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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 75d2e91 | youth is a marvelous garment | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 1b3541a | I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b39b654 | In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| ef65e48 | Good food and good eating are about risk. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 15c39da | A feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 281e588 | If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. You've nothing to worry about there. | James Herriot | ||
| a657e26 | I see,' agreed Rule. 'You are going to be the Sacrifice.' She looked up at him rather shyly. 'It c-can't signify to you, can it? Except that I know I'm not a Beauty, like L-Lizzie. But I have got the Nose, sir.' Rule surveyed the Nose. 'Undoubtedly, you have the Nose,' he said. Horatia seemed determined to make a clean breast of her blemishes. 'And p-perhaps you could become used to my eyebrows?' The smile lurked at the back of Rule's eyes... | marriage | Georgette Heyer | |
| 9e4f419 | Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 27b42b0 | Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. | feminism sex-positive | Ina May Gaskin | |
| da97423 | The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored. | women | Ina May Gaskin | |
| 95b8083 | The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| a6c0c13 | Are you prepared for the first wound? | Dean R. Koontz | ||
| 946aeae | I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all. | time-passing | Peter Ackroyd | |
| a9803d3 | That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. -- | Stephen King | ||
| eb199b4 | New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked on CNN if I thought Sarah Palin could get elected president, and I said I hope not, but I wouldn't put anything past this stupid country. Well, the station was flooded with emails, and the twits hit the fan. And you could tell that these people were mad, because they wrote entirely in CAPITAL LETTERS!!! Worst of al.. | education essays healthcare-reform humor ignorance immature intelligence medicare religion war-in-iraq war-on-terror | Bill Maher | |
| b5ea707 | Johnny died. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 781b3c0 | I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| f5289f2 | I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare. | listening understanding | S.E. Hinton | |
| 38ac0ba | As white women ignore their built-in privilege of whiteness and define woman in terms of their own experience alone, then women of Color become "other," the outsider whose experience and tradition is too "alien" to comprehend." | Audre Lorde | ||
| aaa544e | I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. | guilt hurt oppression | Audre Lorde | |
| 3fab482 | I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you? | Audre Lorde | ||
| b843074 | Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone." | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 597d385 | And the end of all our exploring | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 2ddbc3a | There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust. | dust fear shadows waste-land | T.S. Eliot | |
| 016ccd5 | O perpetual revolution of configured stars, o perpetual recurrence of determined seasons, o world of spring and autumn, birth and dying! The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment, brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; knowledge of speech, but not of silence; knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, all our ignorance brings us nearer to d.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 88ae15d | Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. | wisdom | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 506acd4 | He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good. | Amy Hempel | ||
| c05c85b | Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 0b47913 | Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play, they will say, "Because it's fun." But that invites the next question: What is fun? Actually, when children play, they are often trying to reenact complex human interactions in simplified form. Human society is extremely sophisticated, much too involved for the developing brains of young children, so children run .. | consciousness play predictability simulation | Michio Kaku | |
| 6d760bd | Who are we without our memories? | la-vie life memories truth | Marta Acosta | |
| a2ea0c9 | First, I'm not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn't have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have kids, it would be a cold day in hell I'd let you babysit. | kids love marriage parents | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 8e9219a | Elvis!" Min shoved herself off the couch to shoo him away. "Stay away from there. There's broken glass." "He did that on purpose," David said, outraged. "Yes, David, the cat is plotting against you." Min fished the base out of the water and glass shards and put it on the table. Then she went to get her wastebasket and began to put the glass pieces in it." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 2b66124 | This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously--" "Yes," Roger said. "She's the one." | marriage the-one | Jennifer Crusie | |
| d8735ad | Drink to me! I just realized that I've slept with everyone at this table! ~Nell | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| a995788 | Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now." "I have lunch at my desk," Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? "Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 26d54df | Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?" | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 37b2205 | He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me. | henry-viii | Carolyn Meyer | |
| efe5411 | It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through the ceiling and over the stars until I can find God, really see God, and know once and for all that everything I've believed my whole life is true, and real. Or, not even everything. Not even half. Just the part about someone or something bigger than us who doesn't lose track. I want to believe the stories, that there really is.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 9afff0d | Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 153115b | The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better... | fiend old-nick | Joseph Delaney | |
| 81de4a2 | My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| be52aba | Juliette" I inhale too quickly. A stifled cough is balloning in my throat. His glassy green eyes glint in my direction. "Are you not hungry?" "No, thank you." He licks his bottom lip into a smile. "Don't confuse stupidity for bravery, love. I know you haven't eaten anything in days." Something in my patioence snaps. "I'd rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love," I tell him. Adam drops his fork. Warner spares him a .. | p-74-warner-juliette | Tahereh Mafi | |
| 2f4ef57 | There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other - by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 0d2bf6e | The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. | Oscar Wilde |