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| 828d438 | I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was young and full of hopes and aspirations, I didn't know I would get hurt so often. I think I'll get tough and won't ache again, then my fragile shell shatters, and again, symbolically, my blood is spilled with the tears I shed. I pull myself back together again, go on, convince myself there is a reason for everything, and at some point in .. | most-relevant-quote-i-ever-read | V.C. Andrews | |
| dea26fc | Tradition was safety; change was danger. | danger safety tradition | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 1712cc3 | The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love? | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| c2972a6 | Happiness was waiting to be chosen. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 620db40 | Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless. She knew she was immortal. | love soul wisdom | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 5d3c3d5 | In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude. | Rick Warren | ||
| 8eb9e98 | The New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership! | Rick Warren | ||
| 4a813c4 | If anything, he sparked a fire inside of me, making me want to live again. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 5e6e59f | Everything's always changing. Nothing stays the same. Yesterday's gone forever, I've got memories and my name. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 4ab08df | I swear he is there, his arms outstretched, the waterfall beneath him, cascading into the cool blue water below. Go on, Ava. It's going to be great! It's not a dare. Not this time. But it's almost like I'm on that high dive again, scared of what comes next, yet knowing at the same time it will all be okay. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 2b7de93 | I know. You can be fine, and then, out of nowhere, a memory blindsides you. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 38241a8 | The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy. | John Grisham | ||
| e015465 | Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does. | Sarah mlynowski | ||
| 06d8482 | If your ambition is to maximize short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 09292ad | Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done something just for the money, and that he'd never do something just for the money ever again. He would never again let the market dictate the direction of his life. | Michael Lewis | ||
| ff144c1 | If you're looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue | Tina Fey | ||
| 1b6dac8 | Few people think more than two or three times a year," Shaw reportedly said. "I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week." | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| afa8047 | Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 0627a0a | The plural of anecdote is not data. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| cd29102 | Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is. | growth light love peace strength trust truth | Neale Donald Walsch | |
| 77ebc09 | We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language. | Jared Diamond | ||
| b76f94b | The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas. | epidemics genocide history interaction peoples war | Jared Diamond | |
| e7c2aa5 | In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets. | Jared Diamond | ||
| a714c4c | Mine is always your Highest Thought, your Clearest Word, your Grandest Feeling. Anything less is from another source. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 6a3a943 | For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try...but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like. | James Frey | ||
| 4e5fd6e | The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value. | James Frey | ||
| 4814f37 | I want to see you tomorrow, but I don't know what this thing with my parents is going to be like. When you go to lunch, sit so you can see into the Men's section. If my back is turned, I can't meet you. If I'm facing you, I can meet you and the number of plates on my tray is the time I'll be here. | james frey | ||
| 828cbd3 | I wonder why they still love me and why I can't love them back and how two normal stable people could have created something like me, lived with something like me, and tolerated something like me. | James Frey | ||
| 9e7bfc8 | Fortunately perfection is not a requirement for creating great relationships. | John Gray | ||
| 4389103 | Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life. | dying-animals humans life straw-dogs suicide | John Gray | |
| 88c6339 | Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that biological systems are designed, it seems that determining a biological system to be designed is akin to shrugging our shoulders and saying God did it. The fear is that admitting design as an explanation will stifle scientific inquiry, that scientists will stop investigating difficult problems because they have a sufficient explanation alread.. | biology coccyx darwinism dna evolution human-appendix human-coccyx id intelligent-design junk-dna purpose science scientific-prediction vestigial-organs | William A. Dembski | |
| 8a15820 | We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| a2f185f | When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven. | Jung Chang | ||
| b171c0a | My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. 'Listen,' he said, 'life and no escape. | Anne Carson | ||
| 0c0880b | In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. | Beryl Markham | ||
| a19d00a | But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end. | Beryl Markham | ||
| 09816d9 | On WWI:) A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and, because of this shooting, whole countries were at war. It seemed a laborious method of retribution, but that was the way it was being done. ... A messenger came to the farm with a story to tell. It was not a story that meant much as stories went in those days. It was about how the war progressed in German East Africa and about a tall y.. | death senselessness war wwi | Beryl Markham | |
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| 4c712bc | What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 7665dd4 | They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans] | Jack London | ||
| 85b05ae | I know nothing that I may say can influence you," he said. "You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There is no Republican Party. There is no Democratic Party. There are no Republicans nor Democrats in this House. You are lick-spittlers and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy." | Jack London | ||
| 677b888 | In this manner had fought forgotten ancestors. They quickened the old life within him, the old tricks which they had stamped into the heredity of the breed were his tricks... And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. | Jack London | ||
| 5e33820 | A kiss, he said, is a conversation. Easing closer, he continued to speak as he caressed her cheeks with featherlight stokes of his thumbs. "A first kiss", his lips neared hers, is an introduction and then his mouth brushed against hers. The contact sparked, sharp and bright like lightning, yet his lips were soft, unexpectedly so. Her breath caught the same instant his did. Against her mouth he whispered "That was Hello" His breath mingled.. | kiss kissing | Kristen Callihan | |
| acd78b9 | I cannot help remembering a remark of De Casseres. It was over the wine in Mouquin's. Said he: "The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real. He shuns facts from his infancy. His life is a perpetual evasion. Miracle, chimera and to-morrow keep him alive. He lives on fiction and myth. It is the Lie that makes him free. Animals alone are given the privilege of lifting the veil of Isis; men dare not. T.. | Jack London |