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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a6fd4f1 | It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1e1a3e4 | You always dread the unfamiliar...We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f1ed5ad | Happiness is important. Fun is everything. And yet I kept sitting there saying to myself, I'm not happy, I'm not happy. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3c50228 | To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 456fe81 | First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early....don't you ditch me jim nightshade...don't talk death. Someone might hear... | dark jim will halloween | Ray Bradbury | |
| 80833f9 | Montag, falling flat, going down, saw or felt, or imagined he saw or felt the walls go dark in Millie's face, heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, all by itself in the room, touching nothing, starved and eating of itself, that at last she recognized it was her own... | montag | Ray Bradbury | |
| 696ef6b | Don't listen," whispered Faber. "He's trying to confuse. He's slippery. Watch out." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 25ea32d | One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more... | temptation supernatural | Ray Bradbury | |
| 4d4ffe0 | No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it." | nature inspirational nights-outdoors | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8c9705d | Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it had to tell of the night passin.. | darkness montag sun | Ray Bradbury | |
| 12a773d | I take this continent with me into the grave. | poetry humor | Ray Bradbury | |
| 0703c02 | if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 48b366a | And the sea moved her back down the shore. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f6227d6 | That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. . . . | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 69cd183 | Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings. | science-vs-religion | Ray Bradbury | |
| 6da1912 | Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2779b34 | Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b5532b5 | For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. | coda fahrenheit-451 | Ray Bradbury | |
| ab24e0c | Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 226d9c7 | Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| c2126a2 | I now see that the hands that forgive, console, heal, and offer a festive meal must become my own. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3c23a9e | This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather share it as the source of healing and new life? It is important to realize that you cannot get a Ph.D. in caring, that caring cannot be delegated by specialists, and that therefore nobody can be excused from caring. Still, in a society like ours, we have .. | priesthood-of-all-believers ministry specialization church | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 8d913aa | In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. | history mlk martin-luther-king | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| d943549 | The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 735f6f4 | n lHy@ Zlmun lW dh SHbh lHfz, wkl Hfz Dryr lW dh qtrn blm`rf@, wkl m`rf@ hab, lW dh rfqh l`ml, wkl `ml khaw, l dh mtzj blHbaW; fdh mtzj `mluk blHb fqd wSlta nafsak bnfsk, wblns wbllh. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 445e407 | I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts... | poetry inspirational | Kahlil Gibran | |
| c291a9f | You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 695c6b7 | I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile. | isolation | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 5caa20c | As I look back on my own life, I recognize that some of the greatest gifts I received from my parents stemmed not from what they did for me--but rather from what they didn't do for me. One such example: my mother never mended my clothes. I remember going to her when I was in the early grades of elementary school, with holes in both socks of my favorite pair. My mom had just had her sixth child and was deeply involved in our church activitie.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 3694f01 | The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. --Steve Jobs | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| effde52 | Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart. And on the cart was a fresh turd. Her own, I suppose. The parents just shook their heads and smiled. I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. W.. | mentors mentor wall-street disappointment | Tom Wolfe | |
| 63f3b4e | H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist.. | dreams buildings density towers victor skyscrapers island manhattan new-york-city power paris rome new-york | Tom Wolfe | |
| e6dcc0d | I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| e366cf3 | take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool... | thought | Jonathan Swift | |
| 2e23127 | High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, And there were little hounds about her feet; Below her feet there was a sickle moon, Waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, Her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; Her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode Down to where Pluto has his dark abode. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 7b3a082 | In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 2d35032 | That is what capitalism is--a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives' labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 6e2aaed | To a very great extent human history has been the story of the unequal accumulation of harvested wealth, shifting from one centre of power to another, while always expanding the four great inequalities. This is history. Nowhere, as far as I know, has there ever been a civilization or moment when the wealth of the harvests, created by all, has been equitably distributed. Power has been exerted wherever it can be, and each successful coercion.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 666b7af | Susan, nonetheless, wanted to know why she was having such a dating problem. Dusty said, "I think your problem is that you think everyone else is a freak except you, but everybody's a freak- you included- and once you learn that, the World of Dating is yours." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fa7cca5 | You will see the effects of dark secrets making themselves known-- via their minds and bodies and via the stories your friends...will begin telling you...The only payback for all of this-- for the conversion of their once-young hearts into tar--will be that you will love your friends more, even though they have made you see the universe as an emptier and scarier place... | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8fee767 | Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| a89c1a9 | Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 92badb7 | Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church... | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 02c0195 | Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense of slaves, Indians, and poor whites. This bought loyalty. And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful even than material advantage, the ruling group found, in the 1760s and 1770s, a wonderfully useful device. That device was the language of liberty and equality, which could unite just enough whi.. | Howard Zinn |