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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d146eed | You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself. | Ayn Rand | ||
| e843cd9 | It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 5a5f979 | In addition, if a person makes the error of identifying self with his work (rather than with the internal virtues that make the work possible), if self-esteem is tied primarily to accomplishments, success, income, or being a good family provider, the danger is that economic circumstances beyond the individual's control may lead to the failure of the business or the loss of a job, flinging him into depression or acute demoralization. | Nathaniel Branden | ||
| 49e517f | Fail often, fail fast, | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 4733bee | Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195 | man-vs-nature | Robert Harris | |
| 8b37dec | Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus' som'thin' that was his. Som'thin' he could live on and there couldn't nobody throw him off of it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0eade7c | Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4b7eea6 | Hazel grew up - did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn't learn a thing in either place. Reform schools are supposed to teach viciousness and criminality but Hazel didn't pay enough attention. | John Steinbeck | ||
| cadd0e5 | Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 383599b | In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 8c38212 | With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1cb590d | The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a2c5cf9 | It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 93d30e2 | The tide goes out imperceptibly. The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and moss and sponge, iridescence and brown and blue and China red. On the bottoms lie the incredible refuse of the sea, shells broken and chipped and bits of skeleton, claws, the whole sea bottom a fantastic cemetery on which the living scamper and scramble. | John Steinbeck | ||
| edd9163 | No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3bd754a | On neighbors looking over his camper:] I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation--a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any here... nearly every American hungers to move. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 886a9d2 | We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerors. Possibly it feels good to these men to be superior to animals, but it does seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it. Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage. For ourselves, we have had mounted in a small har.. | hunting trophy | John Steinbeck | |
| 1a61755 | Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 41c54bb | And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him. And they began this day with hope. | one | John Steinbeck | |
| 4f5d07e | I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and love.. | john-steinbeck reality reason science the-winter-of-our-discontent | John Steinbeck | |
| 00ec24d | I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9002331 | used to think that intelligence came from books and knowledge and rational thought. But that's not intelligence: It's just information and interpretation. Real intelligence is when your mind and your heart connect. That's when you see the truth so clearly and unmistakably that you don't have to think about it. In fact, all thinking will do is lead you away from the truth and soon you'll be back in your head, groping with a penlight in the d.. | Neil Strauss | ||
| d8ad574 | That's when I started to leave it behind. I realized that I got my entire validation from women. Women became like gods to me, but false gods. | Neil Strauss | ||
| c12e1d3 | Love is when two (or more) hearts build a safe emotional, mental, and spiritual home that will stand strong no matter how much anyone changes on the inside or the outside. It demands only one things and expects only one thing: that each person be his or her own true self. | love | Neil Strauss | |
| 961d9e8 | When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. | stone water | Arthur Golden | |
| fe9b1e1 | I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want." | Nora Roberts | ||
| b7e0b2e | You put something behind you, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 773b66d | Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything. | words-have-power | Nora Roberts | |
| 6d0971c | The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all. | Nora Roberts | ||
| cb889b9 | Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way? | Nora Roberts | ||
| e9cdf11 | Do you always get away with the outrageous?" "Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning?" "Don't waste your charm." "It's all right, I have more." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 20d47e7 | Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it. | sex | Nora Roberts | |
| 77ddbd9 | It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2984757 | Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a614e6f | It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4106cc5 | Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 06207a9 | It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years. Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life? And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego .. | ego houses human life old-houses spirit years | Nora Roberts | |
| fafabcb | Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8bcb1ae | He turned his head, kissed the top of her head. "I love you." "It sounds lovely in bed, in the dark, when everything's quiet." "Because it's true. And it'll be true in the morning." | Nora Roberts | ||
| da45d36 | Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there? | romance | Nora Roberts | |
| 66630d0 | She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone? | ghost girl romantic white | Nora Roberts | |
| 30e7be9 | I want lots and lots of sex." "You really are the woman of my dreams." "First round, wet shower sex, after we scrape off a few layers of the Alaskan tundra, then a short and satisfying lunch break. Then a second round of make-the-mattress-sing sex." "I feel a tear of gratitude and awe forming in the corner of my eyes. Don't think less of me." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2817429 | He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 7038583 | I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter | V.C. Andrews |