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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b2c2290 | Nous ne faisions rien de mal cet apres-midi-la. Et c'est cela a mon avis le seul sens a donner a sa vie: trouver son bonheur sans augmenter la douleur du monde. | Dany Laferrière | ||
| 95b6863 | There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see. | Avi | ||
| 7876e02 | I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands and get along with people -- and have a fine time doing it and enjoy life. Then I realize, bang, that I'm tired and I don't want to wait on my family for a while and I wish I could go away somewhere and have people wait on me hand and foot, and dress up and go to restaurants.. | housewifery identity marriage motherhood | Joan Reardon | |
| a69ff6e | Love shouldn't be dictated | ella-enchanted force love | Gail Carson Levine | |
| b5a6a86 | ahthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell." "It sounds evil." "It is," I answered, and we parted." | goodbye language love words | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 9cfad39 | Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? | Bill Watterson | ||
| 05280e0 | My book is called, "Shut Up And Stop Whining: How To Do Something With Your Life Besides Think About Yourself." | Bill Watterson | ||
| e8c018e | Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot! | humor | Bill Watterson | |
| 2581e77 | Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| c2669da | It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 91b7463 | Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3582e11 | Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die. | Stephen King | ||
| bc98675 | Rest is good, but laziness is not. Labour is good, but slavery is not. Wine is good, but drunkenness is not. Food is good, but gluttony is not. Money is good, but greed is not. Wealth is good, but selfishness is not. Beauty is good, but vanity is not. Sex is good, but lust is not. Pleasure is good, but sin is not. Amusement is good, but decadence is not. Fame is good, but self importance is not. Confidence is good, but ego is not. Eloquenc.. | matshona-dhliwayo-quotes philosopher-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes wisdom-quotations wisdom-quotes wise-quotations wise-quotes wise-sayings-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| d9e4339 | Greed has no mouth, but swallows many. Love has no hands, but touches many. Hope has no feet, but carries many. Despair has no teeth, but devours many. Envy has no mouth, but swallows many. Compassion has no hands, but touches many. Joy has no feet, but carries many. Ego has no teeth, but devours many. Anger has no mouth, but swallows many. Peace has no hands, but touches many. Patience has no feet, but carries many. Evil .. | african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes enlightenment-quotes guru-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotes solomonology-quotes wise-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| d55d21a | If you care about peace, then you should care about justice. If you care about justice, then you should care about truth. If you care about truth, then you should care about integrity. If you care about integrity, then you should care about virtue. If you care about joy, then you should care about happiness. If you care about happiness, then you should care about fufilment. If you care about fufilment,then you should care about needs conten.. | knowledge-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes philosopher-quotations philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotations philosophy-quotes wisdom-quotes wise-quotations wise-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| dbc4db6 | For me to heal, I need you to heal. For me to trust, I need you to trust. For me to be strong, I need you to be strong. For me to gain, I need you to gain. For me to win, I need you to win. | african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes enlightenment-quotes guru-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotations sage-quotes solomonology-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 7ec5375 | Washington had several surrogate sons during the Revolution, most notably the marquis de Lafayette, and he often referred to Hamilton as "my boy." -- | Ron Chernow | ||
| b759f91 | If you don't fit into the system, the system makes life hell. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6bb9a21 | Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality | David Mitchell | ||
| e948aa7 | Life is a terminal illness. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8d3d5bf | Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in , and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not? | dark-humour different | David Mitchell | |
| 0b8efe2 | Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It's simply part of being human. | David Mitchell | ||
| c7ef268 | Books'll be back," Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past." | future | David Mitchell | |
| 325dd55 | We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3c0f245 | First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing. | relationship | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 55558ff | You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir," Newkirk said. "Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d29dbfc | Okay... That's still blind-making. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| db2a6c7 | Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 25122d8 | He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble." | jonathan | Scott Westerfeld | |
| dc60534 | In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| eb2619d | Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her. | war | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 85b2891 | My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| e0a77ee | Also remember, love inhabits more than just the heart and mind. If need be it can take shelter in a big toe. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| a3f11a2 | Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? | future miss | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 974bb4f | He loved more than anything to fly. His sole conflict was with gravity. | flying | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| b7d6c06 | My flying kick nicks his nose. A warning. Worse if I weren't succumbing to squeal. What a heel. I'm too multiple to feel. A fork ahead. I take both. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| ba67416 | Ever see yourself doing something in the past and no matter how many times you remember it you still want to scream stop, somehow redirect the action, reorder the present? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 7f981e3 | Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love? | inspirational love reflective | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| de49246 | Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts. | death-and-dying war | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| d9e210a | In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over. | new-york-city | Silas House | |
| 73fc6ee | Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had. | Silas House | ||
| fbcd4e2 | You get a tattoo like this and a 'do like this, and wear a shirt where the tattoo shows, and you walk into a room of people and feel the animosity, the disapproval, the how-dare-you. You can feel it coming off them like heat off a stove. And the thing I want to ask them is, how have I deserved this, what have I done that so offends you? I have not asked you to cut your hair this way. I have not asked you what you thought of it, or to approv.. | hairstyle mohawk tattoo tattoos | Harry Crews | |
| e8a337d | I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. .. | Harry Crews | ||
| f3df73b | Rider to your mate be true Follow heart in deed and do All the best your strength can find So you will rest in heart and mind | Anne McCaffrey |