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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9ed6c1d | You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3b3a6d2 | I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past. | past retribution | Orson Scott Card | |
| ae09064 | I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a8f1197 | I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I'll do it, if I can. You don't have to do this alone. Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn't true. If it could be done, Ender was the one who would have to do it. All those months when Bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn't bear to face the fact that Ender was what Bean only wished to be -- the k.. | bean friendship trust | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6857395 | You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good." | humor religion | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6329864 | I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory. | watch yoel-goldenberg | Brian Jacques | |
| 17953f3 | Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living. | Robin McKinley | ||
| ac2e366 | Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it. | pegasus robin-mckinley | Robin McKinley | |
| ffaca51 | What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And I'm sorry to tell you this, but where your magic lives will always be a great dark space with scraps you fumble for. You must learn to sniff them out in the dark. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 32f2414 | Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed. | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| de4a698 | Because, sir, teaching young gentlemen has a dismal effect upon the soul.It exemplifies the badness of established, artificial authority. The pedagogue has almost absolute authority over pupils: he often beats them and insensibly he loses the sense of respect due to them as fellow human beings.He does them harm, but the harm they do him is far greater. He may easily become the all-knowing tyrant, always right, always virtuous; in any event .. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 1266c2c | Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge. | gore-vidal life messiah | Gore Vidal | |
| c274d40 | How hungrily we read about ourselves! | Gore Vidal | ||
| 000fe32 | As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity." " | inspirational | Al Gore | |
| 2aeea6d | It's only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we're of any real use. | contribution making-a-difference self-fulfillment teamwork | Henning Mankell | |
| 35d1bb4 | I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the ca.. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 4d40963 | Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being, doing, having, or feeling. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 69cd6c9 | When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. | anthony-burgess book-quotes books | Anthony Burgess | |
| 685be2a | I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| cc8c628 | The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986" | american intro introduction irony philosophical | Anthony Burgess | |
| 01f7c27 | Ser bueno puede llegar a ser algo horrible. | anthony burgess | ||
| dbe45d5 | Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| c8be534 | What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? | anthony-burgess book-quotes books | Anthony Burgess | |
| 4e88e97 | And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer. | anthony-burgess book-quotes books | Anthony Burgess | |
| f4f1474 | And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. | anthony-burgess book-quotes books | Anthony Burgess | |
| 25e2ca5 | And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who had all the kots and koshkas had passed on to a better world in one of the city hospitals. I'd cracked her a bit too hard, like. Well, well, that was everything. I thought of all those kots and koshkas mewling for moloko and getting none, not any more from their starry forella of a mistress. That was everything. I'd done the lot, now and me still only fifteen. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 18e3544 | English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| be891d3 | What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?' I nudged him hard, saying: 'Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| cace55b | Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 2d0e810 | My book was Kennedyan and accepted the notion of moral progress. What was really wanted was a Nixonian book with no shred of optimism in it. Let us have evil prancing on the page... up to the very last line... Such a book would be sensational, and so it is. But I do not think it is it fair picture of human life. I do not think so because, by definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| e726514 | There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| fd92a89 | Les enfants seuls savent ce qu'ils cherchent | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 78f281a | Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful. And if not the butterflies- and the caterpillars- who will call upon me? You will be far away. . . as for the large animals- I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws." And, navely, she showed her four thorns. Then she added: "Don't linger like this. You have decided to go awa.. | caterpillars flowers pride | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 48310ad | The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote: "I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime." | Dale Carnegie | ||
| bb10219 | Where are the men?" the little prince at last took up the conversation again. "It is a little lonely in the desert. . . " "It is also lonely among men," the snake said." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 3d4483a | And when the hour of his departure drew near-- "Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." "It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "Then it has done you no good at all!" "It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| d86c426 | Je me souvenais du renard. On risque de pleurer un peu si l'on s'est laisse apprivoiser... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 1cf2136 | When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| a812a8e | It was a map. A really crudely drawn map of trees, mountains that looked like upside-down Vs, and stick people. Apparently, drawing was not one of Athena's skills. | athena humor sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| bf5a92b |
Limpiate un poco --me lanzo una sonrisa maliciosa--. No puedo tener a mi pequena < |
Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 705581a | I jerked my hand back and looked up, horrified. "The ground feels like skin!" A slow smile crept onto Hades' face. "Zeus got bored with the whole rock and eagle bit." Rock and eagle bit...? Then it hit me. "Prometheus?" "You're standing on him," Hades remarked. | alex covenant-series sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 41fb7ff | The back door blew out from the limo, winging across the road at such a force that it ripped right through a Luxen in a police uniform. Like, one Luxen suddenly became two not-so-put-together Luxen. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| be8f1b1 | I liked him better when he'd lost the ability to speak. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 223d9ba | Then I realized he didn't know who I was. Part of me relaxed, because if they were playing for Team Evil, I was sure they would have pictures of my face plastered across their bedroom walls. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |