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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e60688 | We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 470e70a | God is always the last resource. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c863cfb | No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through. | hate love math mathematics school teacher | Roger Penrose | |
| 118d8b1 | We are surrounded by modern, time-saving devices, but we never seem to have enough time. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 91fad64 | As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| 8994d8e | Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. | charlie-munger meaningful measurement warren-buffett | Roger Lowenstein | |
| 8f6a96a | Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. | Walker Percy | ||
| 9be0bcc | I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life. | films | Woody Allen | |
| f19cc0f | So then, what do you believe in? | Woody Allen | ||
| 4c032f1 | I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night." -- | Steve Martin | ||
| 0239a96 | But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among.. | Steve Martin | ||
| 2fc4d92 | His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, "for what?" | Steve Martin | ||
| b9d35e8 | I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon. | views | Cecelia Ahern | |
| c3523d4 | I was the life and she was the soul of every party. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 509bb2a | So this is what you do when it all slows down and the minutes that tick by feel a little longer than before. You take your time. You breathe slowly. You open your eyes a little wider and look at everything. Take it all in. Rehash stories of old, remember people, times, and occasions gone by. Allow everything you see to remind you of something. Talk about those things. Find out the answers you didn't know to yesterday's crosswords. Slow down.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7336296 | I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know. | knowledge | Cecelia Ahern | |
| e2f8256 | The first day of the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don't feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn't bothered. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3fc1259 | People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 73a7e61 | But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else. | everyone everything first-time had-known lie making-love marriage moment needs saction sin transgression wants without-marriage | Jodi Picoult | |
| a997e47 | The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4c7e530 | What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 91d56b5 | Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d358f9d | It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love of my kids, period, and they're all your favorites in different ways. But ask any parent who's been through some kind of crisis surrounding a child--a health scare, an academic snarl, an emotional problem--and we will tell you the truth. When something upends the equilibrium--when one child needs you more than the others--that imbalance beco.. | favoritism love parenting | Jodi Picoult | |
| 89105e9 | Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek a.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 978dc0a | I realize i do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary,any day. I believe that having something to hope for-even if its just a better tomorrow-is the most powerful drug on this planet. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 85701e2 | eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 16a6fdd | Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 87ef188 | People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c8bfe40 | But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 103bb0d | Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain. | hope reality | Jodi Picoult | |
| c95cad9 | He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn't make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| db89bf9 | Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9e6e09e | That's because racism isn't just about hate. We all have biases, even if don't think we do. It's because racism is also about who has power...and who has access to it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1967893 | You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book. | jodi-picoult oliver samantha-van-leer | Jodi Picoult | |
| dcc2e63 | Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9abf564 | There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b67b12a | Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 6279635 | I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone's weakness? Can I not have my own? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 07b1912 | You're beautiful to me, Jamie," I said softly, at last. "So beautiful, you break my heart." | heart love | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 6afc3db | The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was. | life memory | Diana Gabaldon | |
| b825908 | Now, then. What does 'fucking' mean?" My surprise must have shown plainly, for he said irritably, "If ye must call me names, that's one thing. But I dinna care to be called things I can't answer. I know it's a damn filthy word, from the way ye said it, but what does it mean?" Taken off guard, I laughed, a little shakily. "It ... it means ... what you were about to do to me." One brow lifted, and he looked sourly amused. "Oh, swiving? Then I.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a9c8693 | Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 744920b | Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2de035e | Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?" | Diana Gabaldon |