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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c5b81c | At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - " | gamblers texas | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 43928e8 | Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, "Politics, from the Latin. , meaning 'many.' meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards." | politics | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 6f60ca4 | There's a saying in Hebrew, 'No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| cbe3360 | Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 810ccc0 | Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored -- it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. | empathy indifference prejudice race | Pearl S. Buck | |
| d4e40b5 | He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest. | christianity crucifix perspective | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 9826bfd | To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think. | eternal-wonder pearl-s-buck quotes-about-life rann the-eternal-wonder | Pearl S. Buck | |
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| 042aa45 | A public outcry usually masks a private obsession. | social-commentary | Eric Schlosser | |
| b07f9c2 | If music is the story of our lives, what song did they sing for me? | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| b29bc9f | The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others. | goodness happiness life people purpose road-to-happiness | Lisa Schroeder | |
| c1736cc | Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing. | John Grisham | ||
| 2de4e69 | You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war. | John Grisham | ||
| f0ed500 | Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road. | John Grisham | ||
| 25597ff | We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the books of law' - to embody justice and equality in legislation. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 5336e3c | She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on every penny." "Pick that up." She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could." | drama heart-wrenching | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | |
| 2e84cb6 | Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the current financial crisis. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 7410969 | What I learned playing basketball at Ole Miss," he said, "was what not to do: beat up a kid. It's easy to beat up a kid. The hard thing is to build him up." | Michael Lewis | ||
| 4a9688a | No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 11353d6 | The way the creative process works is that you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 93fae9c | Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 2984863 | But as incentives go, commissions are tricky. First of all, a 6 percent real-estate commission is typically split between the seller's agent and the buyer's. Each agent then kicks back roughly half of her take to the agency. Which means that only 1.5 percent of the purchase price goes directly into your agent's pocket. So on the sale of your $300,000 house, her personal take of the $18,000 commission is $4,500. Still not bad, you say. But w.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| c2dd12a | If you really want to persuade someone who doesn't wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| e474299 | My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 2bd9eda | Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. | power problems technology | Jared Diamond | |
| df7a062 | She is becoming what I wanted she the last with the Arctic eyes to become, which is someone who loves me. Simply and truly as I am. It is hard to stare at her because I know she is starting to love me, I am starting to love her back. I don't care what she's done or who she's done it with, I don't care about whatever demons may be in her closet. I care about how she makes me feel and she makes me feel strong and safe and calm and warm and tr.. | love | James Frey | |
| 2f6ae1d | we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love. | James Frey | ||
| 9a32052 | I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more... | James Frey | ||
| 89c0d47 | On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)" | James Frey | ||
| 488cece | I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda. | James Frey | ||
| 3371474 | Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must allow it to be given. The soft will overcome the hard. The slow will beat the fast. Don't tell people the way, just show them the results. | James Frey | ||
| 7b15113 | Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to desert, where they will be thrown back into their own thoughts, they will d better to seek out the company of other animals. A zoo is a better window from which to look out of the human world than a monastery. | extinction humans the-end the-unsaved | John Gray | |
| 363a773 | A woman should not be judged for needing this reassurance, just as a man should not be judged for needing to withdraw. | John Gray | ||
| 6547c98 | In Europe and Japan, bourgeois life lingers on. In Britain and America it has become the stuff of theme parks. The middle class is a luxury capitalism can no longer afford. | John Gray | ||
| f3f4ed8 | A man's deepest fear is that he is not good enough or that he is incompetent. He compensates for this fear by focusing on increasing his power and competence. Success, achievement, and efficiency are foremost in his life ... A man appears most uncaring when he is afraid. | John Gray | ||
| a04c187 | To think of humans as freedom-loving, you must be ready to view nearly all of history as a mistake. | John Gray | ||
| 4b566f1 | Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems. | John Gray | ||
| 5d88636 | A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself. | principles | Jean M. Auel | |
| 7728aae | When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling -- meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves. Addiction becomes a surrogate for our calling. We enact the addiction instead of embracing the calling. Why? Because to follow a calling requires work. It's hard. It hurts. It demands entering the pain-zone of effort, risk, and exposure. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| f320ae5 | No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 4f88cf2 | Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. | resistance | Steven Pressfield | |
| 2631472 | The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| b925600 | The enemy is Resistance. | self-help | Steven Pressfield | |
| b62876b | And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing." | margaret-weis raistlin | Margaret Weis |