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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8fba5cf | My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer. | Glen Cook | ||
| 74b0618 | They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better--it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh? | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| e39aa2b | Andrew Carnegie famously put it. There's nothing shameful about sweeping. It's just another opportunity to excel--and to learn. But you, you're so busy thinking about the future, you don't take any pride in the tasks you're given right now. You just phone it all in, cash your paycheck, and dream of some higher station in life. Or you think, This is just a job, it isn't who I am, it doesn't matter. Foolishness. Everything we do matters--whet.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 88c5558 | In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices. --EPICTETUS | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b3f7e6c | We've all done it. Said: "I am so [overwhelmed, tired, stressed, busy, blocked, outmatched]." And then what do we do about it? Go out and party. Or treat ourselves. Or sleep in. Or wait. It feels better to ignore or pretend. But you know deep down that that isn't going to truly make it any better. You've got to act. And you've got to start now." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9234975 | Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life! | natural-selection species | Charles Darwin | |
| 177804e | On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 4485fb6 | lqd wld lnsn ly`ml l lyfkr.. n ltfkyr l yj`l mnh l nsn t`ys wl yj`lh 'fDl w '`ql. n ltfkyr yj`lh yndm `l~ l'shy lty 'D`h w yHrmh mn ltmt` bHDrh . w ltfkyr yzyn lh lmstqbl lt`ys lyj`lh yHs bdhlk qbl wqw`h.. n ldrs@ tfsd 'khlqh w tmrD SHth w tHTm mzjh w tmy` Hjth.. w dh m knt t`lmh shyy' m fny 'jd 'nh tDr bh 'kthr mm t`lmh | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 3795203 | What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 1e43da3 | Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. | Harper Lee | ||
| f3ed36c | He jerked his head at Dill: 'Things haven't caught up with that one's instinct yet. Let him get a little older and he won't get sick and cry. Maybe things'll strike him as being- not quite right, say, but he won't cry, not when he gets a few years on him.' 'Cry about what, Mr. Raymond?' Dill's maleness was beginning to assert itself. 'Cry about the simple hell people give each other- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people gi.. | Harper Lee | ||
| f48a50d | The cosmic perspective shows Earth to be a mote. But it's a precious mote and, for the moment, it's the only home we have. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 8564c34 | informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. | science | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 8320ec2 | And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it take.. | post-structuralism the-orders-of-simulacra | Jean Baudrillard | |
| e724990 | If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still." | arrival attachment belonging completion fullfilment home homecoming homelessness journey-s-end roots stillness | Ellis Peters | |
| 6291483 | I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles. | Ellis Peters | ||
| 3875ef4 | Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English. | creativity diligence discipline resilience talent writing | Glen Cook | |
| d74f88a | And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 23b8050 | Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 7c4b955 | what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness" | Alain de Botton | ||
| 193340d | I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time. | language | Anna Deavere Smith | |
| 2bfa57e | The Shepherd laughed too. "I love doing preposterous things," he replied. "Why, I don't know anything more exhilarating and delightful than turning weakness into strength, and fear into faith, and that which has been marred into perfection. If there is one thing more than mother which I should enjoy doing at this moment it is turning a jellyfish into a mountain goat. That is my special work," he added with the light of a great joy in his fa.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 602d05b | My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| b43235a | Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don't usually like. Just do it, I always think. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 58f65c8 | Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right person for you. That takes some time to figure out | Emily Giffin | ||
| 655f8a5 | This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me. | Emily Giffin | ||
| cb589af | Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn't have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love. | Emily Giffin | ||
| c4d348b | how much have i changed. i was a parent-pleaser, a dutiful friend. i made safe, careful choices and hoped that things would fall into place for me. but i have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. and when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater | Emily Giffin | ||
| bc7fb58 | Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely .. | ghosts | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 4b60f3f | He who mocks the infant's faith Shall be mock'd in age and death. He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out. He who respects the infant's faith Triumphs over hell and death. The child's toys and the old man's reasons Are the fruits of the two seasons. - "Auguries of Innocence" | William Blake | ||
| d89262b | Are you asking me or telling me? | telling | Irvine Welsh | |
| 12f7b6b | On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f8937cd | Edinburgh could be bleak, but Aberdeen really took the pish. A life could be wasted waiting for the sky tae change fae grey tae blue. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 7c0b050 | She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 39439b6 | I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading | Irvine Welsh | ||
| fb7341d | When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again. | sleep | Irvine Welsh | |
| 1700386 | ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 14d76f6 | All media work us over completely. | social-networking tech | Marshall McLuhan | |
| 4508358 | Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. | books reading | Doris Lessing | |
| 22d5c73 | Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls. | kill soul war | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| f56fb47 | Where do you think you're going?" Dr. Nokes demanded.... "What do you have for directions?" And Dad... said, "I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen" | Leif Enger | ||
| 6b20c7d | You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 6dadc80 | I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. | writing | David Almond | |
| 1fca463 | Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine. | David Almond |