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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e7c35e | The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?" 'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 1e1d7b6 | Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise. | T.H. White | ||
| c369388 | I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him." "Dislikes him?" "They complain about him being inhuman." Lancelot considered his cup. "He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?" -- | T.H. White | ||
| 29fda96 | Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hears? On the face of it, it seemed unlikely that one Leader could force a million Englishmen against their will. If, for instance, Mordred had been anxious to make the English wear petticoats, or stand on their heads, they would surely not have joined his party -- however clever or persuasive or deceitful or e.. | peace war | T.H. White | |
| 07e13f3 | Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves? | T.H. White | ||
| 28ce29c | Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain. He could not have explained either, and for us it is all too long ago. He loved Arthur and he loved Guenever and he hated himself. The best knight of the world: everybody envied the self-esteem which must surely be his. But La.. | depression | T.H. White | |
| 2d0c81d | The only perspective is to really be there. | the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 7e90761 | was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| ceea131 | My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the same thing about Sam back in November when she started dating Craig, and Sam is completely different. Everything can't be low self-esteem, can it? My sister tried to clarify things. She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a "superior position" that she wouldn't need if she was confident about herself. Sh.. | control control-freaks feeling-superior low-self-esteem needing-to-feel-superior self-esteem | Stephen Chbosky | |
| ae51bb2 | Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listen. | relationships | Stephen Chbosky | |
| d288b92 | What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably? | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 01ebaff | Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| ba398d9 | my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. | fragility internet-addiction modern-values modernity modernity-is-a-sickness nerd nerdiness nerds robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 06a6b20 | It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life-- with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| bb507ab | he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 443c7d7 | THE ONE THING YOU MUST DO There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life. It's as if a king has sent you to some country to do a task, and you perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human being come to this world to do par.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 6c54d58 | Bullish or bearish are terms used by people who do not engage in practicing uncertainty, like the television commentators, or those who have no experience in handling risk. Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens that should be the consideration. | reality-check wisdom | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| ca69a0c | Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut? | Lilian Jackson Braun | ||
| ddb4173 | Can't you do something for her?" his nephew finally asked, when several moments passed and her screaming and didn't stop. "I already have. I didn't kill her," Lucian said dryly, then added, "Slow down. You're as bad as taxi drivers." "And you're a backseat driver," Thomas muttered, then cursed under his breath. "Surely there are some drugs or something we could give her to settle her down?" Lucian glanced at him with interest. "Do you ha.. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 4828c79 | Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. | Francine Pascal | ||
| c9ff4ee | Ese sueno que eres tu todavia dura. Durara siempre, porque siento como que estas dentro de mi sangre y pasas por mi corazon a cada rato. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| c783cfa | Nat: I don't know. The weight of it, I guess. At some point it becomes bearable. It turns into something you can crawl out from under. And carry around--like a brick in your pocket. And you forget it every once in a while, but then you reach in for whatever reason and there it is: "Oh right. That." Which can be awful. But not all the time. Sometime's it kinda ... Not that you like it exactly, but it's what you have instead of your son, so y.. | David Lindsay-Abaire | ||
| c14e2c7 | Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the power to accept anything and move on. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 42b26c1 | For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 4f22be9 | Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 1852bc4 | The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own. | fidelity infidelity sex | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| 84d57b2 | I abjure you," Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. "I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d21b212 | No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 9d959b4 | Who wants a bag of bones?" he said, with absolute sincerity. "I don't want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I'm bedding." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d7dfe12 | Pam. Listen.' 'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.' 'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.' 'Fuck a zombie!' - Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris | fantasy paranormal sookie-stackhouse vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| cefb944 | You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e744095 | When NASA started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ballpoint pens don't work in zero gravity. So they spent twelve million dollars and more than a decade developing a pen that writes under any condition, on almost every surface. The Russians used a pencil. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 86723ef | I used to think that kid might become a preacher. Now I don't see how he's going to stay out of prison. Nobody in this family ever went to prison for sex crimes. He'd be the first." Yes," says Jesus, "you never know about these things." | religion | Garrison Keillor | |
| 059a845 | The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment. | fears generations | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 534530e | What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| aa5a256 | But still, I'd be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7f124a3 | Whatever you want the most, it's going to be the worst thing for you. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 29de0f2 | You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5662eee | Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 67a3452 | For scientists, reality is not optional. | science scientists | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 515fb80 | It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences. | silence | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 475d7a4 | There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 66a7bf1 | If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e6a2328 | Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard. | Barbara Kingsolver |