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| 8f13649 | When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, w.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e1ebd5e | They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is | Nobuhiro Watsuki | ||
| 4d9a4f6 | Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b90b8aa | God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man. | sinner | Georgette Heyer | |
| 3d47845 | You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else. Daresay it ain't any use telling you, but--well, there it is! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 4218b3b | No, no, Kit, don't cry!' begged Freddy, putting his arm round her. 'Can't bear you not to be happy! I won't say another word. Never thought there was any hope for me. Just wanted to tell you. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3d256d4 | And don't you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don't like a person, you don't wish to be obliged to him! | obligations | Georgette Heyer | |
| 223e2c0 | Crawley, I do trust that you have rung that bell, for if I stand in this disagreeable wind you know I shall take cold, and my colds always descend upon my chest. How thoughtless it was in you to have handed me down from the chaise until the door had been opened! Ah, here is that deplorable henchman! Yes, Barrow, it is I indeed. Take my hat - no, Crawley had best take my hat, perhaps. And yet, if he does so, who is to assist me out of my gre.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3646bd3 | I am relieved. May I now have the truth? | truth white-lies | Georgette Heyer | |
| 40ce251 | Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 020fa62 | One day, this Establishment will fall. It will not do so on its own terms or of its own accord, but because it has been removed by a movement with a credible alternative that inspires. For those of us who want a different sort of society, it is surely time to get our act together. | politics the-establishment movement society government state | Owen Jones | |
| 5113e65 | We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 7c9b58b | Fear" in the biblical sense...includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people." | fear codependency | Edward T. Welch | |
| c1170ac | M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want to encourage her. I couldn't touch my father's cigarettes, couldn't look at the Pall Mall cartons in the pantry. I was the sort of child who couldn't even watch commercials for horror movies - the.. | Dave Eggers | ||
| d4b3d87 | Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| a8a1601 | What human beings can and should do, he wrote, is to conquer their fears, accept the fact that they themselves and all the things they encounter are transitory, and embrace the beauty and the pleasure of the world. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 53c9c3a | There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of knowledge in one's head? The loss of this plenitude would have been virtually inconceivable to anyone living in its midst. Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extincti.. | renaissance | Stephen Greenblatt | |
| bd645d2 | There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid. | present past life reverse said the-neighbor undone mistakes | Lisa Gardner | |
| db02ace | Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disper.. | spooky terror | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| f9c8cf5 | On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles. | mirage imagery vision | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 5e6966d | Sugar maple!" Mary-Todd Holt knelt over her husband. "Are you all right?" Eisenhower sat up, and egg-size lump blooming on his crown. "Of course I'm all right!" he managed, his words slurred. "You think a little insect can stop ?" Reagan was unconvinced. "I don't know, Dad. She brained you with a baseball bat!" "Hockey stick," Dan corrected. "Those could be your last words, brat-" | humor reagan dan eisenhower holt mary-todd the39clues threats | Gordon Korman | |
| 7c23d7e | You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home. | Lisa Unger | ||
| b12711b | We have more patience for girls who act like boys than boys who act like girls. A tomboy is considered cute. One day she'll shuck her muddy jeans and put on a dress, and everyone will gasp at her beauty. They'll all laugh about her tree-climbing, frog-catching days. But there's no such tolerance for the boy who puts on a dress, who wants a toy kitchen or a baby doll to love. Jung would say that this is because, even culturally, our anima is.. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 4b73b4e | New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we're Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there's no stopping us until we're licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we're really not capable of: restraint and math. | humor junk-food | Bill Maher | |
| e65f2b4 | The big mistake of modern media has been this notion of balance for balance's sake. That the left is just as violent and cruel as the right, that unions are just powerful as corporations, that reverse racism is just as damaging as racism.... | Bill Maher | ||
| 10aa344 | Not doing anything doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin. | suffering passive-aggressive ignorance sin | Bill Maher | |
| 0b22d54 | When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise. | Bill Maher | ||
| e7fde1d | you don't just stop living because you lose someone. You don't quit! | S.E. Hinton | ||
| f44c9e5 | I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky. I know better now. | the-outsiders worries | S.E. Hinton | |
| 5952cda | Don't you know a rumble ain't a rumble unless I'm in it? | S.E. Hinton | ||
| f69b291 | Dark-bright fire lit eyes | metaphor brown-eyes dark-eyes description | Audre Lorde | |
| 2def1c5 | If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")" | Audre Lorde | ||
| 17aae67 | I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof, | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 43ef518 | I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| c8700e5 | Our dreams recover what the world forgets. | James Hillman | ||
| c45f6d0 | Reilly: The human condition...they may remember the vision they have had, but they cease to regret it, maintain themselves by the common routine, learn to avoid excessive expectation, Become tolerant of themselves and others, Giving and taking, in the usual actions what there is to give and take. They do not repine; Are contented with the morning that separates and with the evening that brings together for casual talk before the fire. Two p.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 7ccd24a | When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions." | money community stranger questions | T.S. Eliot | |
| 6b069a5 | Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 369c429 | In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 08c7cc7 | What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even." | Amy Hempel | ||
| 37d420a | Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming | Max Barry | ||
| 13e800e | 2)"Even though this planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like I was; and unless there's some space, some place, to take a breather for awhile, the edge of the world- frightening as it is- could be the end of the world, which would be quite a pity." (28)." | Gloria Naylor | ||
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| 44e4feb | All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. | William Butler Yeats |