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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 95d66ec | He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. | patience | Bram Stoker | |
| 8643098 | Man's most dangerous enemy is the one he was once closest to. | S. Hussain Zaidi | ||
| 92613e3 | Real life doesn't have to suck. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 9b3a009 | Thank you for a lovely weekend. They tell me it rained. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 6e734dc | So many of us fail: we divorce our wives and husbands, we leave the roofs of our lovers, go once again into the lonely march, mustering our courage with work, friends, half pleasures which are not whole because they are not shared. Yet still I believe in love's possibility, in its presence on the earth; as I believe I can approach the altar on any morning of any day which may be the last and receive the touch that does not, for me, say: The.. | Andre Dubus | ||
| 29c1da6 | The ocean to my right was maroon, the sky above it silver. There were sand trails through the thick purple ice plant that grew along the roadside... but now the sky is the color of peaches... It was a ball of bright saffron sinking into the sea, turning the water purple, the sky orange and green. | Andre Dubus III | ||
| 9495c35 | It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 82f05b7 | There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| e44d9b0 | The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 3cb6f32 | What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 454f09e | If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 673eb48 | More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 6abd487 | When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi , but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having .. | 1945 adolf-hitler england europe fascism fascism-in-europe hinduism nazis rudyard-kipling school swastikas symbols world-war-ii | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0016738 | I know good design when I fail to trip over it. | Spider Robinson | ||
| 1ad11be | Spiritual beings should think and behave like spiritual beings; that is our nature and ultimate destiny. But when the circumstances of everyday life lead us astray and we forget our true nature, that is when sorrow, worry, and fear enter. That is when inner peace, joy, and happiness exit. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 385399e | Es posible que nuestra mente diga: "yo no te conozco". Pero el corazon si le conoce." | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| fc07a8a | It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth. | wealth | Robert T. Kiyosaki | |
| fd282cf | The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The crowd cheered. The Indian held up his hands for silence as if to make a speech. Looking at the band and then the crowd, the Indian said, "Well, what're you waiting for? Let's DANCE." -- | dancing indian waiting | Robert Fulghum | |
| 6d8182f | If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| adb15d9 | Pride is a fool's fortress | Leon Uris | ||
| b576cc7 | Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue. | teasing | James A. Owen | |
| 902c41e | There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day. | inertia obedience | Og Mandino | |
| 553a684 | I pity the poverty of your wealth. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e010c6f | It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner." | science-fiction stranger-in-a-strange-land | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 3e0879e | But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth. | haircuts | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| d55cc3c | But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d97a017 | Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure "good" government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare -- most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the "backseat driver" syndrome." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5cc729f | Till the stars grow old and our sun grows cold? Will you fight for us, lie for us, love us - and let us love you? | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8e96b4e | Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0b0c49e | l trsl khmwran llmslmyn 'w zhwr l'qHwn ll'lmn. km 'n `Tk s`@ Hy'T hdy@ llSynyyn 'w skynan ll'mrykyyn lh m`n~ sy fy thqfthm, wk'nk tqwl lh "fltsqT mytan"!" -- | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 613eb58 | But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision. | Stephen Crane | ||
| d934fb0 | A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. | prophets religion | Stephen Crane | |
| 2b931a7 | When she cried her whole face went to pieces. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b27ed63 | We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c1b4eb4 | let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him." | love | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 6fcd391 | This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to ignore but to despise whatever bad ending there could be. This quality was destroyed by too much responsibility for others or the necessity of undertaking something ill planned or badly conceived. For in such things the bad ending, failure, could not be ignored. It was not simply a possibility of harm to one's self, which be ignored. He knew he.. | ernest-hemingway for-whom-the-bell-tolls war | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 775f0ed | We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c5bcb1c | We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like those years in Paris, after the war. Life was painfully pure and simple and good, and I believed Ernest was his best self then. I got the very best of him. We got the best of each other. | life loss love | Paula McLain | |
| fe643e7 | They are strong," David said. "But there's a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 1266b09 | I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? | dostoyevsky hemingway writing | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 9ecc1b8 | If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musee du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume. I went there nearly every day for the Cezannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago. I .. | ernest-hemingway france museums paris | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 69553e0 | All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already. Now, looking out the tunnel of trees over the ravine at the sky with white clouds moving across in the wind, I loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really love, when, empty, you feel it welling up again and there it is and you can never h.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| dd3318d | You never understand anybody that loves you. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| de3ab19 | I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce. | Ernest Hemingway |