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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6e4b9c9 | Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 75f48f8 | Everybody was asleep. Everybody except me, James Herriot, creeping sore and exhausted towards another spell of hard labour. Why the hell had I ever decided to become a country vet? I must have been crazy to pick a job where you worked seven days a week and through the night as well. Sometimes I felt as though the practice was a malignant, living entity; testing me, trying me out; putting the pressure on more and more to see just when at wha.. | James Herriot | ||
| 691887e | You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ba0ae51 | That Fish of yours is queer in her attic.' 'Freddy, she is not!' "Must be. Dash it, wouldn't write to you about Henry VIII if she wasn't! Stands to reason." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| a0bc981 | My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work? | norma-harte | Georgette Heyer | |
| 33765b4 | I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!" | love | Georgette Heyer | |
| 6a513d6 | I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire - I admit, a natural one for the most part - to exterminate your fellows. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 52aadc1 | The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 973268a | I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 1c8263b | Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 463b8a9 | The best years are when you know what you're doing. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 211ec65 | Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves! | realization | Lisa Gardner | |
| e8f1b30 | Ritengo che la cosa piu misericordiosa al mondo sia l'incapacita della mente umana di mettere in correlazione tutti i suoi contenuti. Viviamo su una placida isola di ignoranza nel mezzo del nero mare dell'infinito, e non era destino che navigassimo lontano. Le scienze, ciascuna tesa nella propria direzione, ci hanno finora nuociuto ben poco; ma, un giorno, la connessione di conoscenze disgiunte aprira visioni talmente terrificanti della rea.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| c22e9b1 | But the ship swept on, and the dusk hushed the hum of the day, and the first stars above blinked answers to the early fireflies on the banks as that jungle fell far behind, leaving only its fragrance as a memory that it had been. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 37c2aa6 | I think we draw people into our lives. It's as though we broadcast our deepest needs, and certain people hear the signal somewhere in their own subconscious and heed the call. For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our nightmares. Some of us have louder signals. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 5d26d67 | Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 8b239bc | The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 0be8f23 | Similarly, he forgot - or never really understood - that we live in a culture where men, as a group, have more power than women. This isn't a controversial statement, despite the protestations of guys who funnel their frustration that not all extremely young, conventionally attractive women want to sleep with them into and argument that women, as a group, have "all the power." (Bill Maher, repping for his fan base, famously jokes that men h.. | kate-harding rape-culture rape-tw sexual-assualt-tw | Kate Harding | |
| 8852a60 | New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word "liberal," they also have to take back the word "elite." By now you've heard the constant right-wing attacks on the "elite media," and the "liberal elite." Who may or may not be part of the "Washington elite." A subset of the "East Coast elite." Which is overly influenced by the "Hollywood elite." So basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists. If you pl.. | diploma-mills education essay essays george-w-bush humor law-school liberal monica-goodling pat-robertson politics | Bill Maher | |
| c52ed13 | You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| a90c02d | I lost my sister, Gennie, to my silence and her pain and despair, to both our angers and to a world's cruelty that destroys its own young in passing - not even as a rebel gesture or sacrifice or hope for another living of the spirit, but out of not noticing or caring about the destruction. I have never been able to blind myself to that cruelty, which according to one popular definition of mental health, makes me mentally unhealthy. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 52fcc75 | The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea" | Audre Lorde | ||
| c4c10e0 | Not for the first time I felt myself confronted by the dizzying possibility that an entire episode in the story of mankind might have been forgotten. Indeed it seemed to me then, as I overlooked the mathematical city of the gods from the summit of the Pyramid of the Moon, that our species could have been afflicted with some terrible amnesia and that the dark period so blithely and dismissively referred to as `prehistory' might turn out to c.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 2759e2b | Outside and inside, life and soul, appear as parallels in "case history" and "soul history." A case history is a biography of historical events in which one took part: family, school, work, illness, war, love. The soul history often neglects entirely some or many of these events, and spontaneously invents fictions and "inscapes" without major outer correlations. The biography of the soul concerns experience. It seems not to follow the one-w.. | soul soul-biography soul-history | James Hillman | |
| 7de235b | miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately, | James Hillman | ||
| 6c839d6 | Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 9d1b709 | that's not what I meant at all... that's not it at all. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| b72896a | After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The crying and the shouting Prison and place and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains He was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 5bcaee9 | The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 4de1125 | Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 8978cd5 | My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround it. . . . In brief, regarded as an existence which appears in a soul, the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| a3f8b32 | I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you were wondering. An oldie but a goodie. When it came to existential exhaustion, the man was one smart cookie. | Justin Cronin | ||
| 7135b7f | I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact? | T.S. Eliot | ||
| a229860 | What if more of life could be like that? Like the last slow dance, where, to echo T.S. Eliot, a lifetime burns in every moment. | Alice Steinbach | ||
| ccbd525 | And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair-- (They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!") My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin-- (They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!") Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisi.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| c7cb615 | Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine | Ursula Hegi | ||
| fc654b2 | The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne | mystery mystery-series noir psychological-thriller thriller | Laurie Stevens | |
| cfa5fc9 | In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 40f0b57 | 3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115)." | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 4ae9ccf | As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 9944269 | Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. | Will Eisner | ||
| dc96907 | Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem yet to be solved. We must not eliminate the impossible, we must conquer it, suborn it to our purpose. | impossible moriarty occams-razor | Kim Newman | |
| 9258803 | Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| b7d7a93 | You've always been nuts. That's fine. I can deal with nuts. But lately, you've been depressed nuts. I can't deal with that. - Anthony | Jennifer Crusie |