1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a79b04 | The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is criminal. It is gone because you cannot do one thing and pretend you're doing another! None of us, who are sitting around in some of the true limbo out-of-space, which we call "now," waiting to be saved, civilized, or discovered, have the moral authority to say anything." | James Baldwin | ||
| 09e5f7c | Time: the word tolled like the bells of a church. Fonny was doing: time. In six months time, our baby would be here. Somewhere, in time, Fonny and I had met: somewhere, in time, we had loved; somewhere, no longer in time, but, now, totally, at time's mercy, we loved. | James Baldwin | ||
| 2096865 | You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part - watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards. | greed violence | Robert Cormier | |
| 5338579 | It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 63a3d28 | It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 7217bac | Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| b71cbd8 | It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| fc9ce6f | Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 47b53bf | You're cranky because you're tired," Amos said. "You got that I-have-to-save-everyone hangup, so I make it that you haven't slept in about two days. But listening to people bitch? Yeah, that's sorta your job. It's why you make the big money." "We make the same money." "Then I guess you're doing it for the fame and glory." "I hate you," Holden said." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 3247427 | Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 8b6f46f | I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 5beb117 | How I'm rushing through this! How much each sentence in this brief story contains. "The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars--mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more ? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagina-tion--s.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| a002618 | I believe that we must attack these things in which we do not believe. Not attack by the method of cutting off the heads of the people, but attack in the sense of discuss. I believe that we should demand that people try in their own minds to obtain for themselves a more consistent picture of their own world; that they not permit themselves the luxury of having their brain cut in four pieces or two pieces even, and on one side they believe t.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| de5d101 | Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both alive. She'd never guessed what she was creating, never imagined the monster she'd spawned. She'd seen the power of Alicia DeVries's mind without recognizing the controls which kept that power in check, and only now had she begun to understand .. | fury out-of-control rage | David Weber | |
| f1f82e4 | Love came in so many forms. We love for weakness or strength, she thought, for security or wildness, for money, or beauty, or sometimes for sadness. Whatever reason, the brain turned giddy with self-worth, and self-worth became indelibly linked to the one who was loved. | Elizabeth Cox | ||
| 7751aff | Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 430d486 | He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0c67bee | We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day. | friends live together | L.M. Montgomery | |
| fd39642 | Afterall," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." ~ Anne, Anne of Avonlea, Chap. 19" | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| a6c88d6 | Let's sum up... a little house, white and green or to be made so... with trees, preferably birch and spruce... a window looking seaward... on a hill. That sounds very possible... but there is one other requirement. There must be magic about it, Jane... lashings of magic... and magic houses are scarce, even on the Island. Have you any idea at all what I mean, Jane?" Jane reflected. "You want to feel that the house is yours before you buy it,.. | magic | L.M. Montgomery | |
| e4ef6f3 | In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 08f4d14 | I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue...very blue...almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this...seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. | l-m-montgomery seventeen | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 5ee6d31 | And when we love, we know love will last. Significantly, we know, having learned through much trial and error, that true love begins with self-love. And that time and time again our search for love brings us back to the place where we started, back to our own heart's mirror, where we can look upon our female selves with love and be renewed. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 456e320 | The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb." | Bell Hooks | ||
| fff95df | All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experienc.. | disputes fighting growth growth-process love love-quotes relationships true-love | bell hooks | |
| 293d937 | Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals enact both in the way they talk about underprivileged blacks and the way they represent them. The existence of that class cruelty and its fascist dimensions have been somewhat highlighted by the efforts of privileged-class blacks to censor the voices of black youth, particularly gangst.. | sociology | bell hooks | |
| 456354f | Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 9861c7b | Besides, do you think you would have come if I'd just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, 'Hello, I'm the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish? | lucifer | Richard Kadrey | |
| 632c6c0 | The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth. | dead | Richard Kadrey | |
| 596f38d | THERE'S ONLY ONE problem with L.A. It exists. L.A. is what happens when a bunch of Lovecraftian elder gods and porn starlets spend a weekend locked up in the Chateau Marmont snorting lines of crank off Jim Morrison's bones. If the Viagra and illegal Traci Lords videos don't get you going, then the Japanese tentacle porn will. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 5baa916 | If you ever need to confirm that a girl is worth coming back from Hell for, show her your monster arm and see what she says. | humor humour romance sandman-slim | Richard Kadrey | |
| 2063fb3 | When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don't. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| faea573 | If you're worried I'll bite, I promise to tell you first. | romantic-suspense | Lisa Renee Jones | |
| baabd1e | Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who is constantly calling us, and who affirms for us that love is stronger than hate, blessings stronger than cursing. | god questions | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 50ba1ef | There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. | dinner happiness hospitality | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 86cb408 | In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ac82837 | And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it's a grand and exciting battle. I know it's hard for you to understand about size, how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy. You think about that, and maybe it won't seem strange to you that some of our very best fighters have come.. | earth god jesus light mankind | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| d744324 | Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story about a man who, while walking along the street, was almost hit on the head and killed by an enormous falling beam. This was his moment of realization that he did not live in a rational world but a world in which men's lives can be cut off by a random blow on the head, and the discovery shook him so deeply that he was impelled.. | randomness | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 04b6583 | Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 5e9b902 | I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 486187f | I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group...If a child in their classrooms does not succeed with his peer group, then it would seem to many that both child and teacher have failed. Have they? If we ever, God forbid, manage to make each child succeed with his peer group, we will produce a race of bland an.. | the-arts | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 01563d0 | Nothing loved is ever lost or perished. | love perished | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| b80c6f4 | Hem dusundum ki, senin farkina varmasi icin yanlis calmak zorundaysan, o zaman hic farkina varmasin, daha iyi. Goruyor musunuz, ben boyleyim. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| d89a6cc | nh yrtjf mn lkhwf mn mjrd lnZr l~ hdh lmtshrd lny'm: lqd tmlkh khwf `Zym fj'h mn 'n yDTr ywman m 'n ySbH mthl hdh lrjl lmnHT lmtmdd `l~ lmq`d. m hy lsr`@ lty yHtjh Hdwth shy khdh? 'n yufqr lmr w ysqT l~ lHDyD! km mn lwqt tHtj ld`y'm lty knt tbdw Slbh fy Hy@ shkhS m lttftt w thwy?? | Patrick Süskind |