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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fcf4175 | Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts. | garden gardening nature nonconformity preservation seeds | Michael Pollan | |
| 7fc5ef3 | Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. | hubris innocense | Michael Pollan | |
| 57231da | The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art of conversation and acquire the habits of civilization: sharing, listening, taking turns, navigating differences, arguing without offending. What have been called the "cultural contradictions of capitalism"--its tendency to undermine the stabilizing social forms it depends on--are on vivid display today at the modern Americ.. | meals | Michael Pollan | |
| 60f75a0 | Above all else show the data. | graphics statistics | Edward R. Tufte | |
| 5c1ccba | Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0a68c5a | She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice. | suffering | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| a3e0f8b | The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. (Zosima's advi.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 48ddb25 | It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was..." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 29d208a | Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in bliss so that nothing but bubbles would dance on the surface of his bliss, as on a sea...and even then every man, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer libel, would play you some loathsome trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive rationality his fatal fantastic element..... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c4ef096 | And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 68ebe6a | Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 29182c3 | y lZlmk 'yth lqlwb l`zyz@ ! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 098729a | Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| e131115 | Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you. | St. Augustine of Hippo | ||
| b1402b2 | Sorry, sometimes when I try to rhyme I end up sounding like Yoda. | Penny Reid | ||
| 27180cb | If they don't learn about launching rockets at home, then they'll just learn about it on the streets." I glowered at him. "That sounds like something Hitler would say." | Penny Reid | ||
| 7338428 | You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f305f21 | Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books. | motivation | John C. Maxwell | |
| ffb4054 | The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love. | Elizabeth Alexander | ||
| 87021b7 | A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 39a2792 | Be ... suspicious ... of all those who employ the term 'we' or 'us' without your permission. This is [a] form of surreptitious conscription ... Always ask who this 'we' is; as often as not it's an attempt to smuggle tribalism through the customs. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 24aecac | Ivanov- "Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism. We for the first time are consequent..." "Yes," said Rubashov. "So consequent, that in the interests of a just distribution of land we deliberately let die of starvation about five million farmers and their families in one year. So consequent were we in the liberation of human beings from t.. | politics revolution | Arthur Koestler | |
| bc30e9b | The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| b0f8149 | The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising." [ | exercise failure imagination revision writing | Stephen King | |
| b1e59ff | Darth Sullivan | Chloe Neill | ||
| 432a6d2 | Old boy," said Grimes, "you're in love." "Nonsense!" "Smitten?" said Grimes. "No, no." "The tender passion?" "No." "Cupid's jolly little darts?" "No." "Spring fancies, love's young dream?" "Nonsense!" "Not even a quickening of the pulse?" "No." "A sweet despair?" "Certainly not." "A trembling hope?" "No." "A ? a ?" "Nothing of the sort." "Liar!" said Grimes." | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| ff355e9 | That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches. | june lips shade smoke | Evelyn Waugh | |
| e318256 | So how big is this thing anyway?" Desideria asked Chayden made a sound of irritation. "You know, that's not really a question I want to hear my younger sister ask a man, especially not one I consider a friend, while he's lying bare-assed on my floor." Hauk and Fain laughed. Desideria was less than amused. "Remember, brother, I'm currently the only one holding a weapon." Caillen glared at him. "Really, Chay, why don't you concentrate on the .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| af752fd | she said with a smile. "I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ef51e5b | It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within." - Nick "Guard your back, Nick. It's the one you don't see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It's when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill." - Kyrian" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f5b6098 | You want me to do what? What part of stupid crawled up your sphincter and died?" - Caleb" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 665d5dc | So help me, I won't rest until I bathe in your entrails! (Apollymi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 803a47a | You're the one who made the bargain with Apollymis that I have to live with. Personally, it irks the shit out of me to be traded like some Yu-Gi-Oh! card you got tired of having around the house. (Kat) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5b20034 | Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1331e27 | I find you irritating. (Kat) I haven't even begun to irritate you yet. Imagine what I could do if I applied myself? (Solin) I can imagine. I can also imagine ripping your throat out and tying my shoes with your larynx. (Kat) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f003ee0 | I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don't want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me sentimental. (Kat) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c287482 | Look what you did. (Jericho snapped at Zarek.) I broke it. (Jericho) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| cfd76c5 | It's a gift. (Artemis) Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 47c30b0 | In the land of badass, you've just been trumped. If Dark-Hunters had inmates, these would be they. Known as the Dogs of War because that's what they thrive on, they're cold-blooded and intolerant. Congratulations, bud, these are your new protectors. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 140e076 | He took one look at me and said, 'Damn, you cleaned up better than I thought you would.' (Grace) I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2baa686 | Why must every relationship I have be so damned impossible? (Ravyn) Hey now, defeatist talk from a catman like you? I'm the one who should be freaking out here. I mean, damn, you could give me fleas or something. (Susan) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 97973b4 | Life before toilet paper was not worth living. | funny-but-true funny-humor | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| e802a7a | You know, your sarcasm isn't appreciated right now. I've been drugged, beaten, nearly raped, saved, drugged again, hijacked, and now threatened by you. Tell me, what else should I look forward to? Torture, or just a good maiming? (Kiara) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 511bc72 | No, Nick. The world has always been scary. You've just been lucky enough to be shielded from it. It's the saddest part of childhood, really. When that shimmery veil is ripped away by something horrible and you're left with the unvarnished truth. When the world no longer becomes safe and you see the ugly side of it. You, like most humans, fear us demons. But we're not the worst predators out there. You know what we are. It's the ones who lur.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon |