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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6e8072 | You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. | teaching | Roald Dahl | |
| a5a25ba | I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they mi.. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 33c0f34 | We must hurry!' said Mr. Wonka. 'We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it! | Roald Dahl | ||
| 5eae11c | I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake. | joy love smiles | Elie Wiesel | |
| 244cb75 | To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. | fear | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 4de0d12 | The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| cab89dc | mn l'fDl 'l nnm , l'n lHy@ stSbH 'kthr `T | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 0e6da23 | In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. | nostalgia recollection | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 1d9c31a | l`lm sytkhwzq `ndm ysfr lbshr f~ `rb@ ldrj@ lwl~ w ldb f~ `rb@ lshHn | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8154e0b | My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires. | Tom Robbins | ||
| e008b5e | How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. | Tom Robbins | ||
| dbc5a61 | I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 06db27b | Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going | humans | Tom Robbins | |
| b1738d2 | I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 36a2ca3 | Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3298414 | We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. | Brené Brown | ||
| 9db9d52 | The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time-- | democracy feudalism government power | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| da4edeb | Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive. | hope survival | Dave Pelzer | |
| a768a5a | The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world. | Howard Zinn | ||
| fc57370 | Holy crap! Your story was so long I forgot the beginning! - Ichigo Kurosaki | Tite Kubo | ||
| 7a78be1 | I had a lot of things I wanted to do... I want to be a teacher...I also want to be an astronaut...and also make my own cake shop...I want to go to the sweets bakery and say "I want one of everything", ohhhh I wish I could live life five times over...Then I'd be born in five different places, and I'd stuff myself with different food from around the world...I'd live five different lives with five different occupations...and then, for those fi.. | Tite Kubo | ||
| 07b04fc | I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 3e5f066 | When in doubt," the mage Numair Salmalin had taught the pages, "Shoot the wizard." | wizards | Tamora Pierce | |
| 1386834 | These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?" | kol twins | tamora pierce | |
| 376f11c | The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat. | food marketing | Michael Pollan | |
| 88959df | Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy. | librarians | Marilyn Johnson | |
| 4193ac9 | You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. | memory | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| bcd1f7e | in despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2e8b94a | nWa 'kbra hn@in ymknu 'n tulHqh bnsnin fy `Srn wmin jnsn hy 'n tn`thu b'nhu mHrwmun mina l'Sl@i wlrd@i wlmwhbi lkhS@, w'n tqwla `nhu: nWhu rjlun `dy. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b1b0939 | But you are a great sinner, that's true," he added almost solemnly, and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0213d7b | Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6201601 | Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 668f629 | Speak of a wolf and you see his tail! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 81ffe84 | Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave. | fyodor-dostoyevsky notes-from-the-underground slave | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8389d4b | When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?" I'm not taking them off." Why not?" I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth." | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 37a9cd0 | Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much. | Homer Hickam | ||
| b35a16c | All I've done is give you a book," she said. "You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it." | Homer Hickam | ||
| a192051 | Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom. | peace spirituality wisdom yoga | Paramahansa Yogananda | |
| 118384d | What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| b96ea57 | the brilliant book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many of those who commit violence never learned these skills. If you know a young person who lacks them all, that's an important pre-incident indicator, and he needs.. | Gavin de Becker | ||
| a26f7c6 | I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn't be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own. | reclusive | Penny Reid | |
| 1547eb5 | Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people." -- Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power ~Jennifer~" | Penny Reid | ||
| 5116d86 | I had an odd thought just then, that I should only ever whisper her name, and that she should always be close enough to hear it. | Penny Reid | ||
| 8dedff9 | If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them. | discipline motivation | John C. Maxwell |