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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1e74c98 | I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 442607f | When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. | men mistress wife | Arthur Golden | |
| 1166f42 | I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want! | Nora Roberts (Treasures Lost Treasures Found) | ||
| 081fc8b | Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it. | Nora Roberts | ||
| d60248e | Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. | science science-and-religion | Dan Brown | |
| ccbdcff | In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize. | Dan Brown | ||
| 00bc458 | It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion--good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel. | Dan Brown | ||
| 8e34294 | the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means 'hidden' or 'obscured.' In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or 'occult,' and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything 'occult' as evil, and the prejudice survived. > | Dan Brown | ||
| d90de7b | I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous. | Dan Brown | ||
| 765d9a7 | So long as they speak your name, you shall never die. | Dan Brown | ||
| d0965b1 | The price of greatness...is responsibility - Winston Churchill | Dan Brown | ||
| f136883 | It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes, the way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 29f16f4 | The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works-- also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food. | George S. Clason | ||
| 2cf2ac7 | I wanted to freeze in the moment in my mind forever because there's nothing better than flutters of the heart | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 37c57e5 | The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law. | John Grisham | ||
| 2d6dfa6 | judge not that ye be not judged | John Grisham | ||
| ebb686b | Turn right up ahead," he directed. "It'll take us directly to my cottage." She did as he asked. "Does your cottage have a name?" "My Cottage." "I might have known," she muttered. He smirked. Quite a feat, in her opinion, since he looked sick as a dog. "I'm not kidding," he said. Sure enough, in another minute they pulled up in front of an elegant country house, complete with a small, unobtrusive sign in front reading, MY COTTAGE" | Julia Quinn | ||
| 7960030 | He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 7800f9a | Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch me again!" they heard Miranda roar. "Well,it doesn't look like you'll have much argument from your wife on that point", Olivia chirped." | Julia Quinn | ||
| c147042 | He loved her. He wanted her. He needed her. And he needed her now. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 07c50e0 | Simon stopped breathing until her forefinger touched his nipple, and then his hand shot up to cover hers. "I want you," he said. Her eyes flicked downward, and her lips curved ever so slightly. "I know." "No," he groaned, pulling her closer. "I want to be in your heart. I want-" His entire body shuddered when their skin touched. "I want to be in your soul." | love simon intimacy | Julia Quinn | |
| f27e1a5 | Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April. | metaphorical | Sarah Mlynowski | |
| 3bc7ce5 | The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold. | recession wall-street | Michael Lewis | |
| d364080 | People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!" | population error misguidedness problems | Jared Diamond | |
| aa40922 | I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead. | loner | Barry Eisler | |
| 9bc4cc1 | To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict. | James N. Frey | ||
| 05801e2 | When negative feelings are suppressed positive feelings become suppressed as well, and love dies. | John Gray | ||
| 017d678 | The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| e84997e | He who whets his steel, whets his courage | military | Steven Pressfield | |
| 14acdb7 | A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo) ... I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred) | Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman | ||
| a06d47c | Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life. | loss life love grieve | Euripides | |
| 1f7bd8d | Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them. | Euripides | ||
| 37c9817 | Diontsos]. Swoony type, long hair, bedroom eyes, cheeks like wine. | Euripides | ||
| f344629 | Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular informity, have an average intelligence comparable to our own. Of course they are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves -- nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution b.. | guns | Beryl Markham | |
| 04c4066 | The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 3c1a5e5 | No hay casualidades sino destinos. No se encuentra sino lo que se busca, y se busca lo que en cierto modo esta escondido en lo mas profundo y oscuro de nuestro corazon. Porque si no, ?como el encuentro con una misma persona no produce en dos seres los mismos resultados? ?Por que a uno el encuentro con un revolucionario lo lleva a la revolucion y al otro lo deja indiferente? Razon por la cual parece como que uno termina por encontrarse al fi.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 92770ea | go in the direction your head is pointed in. | Jung Chang | ||
| 8c3304d | The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence. | Jack London | ||
| b46505f | He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself. | Jack London | ||
| 06e3ad4 | He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial. | Jack London | ||
| 83eaad3 | You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly | Jack London | ||
| a24509f | The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours long became a chronic complaint with him. | Jack London | ||
| 6a0ced1 | Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased. | knowledge | Jack London | |
| 665c42a | The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narr.. | Jack London |