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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4fce90e | I wondered why the gods no longer came to earth. It would make belief so much easier. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 9528fd2 | The poets, when they speak of war, talk of the shield wall, they talk of the spears and arrows flying, of the blade beating on the shield, of the heroes who fall and the spoils of the victors, but I was to discover that war was really about food. About feeding men and horses. About finding food. The army that eats wins. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 8cc669e | I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt. | A.M. Homes | ||
| e6caf56 | You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them." -- | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 11ec013 | God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody," he said bitterly. "We ought to supply with a pistol, to even the odds." | mummy | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 5415e43 | love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain, | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 1a323b0 | I have been accused of being somewhat abrupt in my actions and decisions, but I never act without thought; it is simply that I think more quickly and more intelligently than most people. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| a8dc7c8 | As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had not needed his father's tactless comment to understand the full implications of Farouk's death. As he met her unblinking gaze he was reminded of one of Nefret's more vivid descriptions. 'When she's angry, her eyes look like polished steel balls.' That's done it, he thought. She's made up her mind to get David and me out of t.. | motherhood ramses ww1 | Elizabeth Peters | |
| e54f16b | No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 86d0980 | Richard has informed me he is shopping for his white picket fence. I'm happy behind my black wrought iron fence. The one with the pointy spikes on top. White never really was my color. | richard | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 1a56aa3 | A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3b9f85e | Tell that to the BTK killer," I said. "He was a churchgoer, raised two kids, married, and resisted the urge to kill for decades. He was a person, but he was a monster, too" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| edd02d4 | One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 730d944 | I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 45c8881 | I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious." -- | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 67d7d96 | Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice? | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 00162fc | I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal. | funny | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 928981e | You're flying to Chicago to get drunk and have other women shake their boobs in your face." "If it bothers you, I won't go," he said seriously. "No," I kicked at the table leg. "It doesn't bother me. Maybe I'm just jealous." "Jealous? You're not the jealous type." "Maybe I want boobs shaken in my face." | luke | L.D. Davis | |
| d9aa299 | People of faith tend to argue that it is not faith itself but man's baser nature that inspires such violence. But, I take it to be self-evident that ordinary people cannot be moved to burn genial old scholars alive for blaspheming the Koran, or celebrate the violent deaths of their children, unless they believe some improbable things about the nature of the universe. | Sam Harris | ||
| 6ad5790 | We live in a world of unimaginable surprises - from the fusion energy that lights the sun to the genetic and evolutionary consequences of this light's dancing for eons upon the earth - and yet paradise conforms to our most superficial concerns with all the fidelity of a Caribbean cruise. This is wondrously strange. If one didn't know better, one would think that man, in his fear of losing all that he loves, had created heaven, along with it.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 1eba2ec | Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest! | humanity | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 6961253 | As maos sao dois livros abertos, nao pelas razoes, supostas ou autenticas, da quiromancia, com as suas linhas do coracao e da vida, da vida, meus senhores, ouviram bem, da vida, mas porque falam quando se abrem ou se fecham, quando acariciam ou golpeiam, quando enxugam uma lagrima ou disfarcam um sorriso, quando se pousam sobre um ombro ou acenam um adeus, quando trabalham, quando estao quietas, quando dormem, quando despertam. | José Saramago | ||
| 0998c72 | I have yet to hear a single idea that was worth considering for longer than it took us to listen to it. | José Saramago | ||
| 50aa580 | You might think that after all the shameful capitulations made by the government during the ups and downs of their negotiations with the maphia ... they could sink no lower. Alas, when one advances blindly across the boggy ground of realpolitik, when pragmatism takes up the baton and conducts the orchestra, ignoring what is written in the score, you can be pretty sure that, as the imperative logic of dishonor will show, there are still, aft.. | José Saramago | ||
| a3482bc | o Bem e o Mal nao existem em si mesmos, cada um deles e somente a ausencia do outro." | José Saramago | ||
| 89d4801 | nny 'w'mn b'nh twjd frS fy lHy@ ytwjb `lyn fyh lnqyd ltyr m yHdth,km lw 'nn nftqr l~ lqw@ llzm@ llmqwm@,wlknn nktshf fj'@ 'n lnhr qd tHwl lmSlHtn,wl yntbh ldhlk 'Hd swn,wqd yZn mn ynZr lyn 'nn mshrfwn `l~ lGrq,fy Hyn 'n mrkbn ykwn 'kthr thbt mn 'y wqt akhr. | José Saramago | ||
| f59c29a | lHqyq@ n l`lm kthr mn mtkhm bHwdth mthl hdh@ , hw ntZr w hy tkhlft , hy ntZrt w hw lm y't , w fy l`mq , w lybq hdh bynn nHn lrtybyyn w ljHdyn , hdh fDl mn ksr fy lsq | José Saramago | ||
| 17db13c | Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true | Isaac Asimov | ||
| c04b861 | The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. | asimov | Isaac Asimov | |
| b1872b3 | Does everyone just believe what he wants to?" "As long as possible. Sometimes longer." "What about you?" "You mean, am I human? Certainly. I don't believe I'm really old. I believe I'm quite attractive. I believe you seek out my company because you think I'm charming - even when you insist on turning the conversation to physics." | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 5a0f2a1 | Encyclopedias don't win wars. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| aa6f23d | The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong. The young man then quoted with approval what Socrates had said on learning that the Delphic oracle had proclaimed him the wi.. | understanding universe earth wrong theory science wisdom flat-earth scientific-theory socrates relativity ignorance knowledge greece | Isaac Asimov | |
| c3e4d46 | I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 1afbd85 | How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? | war man condemnation preference decision peace | Isaac Asimov | |
| 51a85ec | Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 1c600c9 | I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds. It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 2b586f0 | A well-used minimum suffices for everything. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2fc6a41 | What darkness to you is light to me | Jules Verne | ||
| 5c7a2ec | With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last-remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia? | Jules Verne | ||
| 0f38fca | In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless. | Jules Verne | ||
| 634b4a2 | The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 23a8026 | Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a m.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8769168 | Because we're suffering from brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 26f72b0 | I would spend the rest of my life turning to speak to her. | Don DeLillo |