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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 74a1d98 | He let them be heroes. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 7dda02d | I am Rand al'Thor!" he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. "I am the Dragon Reborn!" -- | Robert Jordan | ||
| ebbf167 | The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go. | Robert Jordan | ||
| a19768a | Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't--if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes--then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 9c4fdd4 | There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. | Robert Jordan | ||
| d2fa16c | Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions. It was amazing how it worked. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 1dba065 | Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself. | michelle-sagara-west silence | Michelle Sagara West | |
| 388b596 | P'tuvai samo s chovek, kogoto obichash. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 74682db | So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7e98484 | Faith is a decision.It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn't always look as though He does.Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lion's den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things always work. It is an act of the will, a choice, based on the .. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 6a7f866 | Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 00c3f7e | The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then no work, even the relentless and often messy routine of caring for squalling babies, is demeaning. To offer it up to the Lord of Glory transforms it into a holy task. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| f0f5d92 | Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot" | eternity jim-elliot shadow-of-the-almighty | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 66caacf | And it's safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm's way. | war | Barack Obama | |
| 54e38bc | That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each.. | Barack Obama | ||
| fb59b42 | The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths. | Barack Obama | ||
| 3fc6f04 | We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development. | C.G. Jung | ||
| eaf41d9 | The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. | individuality mutuality politics relationship state statism understanding | C.G. Jung | |
| e73633e | the paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions... | C.G. Jung | ||
| c680718 | It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| c17b3cb | I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. There was a quantity of things that men hated. Or had no use for, as they said. And that was exactly right. They had no use for it, so they hated it. Maybe it was the same way I felt about algebra- I doubted very much that I would ever find any use for it. But I didn't go so far as to want it wiped off the face of the earth for that reason. | usefulness | Alice Munro | |
| dc7398c | Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason? | Alice Munro | ||
| 89ccc40 | Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it. | rebirth samurai seppuku strength-of-mind | James Clavell | |
| fa1d628 | To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others. The former adds to society. The latter typically subtracts from it, for in the process of taking it away, wealth gets destroyed. A monopolist who overcharges for his product takes money from those whom he is overcharging and at the same time destroys value. To get his monopoly price, he has to restrict production. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| cb7bcb2 | Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 5871a83 | I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate. | relationships | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| ccb77b1 | But maybe this is what Hannah has always wanted: a man who will deny her. A man of her own who isn't hers. Isn't it the real reason she broke up with Mike--not because he moved to North Carolina for law school (he wanted her to go with him, and she said no) but because he adored her? If she asked him to get out of bed and bring her a glass of water, he did. If she was in a bad mood, he tried to soothe her. It didn't bother him if she cried,.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 7086b96 | I had no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| b9615dc | Sometimes I wonder if she knows, I wonder in my Nothingest moments if she's testing me, if she types nonsense all day long, or types nothing at all, just to see what I'll do in response, she wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 9098c06 | Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b73eb36 | If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e0a0583 | When I was old enough to take baths in the bathtub, and to know I had a penis and a scrotum and everything, I asked her not to sit in the room with me. "Why not?" "Privacy." "Privacy from what? From me?" I didn't want to hurt her feelings, because not hurting her feelings is another of my raisons d'etre. "Just privacy," I said...She agreed to wait outside, but only if I held a ball of yarn, which went under the bathroom door and was connect.. | jonathan safran foer | ||
| 2e3e05b | It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself. | food food-safety non-fiction vegetarianism | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 2131b68 | Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 66bb733 | I hit the spacebar again and again and again. My life story was spaces. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 17b5ea2 | She saw through the shell of me into the center of me | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f2f1d37 | We aren't exactly emptying the oceans; it's more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8e3c25d | There is no dead matter," he taught us, "lifelessness is only a disguise" his voice sank pressed against the wall, "We have lived for too long. We wish. We wish; we want, we want we want We are not," he said, "long-term beings. not heroes of romances in many volumes. for one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 374ac27 | Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying. | sixth-borough | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 6f181ce | We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more. | humanism suffering | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 03b15f7 | Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 98a7e18 | God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them." God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creat.. | jonathan-safran-foer plagiarism writing | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 319be5c | I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e36c0bd | The lid, however, wouldn't shut. The mind held back the whole sky. | lid mind sky | Denis Johnson |