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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0c261fa | Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 397c8c5 | New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. If conservatives get to call universal health care "socialized medicine," I get to call private, for-profit health care "soulless vampire bastards making money off human pain." Now, I know what you're thinking: "But, Bill, the profit motive is what sustains capitalism." Yes, and our sex drive is what sustains the human species, but we don't try to fuck everything. It wasn't that long.. | Bill Maher | ||
| 17bcca4 | We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well. | gang | S.E. Hinton | |
| 61f9111 | Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual. | individuality morality morals | S.E. Hinton | |
| 3675b54 | I wasn't cute or passive enough to be "femme," and I wasn't mean or tough enough to be "butch." I was given a wide berth. Non-conventional people can be dangerous, even in the gay community." | Audre Lorde | ||
| 80dc07b | Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 4b73313 | Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. | death imperfection life questions utopia | T.S. Eliot | |
| 56d7646 | We should tend our freedom wisely. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 309861f | Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. | time | Gloria Naylor | |
| 7fe3085 | To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 15064b4 | It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 3ceafa3 | Gossiping is essential for survival because the complex mechanics of social interactions are constantly changing, so we have to make sense of this ever-shifting social terrain. This is Level II consciousness at work. But once we hear a piece of gossip, we immediately run simulations to determine how this will affect our own standing in the community, which moves us to Level III consciousness. Thousands of years ago, in fact, gossip was the .. | Michio Kaku | ||
| ea01999 | Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 463b290 | I adored you," North said. "I just didn't tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Ten years later you walk into my office and I see you and it's like the first time, I can't think, I can't talk, I just need you with me. It makes me crazy, but now that I've got you back . . . You're everything, Andie. I should have told you t.. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| aacc29e | Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him and she wanted him again. "I found them in the bed." "That makes sense," Phin said. "That's where I lost them." "I'd ask what you were doing with them," Sophie said, trying not to sound bitchy, "but I probably don't want to know, do I?" "Sure you do. It was exciting and different and depraved." Phin nodded towa.. | sex | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 813831d | The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 26f6407 | Phin spared a moment of sympathy for Frank until he looked back and saw him at the bar, leaning into Clea's cleavage. Get a grip, Frank, he thought, and then he looked down Sophie's dress and thought, Never mind, Frank. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 63d4a72 | If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard... | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 0f348f8 | I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 9b8db17 | Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does. | sci-fi | C.S. Friedman | |
| 109390b | He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking. | Andre Dubus | ||
| 2bca588 | Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 54649bb | The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 72e0fa8 | For Kim did nothing with an immense success. | success | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 07afcd0 | No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| a15b401 | Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history. | Spider Robinson | ||
| abb5cd4 | We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson's Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search. | sex | Spider Robinson | |
| 91a3fd1 | In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system! | education | Spider Robinson | |
| 41a4713 | Today, wealth is in information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 60b5308 | Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in. | trust | Robert Fulghum | |
| 17374a2 | I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 98f1a7a | Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 3fbed85 | Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 170a7d5 | One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you're afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be? | Leon Uris | ||
| f1e5e2d | If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don't want to do something, no one can help you | James A. Owen | ||
| 9c2c1e7 | I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed. | Og Mandino | ||
| a550add | Wealth is good when it brings joy to others. | money wealth | Og Mandino | |
| f4fae48 | Be your best self and do not imitate anyone else. Find your strengths. They are your talents. They will make you smile and cause you to real joy on the inside. Don't listen to those who ridicule the choices you make or the dreams you share. Let no one despise your youth. As Og Mandino explained in The Greatest Salesman in the World, "Experience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly." Create your own experiences... | motivational | Robert Smith | |
| 2a24d09 | The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around. | rebellion spiritual-warfare | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 08272a7 | Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 97ca67a | The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian." | religion | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 3d29ca9 | Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 51d3f27 | But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees. | education | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 8d94423 | All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. | contradictions life-and-death religions | Robert A. Heinlein |