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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b036d53 | All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. | T.H. White | ||
| 1cbea1b | It is good to put your life in other people's hands. | others trust | T.H. White | |
| e891899 | I never could stomach these nationalists,' he exclaimed. 'The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees. | T.H. White | ||
| 66a0654 | I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do." | T.H. White | ||
| b9d7922 | If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? | T.H. White | ||
| bc4c519 | People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world. | bad-luck beliefs books chris-prentiss fortunate fortune good-luck great-fortune inspiration inspire life passages-malibu passages-ventura quotes trust trustworthy | Chris Prentiss | |
| 06f4a41 | Quality is the best business plan. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 16c84ff | I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 6590c25 | And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them. | culture philosophy | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 9d4228e | It's too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 3015e9c | and let the quiet put things where they're supposed to be | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 879052a | You do not want to win an argument. You want to win. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ab01fb2 | We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 749f940 | the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| f81fdb9 | Primitive societies are largely free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dental cavities, economic theories, lounge music, and other modern ailments. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| c31f563 | Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 6452874 | We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. More likely, you will adapt to anything, as you probably did after past misfortunes. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 0f42568 | I pick at what's left of the popcorn and think about the summer, the summer that was both awful and wonderful. I thank Adam, as I have thanked him almost every night since August, for showing me that it's possible to lift the corners of our universe. Adam told me about lifting the corners the second time I met him, but I had no idea what he meant. Now I think I do. It's all about changing what's handed to you, about poking around a little, .. | Ann M. Martin | ||
| c264584 | It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen. | safety scared | Ann M. Martin | |
| 3e18963 | I'm going to brush my hair and change my clothes if we're going out. That gives you two ten minutes to get it out of your system, so I'm not stuck with a couple of frustrated horndogs all day. But no pressure," she added on a laugh as she swung out of the room and started upstairs." -- | Lynsay Sands | ||
| c38b6ea | I trust you with my life. I'm pretty sure I love you. But more importantly, I like you. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 55079d6 | She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them. | Francine Pascal | ||
| 19285a1 | Let Freedom Ring. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 1f5f3a5 | Thinking of them reminds me of a quote I read recently from the great Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. that says, "If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl." We must encourage those still struggling to keep moving forward." | William Kamkwamba | ||
| 447cce7 | The rhetoric of 'law and order' was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, civil rights activists used direct-action tactics in an effort to force reluctant Southern States to desegregate public facilities. Southern governors and law enforcement officials often c.. | civil-rights-movement law-and-order racism southern-governors | Michelle Alexander | |
| f121dbf | This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 4a10f39 | It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against. | life mortal-instruments rebellion society teen | Robin Wasserman | |
| 70fb111 | My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I saw no reason not to share it immediately. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| a35c45a | The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 103d327 | If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. | queer | Alison Bechdel | |
| 192b035 | He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets. | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | ||
| c6bfde4 | All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it or not. All I am saying is that the world needs you to do this, because there is a real shortage of people willing to kneel wherever they are and recognize the holiness holding its sometimes bony, often tender, always life-giving hand above their heads. That we are able to bless one another at all is evidence that we h.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 0af15f6 | A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl | Allison Pearson | ||
| 1204537 | Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 690f860 | When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more co.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 856bee4 | We came to wish you a happy day," Eric said. "And I suppose, as usual, Bill will want to express his undying love that surpasses my love, as he'll tell you--and Pam will want to say something sarcastic and nearly painful, while reminding you that she loves you, too." Bill and Pam looked decidedly miffed at Eric's preemptive strike, but I wasn't going to let anything dim my mood. "And what about you, Eric?" I asked on counterattack. "Are you.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| f55bc63 | Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b287ba4 | Lies will come back to bite you in the butt | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7e8a20c | Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 767ef1b | Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 9348503 | Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f5e73cf | Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter. | eating food | Nigella Lawson | |
| ff40db2 | On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8324499 | It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are. | Barbara Kingsolver |