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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7bb98b3 | min Husni lHZ, `l~ l'ql, 'nWa lnsna l yt'lmu md@an Twyl@an Hyna yuqTa`u r'sh. hdhhi lmlHZ@ lty dhkrth 'nta lan takhTru bbli klWa nsn. wltHqyqi hdhhi lGy@ nm khtr`w tlka lal@, '`ny lmiqSal@. 'm 'n fqd khTrt fy bbly fy dhlka lywm fkr@un 'khr~ dh tsltu: "tur~ 'l ymkn 'n ykwna hdh 'sw'?".... fkWir fy l'mr: lnnZr fy lt`dhybi mthlan. nWa lalma wljrwHa wlwj`a ljsmy, nWa hdh klWahu yshGlu lnfsa `n `dhbh wynsyh m qd tukbdhu mn hwl, fl yt'lmu lmru `n.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 89cd5a3 | There is no virtue if there is no immortality. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8382325 | to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, yo.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9ae7e8d | dh knt fy lbw's fnk l tTrd mn mjtm` lbshr Drb bl`S, bl tTrd mnh Drb blmkns@, bGy@ dhllk mzyd mn ldhll | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 910748c | l ywqZ l'shqy fy lqlwb l `Tf@ lshfq@, Hyth ybky lns `l~ hw'l l'shqy dwn 'n ywjhw lyhm klm@ tqry`! wHyn l yqr`k 'Hd, fnk tsh`r b'lm 'shd w`dhb 'qw~ ! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6c645a4 | It's because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8fc16a3 | Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 60f8887 | For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from Earth but to set up Heaven on earth. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| feddf18 | Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held his book in my hands and trembled as he spoke to me of man and the world, of love and wisdom, pain and guilt, and I knew I would never be the same. His name was Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. He knew more of fathers and sons than any man in the world, and of brothers and sisters, priests and rogues, guilt and innoce.. | inspiration writing | John Fante | |
| 7a95423 | n m ybq~ fy '`mq lnfs mn 'mwr 'kthr kthyran mm yZhr fy lklmt .. m Zl tfkyrk fy dkhlk , fnh mhm ykn D`yfan yZl '`mq mm Hyn tufSH `nh . n tfkyrk , mt~ `brt `nh , ySbH 'qrb l~ lDHk w'b`d `n lSdq | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 96e368b | But I'll add, that there is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without c.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 349799c | in my opinion miracles will never confound a realist. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact. And even if he does admit it, he will admit it as a fact of nature that was previously unknown.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| addf033 | I was especially happy when, going to bed and covering myself with a blanket, I began, alone now, in the most complete solitude, with no people moving around and not a single sound from them, to re-create life in a different key. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d3bd3b7 | So now I'm getting my gown made by an exclusive seamstress, and all thos anorexic whores on Michigan Avenue and Oak Street who made me feel like the Goodyear blimp can kiss the very fattest part of my ass. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| c903bbd | Point? Maybe you aren't a Carrie or a Samantha or a Charlotte or a Miranda. Maybe you're just you. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| c3400c9 | Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| dc64b8a | I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will give me enough money not only to live a comfortable existence, but also to buy many, many new pairs of shoes. | writing | Jen Lancaster | |
| 5e799b7 | DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time. | goal mental-health mental-illness mpd multiple-personality-disorder multiplicity response shame survival trauma | Deborah Bray Haddock | |
| dde715a | Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| cbef3dd | Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the soul abandons Him to whom it ought to cleave as its end, and becomes a kind of end to itself. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| d476bea | Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself. | example exhortation leadership self-discipline | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 87db272 | Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought. | bible-interpretation golden-rule love scriptures | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 84625c4 | And when you're ready to cut his balls off, I will provide the knife. | Penny Reid | ||
| f3524fd | There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| e5d0dd8 | The protector inside me was frowning while the predator soaked up her discomfort with glee. | sexy | Penny Reid | |
| d279f49 | I know what you're going to say." "Then we can skip it and you can admit you're wrong." "I can't admit I'm wrong about two things in the same day." I brought my attention back to him, found him smirking at me. "It might bring about the apocalypse." "Then admit it tomorrow" | Penny Reid | ||
| a7f1377 | Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It's evolved and awesome. I like to think of myself in a similar fashion. | Penny Reid | ||
| 820fc84 | Ashley, I caught a bear today in the new trap. We're taking it a hundred miles north. That's a hundred miles closer to where you are. I've decided units and measurements of distance are bullshit. With you there are only two distances that matter: Here. Not here. You are not here. - Drew | Penny Reid | ||
| 47eb491 | I didn't like trusting, I didn't like setting greater than mild expectations | Penny Reid | ||
| 8be55a0 | He was hot like lava and sexy like cake. Wait, like lava cake. Yum. | Penny Reid | ||
| 299b38b | Where I'm from," Tom tilted his head to the side, "they call your kind a hipster or a lumbersexual, with the beard and flannel and such." Without missing beat, Jethro responded, "Ah. See, where I'm from, they call my kind a man." | Penny Reid | ||
| a4a4c5e | Where are we going?" ... "Just this place I know with a waterfall and a cave. It's part of the estate, so no one uses it." "How nice," I said ... "We have a garage at my house. It holds a car and some of my dad's tools." Martin glanced at me, equal parts amused and confused. "Oh?" "Yes. And a hammock in the back yard." "Is that so..." "Yeah." "So no waterfalls?" "No. But this one time, when it rained a lot, the gutter broke. That was simila.. | Penny Reid | ||
| da019c5 | I'd learned from my mother that when someone gives you a subjective compliment--meaning one that can't be disproven and is based on opinion--but that you find to be completely false, rather than argue, it's much better to just say thank you, or I appreciate that and strive to be that compliment. Fools fight compliments, she'd said, and sometimes other people see you better than you can see yourself. | Penny Reid | ||
| 0ace8df | I would not always be joy, nor would I want inert contentment. Sorrow and struggle bring gravity to the soul and to the mind, a gravity that cannot be achieved through mere happiness. We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer. | Penny Reid | ||
| 016b90c | Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds. | Karen Hesse | ||
| 5bb6eb0 | George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. What the president should have done, in the unlikely event that he wanted the support of America's peace-mongers, was to describe a confrontation with Saddam as the 'lesser evil.' This is a term the Left can appreciate. Indeed, 'lesser evil' is part of the essential tacti.. | al-shifa-pharmaceutical-factory anti-war ba-ath-party bill-clinton democratic-party-united-states evil george-w-bush iraq iraq-war leftism liberalism madeleine-albright moral-absolutism moral-relativism morality opposition-to-the-iraq-war peace-movement presidency-of-bill-clinton presidency-of-george-w-bush rwanda rwandan-genocide saddam-hussein sudan united-nations united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 35b437f | Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared. | hopes luck | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 58c70b9 | In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or, as it might be phrased in Latin form, "no child's behind left." | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 0e50e5c | It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of s.. | 1960s countryside cruelty earl-of-bessborough england europe gassing hampshire hiroshima jane-austen literary-criticism literature mansions massacre meadow myxomatosis napoleon napoleonic-wars new-forest persuasion-novel quiet rabbits richard-adams silence sussex theatre-of-ancient-greece townships war-memorials watership-down wind-in-the-willows women world-war-ii | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 40e35f8 | People spoke to foreigners with an averted gaze, and everybody seemed to know somebody who had just vanished. The rumors of what had happened to them were fantastic and bizarre though, as it turned out, they were only an understatement of the real thing. Before going to see General Videla [...], I went to [...] check in with : the black-draped mothers who paraded, every week, with pictures of their missing loved ones in the Plaza Mayo. ( .. | christianity death-squads einstein freud jacobo-timerman jorge-rafael-videla marx | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 793d0ac | In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. | dogs humour korean-cuisine north-korea pyongyang | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 712d6c4 | What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. | beauty hazel john-green quote | John Green | |
| 84cd4ba | I want to work at a library someday," I said. "I want to spend every waking day of my adult life surrounded by books." | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 3f2b4c8 | What are you saying? That you're a thief who steals from other thieves?" He wrinkled his nose, and it was adorable. "It sounds so distasteful when you say it like that. I prefer master appropriator of ill-gotten funds. You can call me master for short." | Tracey Garvis-Graves |