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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4768679 | Grief, he said, is carnivorous. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 19353d2 | I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn't the least understandable thing you can do. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 24712e6 | I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these years. I knew you in the womb. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| a4e5270 | A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 415311d | Hello," he said. "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." | William Goldman | ||
| 3e03138 | There are things that can harm a lot more than physically. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 93c77c6 | Everything you do in life use percentage as your god. | risks | Mario Puzo | |
| c6e317e | If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet | london | Jess Walter | |
| 0936057 | You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 4941220 | Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it. If one woman was a genius, it was proof that it was possible for the rest of them. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 3eba0df | it smelled like jail...sore knees and loose assholes. | David Benioff | ||
| 6a73745 | In the silence of her nonanswer, I considered the possibility that I was a very boring person. Who else but a boring person would utter such meaningless trifles? If a brilliant pig, the prodigy of the barnyard, spent his entire life learning Russian, and on finally becoming proficient the first words he heard were my own, he would wonder why he had wasted his best years when he could have been lolling in the mud, eating slop with the other .. | David Benioff | ||
| 88dd9f2 | Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and decay prevail. Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature: -- no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of.. | Charles Darwin | ||
| 3cf5ea1 | As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land. | evolution darwin | Charles Darwin | |
| 5617adb | When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, nearly in the same way as when we look at any great mechanical invention as the summing up of the labour, the experience, .. | physicalism natural-history | Charles Darwin | |
| ea3e16c | There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures. Each part assumes its proper dimensions: continents are not looked at in the light of islands, or islands considered as mere specks, which are, in truth, larger than many kingdoms of Europe. Africa, or North and South America, are w.. | travel worldview | Charles Darwin | |
| a0318f6 | The 'Manifesto' being our joint production, I consider myself bound to state that the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to . That proposition is: that in every historical epoch, the prevailing mode of economic production and exchange, and the social organization necessarily following from it, form the basis upon which is built up, and from which alone can be explained, the political and intellectual history of that ep.. | history marx karl-marx charles-darwin class-struggle darwin exploitation communism oppression | Friedrich Engels | |
| f469708 | Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| a07c669 | It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 17af5a7 | He who blushes is already guilty. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 418f2d3 | Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. | emile | Jean Jacques Rousseau | |
| 1cbaf10 | All of these concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| cf603eb | We believe that religions are basically the same...they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation. | religion reductionism pluralism | Steve Turner | |
| 4320846 | It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula. | Joe Meno | ||
| cae3619 | A few years ago I was having a hot-cocoa nightcap at a dessert shop in Pasadena, California. Ordered it with whipped cream, of course. When it arrived at the table, I saw no trace of the stuff. After I told the waiter that my cocoa had no whipped cream, he asserted I couldn't see it because it sank to the bottom. But whipped cream has low density, and floats on all liquids that humans consume. So I offered the waiter two possible explanatio.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 6698d26 | By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be "of Venus" ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can't blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession." | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 5d45a0c | How do we change the way science is taught? Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and you never come up with more than the fingers on one hand. You remember their names, you remember what they did, you remember how they moved in front of the classroom. You know why you remember them? Because they were passionate about the subject. You remember them because they lit a flame within you. They got you excited abou.. | teachers | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 238219b | We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light. | Watchman Nee | ||
| c8ea8b7 | You ever get the feeling all hell's about to break loose and there's nothing you can do about it? | romance suspense-drama crime | Ali Vali | |
| c3ddbfc | All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 9a09ec1 | Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case. | truth ellis-peters | Ellis Peters | |
| e1038fa | Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all. | Ellis Peters | ||
| 1d1c056 | Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 639d1c6 | The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments. As i.. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 2d976e2 | I was my usual charming morning self, threatening blood feud with anyone fool enough to disturb my dreams. | Glen Cook | ||
| 69f956e | You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band of blackguards. You know they are vicious, violent, and ignorant. They are complete barbarians, living out their cruelest fantasies, their behavior tempered only by the presence of a few decent men. I do not often show that side because these men are my brethren, my family, and I was taught young not to speak ill of kin. T.. | Glen Cook | ||
| 8fdfa53 | Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul. | passion | Alister E. McGrath | |
| e823c1c | Like the character Moliere who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, I discovered to my astonishment that I had been immersed in philosophical problems all my life. And I had been drawn into the same problems as great philosophers by the same felt need to make sense of the world...The chief difference between me and them, of course, was that whereas they had something to offer by way of solutions to th.. | Bryan Magee | ||
| 6c91cf3 | I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine surely fell into one of these categories), the wider the arms of hospitality were opened in salutation. | Tony Hawks | ||
| 78d5548 | The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away--to go, as he concluded, 'anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world! | Alain de Botton | ||
| 25ca913 | Beauty, then, is a fragment of the divine, and the sight of it saddens us by evoking our sense of loss and our yearning for the life denied us. | Alain de Botton | ||
| ef0f907 | Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. | hopes nature life humiliation perspective | Alain de Botton | |
| 98f4832 | writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence. | Alain de Botton | ||
| be53652 | Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities. | influence satisfaction others priorities minds soul | Alain de Botton |