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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 64d017d | Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 181683c | Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind. | life serious talk-is-cheap truth | Mario Puzo | |
| 69230b6 | In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 598b2e8 | It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 170943d | This is a love story," Michael Dean says, "but really what isn't? Doesn't the detective love the mystery or the chase, or the nosey female reporter who is even now being held against her wishes at an empty warehouse on the waterfront? Surely, the serial murder loves his victims, and the spy loves his gadgets, or his country or the exotic counterspy. The ice-trucker is torn between his love for ice and truck and the competing chefs go crazy .. | zombie | Jess Walter | |
| fd54589 | Any sign of what killed him, Scorch?" "Let's ask Sev. He's a dead-body-ologist." [Sev examines the body and its arm falls off] "Yep, he's dead alright." "Sure you don't want a second opinion, Doc?" "Nah, I'm ready go out on a limb." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 0f42503 | Sometimes when you are standing still and it's snowing, you think that you hear music. You can't tell where it's coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we can't hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat. | life music | Heather O'Neill | |
| a1ad38a | Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for. | life-lessons living | Diana Palmer | |
| 4358799 | Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone | time | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 9ee097b | What matters to an active man is to do the right thing; whether the right thing comes to pass should not bother him. --GOETHE | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 378c161 | Epictetus told his students, when they'd quote some great thinker, to picture themselves observing the person having sex. It's funny, you should try it the next time someone intimidates you or makes you feel insecure. See them in your mind, grunting, groaning, and awkward in their private life--just like the rest of us. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 97fde74 | It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that Earth was not the center about which all celestial bodies revolved. Next, Darwin showed us that we were not central in the chain of life but, like all other creatures, had evolved from other life-forms. Third, Freud demonstrated that we are not masters in our own house-that much of our behavior is.. | charles-darwin copernic copernicus darwin freud philosophy schopenhauer science sigmund-freud | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 69b4b65 | y mkwWn l'kwn, 'n mwjwd l'nk mwjwd, n 'Srrt `l~ t'ml dhlk fl'ny mt`Tsh l~ lmnb` twWq l~ `yn lHq. '`zW m 'jny mn st`ml l`ql hw ltfny fy jllk. n `qly lynbhr, wyHlw ly lqSwr wl`jz dh 'sh`r b`zk wjbrwtk. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 02fcbfe | The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 31d739c | Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse. | Joe Meno | ||
| fbb7374 | The four most common chemically active elements in the universe--hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen--are the four most common elements of life on Earth. We are not simply in the universe. The universe is in us. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 37489f6 | Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| db37643 | What we do know, and what we can assert without further hesitation, is that the universe had a beginning. The universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars that exploded more than five billion years ago. We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out--and we have only just begun. + | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 4beef34 | Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 066865f | All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil. | good-and-evil right-and-wrong | Ellis Peters | |
| da5fe9a | Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from? | Glen Cook | ||
| 18a0948 | There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant. | history morality | Glen Cook | |
| 9154a04 | Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 1d16b37 | Life is a series of calculated risks, James. I happen to think that this one is worth it. | risks | Lish McBride | |
| dc76c2f | One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love... | Alain de Botton | ||
| ac7a2dd | We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement, and then do not reach it. | Alain de Botton | ||
| b3eb18e | In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity. | Alain de Botton | ||
| f10c3ba | Our romantic lives are fated to be sad and incomplete, because we are creatures driven by two essential desires which point powerfully in entirely opposing directions. Yet what is worse is our utopian refusal to countenance the divergence, our naive hope that a cost-free synchronisation might somehow be found: that the libertine might live for adventure while avoiding loneliness and chaos. Or that the married Romantic might unite sex with t.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 2cbce17 | The problem with cliches is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 7f40500 | it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there." (p.23)" | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0f336d7 | Our sadness won't be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. | art happiness life melancholy sadness | Alain de Botton | |
| 4777d43 | Without patience or negotiation, there is bitterness: anger that has forgotten where it came from. There is a nagger who wants it done now and can't be bothered to explain why. And there is a naggee who no longer has the heart to explain that his or her resistance is grounded in some sensible counter-arguments or, alternatively, in some touching and perhaps even forgivable flaws of character. The two parties just hope the problem - so bori.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| f14e731 | The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 7131ca2 | Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a0365ac | Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. | fallen-nations futility inevitability knowledge learning man mankind materialism nations passing-of-time time | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 45de9db | But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine. | William Blake | ||
| 471bfcf | It is right it should be so: Man was made for joy and woe; | William Blake | ||
| ddf0959 | Ah'm sittin in the hotel bar waitin oan Fiona. Thinkin aboot her heart-melting smile and that sexy, concentrated frown when she evaluates books and the comments made by lecturers. Whenever she comes into a room, ma spirits soar. What ah feel is delight, pure and simple. Our life is all passionate kisses and soft wells of laughter. Ah love watchin her in class; even though we're shaggin, it's still great tae just look at her. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| b24442a | Depois de sumir, o melhor e continuar assim; voltar e se rematerializar na loucura alheia. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f56b916 | With the gift of faith, we move on. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 1a022f7 | It was Begbie who ensured he could never return. He had done what he wanted to do. He could now never go back to Leith, to Edinburgh, even to Scotland, ever again. There, he could not be anything other than he was. Now, free from them all, for good, he could be what he wanted to be. He'd stand or fall alone. This thought both terrified and excited him as he contemplated life in Amsterdam. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 8222d26 | Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose.. | John Hodge | ||
| 12de1b1 | You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation. | learning trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | |
| 2d02866 | Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan. | Irvine Welsh |