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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7f47886 | So small a spirit, to lodge such sorrows as mankind has brought you. Live ... live.... Wait for me, new, frightened soul. And though the world should reel to a puny death, and the wolves are appointed our godfathers, I will not fail you, ever. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6fdede2 | And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death. | habits imagination initiative | Dorothy Dunnett | |
| f016853 | Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 87656a2 | I dreamt I saw a shadow with a burning heart butchering a golden stag, aye. I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks, but when her eyes did open, oh, I woke from terror. All this I dreamt, and more. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 70263f3 | Shall I add a man to my collection? | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| d2a7a66 | You can weave your life so long -- only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| fd33bb3 | Et puis il le lui avait dit. Il lui avait dit que c'etait comme avant, qu'il l'aimait encore, qu'il ne pourrait jamais cesser de l'aimer, qu'il l'aimerait jusqu'a sa mort. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 62312e5 | A writer called Robert Louis Stevenson once said that 'sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences. | Terry Hayes | ||
| fa4af29 | I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love w.. | William Goldman | ||
| 430cbef | The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody. | grudge | Mario Puzo | |
| a09caaa | Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 3a000c6 | I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most succ.. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| e455696 | Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a zero - and an infinit.. | Charles Seife | ||
| 84ad60f | I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no. | environmental-factors promise promises | Jeff VanderMeer | |
| 5c2523d | The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| db03ad4 | Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc) | quotes-to-live-by | Diana Palmer | |
| 8cb9d4f | How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day? | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| 37695e1 | Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She churned her fists like an egg-beater. Every action echoed down the line behind her. The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp. Then a penguin waddle. Then tippy-toed priss. Every new move brought new laughter from the line. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 014ec2f | Some nights, we were a city of two. | friends holoscaust night sad sweet | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 22bd612 | The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 63eab93 | No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart. | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| 86af8a0 | You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| dc7f08e | I was trapped so terribly inside my own head that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts. The | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 349e717 | What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. --THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 812c779 | To argue, to complain, or worse, to just give up, these are choices. Choices that more often than not, do nothing to get us across the finish line. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5583ee2 | But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art. | Charles Darwin | ||
| d8758a8 | In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries. | Charles Darwin | ||
| 9c78af8 | MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 59a4e75 | Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact... always supersedes belief. | facts truth | Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan | |
| d2b78bc | When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 2b6569d | There's a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called "argument from ignorance." This is how it goes. Remember what the "U" stands for in "UFO"? You see lights flashing in the sky. You've never seen anything like this before and don't understand what it is. You say, "It's a UFO!" The "U" stands for "unidentified." But then you say, "I don't know what it is; it must be aliens from outer space, visiting fro.. | definition ignorance people ufo | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 6931d81 | Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee's. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display.. | difference dna intelligence | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 097b4c3 | Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning... | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| aec5702 | This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion | consumption media | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 03c9d26 | I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome | inuyasha kagome kikyo manga rumiko takahashi | Rumiko Takahashi | |
| 2d6813a | I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure! | intimacy relationships | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 97cb9c2 | Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored. | Alain de Botton | ||
| b179c83 | We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom. | Alain de Botton | ||
| b1871f1 | Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang .. | Alain de Botton | ||
| b795c50 | Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 2800996 | By forty, everyone has the face they deserve,' wrote George Orwell, | Alain de Botton | ||
| e3134d6 | Love is seldom--almost never--an even proposition. Someone always loves more. | Emily Giffin | ||
| efd5ed0 | There is absolutely no experience, however terrible, or heartbreaking, or unjust, or cruel, or evil, which you can meet in the course of your earthly life, that can harm you if you but let Me teach you how to accept it with joy; and to react to it triumphantly as I did myself, with love and forgiveness and with willingness to bear the results of wrong done by others. Every trial, every test, every difficulty and seemingly wrong experience t.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 15a2bb7 | he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty. | Walter Dean Myers |