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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ad211bf | lw Hrf lw`@ yTmH bHmq@ ly twhm lqdr@ `ly tGyyr ltrykh | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| b0dfd19 | lHb hw lHb , wlda~ HDwrh ttlsh~ lqwa~ lmDd@ jmy`an fy GmD@ `yn. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5e6c392 | Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 0442b79 | On opening night, standing under the Rogers's marquee, [Lin] realized that if Eliza's struggle was the element of Hamilton's story that had inspired him the most, then the show itself was a part of her legacy. | eliza eliza-hamilton hamilton legacy legacy-quotes lin-manuel-miranda | Jeremy McCarter | |
| c576fdb | and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear o.. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 5014700 | There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| ab776e6 | A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it. | virtue | Epictetus | |
| f1756ea | What then, is it not possible to be free from faults? It is not possible; but this is possible: to direct your efforts incessantly to being faultess. For we must be content if by never remitting this attention we shall escape at least a few errors. When you have said "Tomorrow I will begin to attend," you must be told that you are saying this: "Today I will be shameless, disregardful of time and place, mean;it will be in the power of others.. | Epictetus | ||
| e1d2bc0 | Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire. | freedom | Epictetus | |
| 1de6c04 | Remember that you must behave as at a banquet. Is anything brought round to you? Put out your hand, and take a moderate share. Does it pass you? Do not stop it. Is it not come yet? Do not yearn in desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. So with regard to children , wife, office, riches; and you will some time or other be worthy to feast with the gods. And if you do not so much as take the things which are set before you, but are ab.. | Epictetus Epictetus | ||
| 3da6b45 | Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing." | daughter determination mixed-feelings mother strong-willed-child | Jeannette Walls | |
| 869dd8e | I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have it all had their secrets. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| daadcc0 | If you want to be treated like a mother," I said, "you should act like one." -- | Jeannette Walls | ||
| aeea754 | If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own. | eyes eyesight glasses parenting-tip | Jeannette Walls | |
| e72529c | Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 57574dc | Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. | feeling pettiness | Sebastian Faulks | |
| ea30c6d | Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance." | Luanne Rice | ||
| bff17be | Age is real life is short. It's foolhardy to deny it. We grow up, our bodies grow frail, death is coming. There's so much I want to do! There's a whole world out there I havent seen, ppl I havent met and who havent know me. God, there 're a million books I want to read. I dont want to sleep... I want to be awake. This is my life - I want to live it | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 5a6f8a3 | By meditating, we're learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve others, such as illusory feelings of scarcity and fears of deprivation. We gradually learn to be more conscious and make better choices. We develop simplicity instead of comlexity, open-mindedness instead of narrow-mindedness, flexibility rather than rigidity. We feel ourselves to be mor.. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| 5c52bcc | His response to them [women] as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man. | Joseph Heller | ||
| c1889c4 | You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war.' 'Yes, sir.' 'You have a morbid aversion to dying. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 35d958d | Maybe I am senile already and people are too kind to tell me. People are not kind and would tell me. (Maybe people have told me, and I'm too senile to remember). | Joseph Heller | ||
| d9e1d4b | Why don't you ever whip me?" she pouted one night. "Because I haven't the time," he snapped at her impatiently. "I haven't the time. Don't you know there's a parade going on?" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 49ad510 | You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again. | leaving-home longing sense-of-place | Azar Nafisi | |
| 547e275 | I'm a perfectly equipped failure. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| c30426c | I eat my heart out alone. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 645299a | If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 5fa17fd | And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| 40cab2e | Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species. | science | Michael Crichton | |
| 289ded1 | Life finds a way | Michael Crichton | ||
| a221ebd | The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all. | saint-joan truth | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 657cdd4 | Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. This seems so clearly the case with grief, but it can be so only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. One may want to, or manage to for a while, but despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel. | Judith Butler | ||
| 3686b94 | a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it. | Judith Butler | ||
| 901e861 | I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like an old man. The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories - not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 71c2dfc | McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for. Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President? | president | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 78ca24e | When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro. | Peter O Whitmer | ||
| 1ed33cb | Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a50af24 | There is no real way to deal with everything we lose. | Joan Didion | ||
| fd2f08a | I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point. | Joan Didion | ||
| ca04925 | Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information | Scott Adams | ||
| 184cf09 | The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want. | Scott Adams | ||
| 62595c2 | If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it. | Scott Adams | ||
| a0e9cac | In most groups the craziest person is in control. It starts because no one wants the problems that come from pissing off a crazy person. It's just smarter and easier sometimes to let the crazy person have his or her way. | Scott Adams | ||
| 8ff9fae | Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's. | Scott Adams |