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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f6c3d20 | Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| d141d46 | Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden. | true true-to-life | William S. Burroughs | |
| aad473d | The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| b59c8ab | If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. | Epictetus | ||
| e70bf40 | Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad? | Epictetus | ||
| 624ab8f | The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not. | Marcus Aurelius | ||
| 59e0b5a | On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. | Epictetus | ||
| 82b82ba | But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| d7079ef | You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f090952 | Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 7799d7f | Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years. "I think you're crazy," was the way Clevinger had responded to Dunbar's discovery. "Who wants to know?" Dunbar answered. "I mean it," Clevinger insisted. "Who cares?" Dunbar answered. "I .. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 59b90e0 | How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President? | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a1303fb | Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you. | Scott Adams | ||
| 63287aa | It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. | color-master | Aimee Bender | |
| 3cae4a3 | A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| cd38440 | I looked for perfection, and I found something better. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 062d64e | Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3d2e280 | Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c3bb561 | Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 76c54b3 | O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man's mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons! | compassion bible | Orson Scott Card | |
| d3f8e64 | Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth. | petra ender | Orson Scott Card | |
| aaa38e4 | The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8588424 | But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. | lies the-truth stories | Orson Scott Card | |
| a6e8ea6 | The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet. | toilet-humor | Orson Scott Card | |
| 4d6bceb | you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finall.. | time captain-dimak catching-mistakes misuse-of-time information mistakes teaching children | Orson Scott Card | |
| 12c6034 | The Land of Dreams, that mystical realm, where the oddest of visions appear, come wander through scenes of joyful peace, or stampeded through nightmares of fear. Dare we open those secret doors, down dusty paths of mind, in long-forgotten corners, what memories we'll find. Who rules o'er the Kingdom of Night, where all is not what it seems? 'Tis I, the Weaver of Tales, for I am the Dreamer of Dreams! | Brian Jacques | ||
| 24fd507 | Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived. | Brian Jacques | ||
| c0087d6 | We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. | observation royalty | Robin McKinley | |
| 2f9e08b | Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 285506f | Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e71031e | Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation." | punctuation manners grammar | Lynne Truss | |
| 058828b | You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole. | kneebiter-in-u-s | Douglas Adams | |
| 28d2594 | The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| f89a06a | The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| a267658 | Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed. | hate | Anthony Burgess | |
| ccba25b | As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time - Now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomny ones use like, inspiration and what Bog sends. Now it was lovely music that came into my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on, and.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 6cc6e4a | But if you eat this chap who's God,' said Llewelyn stoutly, 'how can it be horrible? If it's alright to eat God why is it horrible to eat Jim Whittle?' 'Because,' said Dymphna reasonably, ' if you eat God there's always plenty left. You can't eat God up because God just goes on and on and on and God can't ever be finished... | religion humor | Anthony Burgess | |
| c717eb6 | Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.) | le-petit-prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 875dbe0 | He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making. It is to be proud of a victory won by our comrades. It is to feel, as we place our stone, that we are contributing to the building of the world. | responsibility society | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 49d3bd2 | Yeah, one of the Arum does owe me a favor." A winsome grin appeared. "And his name would be Hunter." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c34d980 | Luc blinked innocently. That little fuck. "I gave you a piece of opal and a Luxen to nom-nom on." | jennifer-l-armentrout luc obsession | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 3718262 | You two should really get a room," Apollo said from out of nowhere. "My poor eyes..." I groaned. Even in his true identity, he still had impeccable timing. "Gods," Aiden spat. He pulled back, casting Apollo a disgusted look over my head. "Do you get off on sneaking up on us?" "You probably don't want to know what I get off on." I made a face. "Ew." | alex apollo | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| fb7704f | The god laughed darkly. "Let's just say I made sure he was playing on our team." Curious, I started to ask how, but Apollo grinned at me. "Use your imagination," he said, and my imagination went to some really weird places." | apollo | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 7e98e01 | The Hummer hovered there a second, and then flipped over the second vehicle. Through the air it tipped over and over--something was flung from one of the windows, perhaps a person. Seatbelts save lives. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |