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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 234997a | That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. | Max Barry | ||
| 88f9d07 | What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the of a naked body is something special. | Max Barry | ||
| 39b98fc | Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye. | Max Barry | ||
| aa6a943 | I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 5f044ed | It isn't Easter," he said, "but this week has caused me to think a lot about the Easter story. Not the glorious resurrection that we celebrate on Easter Sunday but the darkness that came before. I know of no darker moment in the Bible than the moment Jesus in his agony on the cross cries out, 'Father, why have you forsaken me?' Darker even than his death not long after because in death Jesus at last gave himself over fully to the divine wil.. | William Kent Krueger | ||
| 24dddf4 | There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 7b04790 | We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 49b063a | But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame! | Bram Stoker | ||
| 6d01c1a | Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours." -- | demon | Jennifer Crusie | |
| a75c4ed | Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours." | demon | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 47439cb | My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That's assumption. If she passes the assumption test, you begin to get to know her to find out if she's appropriate for you. If she is, you're attracted. If, as you get to know her, the attraction is reinforced with joy or pain or both, you'll fall.. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 2f28270 | The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldn't bear not to defend it and the losses you are going to suffer are things that you could afford to lose. If you do fight, the thing to remember is that it is going to hurt because that is what happens in a fight and you might as well reconcile yourself to it in the beginning and then it will not matter when it happens | inspirational | Jennifer Crusie | |
| b553796 | The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 02958b8 | It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn't imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 6c9a792 | I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not. | Sara Zarr | ||
| ebb8730 | I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you'll tell them and you wonder what they're doing, and you know they're wondering what you're doing. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 3036ada | when theres a will theres a way | Joseph Delaney | ||
| debbe08 | I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end." | fortune-telling love sacrifice | Joseph Delaney | |
| 82f7bc4 | I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 474070c | The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 63d863c | There's no jealousy in the grave. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| daec21c | I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. | humour murder | Oscar Wilde | |
| 95c8ff7 | It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a39b746 | Oscar Wilde said: 'Each man kills the thing he loves.' And it's true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far. I have known a lo.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9c0e4f8 | Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| dca9271 | He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1a85268 | But don't you think one can be happy when on is married? Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married. But if one is in love? One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| db37fb4 | You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c2b02ed | I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it! | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a5d966b | Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 75991c7 | Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e314e88 | Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. | mediocrities revenge | Oscar Wilde | |
| 063e7c3 | Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?' 'If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes. | oscar-wilde | Jamie O'Neill | |
| c204b68 | words of others cannot rob us of our inner peace and joy unless we give them the power to do so. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 26b8ef0 | There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| 87548ad | Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 41cba40 | I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day. | Stephanie Pearl-McPhee | ||
| 84ab143 | Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be. | believe believing-in-yourself determination determined | James A. Owen | |
| c49413a | You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles." | sanity | James A. Owen | |
| 4aa082d | Astraeus,' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him, so he will give us what we need to keep our course.' A little prayer?' said Jack. 'To a constellation?' To what it represents,' said Aven. But I don't believe in what it represents,' said Jack. Prayers aren't for the deity,' said Aven. 'They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.' Can't you do that without prayi.. | prayer | James A. Owen | |
| 9dc355d | And what thoughts or memories, would you guess, were passing through my mind on this extraordinary occasion? Was I thinking of the Sibyl's prophecy, of the omen of the wolf-cub, of Pollio's advice, or of Briseis's dream? Of my grandfather and liberty? Of my grandfather and liberty? Of my three Imperial predecessors, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, their lives and deaths? Of the great danger I was still in from the conspirators, and from the S.. | Robert Graves | ||
| 9a621bc | The White Goddess All saints revile her, and all sober men Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean - In scorn of which we sailed to find her In distant regions likeliest to hold her Whom we desired above all things to know, Sister of the mirage and echo. It was a virtue not to stay, To go our headstrong and heroic way Seeking her out at the volcano's head, Among pack ice, or where the track had faded Beyond the cavern of the seven sleepers: W.. | Robert Graves | ||
| b959d23 | People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 68f0b36 | But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously -- after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs .. | entertainers idols mistaken-attribution opinions rationality | Robert A. Heinlein |