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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dbd87cb | If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon. | Connie Willis | ||
| 5ae2d55 | Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him. "Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey." | Connie Willis | ||
| 2b305d3 | Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one? | science | Connie Willis | |
| f22ff1f | Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you." "I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz." | Connie WIllis | ||
| 895cfb7 | He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once. | Colum McCann | ||
| c85af7e | How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again. | Colum McCann | ||
| 367d779 | and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. | hate immigration | Colum McCann | |
| 0e546ef | The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday. | Colum McCann | ||
| 742f440 | Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| d63d79a | There are things I'm not strong enough to go without, and I intend to fight for them. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 29ce623 | Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school. | humor | Craig Thompson | |
| 9426585 | I, too, stood on the sacred image. For a moment this foot was on his face. It was on the face of the man who has been ever in my thoughts, on the face that was before me on the mountains, in my wanderings, in prison, on the best and most beautiful face that any man can ever know, on the face of him whom I have always longed to love. Even now that face is looking at me with eyes of pity from the plaque rubbed flat by many feet. << Trample ! .. | shusaku-endo silence | Shūsaku Endō | |
| a45b1f5 | Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. One orients one's attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 59e6be2 | It takes twenty-one pounds of protein fed to a calf to produce a single pound of animal protein for humans. We get back less than 5 percent of what we put in. | Peter Singer | ||
| a67928c | I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake. But in the second line was a reference to Achilles, and another to Ajax, so I understood she was just addressing me in terms which she accounted fitting for a martial paladin; she knew no better. It was a common custom at that tim.. | ajax ancient-greece greek-heroes hero martiality | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| c0bd281 | Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!" | Danielle Steel | ||
| 5854b44 | For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic. | Danielle Steel | ||
| dfafb16 | and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| b801f17 | But it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 1fededa | You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7e9f634 | They are hopelessly vulgar. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike, at any rate; and for this short life that is quite enough. | Henry James | ||
| 2458a0f | Most of the young men of talent whom I have met in this country give one the impression of being somewhat demented. Why shouldn't they? They are living amidst spiritual gorillas, living with food and drink maniacs, success-mongers, gadget innovators, publicity hounds. God, if I were a young man today, if I were faced with a world such as we have created, I would blow my brains out. | Henry Miller | ||
| 4fe7fa5 | Better to separate than never to marry. | Henry Miller | ||
| 466d70a | The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it. | Henry Miller | ||
| a2344ae | t`tmd qw@ mwq` lnsn fy lHy@ `l~ drj@ kf@ drkh llwq`, wklm nqSt kfy'th yzdd tshwshh wbltly ytnm~ sh`wrh b`dm l'mn, fySbH bHj@ l~ 'whm ytky' `lyh lyjd lmn ldhy ynshdh. wklm zddt kfy'th tzdd mknyth fy lwqwf `l~ qdmyh wyjd jwhrh dkhl dhth. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4f5625d | The source of irrational authority, on the other hand, is always power over people. This power can be physical or mental, it can be realistic or only relative in terms of the anxiety and helplessness of the person submitting to this authority. Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. Criticism of the authority is not only required but forbidden. Rational authority is based u.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 982a970 | In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another factor of contemporary life must be considered: the role of the work routine and the pleasure routine. Man becomes a 'nine to fiver', he is part of the labour force, or the bureaucratic force of clerks and managers. He has little initiative, his tasks are prescribed by the organisation of the work; there is even little difference between those hig.. | individuality | Erich Fromm | |
| f6e34e7 | In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album -- or song -- you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have. | dedication talent work | Michael Jackson | |
| 4a2bd9a | Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 267b4fb | The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 30e6900 | Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a4ecdb1 | Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. | fashions ideals worldviews zeitgeist | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8434a8c | I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me. | philosophy | G.K. Chesterton | |
| a0af7ee | Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is civilised. He finds it because he is experienced; or, what is often much the same thing, because he is exhausted | despotism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f677e78 | Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c0e5066 | It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9eeb3b7 | The secret of life lies in laughter and humility. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 5447887 | Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else... Every act is an irrevocable selection and exclusion. Just as when you marry one woman you give up all the others, so when you take one course of action you give up all the other courses... Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the .. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d1f26fc | There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 64cec95 | Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9a5ed44 | Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7ba7019 | Private lives are more important than public reputations. | reputation | G.K. Chesterton | |
| bf10012 | The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend th.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 04606da | But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty. | socialism | G.K. Chesterton |