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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0a21afb | A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among | deceit dishonesty irony lies politics truth war youth | Rudyard Kipling | |
| bb2fcad | A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a761bac | I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| dc4a8c7 | It is very wrong to kill any one[.]" "Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!" | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 54b6b3d | Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e88ebfc | Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon i.. | love poetry | Oscar Wilde | |
| a82f358 | MISS PRISM Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fce8881 | LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire? | humor | Oscar Wilde | |
| 8054c20 | Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e71c191 | Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices. | travel | Oscar Wilde | |
| 8f839e0 | And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand. | understanding wife | Oscar Wilde | |
| be1a822 | There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. | evil | Oscar Wilde | |
| 183d3e3 | There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, .. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 59b9f9e | Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul." | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a699ba9 | If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| b80f34f | Leadership is what you need to learn next | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| da2b8fc | If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. if you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We will begin there. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 1f87685 | The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger. | debt noblesse-oblige repay stranger | Robert Fulghum | |
| cc8dce0 | Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 00c4f5e | There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don't help people who don't have better values than you do. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| df305cb | Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the . | James A. Owen | ||
| a9994f1 | Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity. | fanaticism insanity religion | Robert Graves | |
| f8a5db4 | It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth -- but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it...but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying. | half-truths lies lying omissions truth | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 8f669c4 | He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power. | leadership politics | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 7082985 | A motion to adjourn is always in order. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 3bf604f | People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| dcb11a8 | The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. | Stephen Crane | ||
| f2ff2b1 | A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; | Stephen Crane | ||
| ec044e0 | For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 15777f2 | We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 5c466e5 | There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it .. | bars drinking night-life nightlife | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 830d769 | Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 8bf14b1 | Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| bb86e47 | They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 09a82cd | Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything. | now | Mary Balogh | |
| 642b63c | You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 8bb1560 | The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary. | vampires | Christopher Pike | |
| b59b2d5 | Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 9825131 | Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people. | politics | Timothy Zahn | |
| 0030350 | Still, even when false, legends can be most informative. | religion science-fiction star-wars | Timothy Zahn | |
| 935fc55 | You want to know what I really learned? I learned that people don't consider time alone as part of their life. Being alone is just a stretch of isolation they want to escape from. I saw a lot of wine-drinking, a lot of compulsive drug use, a lot of sleeping with the television on. It was less festive than I anticipated. My view had always been that I was my most alive when I was totally alone, because that was the only time I could live wit.. | aloneness human-nature loneliness social sociology | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 7c2b266 | T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) | desire expectations fear mystery | Joseph Campbell | |
| 6a5a9f4 | The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this was the idea that finally turned that world into something like a wasteland, a land where people were living inauthentic lives, never doing a think they truly wanted to because the supernatural laws required them to live as directed by their clergy. In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not properly theirs .. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| c9ae24a | Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly" | Timothy Ferriss |