ||
| ab1aa3f | At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them. We might further ponder how those discoveries may one day transform life on Earth. Absent such curiosity, we are no different from the provincial farmer who expresses no need to venture beyond the county line, bec.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| d4d67f3 | Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| aa3deba | Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them. | Hayao Miyazaki | ||
| 94b65c5 | Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes. | sorrow living living-on waiting | H. Rider Haggard | |
| f0f0ca5 | Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of eac.. | good-and-evil fate time free-will choice change chain-of-events long-term circumstance intention cause-and-effect results opposites result chance crime | H. Rider Haggard | |
| fc14fa5 | It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption. | hopelessness morality amorality growing-old corruption immorality cynicism | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 6da9c11 | And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; | William Blake | ||
| 8941510 | But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even. | humor | Irvine Welsh | |
| d5bd651 | I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains. | humor jell-o random | Megan McDonald | |
| cf51f28 | Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards. | Leif Enger |