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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 745c779 | The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing o.. | T.H. White | ||
| 23a572c | He saw her as the passionate spirit of innocent youth, now beleaguered by the trick which is played on youth - the trick of treachery in the body, which turns flesh into green bones. Her stupid finery was not vulgar to him, but touching. The girl was still there, still appealing from behind the breaking barricade of rouge. She had made the brave protest: I will not be vanquished. Under the clumsy coquetry, the undignified clothes, there was.. | T.H. White | ||
| 28fc73e | He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life. | T.H. White | ||
| 9b3be9e | By ignoring my fear, I learned that the fear was groundless. Over the years, I have met people who took what seemed the safer path and were the lesser for it...I had taken a risk, and that risk yielded that greatest reward...Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 32c5d61 | We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 991b07d | You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ed59277 | The radio comes back even louder than you remember it. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b4b987f | It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| cc68e5e | Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called "Landslide." When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d29536e | I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be." Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.[pp.28]" | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d1f3688 | I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 51d390d | Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly. | humility youth | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 2e954ba | The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. | atheism empiricism nerd nerdiness nerds pitfalls-of-bad-thinking rationalism rationalists reddit white-male-privilege white-privilege wisdom wisdom-vs-nerds | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 3cf5b57 | When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8673c75 | If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 3612ee7 | Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| b0ff2e3 | The world as a whole has never been richer, and it has never been more heavily in debt, living off borrowed money. The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it get to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 03090df | Never listen to a leftist who does not give away his fortune or does not live the exact lifestyle he wants others to follow. What the French call "the caviar left," la gauche caviar, or what Anglo-Saxons call champagne socialists, are people who advocate socialism, sometimes even communism, or some political system with sumptuary limitations, while overtly leading a lavish lifestyle, often financed by inheritance--not realizing the contradi.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| cc7b70c | More data means more information, but it also means more false information. | statistics | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| aab6504 | For studying courage in textbooks doesn't make you any more courageous than eating cow meat makes you bovine. By some mysterious mental mechanism, people fail to realize that the principal thing you can learn from a professor is how to be a professor--and the chief thing you can learn from, say, a life coach or inspirational speaker is how to become a life coach or inspirational speaker. So remember that the heroes of history were not class.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 0150504 | A Positive Attitude makes a Powerful Mind. | Ann M. Martin | ||
| b5ab2ee | As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she would know she was in love when she would be willing to give up chocolate forever to be with that person for even an hour. Kate, a dedicated and hopeless chocoholic, had decided right then that she would never fall in love. She had been sure that no male was worth such privation. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| f537575 | She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's carrying," the maid said with a sad shake of the head. "Aye," Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin, interrupted by several black bruises. "She looks like a cow." Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were .. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| d66f8b3 | You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment." | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 666edc2 | Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile. | Francine Pascal | ||
| f76d2c3 | But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy. | Francine Pascal | ||
| f90d77b | Pretty people do ugly things. It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever started to forget that ride for a second, there always seemed to be some good-looking asshole ready to remind her. | good-looking pretty-people | Francine Pascal | |
| 86a7e5d | The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave. | Francine Pascal | ||
| b4fd9af | Anyway, I'm sure the guy lives a million miles away." "Or he could live right in your backyard. You never know." I nodded, keeping a poker face, even though the idea of Sir Leo living in my backyard was extremely appealing." | Mari Mancusi | ||
| 9545892 |
Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que aca vivia mi padre, un tal Pedro Paramo. Mi madre me lo dijo. Y yo le prometi que vendria a verlo en cuanto ella muriera. Le aprete sus manos en senal de que lo haria; pues ella estaba por morirse y yo en plan de prometerlo todo. < |
Juan Rulfo | ||
| 8d51c63 | You scared me the moment I saw you, and I think it's because I knew, I just knew, I was going to fall in love you. I didn't know our worlds were already intertwined, but my heart somehow knew it belonged to you from the start. I didn't believe a pain so deep existed while we were apart, but I also didn't believe a love like ours existed. You've shown me it does. You've shown me good when there was bad. You've given me pleasure above all of .. | gavin-blake pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| 26ec282 | My God, are you even real?" she whispered. Holding her gaze, a sad smile lifted his mouth. "I think I am." "You make me feel like I'm in a dream," Emily confessed, wrapping her arms around his neck. "Like I'm sleepwalking and I don't even know it." ... "I'm able to close my eyes and just... trust you. You're the color on my blank canvas, the light in my dark, the air in my lungs, and I almost let you go. I almost erased us from ever happeni.. | gavin-blake pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| 6e8f012 | The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it. | law mortal-instruments | Robin Wasserman | |
| 6b0dec4 | In my room, in the dark, I understood what I never had before, what no one else seemed to. I understood how a boy could go into the woods with a bullet and a gun and not come out. That there was no conspiracy, no evil influences or secret rituals; that sometimes there was only pain and the need to make it stop. | loneliness suicidal-thoughts suicide | Robin Wasserman | |
| 61b6257 | Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies? | humor | Alison Bechdel | |
| 9b99481 | Although I never found a church where I felt completely at home again, I made a new home in the world. I renewed my membership in the priesthood of all believers, who may not have as much power as we would like, but whose consolation prize is the freedome to meet God after work, well away from all centers of religious command, wherever God shows up. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 4257a7d | The simplest explanation is most often the correct one. | Lincoln Child | ||
| a5ac15f | Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them. | Allison Pearson | ||
| 4624b45 | I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone - | melancholy remembrance skeleton transience | Mervyn Peake | |
| 5f1cd7e | Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| fe57ab8 | People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future. | future hard-decisions life people success thought | Brian Tracy | |
| 2966e32 | What happens when your god dies? Sebastian wondered. When someone is your sun and moon and stars, and then you discover something, something that reveals a hitherto unknown weakness so fundamental, so shattering that it destroys not only your trust in the other person, but your respect, too. Some people never recover from that kind of disillusionment. | C.S. Harris | ||
| aac9336 | His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 974415a | Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part. | southern-vampire-mysteries vampire | Charlaine Harris |