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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd4edca | An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding. | opposition planning timing | Roger Zelazny | |
| e07b952 | It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| c309272 | Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them." -- | speechless stunned | Tamora Pierce | |
| 92e490f | The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness. | green-thumb happiness nature | Michael Pollan | |
| 0b7cc04 | My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but only for myself, I knew that before, but only now do I see...Oh, where are those friends whom I have insulted with my friendship all my life? And everyone, everyone! , perhaps I'm lying now; certainly I'm also lying now. The worst of it is that I believe myself when I lie. The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie...and.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0978486 | I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all: I began to feel with all my being that there was nothing existing. At first I fancied that many things had existed in the past, but afterwards I guessed that there never had been anything in the past either, but that it had only seemed so for some reason. Little by little I guessed that there would be nothing in the futu.. | suicide | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 2c59890 | It is not time that matters, but you yourself | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9d8a889 | I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f90082b | You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 63a7625 | If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake That will be punishment as well as the prison. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b51f73c | if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c91ebe7 | Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 218d26f | there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. | notes-from-underground reason | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| dc496ef | I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained. | frustration indignation | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 0d5c8c8 | Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything. Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d92a959 | if Stavrogin believes, he does not believe that he believes. And if he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 93f8e5c | Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| e86dab6 | I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 4c36061 | Parker, what are you doing?" "Making a funny face in an effort to make you stop staring at me like I murdered your beloved goldfish." | Penny Reid | ||
| 54b9e72 | This came from Sandra. "Roses are red, violets are blue, rhyming is hard. Wine." | Penny Reid | ||
| 6a7c1d0 | To friendscorts. Like escorts, but without the cash. | Penny Reid | ||
| d28bec2 | I was determined to stay off the see-saw of crazy | Penny Reid | ||
| e775698 | if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi | Erin McKean | ||
| 8ab662b | People are never able to outperform their self-image. | self-esteem | John C. Maxwell | |
| 36710b6 | In a state of conflict or a conflicted state. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 1517686 | However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there's one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I once used to: In particular, I have slightly stopped issuing the announcement that "whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger." In fact, I now sometimes wonder why I ever thought it profound... In the brute physical world, and the one encompasse.. | life-challenges philosophy | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 06041a5 | A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 459ca41 | The one unforgivable sin is to be boring | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 58ca392 | People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains. | freethought | Christopher Hitchens | |
| ec51993 | Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for. | war | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 1199583 | Honor is decency without vanity. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 66a4b53 | I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of a Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other cr.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| d5e4314 | This next part might cheer you up. So my mom told me she was gonna drive me to my appointment at the sperm bank, and she handed me one of my dad's --I had something way dirtier stashed in my closet, by the way--and she asked me, all serious, if I knew what do do." "You've got to be kidding." "No, I'm not." He started laughing. "I was fifteen, Anna. I was and expert at it, and I did not want to talk about jacking off ." | sperm-bank t-j | Tracey Garvis-Graves | |
| 938ac04 | It's not Americans I find annoying; it's Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the mercantile nations in turn, and is called 'American' only because your nation is the most advanced case of the malady, much as one speaks of Spanish flu, or Japanese Type-B encephalitis. It's symptoms are a loss of work ethic, a shrinking of inner resources, and a constant need for external stimulation, .. | satire social-commentary | Trevanian | |
| 684e1b5 | The human soul enjoys these rare, classical periods, but, apart from them, we are seldom single or unique; we keep company in this world with a hoard of abstractions and reflections and counterfeits of ourselves - the sensual man, the economic man, the man of reason, the beast, the machine and the sleepwalker, and heaven knows what besides, all in our own image, indistinguishable from ourselves to the outside eye. We get borne along, out of.. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 9528579 | Of course those that have charm don't really need brains. | humor | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 025a911 | The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. | faith god love | Evelyn Waugh | |
| efa6350 | Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 31738db | I can smell the sin on your breath. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 816a5ef | I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 2b7e05e | Nick! Wait!" - Kyrian 'Wait, my gluteus maximus. Vampire was shy of a few quarts of blood if he thought Nick had any intention of not going Casper on him.' - Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 66ae530 | So...that's like your pet monkey?" - Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) "Easy, girl. You'd do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn't take well to insults." - Death "Sorry, Flicka. Didn't mean to rattle your bridle." - Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5783a30 | Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael) Thanks, Barney. How's Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron) Great, if I could only get them away from Wilma and Pebbles. Those women are nothing but trouble. (Cael) Nah, they're good women. It's the ones in red who are always the downfall of good men. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6c08b85 | We're always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around. | Sherrilyn Kenyon |