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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ef1295a | Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all. | Jack London | ||
| a128eb1 | Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The captured the new corporate order succintly in 1987, reporting that it 'eschews loyalty to workers, products, corpo.. | corporate corporate-greed downsizing | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 5f44525 | Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands," cried the Professor, quite overcome. Jo never, never would learn to be proper, for when he said that as they stood upon the steps, she just put both hands into his, whispering tenderly, "Not empty now," and, stooping down, kissed her Friedrich under the umbrella." | love rain romance | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 028f225 | Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it? | life louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 4d53d43 | Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, -- that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it. | louisa-may-alcott mothers | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 7114b77 | in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow. | louisa-may-alcott sorrow | Louisa May Alcott | |
| d845d15 | often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 422228b | Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| fa3c834 | Tri chas't. V tri vinagi e tv'rde k'sno ili tv'rde rano za vsichko, koeto ti se shche da storish. Osoben moment ot sledobeda. A dnes e neponosim. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| ae28b22 | Existo. Es algo tan dulce, tan dulce, tan lento. Y leve; como si se mantuviera solo en el aire. Se mueve. Por todas partes, roces que caen y se desvanecen. Muy suave, muy suave | Jean Paul Sartre | ||
| ab97e63 | I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 9ed1019 | Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines say what this man is before he dies, or what mankind is before it has disappeared. | sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| c56671f | It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish. | existentialism humanity | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| a7652a2 | At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone. | murder | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 9dbb40a | It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror has descended on you, keeping us apart. And yet why should this be? What have you lived through that I have not shared? Do you imagine that my mother's cries will ever cease ringing in my ears? Or that my eyes will ever cease to see her great sad eyes, lakes of lambent darkness in the pallor of it will ever cease ravaging my heart? But what m.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| f99e7d7 | I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. | philosophy sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 14a10ab | He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism--all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life... 'I have attained the age of reason. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| e54ec74 | I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing? No. It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death. It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even. | life responsibility | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 0885e37 | Desperate people are the most dangerous. | desperate most people | Frank Herbert | |
| ea7deed | If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections. | Frank Herbert | ||
| fec216d | Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable. | chaos surprise | Frank Herbert | |
| cd392ad | Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6a4ef7e | Hard tasks need hard ways. | need tasks ways | Frank Herbert | |
| df3190e | If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5406775 | Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention. | mentat miles teg | Frank Herbert | |
| 2638669 | I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. | profound science-fiction | Frank Herbert | |
| c85ddcc | My lungs taste the air of Time, Blown past falling sands... | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5b557fb | Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 304bbd7 | There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of... | Frank Herbert | ||
| 820e57b | What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it? | faith insomnia maturation worry | Frank Herbert | |
| 0294d1d | I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3cad44d | Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c822b66 | A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement. | philosophy | Neal Stephenson | |
| cf3d787 | The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he had gone to his grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices. | humor political-observation | Neal Stephenson | |
| aba0e7b | class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 51e996f | It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| bc58eeb | Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 455a993 | The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| b108eb5 | She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| accef25 | Fighting isn't about knowing how. It's about deciding to. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 31446ec | As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 266a8b6 | Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man's work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 12a45e9 | You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same. | inspirational | Raymond Chandler | |
| 70e111f | That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference. | Raymond Chandler |