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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7358312 | He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| b5b2e0b | Pimps make the best librarians. | pimps | Avi Steinberg | |
| 6b15065 | I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones? | humor sandals | Gail Carson Levine | |
| aad0bc0 | Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad. | face voice | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 06fd145 | Saying something is "meant to be" is a cop out. It's a way for people to deal when they screw up or when life hands them a bowl of shit stew. The things that are meant to be are the things we can't control, the things we don't cause, the things that happen regardless of who or what we are. Like sunsets and snow-fall and natural disasters. I've never believed hardship or suffering was meant to be. I've never believed relationships were meant.. | destiny meant-to-be | Amy Harmon | |
| 750bc8d | It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't ever going to be loved the way you want to be loved. | Amy Harmon | ||
| a639150 | Normal was so lost to me that I didn't even know where to look for it | Amy Harmon | ||
| be50ae9 | The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. | idleness | Tom Hodgkinson | |
| 027e712 | You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed ... to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 87eb7fa | I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me--a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| c6e7231 | This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion! | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 92cb548 | Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed. | puberty school teenage | David Brin | |
| ec3ca6d | Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. | Colum McCann | ||
| a8fe9b2 | It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected. | Colum McCann | ||
| e5e297f | She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse. | Colum McCann | ||
| 536e825 | Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want." | celebrity film hollywood movies power | Martha Grimes | |
| 6c07286 | At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be. | life purpose spiritual yearning | Shūsaku Endō | |
| 811ffb6 | The many ... whom one chooses to call the people, are indeed a collection, but only as a multitude, a formless mass, whose movement and action would be elemental, irrational, savage, and terrible." "Public opinion deserves ... to be esteemed as much as to be despised; to be despised for its concrete consciousness and expression, to be esteemed for its essential fundamental principle, which only shines, more or less dimly, through its concre.. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| b6ea64e | As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant. | Reza Aslan | ||
| bdcfe50 | I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his. | relationship | Danielle Steel | |
| 5c1ae24 | I didn't give a fuck whether I found anything or not. The thing is, never to be too anxious. Everything comes in due time. | life quotes | Henry Millery | |
| f70a350 | What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death. | Henry Miller | ||
| 44c71da | If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1e056db | It's easy to mistake being innocent for being simpleminded or naive. We all want to seem sophisticated; we all want to seem street-smart. To be innocent is to be "out of it." Yet there is a deep truth in innocence. A baby looks in his mother's eyes, and all he sees is love. As innocence fades away, more complicated things take its place. We think we need to outwit others and scheme to get what we want. We begin to spend a lot of energy prot.. | reminding | Michael Jackson | |
| 10565e7 | One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. | time | G.K. Chesterton | |
| c35f0d0 | I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It is obvious that tradition is only democracy extended through time. It is trusting to a consensus of common human voices rather than to some isolated or arbitrary record. . . . Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the s.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9f505a4 | The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose; and the text of Scripture which he now most commonly quotes is, "The Kingdom of heaven is within you." That text has been the stay and support of more Pharisees and prigs and self-righteous spiritual bullies than all the dogmas in creation; it has served to identify self-satisfaction with the peace that passes all understanding. And the text to be quoted in answer to it is that which declares t.. | scripture | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 0d4c56d | And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. | good philosophy theology truth | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 27f5c76 | Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing - say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought leads to the throne of the mystic and the arbitrary. It is not enough for a man to disapprove of Pimlico; in that case he will merely cut his throat or move to Chelsea. Nor, certainly, is it enough for a man to approve of Pimlico; for then it will remain Pimlico, which would be awful. The onl.. | civilization history love | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4750b27 | Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front -" | extraordinary-emphasis gabriel-syme hiding secret-of-the-world | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 67adef8 | When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus." | Timothy Keller | ||
| 851f4ef | Finally, I'd say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don't be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I'm at work I'm highly superstitious. My own superstition has to do with the voice in which the story comes out. I believe that every story is attended by its own sprite, whose voice we embody when we tell the tal.. | folklore folktales stories tales | Philip Pullman | |
| 3925e0a | There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present. | future philosophy present | Philip Pullman | |
| a317008 | You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them. | Philip Pullman | ||
| d53edba | Let's talk." I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 745e5f8 | For me hotness was a complicated matter involving brains, humor, and some other things, but all that aside, I was willing to admit Sean Evans was nice to look at. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 98fc35e | What's Julie's number?" Curran glanced at me. "Julie's fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and she's been at it for sixteen hours." Dear God, I'd need a damn calculator." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a217df2 | Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7ecef7d | Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| fd41a08 | The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c5b68f2 | I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me." "Just making sure." "Besides, if I shot him, I'd do it so nobody could trace it back to me. I'd shoot him somewhere remote, his head would explode like a melon, and they would never find his body. He would just vanish." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| b5caf37 | I can be a good dragon, when the occasion requires it. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6aac37e | Did I hurt you in the parking lot?" "No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car." Great." | fate-s-edge funny george ilona-andrews the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| 77cf659 | I]f you continue to rely on others for that security, you will never find it. You're a Prime, a woman, and a mother. Make yourself secure. Take charge of yourself. My circlework my be shaky and crooked, by it's mine. I taught myself how to do it by studying books and now I'm using it. I didn't ask Rogan to draw it for me, because I didn't have to. | Ilona Andrews |