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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6358d4b | Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| c202539 | My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4ac8d87 | I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after | wilde oscar | Gyles Brandreth | |
| c872bef | People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 2509a8c | Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 244507a | The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 714c290 | In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. | press | Oscar Wilde | |
| a2c37a2 | Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also. | religion | Oscar Wilde | |
| 3d7f8bc | I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen months at any rate, so that if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautiful books; and what joy can be greater? | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8b4a47b | You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8bf5c7e | Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d3cd623 | To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian." | women | Oscar Wilde | |
| 37dfdd5 | Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 085cc3f | There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 9e709eb | Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will. | nature people greed fear life journy ambition humankind emotions | Brian L. Weiss | |
| c5b85fd | People do not need saving. People need love, support, and encouragement that they can withstand any trials and will always come out stronger, wiser, and more compassionate. I cannot shelter anyone from the storms of life, or they will never grow, learn, and expand. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 688f7cc | To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| c133ad2 | As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts." | music what-matters fiddle | Robert Fulghum | |
| 2580fce | Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak or strong. | Penny Jordan | ||
| 966e3c2 | Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises? | exodus judiasm israel | Leon Uris | |
| b23d0b7 | I know," said Peter. "Perhaps better than anyone. But you can't stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo's Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick--the real choice--is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. "It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere... "...but even Peter Pan had to grow up .. | life inspirational peter-pan jack childhood | James A. Owen | |
| 634e5bb | Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?" | humor | James A. Owen | |
| 8d69c0a | I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. | From the ancient scroll marked III in the Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino. | ||
| 114dbed | Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Muad Cheade was Marshal-General. The man was as mad as a hare in spring thaw. Twice every day he searched his bodyservant for poison, and he drank nothing but vinegar and water which he claimed was sovereign against the poison the fellow fed him, but he ate everything the man prepared for as long as I knew him. Once he had a grove of oaks choppe.. | madness humor | Robert Jordan | |
| d3c2c5a | I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate | Robert Graves | ||
| 16e2f8c | I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| affb316 | A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 05a1755 | All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 129c733 | Come on, who saw what happened?" "I did," I volenteered. "Well?" "Buttwipe wanted to know what jerkface was looking at." I turned turned eyes on the bloody and dirt-smeared brawlers. "You were barely 3-inches apart. Couldn't you see that you were both looking at each other?" The teacher's face reddened. "Who do you think you are? Jerry Seinfeld?" "You must be confused with another student," I told him. "My name is Capricorn Anderson." -.. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 55ac4d9 | But you have no house and no courtyard to your no-house, he thought. You have no family but a brother who goes to battle tomorrow and you own nothing but the wind and the sun and an empty belly. The wind is small, he thought, and there is no sun. You have four grenades in your pocket but they are only good to throw away. You have a carbine on your back but it is only good to give away bullets. You have a message to give away. And you're ful.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6792371 | That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b4030db | In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev | reading hemingway | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 2244e92 | Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | ||
| 21d9242 | I love you. I love you. I love you. Always have, probably always will. Happy?" she said. He stopped when he was standing mere inches away. Reaching out, he captured her face in his hands and smoothed his thumbs across her cheekbones to clear her tears. "You have no idea how relieved I am to hear you say that," he said." | romance | Sarah Mayberry | |
| c95e93f | It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about. | Tim Winton | ||
| 767539b | I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again...." | Mary Balogh | ||
| 88c4531 | I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise." | eighteen | Mary Balogh | |
| 0a873ee | The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 05ec7a2 | Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind. | thirst-volume-1 christopher-pike | Christopher Pike | |
| 062e589 | The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error. | sita | Christopher Pike | |
| 27b7abc | Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exceptio.. | evolution history historians progressives conservatives progressive society | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 16596db | Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. | myth dream | Joseph Campbell | |
| 7e0fe2c | The problem is that people have tried to look away from space and from the meaning of the moon landing. I remember seeing a picture of an astronaut standing on the moon. It was up at Yale and someone has scrawled on it, 'So what?' That is the arrogance of the kind of academic narrowness one too often sees; it is trapped in its own predictable prejudices, its own stale categories. It is the mind dulled to the poetry of existence. It's fashio.. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 4e60cce | Once we have broken free of the prejudices of our own provincially limited ecclesiastical, tribal, or national rendition of the world archetypes, it becomes possible to understand that the supreme initiation is not that of the local motherly fathers, who then project aggression onto the neighbors for their own defense. The good news, which the World Redeemer brings and which so many have been glad to hear, zealous to preach, but reluctant, .. | Joseph Campbell |