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| e72bd80 | Here's another. Kill man's sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it. Great men can't be ruled. We don't want any great men. Don't deny conception of greatness. Destroy it from within. The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional. Set up standards of achievement open to all, to the least, to the most inept - and you stop the impetus to effort in men, great or small. You stop all incentive to improve.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 77fb783 | Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted. | emotions | Ayn Rand | |
| 8d7e79c | There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 4f87778 | We have followed you," they said, "and we shall follow you wherever you go. If danger threatens you, we shall face it also. If it be death, we shall die with you. You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation." They looked upon us, and their voice was low, but there was bitterness and triumph in their voice: "Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 7cdf0f6 | But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 63fa512 | You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3fb8225 | But only a fool sails into combat with nature | Robert Harris | ||
| 3e284e3 | Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don't make me mean. I don't want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I'll give you anything in the world, and if I haven't got it, why, I'll go for to get it. I don't want to be mean. I don't want to be lonely. For Jesus' sake, Amen. | John Steinbeck | ||
| da6beb7 | My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby...I am very fortunate in having a wife who likes being a woman, which means that she likes men, not elderly babies. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 08545e0 | I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0def37b | Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reached it, Curley bounced in. "You seen a girl around here?" he demanded angrily. George said coldly, "'Bout half an hour ago maybe." "Well, what the hell was she doin'?" George stood still, watching the angry little man. He said insultingly, "She said--she was lookin' for you." Curley seemed really to see George for the first time. His eyes fla.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f105e83 | There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6f0ea24 | What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate and bifocals?Mack and the boys avoid the trap, walk around the poison, step over the noose while a generation of trapped,, poisoned, and trussed-up men scream at them and call them no-goods, come to bad ends, blot-on-the town-thieves, rascals, bums. Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ddf070f | I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the love he had forfeited and by that process performed great service to the world and, perhaps, had much more than balanced the evils of his rise. I was on a ship when he died. The news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone recieved .. | east-vs-west integrity lee-atwater man narcissism narcissism-epidemic occupy-wall-street salvation salvation-from-jesus salvation-in-death sin sin-and-salvation sinners sociopaths sociopaths-and-psychopaths sociopathy steve-jobs the-devil the-rich the-wealthy wealth wealth-and-virtues | John Steinbeck | |
| 74d99d6 | A healthy relationship is when two individuated adults decide to have a relationship and that becomes a third entity. They nurture the relationship and the relationship nurtures them. But they're not overly dependent or independent: They are interdependent, which means that they take care of the majority of their needs and wants on their own, but when they can't, they're not afraid to ask their partner for help." She pauses to let it all si.. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 5677401 | I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 39b20e9 | Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it | love | Nora Roberts | |
| 7c62b67 | Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. | life | Ellen Raskin | |
| f140953 | I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him. | Arthur Golden | ||
| c74a442 | To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I thought of it, who could say I was any different? If you no longer have leaves, or bark, or roots, can you go on calling yourself a tree? "I am a peasant," I said to myself, "and not a geisha at all any longer." It was a frightening feeling to look at my hands and see their roughness. To draw my mind away from my fears, I turned my .. | war | Arthur Golden | |
| d34e00c | Roarke, I'm working on it." "On what?" "On accepting what you seem to feel for me." He lifted a brow. "Work harder," he suggested." | roarke | J.D. ROBB ( NORA ROBERTS) | |
| bbd2db0 | The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. For Langdon, the meaning of these words had never felt so clear: In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction. | Dan Brown | ||
| c4c8520 | It is always darkest before the dawn. | Dan Brown | ||
| c6080ea | The truth, however, was stranger still. | Dan Brown | ||
| f2d5394 | Then let me ask you this famous question: Would you rather live in a world without technology...or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics...or without zealots waging war over fictional tales and imaginary spirits? | Dan Brown | ||
| b98fe08 | Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks. | Dan Brown | ||
| 1ebba58 | Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| b7e22dd | I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| dcd74a6 | Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| d72a5ba | both success and failure are largely the results of habit! | Napoleon Hill | ||
| 1abdc38 | There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence." | Napoleon Hill | ||
| f8a5f31 | The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating a hamburger can now make you seriously ill: There is shit in the meat. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 3e9f264 | Your parents may have created you, but they don't define you. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 8a8e52c | I'd reply, love doesn't tell time. Love is simply there or it isn't. Everyday, in every way, it was there. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 37fcd63 | Running doesn't just make me happy. Running keeps me alive. When I'm running-the blood pumping through my veins, the tunes playing in my ears, the muscles tightening on the inclines- the problems of the world disappear. It's just me, the sidewalk, and God. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 59d90f3 | As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket"." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 466b8b1 | Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache--the kind that one could almost--but never quite--ignore. | Julia Quinn | ||
| a36fe6f | Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine." -Simon to Daphne" | Julia Quinn | ||
| 442f884 | He turned to her. "Didn't you see the lightning strike the steeple?" She recovered with a sip of tea, then smiled sweetly. "I was listening too devotedly to the sermon." "Claptrap last week," Lady D announced. "I think the priest is getting old." Gareth opened his mouth, but before he could say a word, his grandmother's cane swung around in a remarkably steady horizontal arc. "Don't," she warned, "make a comment beginning with the words, 'C.. | humor lady-d romance | Julia Quinn | |
| 56a7e17 | You have a minute and a half left." "Fine," she snapped. "Then I'll reduce this conversation to one single fact. Today I had six callers. Six! Can you recall the last time I had six callers?" Anthony just stared at her blankly. "I can't," Daphne continued, in fine form now. "Because it has never happened. Six men marched up our steps, knocked on our door, and gave Humboldt their cards. Six men brought me flowers, engaged me in conversation,.. | humor men | Julia Quinn | |
| 663b952 | In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king | Michael Lewis | ||
| 92d4610 | Hate me if you must, but know that I will never hate you. | James Frey | ||
| 1b1fcf0 | There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain. | James Frey | ||
| d36a477 | I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given. | James Frey |