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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 485098a | You think you're so cool just because you can walk! | humor | Jen Lancaster | |
| c60065d | He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.".... He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil." | hunger | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| d9b10d5 | The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying. | denial discomfort feelings parents | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| d1f3b46 | I rise up on my tiptoes. He's already bending his head down, moving his lips toward mine. And then, well, I haven't exactly studied this, but I'm pretty sure that ours is not the most expert kiss in Sualan history. It's a little hard to figure out how we should tilt our heads so our noses don't bump. But this kiss is a promise, a vow. Come to think of it, it doesn't really matter that ours is not the most expert kiss in Sualan history. It's.. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 1603890 | Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. | mercy | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| c189f15 | For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 631ba14 | Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. | pride | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 4ade3f8 | I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 92634ca | Theft is punished by Your law, O Lord, and by the law written in men's hearts, which iniquity itself cannot blot out. For what thief will suffer a thief? Even a rich thief will not suffer him who is driven to it by want. Yet had I a desire to commit robbery, and did so, compelled neither by hunger, nor poverty through a distaste for well-doing, and a lustiness of iniquity. For I pilfered that of which I had already sufficient, and much bett.. | St. Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 0e7936d | But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !" | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 2dc8e5c | Having hope," writes Daniel Goleman in his study of emotional intelligence, "means that one will not give in to overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude, or depression in the face of difficult challenges or setbacks." Hope is "more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right"; it is "believing you have the will and the way to accomplish your goals." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8488ad7 | You're my beginning, middle, and end. | Penny Reid | ||
| 0868158 | We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer. | Penny Reid | ||
| 5305f92 | I think you need to give me a pet name--a term of endearment." His face was its typical impassive mask, but I could tell that I'd surprised him. Finally, he said, "Like...babe?" "No--that feels awkward and wrong and has undertones of pedophilia. I'm thinking of something more age appropriate, yet affectionate." | sexy-humor | Penny Reid | |
| bc00556 | Unworthiness always puts you in debt to anyone and everyone who shows you the slightest degree of attention or love or energy. Eventually, in this form of bankrupt relationship, your benefactors will demand or expect more than you are able or willing to give. This is the precise moment they will choose to call in the loan. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 4a275a4 | Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God | Elizabeth Alexander | ||
| a20945f | I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire, who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| d429c40 | At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity. I have my own differences with both of these savants, but is the Republican Party really prepared to disown such modern intellectuals as it can claim, in favor of a shallow, demagogic and above all sectarian religiosity? Perhaps one could phrase the same question in two further ways. At the l.. | 2001 2003 american-jews atheism ayn-rand biblical-literalism christian-fundamentalism christian-right christianity creationism democratic-party-united-states evolution fundamentalism jerry-falwell jesus jews leo-strauss pat-robertson politics religion republican-party-united-states sectarianism september-11-attacks united-states us-elections-2000 william-jennings-bryan world-trade-center | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9e794b4 | Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world. | islamism radicalism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9a4fa18 | The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 6e36b8e | The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. | atheism death inspirational life | Christopher Hitchens | |
| f63bf3a | It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But when he asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer. It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in who.. | politics revolution russia soviet-union | Arthur Koestler | |
| 7d2468c | its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 591e36b | Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy. | nostalgia | Evelyn Waugh | |
| f3e2bc3 | If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas.. | tolerance | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 6448c20 | Hwaet! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum theod-cyninga thrym gefrunon, hu tha aedelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceadena threatum, monegum maegdum meodo-setla ofteah. Egsode eorlas, syddan aerest weard feasceaft funden: he thaes frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weord-myndum dah, od thaet him aeghwylc thara ymb-sittendra ofer hron-rade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. Thaet waes god cyning! | Anonymous | ||
| d263350 | With God, all things are possible. | god | Anonymous | |
| 3f5d3c4 | Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It's also chicken-shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously--like technology allows so many people to do these days. | Brené Brown | ||
| 14f67a1 | This is my command- be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. | anonymous | ||
| acbe81c | It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thunderbolts at whom He pleases. Yet the unbelievers wrangle about God. | fates maruts odin old-man rudra wild-hunt wind zeus | Anonymous | |
| bd1f1ea | And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. | scripture service work | Anonymous | |
| 5fb6888 | Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. | bible bible-verse christian faith heaven hell hope salvation saved spirituality | Anonymous | |
| ffde95f | Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. (Song of Solomon 8:7) | Anonymous | ||
| 377edee | Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. -Philippians 4:6 | Anonymous | ||
| a618a34 | A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| eb91bc1 | We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts - I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4755d71 | I'm too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn't even had his first date yet. He'd only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.' - Nick | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a7ff6dd | You must be the brother. I hope so, I'm wearing his pants. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a8dc4a2 | There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren't the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1818332 | Tabitha was always trying unorthodox ways to set her up with guys. Although, to be fair to her sister, Tabitha didn't usually knock the guy unconscious before she forced them together. Still, with Tabitha there was a first time for just about anything. And extreme blind-dating was very vintage T. | extreme-speed-dating | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 2a47538 | No can do. Wren stays here. (Dev) Not what I was told. (Varyk) Well, I just told you. (Dev) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| daf6390 | Stay or go. I really don't give a shit. But if you stay, I want you to continue your play upstairs in a bed, like civilized people. (Solin) Well, isn't he Mr. Happy Sunshine? (Geary) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8f5be2c | I've been around a lot of wraiths, and he doesn't feel like that either, though. It's a strange sensation. Like human wrapped in evil." - Caleb "Oh, great. Our coach is a pig-in-the-blanket for Satan." - Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1e2a699 | You ever think about having kids?" "All the time.I'd love to have a houseful. Then one of my nieces or nephews turns Exorsist on me and spews the most discusting things imaginable out both ends -- things that make the demon snot feel like a bubble bath. That usually cures me of that stupidity for at least a day or two." (Sam & Dev)" | Sherrilyn Kenyon |