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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e708b58 | An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 62f4b3c | The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.".. | Eric Weiner | ||
| 99f5371 | And here's an example of deliberate violation of a Fake Rule: Fake Rule: The generic pronoun in English is he. Violation: "Each one in turn reads their piece aloud." This is wrong, say the grammar bullies, because each one, each person is a singular noun and their is a plural pronoun. But Shakespeare used their with words such as everybody, anybody, a person, and so we all do when we're talking. ("It's enough to drive anyone out of thei.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| acd496c | The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip! | knife-fights rock-music | Keith Richards | |
| 627cc32 | If we let go of guilt, we will see innocence; however, a guilt-ridden person will see only evil. The basic rule is that we focus on what we have repressed. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| c5a69d1 | It is said that most people spend their lives regretting the past and fearing the future; therefore, they are unable to experience joy in the present. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 816af0c | Amy sighed. Just when she started to almost like Ian again--after all, he'd flown across the ocean and had been working around the clock to help--his snob quotient went through the roof. | Jude Watson | ||
| bf4a727 | I have a cunning plan. | folly overconfidence | Richard Curtis | |
| 18eec1d | one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 4818f84 | There is a story concerning the Buddha, who is in the company of a fellow traveler who tests this great teacher with derogatory, insulting, disparaging, and bitter responses to anything the Buddha says. Every day, for three days when the Buddha spoke, the traveler responded by calling him a fool, and ridiculing the Buddha in some arrogant fashion. Finally, at the end of the third day, the traveler could stand it no more. He asked, "How is i.. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 1a30f41 | and only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word more than anything else in the world; silences and in betweens and everything which isn't an answer. | unspoken-words | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| 012fe88 | There is no neutral position in the Lord. You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you're becoming less like Him. That's because whether you realize it or not, you're never standing still. | woman praying lord power | Stormie Omartian | |
| e706ce8 | It's in those private times that we are refreshed, strengthened, and rejuvenated. It's then we can see our lives from God's perspective and discover what is really important. That's where we understand who it is we belong to and believe in. | god inspirational-religious | Stormie Omartian | |
| 1666daa | Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been like if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 6c50428 | You ever think how the most minor decision can change the entire direction of your life? Like, say you miss your bus one morning, so you buy that second cup of coffee, buy a scratch ticket while you're at it. The scratch ticket hits. Suddenly you don't have to take the bus anymore. You drive to work in a Lincoln. But you get in a car crash and die. All because you missed your bus one day. I'm just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in .. | life | Dennis Lehane | |
| 13be4ab | Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men | men | Dennis Lehane | |
| 0746b48 | You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f48e305 | L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 2de95a4 | If ye canna see the bright side o' life, polish the dull side | funny scottish | Christina Dodd | |
| 687413e | By day it is filled with boat traffic - water buses, delivery boats, gondolas - if something floats and it's in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal. And by daylight it is one of the glories of the Earth. But at night, especially when the moon is full and the soft illumination reflects off the water and onto the palaces - I don't know how to describe it so I won't, but if you died and in your will you asked for your ashes to be spread ge.. | grand-canal venice | William Goldman | |
| 9180084 | Nobody knows anything. | William Goldman | ||
| c766305 | May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself," said the man in black. "I would as soon destroy da Vinci. However"--and here he clubbed Inigo's head with the butt of his sword--"since I can't have you following me either, please understand that I hold you in the highest respect." | humorous inigo-montoya wesley fencing | William Goldman | |
| 9a8b926 | She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature | Mario Puzo | ||
| 8a55733 | Life is a comical business, and there is nothing funnier than love traveling through time. | Mario Puzo | ||
| c93059d | what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 39a7e23 | great men are not born great, they grow great, | Mario Puzo | ||
| 8e4d5e5 | Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you're right on the edge, but you don't go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. | risk on-the-edge | Yvon Chouinard | |
| 1466d23 | At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| dfc151b | I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books! | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 85d58db | Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you. Sure, the world seems crazy now. But wouldn't it seem just as crazy if you were alive when they sacrificed peasants, when people were born into slavery, when they killed first-born sons, crucified p.. | end-of-the-world dystopia | Jess Walter | |
| e685dfc | There was no question in my mind. This state of complete and utter love is our collective birthright, the state we are born to inhabit, the way of being that is eagerly awaiting humanity at the end of a long, perilous journey. We either walk toward love as a way of being, or we walk away from it. There are only two directions. This decision shapes our life and our world. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 5af4768 | Vau: "We were having a philosophical discussion, as Mandalorians often do, and I asserted that the only demonstrable reality was individual consciousness, but he insisted on the existence of a priori moral values that transcended free will. So I hit him." Zey: "You think you're so witty." Vau: "No, I think you should stay out of Mando clan business." -- | Karen Traviss | ||
| 650ca48 | Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees. | Andy McNab | ||
| 22508b7 | The night was a typewriter key that got stuck and kept punching all the letters on top of the others until all that was left was a black blob. No word, no letter, no message in the night for me. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| dc0fb21 | If there was one thing responsible for ruining lives, it was love. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| ee4f415 | Women were still strange and inscrutable creatures. Men didn't understand them. And women didn't understand themselves either. It was always a performance of some sort. Everywhere you went, it was like there was a spotlight shining down on your head. You were on a stage when you were on the trolley. You were being judged and judged and judged. Every minute of your performance was supposed to be incredible and outstanding and sexy. You were .. | women | Heather O'Neill | |
| 9f030c6 | Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| d0b2b3e | No revolution succeeds without sacrifice. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 6f615ac | It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers - points in time and places on the map. The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same, he said, you can no longer return to it - and then it becomes a point in time. | life nicholas-christopher | Nicholas Christopher | |
| 4904222 | To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both."--Bacon: "Advancement of Learning"." | Charles Darwin | ||
| 9a65bd8 | Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| fbe0ab4 | Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3)" | philosophy-of-people social-commentary | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 0286a21 | My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 352ed03 | When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition. | Neil deGrasse Tyson |