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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7acf9b7 | COOL*NESS [KOOL-NIS] -noun CATCHING your mom gazing at the crazy crowd like she finally gets it WATCHING your dad head-banging like he's Finn's twin brother LEARNING that your new friends Tash and Kallie are a thousand times more complicated than you realized, and loving them for it FEELING every one of your boyfriend's pounding drumbeats, and thinking it's the most romantic music ever written REALIZING you're completely unique . . . even i.. | definition inspirational piper | Antony John | |
| 532eed1 | Do not say, 'But it is hypocritical to thank God with my tongue when I don't feel thankful in my heart.' There is such a thing as hypocritical thanksgiving. Its aim is to conceal ingratitude and get the praise of men. That is not your aim. Your aim in loosing your tongue with words of gratitude is that God would be merciful and fill your words with the emotion of true gratitude. You are not seeking the praise of men; you are seeing the merc.. | thankfulness | John Piper | |
| 31a6066 | You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 746e38e | If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends. | legends vampire | Christine Feehan | |
| c43de79 | Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion," said Merlyn with the deepest sincerity, "are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force, a sort of fencing with points in order to gain a victory, not for truth. Opinions are the blind alleys of lazy or of stupid men, who are unable to think. If ever a true politician really thinks a subject out dispassionately, even Homo stultus will be compelled to accept his findings in the end. Opinio.. | T.H. White | ||
| 481b30f | People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength. | T.H. White | ||
| 3fa172c | What interests me is the number of people who believe that they have the ability to drive the train and who think that this is the power position--that driving the train is the way to shape their companies' futures. The truth is, it's not. Driving the train doesn't set its course. The real job is laying the track. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 98fbb38 | I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| ff1d277 | It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be so personal? | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 2d3e436 | After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 1aaf3b1 | And then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 6d01684 | Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race "looking out for its best interests," as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief.*" | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 87abac0 | More data--such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street--can make you miss the big truck. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ce71a79 | A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8ce3e97 | You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 751fd8d | I made you something to eat if you're hungry." Leigh peered at the steaming pile on the plate on the tray, then asked uncertainly. "What is it?" "Prime cuts in gravy." "Prime cuts in gravy?" she echoed slowly. "Did you cook it?" "I opened the can and heated it up in the microwave for one minute. Someone named Alpo cooked it." Leigh stiffened, her head shooting up, eyes wide with disbelief. "Alpo?" He shrugged. "That's what the can said.. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| ebb06ce | Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo | nicholas | Lynsay Sands | |
| 76b5e2b | Unity has never meant uniformity. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| dfd1ced | Martin Luther King Jr. called for us to be lovestruck with each other, not colorblind toward each other. To be lovestruck is to care, to have deep compassion, and to be concerned for each and every individual, including the poor and vulnerable. | Michelle Alexander | ||
| c3d0bda | My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| bd3c2fb | If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 476015a | So, what, you just decided to sack out here and seduce me when I walked in the door? Home from spending the night at my boyfriend's? After having sex with him that could go in the Guinness Book of Records? | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 973c2d7 | Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 29a7bc6 | We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.' That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me - or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unf.. | dermot fairies family sleeping sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 5bcf1d5 | Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my word of the day Calender. In fact his eyes were almost throwing sparks he was so angry. "This woman has been mine, and she will be mine" he said in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0dc1796 | Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 0b3ebf5 | IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 3bdc00b | trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn't suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren't always what I had in mind, they aren't my punishm.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d2ea9fb | I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 703dc3d | Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 86775c1 | A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 977d4ca | Sometimes people think that calling on God means inviting a force into our lives that will make everything rosy. The truth is, it means inviting everything into our lives that will force us to grow--and growth can be messy. The purpose of life is to grow into our perfection. Once we call on God, everything that could anger us is on the way. Why? Because the place where we go into anger instead of love, is our wall. Any situation that pushes.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 519dba2 | Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| b77ac76 | What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 64ad307 | This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple. | Richard Peck | ||
| ee2de6b | I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| e46c5af | Dear Lord," she said in a strangled whisper. "I can bear it for a while...but please don't let it hurt forever." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| bdb6bfc | Recently Mr. Mawdsley's donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird's prized mare was innocently grazing when the ill-bred seducer had his way with her. Now it appears the mare has conceived, and a feud is raging between Caird, who demands financial compensation, and Mawdsley, who insists that had the pasture fencing been in better repair, the clandestine meeting would ne.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1a23800 | I want you more than I've ever wanted anything on this earth." Sebastian took a shivering breath. "Tell me what I have to do to get you. Tell me what it will take for you to let me into your bed." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 31ae904 | it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 05602a2 | There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because you're so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. I've so often wondered-are you ticklish, my lord? | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| da8bde9 | Did it fall out?" Leo asked. "Is she bald?" "No, not at all. It's just that her hair is...green." To look at Leo's face, one would think it was Christmas morning. "What shade of green?" "Leo, hush," Win said urgently. "You are not to torment her. It's been a very trying experience. We mixed a peroxide paste to take the green out, and I don't know if it worked or not. Amelia was helping her to wash it a little while ago. And no matter what t.. | humor | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 311aa34 | You were never one to moon over handsome boys, or talk about balls and parties, or dream about your future husband." "That was because of Merripen," Win admitted. "He was all I ever wanted." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| dbe7121 | You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart." | Lisa Kleypas |