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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 804f436 | War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 9b39476 | If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 7aa0086 | Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn." -- | James Patterson | ||
| ecf754e | The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do. | David Levithan | ||
| 09ca793 | When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| af76ed4 | LAW 46 Never Appear Too Perfect Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity. | motivational | Robert Greene | |
| 976072a | You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 0b01d5a | We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 2d0eca5 | She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it. | love | William Faulkner | |
| 50404ba | Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| e5cdbdf | Me: "I refuse to attend Support Group." Mom: "One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities." Me: "Please just let me watch America's Next Top Model. It's an activity." Mom: "Television is a passivity." Me: "Ugh, Mom, please." Mom: "Hazel, you're a teenager. You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life." Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Gro.. | life teenagers | John Green | |
| 51899eb | A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 69a57f6 | Little sister!" Apollo called. If his teeth were any whiter he could've blinded us without the sun car. "What's up? You never call. You never write. I was getting worried!" Artemis sighed. "I'm fine, Apollo. And I am not your sister." "Hey, I was born first." "We're twins! How many millennia do we have to argue--" | artemis percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 0aaf91f | For she had eyes and chose me. | eyes looks love love-story lovers | William Shakespeare | |
| 9c9b2de | Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 99730eb | Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. | adversity adversity-quotes coping face-your-fears face-your-problems inspirational | Conrad Joseph | |
| f9612f5 | Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage. "It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I hav.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d895184 | There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1c7a329 | If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you. | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| b1dc266 | Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. | Richard Bach | ||
| f4e7cb3 | A man without words is a man without thought. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 59f8d31 | When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late. | religion science-fiction | Frank Herbert | |
| 6f80a82 | When I was alive, I believed -- as you do -- that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends.. | inspirational reminding | Peter S. Beagle | |
| b2f3a79 | I know simply that the sky will last longer than I. | Albert Camus | ||
| 61b4931 | He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. | melquiades | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 7e0f26e | I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 675db70 | What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 21e2f0f | But it's the truth even if it didn't happen. | on-fiction | Ken Kesey | |
| d96a524 | If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us | pablo neruda | ||
| 0b26631 | Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 50eecad | He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e19ec87 | Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge... is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding. | accountability ego empathy inspirational knowledge opinion | Bill Bullard | |
| de83024 | Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever. | forgiveness happiness inspirational knowledge life philosophy truth wisdom | Wil Zeus | |
| 58016d5 | Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. | charity compassion greed helping-others humanity inspirational volunteerism | Horace Mann | |
| 3070933 | A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. | humor | Mary Karr | |
| ff95767 | There is no such thing as 'too late' in life. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e3e848f | Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| c4ac219 | Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are? | hallucination simon | William Golding | |
| af548fb | Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow. | gasoline-rainbow kiss | Alice Sebold | |
| 68d4985 | I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. | objectivism philosophy taggart | Ayn Rand | |
| 1798e35 | There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our ancestors. | legacy life muad-dib philosophy truth wisdom | Frank Herbert | |
| 0ab0fdd | there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. | knowledge | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| b3299ae | Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 263f713 | Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them. | Emily Giffin |