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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| afac31f | One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her -- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions. | philosophy wicked witch | Gregory Maguire | |
| 11e7c62 | Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5534944 | The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. | devil man | Gregory Maguire | |
| 6c9c7f9 | Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts. | body civilization continuance mankind materialism mind philosophy rationality reason | Iain Pears | |
| b163dfe | My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| ce9cb04 | He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| edda8a5 | The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inc.. | inspirational | Chris Bohjalian | |
| c45e531 | Everything about [chance] scares the bejesus out of so many people; it's the this thing they try to avoid at all costs. Don't travel to the Middle East these days - there's a chance something could happen. Don't get involved with that new fellow on Creamery Street - I hear a lot of mud was scraped off his floor after the divorce. Don't have your baby at home - there's a a chance something could go wrong. Don't don't don't... Well, you can't.. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| bb52455 | Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism. | Ron Chernow | ||
| a7812f3 | Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds." | Ron Chernow | ||
| d183e9f | Ron told Pippa that during the six years he had spent on the book, Valerie Chernow had developed a powerful identification with Hamilton's wife. "She used to say, 'Eliza is like me: She's good, she's true, she's loyal, she's not ambitious.' There was a purity and a goodness about the character, and that was like Valerie," he says. In 2006, after 27 years of marriage, Valerie passed away. For her gravestone, Ron chose a line from the letter .. | hamilton-musical | Lin-Manuel Miranda | |
| 34759c1 | The part of our being (mentality, feeling, physicality) which is free of all control let's call our 'unconscious'. Since it's free of control, it's our only defense against institutionalized meaning, institutionalized language, control, fixation, judgement, prison. Ten years ago, it seemed possible to destroy language through language: to destroy language that normalizes and controls by cutting that language. Nonsense would attack the empir.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 3a2f683 | When the word ends, there'll be no more air. That's why it's important to pollute the air now. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 8c79c2a | They had not, under the heavens and on earth, one single weapon. They don't control the land they live on, the schools which train them, the heat and food their bodies need to live through the winter's cold, the media which gives them language, the military weapons for which they give most of their money. There is no more time in this city. Reasonable people don't let themselves dream because no dream can be true. They have a cry that bough.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 812cb75 | A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced. | disobedience rebellion | Kathy Acker | |
| c868f5f | Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value. | time value | Kathy Acker | |
| ad0f0c8 | Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels?" I know the answer: no one. Tell me: from where does love come? An angel is sitting on my face. To whom can I run? Take me in your arms, death, I'm so scared; do anything to me that will make me safe while I kick my heels and shout out in total fear, while we hurtle through your crags to where it's blacker: Orpheus' head eaten by rats, what's left of the world scatters, in the Lethe the p.. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 8eaa26d | Let me put it another way. Most people are what they sense and if all you see day after day is a mat on a floor that belongs to the rats and four walls with tiny piles of plaster at the bottom, and all you eat is starch, and all you hear is continuous music, you smell garbage and piss which drips through the walls continually, and all the people you know live like you, it's not horrible, it's just... | Kathy Acker | ||
| 009b5ae | The law is what powerful men say it shall be. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ef68a06 | Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together. | forbidden-knowledge | Philippa Gregory | |
| 29f729f | It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. | Richard Preston | ||
| f9ddeb8 | I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic honeymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a slice of pumpkin pie, it could be a desserted island! (Pg 64) | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1d46ab8 | I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?" | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3a3484f | Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses. | humor | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| f3f3cb4 | The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5d47a88 | Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder. | spice thursday | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 6169042 | She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| c68c265 | You can step in the same river but the water will always be new. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 4efd28d | Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?" | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 697d33f | That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. | John Fowles | ||
| 42b547b | 8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You your life. | life | John Fowles | |
| 88da65a | Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No." | John Fowles | ||
| 076b03f | Listen to me," Jordan begged urgently, somehow convinced that she would stay alive if she understood how much she meant to him. "Listen to what my life was like before you hurtled into it wearing that suit of armor-- Life was empty. Colorless. And then you happened to me, and suddenly I felt feelings I never believed existed, and I saw things I'd never seen before. You don't believe that, do you, darling? But it's true, and I can prove it.".. | something-wonderful | Judith McNaught | |
| 209a069 | They're going to ask what you said. And if I tell Mr. Twindell you said heaven will be like this, he'll be very disappointed. He's counting, you know, on gold streets and angels and horses with wings." "I see where that could be a problem," Ian agreed, and he tenderly laid his hand against his son's cheek. "In that case, you can tell him I said this is almost heaven." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 2847a5a | Sir Eustace was with Royce and Stefan looking over some maps when he was informed by the guard that the ladies were asking for him. "Is there no end to her arrogance!" Royce bit out, referring to Jenny. "She even sends her guards on errands, and what's more, they run to do her bidding." Checking his tirade, he said shortly, "I assume it was the blue-eyed one with the dirty face who sent you?" Sir Lionel chuckled and shook his head. "I saw t.. | humor | Judith McNaught | |
| e84b950 | Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 725db14 | In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| e17eecc | Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a24accb | Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3e70805 | I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least--and it is commonly more than that--sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. You may safely say, A penny for your thoughts, or a thousand pounds. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e4ca267 | If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 66cdb6d | As long as possible live free and uncommitted. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3c288e0 | Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. | justice | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 9a61257 | Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. | Henry David Thoreau |