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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c7bf557 | The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it -- once you can honestly say, 'I don't know', then it becomes possible to get at the truth. | truth | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| e9d8099 | XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, | Stephen Crane | ||
| 8be6945 | Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0e50563 | It was strange how easy being tired enough made it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 50b24a8 | A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 46b7b6e | Remember, everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong." - "You think so?" - "I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then" | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6715fce | don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 69b3f71 | He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride. | pride simplicity | Ernest Hemingway | |
| aa6318a | I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 5d488c6 | I heard them laugh. I turned off the light and tried to go to sleep. It was not necessary to read any more. I could shut my eyes without getting the wheeling sensation. But i could not sleep. There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I figured that all out once, and for six months I never slept with the electric light off. That was another bright idea. To hel.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 47d43f5 | She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 827091e | It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea... | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 4b32be8 | She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right. | reading | Sarah Mayberry | |
| e824dff | Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death. | tim-winton | Tim Winton | |
| d1f451c | Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was. | love woo worthy | Mary Balogh | |
| ff4c9e3 | The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness? | Mary Balogh | ||
| 543a503 | I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me. | Christopher Pike | ||
| f630f79 | John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!' Sita: 'Then you should never have been born. | sita | Christopher Pike | |
| 020b11d | God is God. His name doesn't matter. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 8bdddad | Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?" | Maggie Shayne | ||
| 5352ead | A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| e28c366 | We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| ae8c21e | We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time. | lying | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 1e1496e | This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| f102f67 | Here's the deal. You eat some lunch, at least something light that will help you keep your energy up, then we'll talk." "About what? We've already conversed today-twice-in the language you're fluent in: Fuckese." Deke fought a smile. "You probably meant that as a slur, but somehow I'm complemented." "You would be," she muttered." | Shayla Black | ||
| 2596200 | Losers have goals. Winners have systems. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5036e08 | Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e37de7e | I do not crave this" But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others." | jr-ward vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| fc57680 | I know in my heart that I can live without him and I know in my heart that I don't want to-that's a good place to start, right? | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 667282f | It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| e540bb2 | I'll give them my number, too. And my brother Vishous made sure we have the best reception and service in the city. No dead zones. Unless you're around Lassiter, and that's more of a mental thing than anything about cellular networks." "Um ... Lassiter?" Bitty said. Rhage nodded. "Yeah, he's this pain in the ass--oh, shit--I mean, sorry, I shouldn't say ass around you, should I? Or shit. And all those other bad words." He poked himself in t.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| ace0d95 | The thing was, Qhuinn felt like he wanted to explain things. Unfortunately, and unlike his slut cousin, Saxton the Cocksucker, he had no gift with words. | qhuinn | J. R. Ward | |
| 0397a1d | Well, wasn't this a night for firsts. Sex. Arson. Pants. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 74368f5 | Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 17a3de8 | When he pulled back, Blay frowned. "You're shaking." Was it possible he wasn't imagining this? "Am I?" "Yes." "I don't care. I love you. I love you so damned much, and I"m sorry that I wasn't male enough to admit--" Blay stopped him with a kiss. "You're plenty male enough now--the rest of it's in the past." "I just...God, I really am shaking, aren't I? Yeah. But it's okay--I've got you." Qhuinn turned his face into one of the male's palms. .. | qhuinn-and-blay | J.R. Ward | |
| ca0c974 | Hey, no offense, but do you mind if you put both your palms where I can see 'em? | J.R. Ward | ||
| 30a4108 | Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 44add6b | Time keeps on...slippin'...slippin'...slippin' into the future," Adrian drawled as he walked around" | fallen-angels j-r-ward | J.R. Ward | |
| 7980863 | The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was... but society had a different standard. | blaylock j-r-ward lover-at-last | J.R. Ward | |
| 6915d10 | And God help them both, if it hadn't been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid. | qhuinn saxton | J.R. Ward | |
| f47fad6 | Don't be an asshole," the guy snapped as he cracked a freshie. "Oh, right, because two in this group would be overkill." | J.R. Ward | ||
| fb4d2f3 | Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it. | gallows-humor humor medicine | J.R. Ward | |
| c19b941 | What." Oh, for God's sake. "Fine. Why wouldn't it ever work out?" "Because I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally... in love with you." Qhuinn's mouth dropped open." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 09e5ecb | But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction. | J.R. Ward |