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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 496f838 | I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of use were probably seeking, above else, something like a state of grace. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0e85d77 | For a person accustomed to the multi ethnic commotion of Los Angeles, Vancouver, New York, or even Denver, walking across the BYU campus can be a jarring experience. One sees no graffiti, not a speck of litter. More than 99 percent of the thirty thousand students are white. Each of the young Mormons one encounters is astonishingly well groomed and neatly dressed. Beards, tattoos, and pierced ears (or other body parts) are strictly forbidden.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 788f63c | It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it... I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| fdd3279 | though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991 - January 7, 1992. But this is not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. | inspirational | Jon Krakauer | |
| febfed8 | It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. | Bette Greene | ||
| c214265 | For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind. | love togetherness | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 8d7a6c2 | Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 0936e9c | how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman... | women | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 2fd47e3 | I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8357c97 | I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| eac6823 | He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. | invention inventors science | Dava Sobel | |
| 282ffab | Apa yang tidak kuketahui-saat masih muda dulu-ada dua jenis cinta. Jenis yang bermula begitu dahsyatnya dan pelan-pelan menghilang, yang terasa seperti tak akan pernah habis lalu suatu hari tahu-tahu ludes. Lalu ada jenis yang tadinya tidak disadari, tetapi terus tumbuh sedikit demi sedikit setiap harinya, seperti kerang yang menghasilkan mutiara, bulir demi bulir, sebuah permata dari pasir. | Monica Ali | ||
| 02383b6 | She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up." p. 382" | Monica Ali | ||
| b90f3ec | But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instead of the sexual ceiling,' Jong continued. 'Being able to have an orgasm with a man you don't love or having Sex and the City on television, that is not liberation. If you start to think about women as if we're all Carrie on Sex and the City, well, the problem is: You're not going to elect Carrie to the Senate or to run your company. Let's see.. | Ariel Levy | ||
| ac35715 | We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely conjure up the concept 'sexy'. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 8364ab2 | Well, you know that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was justly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faint.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 9057b97 | Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're not going to go mad," she said firmly. "Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it." -- | David Eddings | ||
| 2e9e110 | When my sons told me about what they'd found, I went to the priests of Belar and had them examine the auguries. is the year to go. The ice up there won't be as thick again for years and years. Then they cast my auguries, and from what they say, could be the most fortunate year in my whole life." "Do you actually that superstitious nonsense?" I demanded. "Are you so gullible that you think that somebody can foretell the future by fon.. | David Eddings | ||
| de835a8 | Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 36f7b43 | But a society that protects some people through a safety net of schools, government-backed home loans, and ancestral wealth but can only protect you with the club of criminal justice has either failed at enforcing its good intentions or has succeeded at something much darker. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3cdfe46 | You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug" | say-cheese-and-die | R.L. Stine | |
| cef150e | This is how I disappear in pieces. This is how I leave while not moving from my seat. | poem | Sarah Kay | |
| a000118 | Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes." | circumspection husbands marriage married-life separation wives | John le Carré | |
| 8d604c9 | There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing. | John le Carré | ||
| 46a94dd | Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in. | Zusak Markus | ||
| 7a33913 | Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild. | disbelief footsteps heart heavy wild | Markus Zusak | |
| 7d4bf36 | People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 896ab76 | The notes were born on her breath, and they died at her lips. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 2361ff6 | in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears. | Zusak Markus | ||
| eefa501 | Death's Diary: 1942 - It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to just name a few. Forget the scythe, God damn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a holiday. (...) They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly. 'Get it done, get it done'. So you work .. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 098ab64 | Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature. | literature | Gustave Flaubert | |
| fe99947 | as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| aebb84c | How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music. | George Eliot | ||
| bc5e250 | Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. | eros order | George Eliot | |
| 3b0e54d | After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think. | growth | George Eliot | |
| 2f6bae9 | Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. | probability | George Eliot | |
| 1f31e87 | I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. | George Eliot | ||
| ab00394 | I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is. | marriage married | George Eliot | |
| 23e434b | The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic. | fallacy thinking | George Eliot | |
| cebab22 | There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer--committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of su.. | sadness silence sorrow suffering | George Eliot | |
| 673b4de | When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in. | George Eliot | ||
| 0899bf6 | Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0031495 | I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it's the blue that lasts. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e4d6954 | His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life... | Virginia Woolf |