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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| de2398f | All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable. | Simon Singh | ||
| dbec768 | Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 0349696 | Miss me? Bet you did ... so would I. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 85b044b | Now for my pains, promise me-" And she hesitated. "What?" asked Marius. "Promise me!" "I promise you." "Promise to kiss me on the forehead when I'm dead. I'll feel it." She let her head fall back on Marius's knees and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless, but just when Marius supposed her forever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes, revealing the somber depths of death, and said to him in an accent wh.. | death Éponine marius | Victor Hugo | |
| d56dbaa | His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d6219a8 | When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. | Victor Hugo | ||
| da73751 | Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 765c317 | I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 04979dc | He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d2807e6 | And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged on for months past? Doing nothing, expecting nothing; merging night in day; feeling but the sensation of cold when I let the fire go out, of hunger when I forgot to eat: and then a ceaseless sorrow, and, at times, a very delirium of desire to behold my Jane again. Yes: for her restoration I longed, far more th.. | love mr-rochester jane-eyre sight | Charlotte Brontë | |
| d63578f | But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself? | villette | Charlotte Brontë | |
| e52d881 | I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naive to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 9d38e5e | Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-.. | obscure skeptic | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 70d8543 | My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. | world living | Charlotte Brontë | |
| b6f98d5 | And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful. | T.A. Barron | ||
| db2a17a | And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues... | dreams ispirational | T.A. Barron | |
| de497ca | Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy | bringing prissy scarlett doctors birth miss | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 1d613be | Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| d9664c6 | Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.. | history life sence | Jon Krakauer | |
| dec382a | We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9ccfb6a | And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.... And this was most vexing of all," he noted, "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f940c93 | Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 1bbf277 | We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy. | belonging | Polly Horvath | |
| 6921a25 | Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that. | Bette Greene | ||
| 1c8de1a | Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. | George Eliot | ||
| cc38b82 | Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a9f3365 | Have you ever watched a baby learning to walk? He totters, arms stretched out to balance himself. He wobbles - and falls, perhaps bumps his nose. Then he puts the palms of his little hands flat on the floor, hikes his rear end up, looks around to see if anybody is watching him. If nobody is, usually he doesn't bother to cry, just precariously balances himself - and tries again. Well, the baby can teach us. What you've undertaken...isn't a s.. | christy catherine-marshall christy-huddleston | Catherine Marshall | |
| 0f8d15c | But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. | lies passion life | James Salter | |
| 86d5e2a | Even though I know the rain is fake, it feels the same as real rain, and I desperately need that. | Beth Revis | ||
| 7bcda1f | My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| f431051 | There is an old story about a worker suspected of stealing: every evening, as he leaves the factory, the wheelbarrow he rolls in front of him is carefully inspected. The guards can find nothing. It is always empty. Finally, the penny drops: what the worker is stealing are the wheelbarrows themselves... | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| ff9ccf7 | The "pursuit of happiness" is such a key element of the "American (ideological) dream" that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: "We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Where did the somewhat awkward "pursuit of happiness" come from in this famous op.. | slavery happiness property | Slavoj Žižek | |
| cbd75df | There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 075936c | There are so many things I would tell you if I thought that you would listen and so many more you would tell me if you believed I would understand | Sarah Kay | ||
| 0739457 | I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British. | morality british | John Le Carré | |
| c3998be | Todo el mundo sabe que una bola de nieve en la cara es el comienzo perfecto de una amistad duradera. | la-ladrona-de-libros | Markus Zusak | |
| e03944c | Rudy Steiner temia el beso de la ladrona de libros. Debia de haberlo deseado con todas sus fuerzas. Debio de haberla querido con todo su corazon. Tanto, que nunca mas volveria a pedirselo y se iria a la tumba sin el. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5d1b84a | Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4cbbb82 | It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time. | insight | Markus Zusak | |
| b5083db | Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 72a3f77 | To be simple is no small matter. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| d211475 | I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| a347cbf | P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate--whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama. | literature religion intelligence life | Bart D. Ehrman | |
| 4538536 | Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. | Dante Alighieri |