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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f8a3832 | What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| fdf5f24 | Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon? To the unaided eye the brightest stars are more than a hundred times brighter than the dimmest. So the dim ones are obviously a hundred times farther away from Earth, aren't they? Nope. That simple argument boldly assumes that all stars are intrinsically equally luminous, automatically making the near ones brighter than the far ones. Stars, .. | physics | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 7225e84 | In the beginning, there was physics. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 028e464 | Travel was once a means of being elsewhere, or of being nowhere. Today it is the only way we have of feeling that we are somewhere. At home, surrounded by information, by screens, I am no longer anywhere, but rather everywhere in the world at once, in the midst of a universal banality - a banality that is the same in every country. To arrive in a new city, or in a new language, is suddenly to find oneself here and nowhere else. The body red.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| bb52ccc | Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? | bear child inuyasha kagome manga miroku my rumiko takahashi | Rumiko Takahashi | |
| 64dd645 | Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide. | Grimm Jacob And Wilhelm | ||
| 4d52da6 | I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes." -- | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 89fc524 | Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert. | Tony Hawk | ||
| d347ace | The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding. | Alain de Botton | ||
| c659c01 | Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 066131f | It's profoundly counter-intuitive for us to think of ourselves as mad. We seem so normal and mostly so good - to ourselves. It's everyone else who is out of step... And yet maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness. If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun. | Alain de Botton | ||
| c97815c | Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 9b6ccd0 | There is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry. | marry | Alain de Botton | |
| 6e25dd3 | Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. Our selves could be compared to an amoeba, whose outer walls are elastic, and therefore adapt to the environment. It is not that the amoeba has no dimensions, simply that it has no self-defined shape. It is my absurdist side that an absurdist person will draw out of me, and my seriousness that a serious person will evoke. If someone think.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0bc59ae | Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the present. Sometimes we think if we could just go back in time we would be happy. But anyone who attempts to reenter the past is sure to be disappointed. Anyone who has ever revisited the place of his birth after years of absence is shocked by the dif.. | James McBride | ||
| 6ae7824 | They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 9b5f84c | I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to! | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 513a7c7 | It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. | Emily Giffin | ||
| fdfd5c5 | A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. | mysticism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f9fefce | The prince's robes and beggar's rags, Are toadstools on the miser's bags. A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent | William Blake | ||
| bbe04f0 | Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d1e51f1 | Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| ff0e5d1 | Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder. | scripture | Leif Enger | |
| 791bc5b | You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals. | love | Michael Connelly | |
| a8fcf18 | If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days. | Anne Stuart | ||
| 74ac9fd | You are the ever-expanding universe to me | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| aa704e1 | So many miracles have not yet happened. | miracles | Kate DiCamillo | |
| a2c7a22 | Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day. | dream morning | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 97b7c01 | I can't control what you see or how you interpret what you see any more than I can control what you think of me. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 9fe9c90 | We never saw what was obvious until we were hit over the head with it. | Amy Harmon | ||
| bce2f51 | For the word is quick and powerful Sharper than any two-edged sword Piercing even to the dividing asunder Of soul and spirit Of joints and marrow It is a discerner of the thoughts And intents of the heart | Amy Harmon | ||
| e2f1d12 | Suddenly yearning had a flavor. It tasted like a king, a beautiful, frightening, infuriating man who flew into my life and began to free my words. | Amy Harmon | ||
| d9a11a0 | I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life. - Such as? - Procrastination and rationalization. | Bill Watterson | ||
| ab46588 | Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount. | drinking guilt | Tom Hodgkinson | |
| d938f55 | One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all along: However much you love them, your own children are only ever on loan. | David Mitchell | ||
| 95d9cbe | If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. | interesting losing perspectives thoughtful winning | David Mitchell | |
| 69645c1 | Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well. | David Mitchell | ||
| 12542b3 | You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information from one mind into the other. | David Mitchell | ||
| fa5b4cb | Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years. | war | David Mitchell | |
| 2c2aafe | Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter." | cal peanut peeps poisoned scott-westerfeld steel | Scott Westerfeld | |
| fc09bd2 | Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| fa2e0db | Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 518de9b | so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM | page-62 | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 750fed3 | In the blue time, math kicked ass. -Dess | Scott Westerfeld |