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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e0c8adc | Matter tells space how to curve; space tells matter how to move."+" | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 28bb1af | Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is discovered . . . ; but our very faculties are enlarged with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above [their] low contracted prejudices." JAMES FERGUSON, 1757+ Long before anyone knew th.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ec1ddc2 | An artist coworker of mine once asked whether alien life forms from Europa would be called Europeans. The absence of any other plausible answer forced me to say yes.) | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 6b3edf6 | Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participa.. | exploration robots | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 2b80f0b | Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 34ee79a | This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken. | hurt leprosy loss pain suffering | Stephen R. Donaldson | |
| 3f812db | I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks. | Glen Cook | ||
| 64624cf | So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 0e03ec3 | Beauty is a promise of happiness. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 6c95422 | People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated br.. | snobbery status winners-and-losers | Alain de Botton | |
| 7c9b3c2 | It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. | pain value | Alain de Botton | |
| 27307df | We had often read the same books at night in the same bed, and later realized that they had touched us in different places: that they had been different books for each of us. Might the same divergence not occur over a single love-line? I felt like a dandelion releasing hundreds of spores into the air - and not knowing if any of them would get through. | Alain de Botton | ||
| a0812f3 | It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predomin.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| ba3287d | He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for. | James McBride | ||
| 3232986 | I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at. Every inner response of the human heart to Love and every conquest over self-love is a new flower on the tree of Love. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 4bda452 | ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. I think of all the judgment from society, friends, and family, the overwhelming consensus seeming to be that you should not grant someone who betrayed you a second chance. That you should do everything you can to keep the knife out of your back, and to protect your heart and pride. Cowards give second ch.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| f3714e3 | there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a590925 | The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity; Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to .. | William Blake | ||
| f6a7584 | Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but see how crass and vulgar it is when there's none of it in your pocket. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| aa1f703 | Ne mozhekh da kazha na Lizi za kupona v B'roulend. Napravo nikak'v shans. Shchom vzekh "pensiiata", vednaga kupikh bileta. Ostanakh bez puknata para. Tozi den obache tia imashe rozhden den. Triabvashe da izbiram: ili bileta, ili podar'k za neia. Nikak'v shans. Stavashe duma za Igi Pop. Mislekh, che shche me razbere. - Znachi mozhesh da si kupish shiban bilet za skapaniia Igi Pop, a ne mozhesh da se prezhalish za podar'k! E tova e Lizi s re.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2cd1d8a | Ah felt a paralysis ay emotion as time stretched out. A pervading numbness was setting in, like a dentist's anaesthetic, spreading through ma body. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| df337e1 | Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| e20b04c | But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move. | oblivion | Irvine Welsh | |
| 9494302 | Me conto un monton de cosas que yo no queria oir, cosas que mi madre y mi padre nunca supieron, y que odiarian saber. Lo cabron que era Billy con ella. Como en ocasiones la golpeaba, la humillaba, y la trataba en general como un trozo de mierda excepcionalmente corrompida. "?Por que te quedaste con el?" "Era mi chico. Siempre piensas que sera diferente, que puedes hacerle cambiar, que tu puedes suponer la diferencia." Eso lo entendia, Pero .. | irvine-welsh trainspotting violencia-machista | Irvine Welsh | |
| 9bb0523 | Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite. | language misogynistic misogyny offensive scottish vulgar vulgarity | Irvine Welsh | |
| 10e965c | no matter how early you rise or how late you turn in, you never see that point where light begins or the first bruise of darkness bleeds in under its fragile skin; the beauty, and the scary, unfathomable wisdom of transition. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 6929b6d | He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something like: Solaris shites all over 2001, and then listening to him arguing vehemently against it. Or, alternatively, waiting for him to say it, and then being expected to argue engingly, as if to agree, even if we do, is a sign that we're effete proofs. I can't be bothered with it and I can't even be bothered to tell him that I can'be be bothered. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 49b2d72 | Ah ken the junk gits bad press, but ah think it's barry. It's easy tae criticize something fae outside, but yuv goat tae experience eveything in life, ken? Thinkay how shitey things would huv been for eveycat if Jim Morrison hudnae droaped acid. He widnae broken oan through tae the other side n aw barry tunes wid be shiter as a result.... it aw disnae goaway on skag:it jist disnae bother ye any mair. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| cd6eeac | The pit of melancholy was a bottomless one, and he was descending fast, falling further away from the good times. Such times often seemed tantalisingly within reach; he could see them, going on all around him. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ef25973 | Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts him up. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense of humour. What's wrong with her? The knee-jerk thought: Wrong time of the' month is forming in his head when he looks about and picks up the intonations of the laughter around the bar. It's not funny laughter. This is lynch mob laughter. How was ah tae know, he thinks. How the fuck was ah tae know? | guy-culture humor | Irvine Welsh | |
| c5d9ae9 | All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. | feeling gratitude life sanity | Doris Lessing | |
| 197cfc6 | provability is a weaker notion than truth | gödel-s-incompleteness-theorem mat mathematics proof truth | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| 5f2b5d7 | Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust? | Leif Enger | ||
| 80c6cda | You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it." | Anne Stuart | ||
| 653bdad | You know as well as I do, damn you. Like it or not I seem to have grown a heart. I have absolutely no use for the damned thing, but there it sits, demanding Elinor. I can't live without her. | Anne Stuart | ||
| 38c96dd | Bah, cynics," said Dr. Meescham. "Cynics are people who are afraid to believe." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 1d73469 | That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 9563c96 | All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too. | Avi | ||
| 35abab9 | Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 0db991c | He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| eb8b3d2 | Speaking of names and all-time favorite romances, Bailey told me you write under a pen name. I've been really curious about that." Fern groaned loudly. She shook her fist toward Bailey's house. "Curse your big mouth, Bailey Sheen" She looked at Ambrose with trepidation. "You are going to think I'm some stalker chick. That I'm totally obsessed. But you have to remember that I came up with this alter ego when I was sixteen and I was a bit obs.. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 887351f | I don't want to be without you, Bonnie! Don't you get that? I am in love with you! I've known you for one week. And I'm in love with you! Crazy, drive-off-a-cliff-if-you-asked-me-to, in love with you. But I don't want to drive off a cliff! I want to live with you! Do you want that? Or do you still think about jumping off bridges and going down in a hail of bullets? | Amy Harmon | ||
| 65e234f | But it wasn't. Sex is not the most intimate thing two lovers can do. Even when the sex is beautiful. Even when it's perfect." Millie drew a deep breath as if she remembered how perfect it had truly been. "The most intimate thing we can do is to allow the people we love most to see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect. And I don't think you're ready to be intimate with me, David." | millie sex tag | Amy Harmon | |
| 4685840 | We can't escape ourselves, Tag. Here, there, half-way across the world, or in a psych ward in Salt Lake City. I'm Moses and you're Tag. And that part never changes. So either we figure it out here or we figure it out there. But we still gotta deal. And death won't change that. | Amy Harmon |