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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5f3206 | But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7ed5206 | Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another, it's easier to be humble. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e9461ed | A fool is always pleased with what he says, and, besides, he always says more than he needs to. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2c89e7b | Does he give you zings in your things? | Penny Reid | ||
| 0bcd9da | When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| a83b51d | My previous outlook could be summed up as follows: Life is shit. Math makes sense. Fictional characters are superior to real people because real people are equal parts pitiful and predictable. | Penny Reid | ||
| f2aa093 | Saying someone would make a great politician is like saying someone would make a great serial killer. It's not a compliment. | Penny Reid | ||
| e1283f3 | My hair is ridiculous. It's been misbehaving since birth. | Penny Reid | ||
| d066ea0 | The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| c3751ed | It's better to prepare than to repair. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 55f0ed6 | The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has--from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. | independence partisanship politics radicalism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 8880d78 | An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| def9c1b | The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words. | death languages polyglots questionnaires talents ugliness | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 359e84c | Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled | inspirational | Arthur Koestler | |
| 380b900 | Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| ee26414 | Not many women got to live out the daydream of women--to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| d6bf319 | Have you ever met a man who looked so damn delicious that you wanted to sop him up with a hot buttermilk biscuit and inhale him in one gulp?" "Why, yes, I have," Doris said. That was a shocker. "Really? What happened?" "I married him." | Susan Donovan | ||
| 10ae01f | I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 68fdf20 | Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 2c22338 | The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| a39c85a | She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search." | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| af47f3a | I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. | flannery-o-connor | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 052ae83 | Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 08e90c9 | It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| f3b1031 | Fine, just don't eat my mom, okay? She's had a bad enough life without becoming the Bride of Dracula." - Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7e7c443 | Look. (Mark held up his hands for Nick's inspection.) They're all pruny and wet. I'll never have my soft sweet hands again." - Mark "You're not right, are you?" - Nick "I know this clown. He keeps teasing me with these near death experiences. One day, I'm going to take his butt down even when I'm not supposed to. You can't keep knocking on my door and then slamming it in my face. It's just not right." - Death" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7a06504 | The kid dead on the ground. Fourteen, Ash. Fourteen. I'm fourteen." - Nick "Yeah..." - Acheron "Ash, I'm fourteen." - Nick "Got it. You're fourteen. I'm so proud you can count that high. It's a testament to the modern American educational system. But I should probably point out that you're not the only one. I'm told you go a school with a whole class of - get this - kids who are fourteen." - Acheron" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 33d3017 | I just can't, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed." - Caleb" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7a69670 | Hearts can never be stolen, Cy. They can only be given." - Ren" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 3039a06 | People suck. (Nero) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 07ce7cc | Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we're going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I'll tell you what you want to know. There's no need to torture me for it. (Asmodeus) Pick your brain is an idiomatic expression, Asmodeus. It means we'll have you tell us things. We're not actually going in there to mess with your head. (Delphine) Oh, thank the Source. I can't stand it when someone opens my skull. It really hurts. (Asmodeus) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e889340 | I fell out of the hammock while I was sleeping. (Arik) On your head? (Geary) Apparently. Good thing it's hard, huh? (Arik) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9c82c0a | Just remember you have to bear my choice with the same grace and even tempered temerity I've shown with yours. (Shahara) Good. I get to whine and bitch. Can't wait. (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6220e3a | Hey, boss? (Vik) Not now, Vik. (Syn) Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4b773ae | Amanda - "Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!" Kyrian - "Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d763f95 | Even though Styxx was taller, Galen had carried him off the field of battle and held his hand the whole time they'd closed the wound. "Squeeze when it hurts, and don't worry about breaking anything, Highness. Trust me, if my deceptively strong Thia wasn't able to break it during her childbirths, there's no damage you can do. And at least you're not threatening to cut off my balls, fry them up, and feed them to me." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a6af19b | Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 868aa00 | He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated the greatest Greek general who had ever lived. Kyrian of Thrace." Real hatred gleamed in his eyes, but she wasn't sure who it was meant for. His grandfather or Kyrian. "You mean Kyrian Hunter?" she asked. "The guy with the minivan who lives a few blocks over?" Valerius's eyes sparked at th.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ff524c0 | About a hundred or so years before you were born, a Dark-Hunter made the mistake of falling in love with his Talpina. Unfortunately for the rest of us, she didn't pass Artemis's test. Artemis was so angry, she stepped in and banished the Talpinas from us, and implemented the oh so wonderful you're-only-supposed-to-sleep-with-them-once rule. As further backlash, Acheron came up with the never-touch-your-Squire law. I tell you, you haven't li.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1f2c4cd | Don't worry, Chris. The day that Sony PlayStation attacks the world and threatens to destroy it, we'll give you a call. (Katra) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d6de657 | Stand back, akri-wolf! The Simi's gonna huff and puff and melt that door down. And you might not want to be too close when I do it, 'cause melted wolf is tough on the enamel and akra-Aimee might not like it if you turn into a puddle of bloody goo. Besides, burning wolf is kind of smelly to the Simi's delicate nostrils. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8521b56 | After all the battles I've fought to save the world and all the sacrifices in dignity and blood I've paid to set free so many Dark-Hunters, they're all going to know that I'm nothing but a pathetic whore, aren't they? (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 49f678d | Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 77896aa | Gods, how I've missed you. (Stryker) I hate you with every beat of my heart. (Zephyra) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |