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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 29ead10 | All mortal greatness is but disease. | Herman Melville | ||
| c379b0c | Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-" "It's Herman Melville." | Lemony Snicket | ||
| fa84863 | Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. | inspirational life | Ray Bradbury | |
| 341ef5f | Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2126df8 | We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 62d5b87 | Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it's life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass." -- | life living-life-to-the-fullest trust | Ray Bradbury | |
| 72c8561 | Wouldn't it be fine if we could prove things with our mind, and know for certain that things are always in their place. I'd like to know what a place is like when I'm not there. I'd like to be sure. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b17d254 | Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| bf0dad4 | You don't question Providence. If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good. | providence reality | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8b4b589 | First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn't begun yet. July, well, July's really fine: there's no chance in the world for school. June, no doubting it, June's best of all, for the school doors spring wide and September's a billion years away. But you take October, n.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c860786 | When we say to people, 'I will pray for you,' we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this remark often remains nothing but a well-meant expression of concern. But when we learn to descend with our mind into our heart, then all those who have become part of our lives are led into the healing presence of God and touched by him in the center of our being. We are speaking here about a mystery for which words are inadequate. .. | god god-s-heart jesus our-heart prayer | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 21461f5 | But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed. | restlessness space tamed trapped untamable untamed wild wildness | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 5445cb6 | mn nh `shq bwdm w nh mHtj nghy khh blGzd br mn mn khwdm bwdm w ykh Hs Gryb khh bh Sd `shq w hws my rzyd mn khwdm bwdm dsty khh Sdqt mykhsht gr chh dr Hsrt gndm pwsyd mn khwdm bwdm hr pnjrh y khh bh srsbztryn nqTh bwdn w bwd w khd mydnd by khsy z th dlbstgy m pyd bwd mn nh `shq bwdm w nh dlddh bh gyswy blnd w nh alwdh bh fkhr plyd mn bh dnbl nghy bwdm khh mr z ps dywngy m myfhmyd arzwym yn bwd dwr m chh qshng khh rwm t dr drwzh nwr t shwm c.. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| ae874e0 | It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 3580b5c | And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees. | religion spirituality | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 929a4dc | Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world. But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, So the wrong.. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 0dc6e2d | There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through. | David Allen | ||
| bf5bff8 | I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 7ffdb87 | In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 53d1b7d | there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 8a3a9e8 | Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| cbcd098 | For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return from the abyss is not unlike the ascent of the poet, trudging upward and upward out of hell's black depths and at last emerging into what he saw as "the shining world." There, whoever has been restored to health has almost always been restored to the capacity for serenity and joy, and this may be indemnity enough for having endured the despair.. | despair restored | William Styron | |
| db3ef3e | I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others' emotions and inability to experience their own. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| c950c0f | Once, when I'd needed to meet Daniel to deliver a warning from Jeremy, I'd worn two-inch heels and had quite enjoyed the sensation of talking down to Daniel, until he told me how sexy I looked. Since then he'd never seen me in anything but my oldest, grubbiest sneakers. | daniel elena | Kelley Armstrong | |
| e10af70 | The look she gave me reminded me of when is was seven and I'd proudly informed out housekeeper that I'd donated half my clothing to a charity drive at school. It had seemed perfectly sensible to me-I didn't need so much stuff-but she'd stared at me like Margaret was now, with a mix of horror and disbelief. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 31dea14 | I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?" Dad flushed. "I didn't mean it like-" "Takes care of me? Did I go to sleep and wake up in the nineteenth century?" I looked down at my jeans and T-shirt. "Ack! I can't go to school like this. Where's my corset? My bonnet?" Dad sighed as Mom walked in with her empty teacup. "What did I miss?" She said. "Dad's trying to marry me of.. | maya-delaney | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 19c9ac6 | Hunting humans for sport? Eating them?" the bitterness in his voice cut through me. "Yeah, I caught that part." "That doesn't have anything to do with you? He lifted his eyes, gaze shuttered. "No?" "Not unless being a werewolf transforms you into a wolf AND a redneck moron." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| bf8acbc | Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him." | derek dog pomeranian | Kelley Armstrong | |
| d316195 | It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is," he said. "There is much misjudgment in the world. Now, I knew you for a unicorn when I first saw you, and I know that I am your friend. Yet you take me for a clown, or a clot, or a betrayer, and so I must be if you see me so. The magic on you is only magic and will vanish as soon as you are free, but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not a.. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| a2474b8 | I know why you did it too. You can't become mortal yourself until you change her back again. Isn't that it? You don't care what happens to her, or to the others, just as long as you become a real magician, even if you change the Bull into a bullfrog, because it's still just a trick when you do it. You don't care about anything but magic, and what kind of magician is that? Schmendrick, I don't feel good. I have to sit down." Schmendrick must.. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| eda33e7 | You've got no time at all, but it seems like you've got forever. You've got nothing to do, but it seems like you've got everything. You make coffee and smoke a few cigarettes; and the hands of the clock have gone crazy on you. They haven't moved hardly, they've hardly budged out of the place you last saw them, but they've measured off a half? two-thirds? of your life. You've got forever, but that's no time at all. You've got forever; and so.. | Jim Thompson | ||
| eb74171 | if I wasn't a decent woman I'd heist a leg and pee in your ear until it washed out that stinking pile of crap you call brains. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 6237465 | Screw you! I'm not going to tell you what I was going to say because I'm a decent woman. But if I wasn't, you know what I'd say? You know what I'd do to you, you rotten son-of-a-bitch? I'd heist a leg and pee in your ear until it washed out that stinking pile of crap you call brains! | Jim Thompson | ||
| abb6333 | Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival." "So... your religion dies with you. How sad," Dorolow said, looking back from Horza to the screen. The Changer let the remark pass." | changer death dorolow mess-room religion survival | Iain M. Banks | |
| 1d710dc | So basically you're sticking around to watch us all fuck up ?" "Yes. It's one of life's few guaranteed constants." | Iain M. Banks | ||
| d2c8add | But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be. | ephemerality | Iain M. Banks | |
| 733ef93 | The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE | inspirational science | Iain M. Banks | |
| fbb2861 | Naturally, also, both sides were convinced they had right on their side, not that either was remotely naive enough to think that had any possible bearing on the outcome whatsoever. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| cdf3681 | Horza recalled that the Culture's attitude to somebody who believed in an omnipotent God was to pity them, and to take no more notice of the substance of their faith than one would take of the ramblings of somebody claiming to be Emperor of the Universe. The nature of the belief wasn't totally irrelevant - along with the person's background and upbringing, it might tell you something about what had gone wrong with them - but you didn't take.. | horza | Iain M. Banks | |
| 6b0220a | You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little notice on the wall saying it was forbidden to take photographs of the courtyard without the man's permission. [..] They want to own the light! | human-nature observation science-fiction | Iain M. Banks | |
| 3a36022 | Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. | safety story technology trope | Iain M. Banks | |
| 295afcc | My old mind hadn't been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I'd brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle's compassion and Esme's devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever l.. | reborn vampire | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 28b957f | Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| f449db7 | That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah | Stephenie Meyer |