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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 082b3ec | The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 09e3c32 | The world can only see us as we see ourselves. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 62a6faf | There's a fine line between criminality and genius." -Dan Cahill" | Jude Watson | ||
| ea8e27f | Lists are a form of power. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 7f812d5 | Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 2dbec13 | This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere. | here-and-now love | A.S. Byatt | |
| 2ee9f57 | Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. | Robert M Sapolsky | ||
| ca029a2 | those who make a show or display of innocence are the least innocent of all. | Robert Greene | ||
| 38a6bff | At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. It has a natural, assertive energy to it. Your Life's Task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work. You have a destiny to fulfill. The stronger you feel and maintain it--as a force, a voice or in whatever form-- the greater your chance of fulfilling this Life's Task and ac.. | Robert Greene | ||
| c846367 | As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow; as long as one person is subject to an undeserved pain, the worship of a God is a demoralizing humiliation. As long as there is one mistake in the universe; as long as one wrong is permitted to exist; as long as there is hatred and antagonism among mankind, the existence of a God is a moral impossibility. said: 'Injustice u.. | earth hatred impossibility ingersoll injustice justice mankind mistake morality pain robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll sorrow suffering universe wrong | Joseph Lewis | |
| 255871a | Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves. | bold boldness crown king politics power | Robert Greene | |
| 95212ae | The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. | David Mitchell | ||
| a93479e | What in life can love not penetrate? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 246b2ae | If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 93ab10c | After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children,too. | Mitch Albom | ||
| d651733 | We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts. For blizzards our gizzards Dr tremble with joy. An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail. We fly forward and backward, Upside down and flat. Do we flinch? Do we wail? Do we skitter or scutter? No, we yarp one more pellet And fly straight for the gutter! Do we screech? Do we scream? Do we gurg.. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| afe6b27 | Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo | possible | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 558175f | It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, .. | death gratitude love mother space time | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 38e9082 | Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all confused. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 3d818e5 | If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out," she said. "Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is- a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers." | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| ed46b61 | But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 899d16d | It goes on, he thought. The internecine hate. Perhaps the seeds are there, in that. They will eat one another at last, and leave the rest of us here and there in the world, still alive. Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0158b8a | We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter - like acute disturbance of middle ear. Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0ef6219 | She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 35c6bed | Everything is true," he said. "Everything anybody has ever thought." -- | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 8fa7549 | An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android." | empathy identity-crisis | Philip K. Dick | |
| be9fcf2 | We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived this . . . now I don't know where to go. Screech with fear, only. Run away. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 2f26223 | The heart is a place of secrets... | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f226cf5 | Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind, Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried, Deep in her Southern soil. | carolina-rain civil-war civil-war-romance-novella france historical-fiction historical-romance nancy-b-brewer | Nancy B. Brewer | |
| 6608616 | The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs. "Say something," Gansey said. "That bell." "Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey." | richard-gansey the-raven-king | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| 5f76111 | Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 091c699 | For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body. | insomnia sleep sleepless sleeplessness terror | Charlie Huston | |
| d8e4bd1 | Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5b87177 | Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 34ebb07 | The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 30664b9 | A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands when the baneful word seared my reeling brain--I was a homosexual. I thought of the painted simpering female impersonators I'd seen in a Baltimore nightclub. Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things? I walked the streets in a daze like a man with a light concussion. I w.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| fcd51c9 | all abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. i could not have done what i have done as a writer had i been a gifted mathematician or physicist. honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| e12e4a9 | The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time... | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 1e0aaf5 | What's with the serum?" I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything...Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..." Or a joke." Precisely. Arty type...No principles..." | arty-type benway burroughs naked-lunch | William S. Burroughs | |
| a9c72c4 | O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time... | drug-craze transgression | William S. Burroughs | |
| b0da20d | The white cat symbolizes the silvery moon prying into corners and cleansing the sky for the day to follow. The white cat is "the cleaner" or "the animal that cleans itself," described by the Sanskrit word Margaras, which means "the hunter who follows the track; the investigator; the skip tracer." The white cat is the hunter and the killer, his path lighted by the silvery moon. All dark, hidden places and beings are revealed in that inexorab.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 63b0053 | Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the ex.. | politics privilege | William S. Burroughs | |
| 3afaff7 | In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| c0d7daa | Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty. | William S. Burroughs |