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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c74330c | I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If | Erich Fromm | ||
| 13e958f | Look beyond yourself. | life-lesson | Michael J. Jackson | |
| 0ca60de | Its our loot. If you don't like it, you can kiss my quiver | michael-yew small son | Rick Riordan | |
| 1e3a578 | When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this encroaching on me: cynicism, bitterness, and infinite sadness...It's impossible to live if you're too aware, too thoughtful. Take nature for example: everything that lives happily and too a ripe old age is not very intelligent. Tortoises live for centuries, water's immortal, and Milton Friedman's still alive. | Martin Page | ||
| d3bd47e | Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mounta.. | belief beliefs compare comparison contrast darkness death life opposites philosophy religion worldview | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 30db9ae | We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find the character easy to read, we are reading into it our own character. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 854adef | She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived. | survival | G.K. Chesterton | |
| c07af08 | There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 36f6d08 | Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: y.. | awesomeness | G.K. Chesterton | |
| a512330 | There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place ... | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 709fd00 | Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c4dc5f5 | The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts. | materialism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| fe165d5 | of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong. | strength | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4ad6bdc | A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it. | greatness passion | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 614cc63 | Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. | intelligence | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 2b9c00d | I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime." | inspirational justice | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 59e63f3 | Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| 104b54b | Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 8b7e37b | In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one thing happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which they did happen. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 93b213f | When you think about it, everything has been said before, in one way or another. It's only our experience of it that makes it new. | life words writing | Lauren Willig | |
| 0739319 | On Harpy's Drive we passed a row of trees, each one with its trunk unnaturally bloated and covered with black fuzz. I had no idea what the fuzz did, but we steered clear of it. The law of navigating post-Shift Atlanta was simple: if you don't know what it is, don't touch it. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d8ff3e2 | Friends make the world bearable. It's an honor of sorts. Of all the people that a person knows, they pick you to be their friend, and you try to be worthy of that friendship. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5c85004 | So far I had the god of evil and the god of terror on my side. My good-guy image was taking a serious beating. Maybe I should recruit some unicorns or kittens with rainbow powers to even us out. | humor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 296d106 | Is he a scumbag in training?" Richard glanced at the gunman. "At least have the decency to hold the gun properly, you fool. If you don't know how, pass it to someone who does. I'm not going to suffer being shot at by anything less than a full- fledged lowlife. (Richard)" | gun humor lowlife scumbag | Ilona Andrews | |
| 20f4d96 | If you can't make it go away, wait it out. | kate-daniels magic-bites | Ilona Andrews | |
| cb81b4e | How did the hearing go?" she asked. "We won, sort of," Kaldar said. "We die at dawn." "The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours," William corrected. "Yes, but 'we die at dawn the day after tomorrow' doesn't sound nearly as dramatic." "Does it have to be dramatic all the time?" Catherine murmured. "Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine is making melodramatic statements." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e5f0a54 | As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we had managed to have a conversation and part ways without wanting to kill each other. I found that fact deeply troubling. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c938411 | One day I'll kill him, you know. I glanced at her. She was deadly serious. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| c196a2a | It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a4c2a4f | Why don't you use your own sword?" George asked. "He might break it." "I wouldn't." Hugh put his hand on his heart. "He would," I told George. "He's a sonovabitch." Hugh laughed. "We just met and she knows me so well." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 566225e | Hey, dickhead!" one of the other drivers yelled. "Get off the road!" "This here is a Falcon Seven," the rider told him. "I can put a bolt through your windshield and pin you to your seat like a bug." A direct threat, huh? Okay. I pulled down my sunglasses a bit so the rider would see my eyes. "That's a nice crossbow." He glanced in my direction. He saw a friendly blond girl with a big smile and a light Texas accent and didn't get alarmed. .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cfb2d60 | I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl. | love vampire werewolves | Ilona Andrews | |
| ca7e69f | If I lost him here, to this idiotic fight, after I fought and guarded him for two weeks, after I cried and thought he was dying, I would find him in the afterlife and I would murder him again. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 17d4f4e | Let's play who can be a better killer. My sword and I love this game. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 702ec6e | Hail to the Beast Lord!" I waved my spatula for emphasis. Jim spared me an ugly look and turned to Dali." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ab01f6a | That's the nature of our relationship". A spark lit his eyes. "We both do what's necessary, and after it's over, I watch you freak out about it." "I don't." "Oh, I don't want you to stop. I find it highly amusing" | rogan | Ilona Andrews | |
| 04ebacd | People lie for many reasons: to save themselves, to get out of trouble, to avoid hurting someone's feelings. Manipulators lie to get what they want. Narcissists lie to make themselves seem grand to others and themselves. Recovering alcoholics lie to safeguard their tattered reputation. And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 52c94fb | I had come here intending to declare a possible war and instead ended up planning a dinner date with my father at Applebee's. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6df4f6c | Can I be of assistance?" Saiman asked. "Have you ever delivered a child?" Doolittle asked. "Yes, I have." "Good. We have to perform a C-section. One of her unborn is trying to kill the other." "Fascinating," Saiman said. [p.304]" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b8abd4d | VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet? BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 0d729df | When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an i.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 2aaadac | The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| a123a38 | There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't have to prove anything. In fact you can afford a little neglect, indulge in a little bit of sarcasm here and there, isolate yourself when you want to. Underneath it's concrete for life. I'm a cow .. | communication relationships | Tom Stoppard | |
| d951452 | Will you miss him Holly?" he asked suddenly. | fantasy | Eoin Colfer |