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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba44e85 | The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 84fc8a5 | When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cart.. | philosophy rhetoric | Peter Kreeft | |
| 9483cd6 | Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d25a01a | I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it. | reality | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| dd77e3e | And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean. | Mike Mason | ||
| eca2fee | Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set me against her from the outset, but you over-reached yourself today, my girl! How dared you write in such terms to me! How could you have been so crassly stupid as to suppose that Sophy could ever need your countenance to set her right in the eyes of the world, or that I would believe one word of slander ag.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 526ffa1 | Alas I have quarreled so dreadfully with Charles that I am obliged to seek refuge at Lacy Manor!" She said mournfully. "And have doubtless left a note behind you to inform him of this!" "Of course!" "I foresee a happy meeting!" he commented bitterly. "That," she acknowledged, "was the difficulty! But I think I can overcome it. I promise you, Charlbury, you shall come out of it with a whole skin--sell, no, perhaps not quite that, but very ne.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9fbfd63 | How could you receive a member of the Male Sex in your bedroom, and in your dressing gown?Sir, I must request you to leave immediately!" "You don't mean to tell me that's a dressing gown?" interrupted Mr Carlton, a dangerous gleam in his eyes." Well, it's by far the most elegant one I've ever been priviledged to see, and I suppose I must have seen scores of 'em in my time-paid for them too!" | georgette heyer | ||
| f46b4c4 | Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife! | expectations wife | Georgette Heyer | |
| fea45d2 | The discussion itself is what most matters, the fact that we can reason together easily, with a blend of wit and seriousness, never descending into gossip or slander and always allowing room for alternative views. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 3dc384e | Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. | renaissance swerve | Stephen Greenblatt | |
| cf17a32 | Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel... | Lisa Gardner | ||
| c713d84 | I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 727449e | Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it. | Clive Cussler | ||
| 4592d25 | Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It's sneaky - you almost don't notice it at first. Like a cat burglar, it comes in through an open window while you're sleeping. It takes little things at first; your appetite, your desire to return phone calls. Then it comes back for the big stuff, like your will to live. Then next thing you know, your legs are filled with sand. The thought of brushing your teeth fills you with dread, it seems l.. | psychological suspense | Lisa Unger | |
| 989f3d0 | What does it mean to forgive someone? It only means that you release the anger, the hatred. It doesn't mean that you're saying it's all right now, or that you've forgotten the wrong. It just means that you've drained the boil. When you touch it, it doesn't hurt as much. That's all. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 9e1c1c9 | New Rule: Stop pretending your drugs are morally superior to my drugs because you get yours at a store. This week, they released the autopsy report on Anna Nicole Smith, and the cause of death was what I always thought it was: mad cow. No, it turns out she had nine different prescription drugs in her--which, in the medical field, is known as the "full Limbaugh." They opened her up, and a Walgreens jumped out. Antidepressants, anti-anxiety p.. | prescription-drugs | Bill Maher | |
| 860d4da | Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 3a5ab12 | She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die | John Green | ||
| c24ee06 | Race you," I challenged, leaping up. It was a real nice night for a race. The air was clear and cold and so clean it almost sparkled. The moon wasn't out but the stars lit up everything. It was quiet except for the sound of our feet on the cement and the dry, scraping sound of leaves blowing across the street. It was a real nice night. I guess I was still out of shape, because we all thee tied. No. I guess we all just wanted to stay togethe.. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 0c65bd8 | Audre Lorde quote on them. YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU. | Jennifer Mathieu | ||
| 2d24c4f | Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all. | energy misguidedness | Audre Lorde | |
| 1c264bf | Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was all-powerful. We wanted to believe that it could give word to my inchoate pain and rages; that it could enable Muriel to face the world and get a job; that it could free our writings, cure racism, end homophobia and adolescent acne. | life-pains love | Audre Lorde | |
| 3d7b348 | Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 02a80cd | they pulled Ezra through the streets in a wooden cage. Blake was sure of God. Villon was a mugger. Lorca sucked cock. T. S. Eliot worked a teller's cage | Charles Bukowski | ||
| ed85cb3 | What was to be the value of the long looked forward to, Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity And the wisdom of age? Had they deceived us Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders, Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit? The serenity only a deliberate hebetude, The wisdom only the knowledge of dead secrets Useless in the darkness into which they peered Or from which they turned their eyes. There is, it seems to us, At best, o.. | experience knowledge maturity wisdom | T.S. Eliot | |
| c6e93f5 | No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism. | intertextuality | T.S. Eliot | |
| b46a531 | Only people who've been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Eliot calls hollow men. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous peo.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a65eb90 | Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate | T. S. Eliot | ||
| abb5bc2 | Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 84d81b8 | We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there. | mind understanding | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 0636bcd | Let the tutor make his charge pass everything through a sieve and lodge nothing in his head on mere authority and trust: let not Aristotle's principles be principles to him any more than those of the Stoics or Epicureans. Let this variety of ideas be set before him; he will choose if he can; if not, he will remain in doubt. Only the fools are certain and assured. For if he embraces Xenophon's and Plato's opinions by his own reasoning, they .. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| fc1e9da | Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| ed39af8 | My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 6760096 | The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 73445bd | I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 396549c | You come to work every day but you hardly get to know anyone. I don't even know the names of half the people I see in the elevators. They say the company is a big family, but I don't know them. And even the people I do, like you two, and Elizabeth, and Roger - do I really? I mean, I like you guys, but we only ever talk about work. When I'm out with friends, or at home, I never talk about work. The other day, I tried to explain to my sister .. | work | Max Barry | |
| 0790696 | Brewster Place became especially fond of its colored daughters as they milled like determined spirits among its decay, trying to make it home. Nutmeg arms leaned over windowsills, gnarled ebony legs carried groceries up double flights of steps, and saffron hands strung out wet laundry on backyard lines. Their perspiration mingled with the steam from boiling pots of smoked pork greens, and it curled on the edges of the aroma of vinegar douch.. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| e2fe084 | If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. -JOHN WHEELER | Michio Kaku | ||
| 7e75e59 | Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars. | Michio Kaku | ||
| a25372f | was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33... Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that mu.. | history math mathematics science srinivasa-ramanujan strange tragedy | Michio Kaku | |
| e8124fb | This means that, in some sense, free will is a fake. Decisions are made ahead of time by the brain, without the input of consciousness, and then later the brain tries to cover this up (as it's wont to do) by claiming that the decision was conscious. Dr. Michael Sweeney concludes, "Libet's findings suggested that the brain knows what a person will decide before the person does. ... The world must reassess not only the idea of movements divid.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 1a18cfe | The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told. | peace stoker war | Bram Stoker | |
| d28dba6 | We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was. | Bram Stoker |