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| 19738f6 | Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. A.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8fcd3da | I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6d7ddc9 | Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an ssertion that he, the nerd, does not already know the information being imparted. But your older nerd has more self-confidence, and besides, understands that frequently people need to think out loud. And highly adv.. | nerds | Neal Stephenson | |
| 88c2110 | But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 52c6c98 | Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f455d4a | Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| ff94875 | She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f0cc6bf | He is thinking about asymmetry. This is a world, he is thinking, where you can lie in bed, listening to a song as you dream about someone you love, and your feelings and the music will resonate so powerfully and completely that it seems impossible that the beloved, whoever and wherever he or she might be, should not know, should not pick up this signal as it pulsates from your heart, as if you and the music and the love and the whole univer.. | love | Paul Murray | |
| 1c6b4e5 | What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 86e7550 | Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!" | living life tosca-lee ted-dekker forbidden mortal | Ted Dekker | |
| e519fdb | For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Tr.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 0485c16 | Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b8b3492 | Five years later, I take a deep, shuddery breath to stop myself crying. It's not just that I can't hold Aoife again, it's everything: It's grief for the regions we deadlanded, the ice caps we melted, the Gulf Stream we redirected, the rivers we drained, the coasts we flooded, the lakes we choked with crap, the seas we killed, the species we drove to extinction, the pollinators we wiped out, the oil we squandered, the drugs we rendered impot.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 145c4f2 | The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake ab.. | suicide life life-and-death | David Foster Wallace | |
| 8039967 | The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 945679f | But borrowing strength builds weakness. | weakness | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 4540b65 | Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase. Reactive people, on the other hand, focus their efforts in the Circle of Concern. They focus on the weakness of other people, the problems in the environment, and circumstances over which they have no control. The.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 4a74285 | What we want most is only to be held...and told...that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and Papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot-owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is Mama's long hair, is being afraid, and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...everything is going to be all right. | Truman Capote | ||
| 0f2c34d | And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow. | Edith Wharton | ||
| cf66b39 | Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. | religion humor mormonism robot | Douglas Adams | |
| d2cc3ae | Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f49e725 | Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. | Douglas Adams | ||
| acc6dc3 | You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f32b131 | He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 31b07a7 | Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..." | hitchhiker-s-guide space | Douglas Adams | |
| 8a3c027 | He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry. | Douglas Adams | ||
| fbd7bfd | Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,' said Aragorn. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c4dbf5c | Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f05ae19 | But perhaps you could call her perilous because she's so strong in herself. You , you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit in a river, but neither rock nor river would be to blame. | woman perlious strong | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 109e272 | I don't know,' said Frodo. 'It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard it long ago. Certainly it reminds me very much of Bilbo in the last years, before he went away. He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b179534 | And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9f7c250 | If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain's son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer," he said crossly, "say so at once and have done!" | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 61f72b5 | All shall love me and despair. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 417c870 | It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 68666fb | God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 8b093f4 | Never take advice from a donkey. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 0f9301c | Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Chris.. | hope christmas | David McCullough | |
| 504e706 | So, it was done, the break was made, in words at least: on July 2, 1776, in Philadelphia, the American colonies declared independence. If not all thirteen clocks had struck as one, twelve had, and with the other silent, the effect was the same. It was John Adams, more than anyone, who had made it happen. Further, he seems to have understood more clearly than any what a momentous day it was and in the privacy of two long letters to Abigail, .. | David McCullough | ||
| 0bc4ba2 | If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions ev.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 545a181 | All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. | madness sanity instrumental-rationality means modern-age efficiency ends modernity | Herman Melville | |
| 06a2867 | Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual paint.. | politics fahrenheit-451 power-of-words | Ray Bradbury | |
| d727911 | Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-o.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7bd69c4 | Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. | time moon sun | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9402adf | You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead | unhappy | Ray Bradbury |