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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cd18eb8 | Get used to disappointment. | William Goldman | ||
| a6724d7 | That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I. | William Goldman | ||
| dc92f41 | Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going | Mario Puzo | ||
| 36ddce1 | don't act like I didn't for you. | gossip-girl sad | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| ec1f5a1 | Scorch: "I think Sev might have an anger problem." Sev: "I think you have an intelligence problem." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 2a2a851 | We have an understanding. I don't laugh at his skirt, and he doesn't rip my head off." -Fi Skirata" | Karen Traviss | ||
| 7fc1307 | Xavier wasn't put on the earth to witness the bad htings like Jules and I were. He had been put here to notice lovely things, things that God had created and no one had any complaints about. Leaves turning red in the autumn. How when the tide goes out, the shells are left on the shore. I was put here - Jules and I were both put here - to see sadder things. We had to stand in the rain and explain why the world was a lovely place. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| e74bcab | All children are really orphans. At heart, a child has nothing to do with its parents, its background, its last name, its gender, its family trade. It is a brand-new person, and it is born with the only legacy that all individuals inherit when they open their eyes in this world: the inalienable right to be free. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 51d339a | This life came so close to never happening.. | David Benioff | ||
| 53dfeee | This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't. | David Benioff | ||
| 0718307 | It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumb-screw be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffered from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave owner, and wit.. | race | Charles Darwin | |
| 71194de | But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the t.. | conclusion-before-evidence darwinism evolution fossil-record fossils intermediate-forms macro-evolution macroevolution missing-links paleontology | Charles Darwin | |
| 7223c6a | Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 9977bf2 | I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of b.. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 7015535 | m yHzW fy qlby `nd lnzlq hw 'ny `lm ny knt qdran `l~ lSmwd | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 8a0c4fb | there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| c06e11a | Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)" | liberty philosophy | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 2c0755e | You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.. | host humans life | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 4ff1a26 | Earth's Moon is about 1/ 400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/ 400th as far from us, making the Sun and the Moon the same size on the sky--a coincidence not shared by any other planet-moon combination in the solar system, allowing for uniquely photogenic total solar eclipses. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| e86e526 | One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man. | dogma heresy labels orthodoxy religion sainthood stigma | Ellis Peters | |
| e0cd312 | For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. | Albert Ellis | ||
| a4c9994 | Too many people are unaware that it is not outer events or circumstances that will create happiness; rather, it is our perception of events and of ourselves that will create, or uncreate, positive emotions. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 0704834 | Kohaku aren't you afraid to die? No. Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes. | Rumiko Takahashi | ||
| 7b0b19c | Where do you get dreams like this? | fantasy imagination | Stephen R. Donaldson | |
| 408d154 | For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 8645f3b | Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| dea4e3c | And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a tiny island. I was surrounded by people I loved, and I felt happy and miserable at the same time. I thought of what a mess everything had been, but that it wouldn't always be this way. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 1eef1b1 | A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of storytelling, wearing us out with repetition, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines. It insists on showing us Bardak Electronics, the saftey handle in the car, a stray dog, a Christmas card and a fly that lands first on the rim and then in the centre of the ashtray. Which expla.. | conduct perception | Alain De Botton | |
| 9c99326 | Christianity had, in Nietzsche's account, emerged from the minds of timid slaves in the Roman Empire who had lacked the stomach to climb to the tops of mountains, and so had built themselves a philosophy claiming that their bases were delightful. Christians had wished to enjoy the real ingredients of fulfilment (a position in the world, sex, intellectual mastery, creativity) but did not have the courage to endure the difficulties these good.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 2b7dedf | we may value foreign elements not only because they are new but because they seem to accord more faithfully with our identity and commitments than anything our homeland can provide. | Alain de Botton | ||
| fc7c9d1 | After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should prop.. | career-counseling meaning mistakes work | Alain de Botton | |
| 64bf233 | There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or even lived in a way which was so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. But he shouldn't regret this entirely, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man - so far as any of us can be wise - unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that u.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0fa1654 | The High Places," answered the Shepherd, "are the starting places for the journey down to the lowest place in the world. When you have hinds' feet and can go 'leaping on the mountains and skipping on the hills,' you will be able, as I am, to run down from the heights in the gladdest self-giving and then go up to the mountains again. You will be able to mount to the High Places swifter than eagles, for it is only up on the High Places of Lov.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| c733b8a | There are no obstacles which our Savior's love cannot overcome. The High Places of victory and union with Christ can be reached by learning to accept, day by day, the actual conditions and tests permitted by God, by laying down of our own will and accepting His. The lessons of accepting and triumphing over evil, of becoming acquainted with grief, and pain, and of finding them transformed into something incomparably precious; these are the l.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| b10abd3 | We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 4a6c20d | Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day at the alter, with equal parts love and hope. And once again, I close my eyes, ready to take a leap of faith, ready for the long, hard road ahead. I have no idea how it's going to turn out, but then again, I never really did. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a905093 | So there the two of us were. Frozen in time, living in the moment, focused only on our immediate desires. Which of course included sex. Lots and lots of it. | sex | Emily Giffin | |
| 192cef2 | but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1ad9d77 | Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 6ff64b9 | It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| ff981a6 | May God us keep | William Blake | ||
| 95bb7bb | Hence," goes on the professor, "definitions of happiness are interesting." I suppose the best thing to do with that is to let is pass. Me, I never saw a definition of happiness that could detain me after train-time, but that may be a matter of lack of opportunity, of inattention, or of congenital rough luck. If definitions of happiness can keep Professor Phelps on his toes, that is little short of dandy. We might just as well get on along t.. | william-lyon-phelps | Dorothy Parker | |
| 6a2bbf4 | The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt. | heresy | William Blake | |
| 05ba72b | That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. | William Blake |