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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1997dcc | Indeed, people speak sometimes about the 'animal' cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1728ebc | Because you're lukewarm, not hot or cold, you'll spill out of my mouth like vomit. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f24ebf2 | Peux ce que veux. Allons-y. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| c6d7790 | I sit with and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with and , where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon and ... and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. | aristotle aurelius balzac dumas honoré-de-balzac marcus-aurelius shakespeare truth veil william-shakespeare | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| d9f6651 | I'm busy sorting through our new collection of rhinestone jewelry. Should anyone be in the market for sparkly accessories the size of a hubcap, this is the place to get them. Earlier today, a customer picked up one of the enormous chandelier-style offerings and asked, 'Do those be genuine rhimestones?' I couldn't even begin to explain everything that was wrong with her sentence, so I simply replied, 'Yes. They do be genuine. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 5c064bb | At a health and fitness fair) Though normally superconfident, I am not prepared for the judgmental stares of the ultrafit. They don't know me and have no idea of my prowess in the boardroom. They're unfamiliar with my shoe collection and unaware that I live in the Dot-Com Palace. And they didn't notice me pulling up in the Caddy. All they can see is how much space I occupy. With each step I take, I feel cellulite blossoming on my arms, my s.. | jen lancaster | ||
| 643df2c | Sometimes you do your very best and you lose anyway. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| aa665ea | And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!" | humor | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 339d6b3 | But it'd be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk to about anything, someone who'd tell me I was really special. | loving puppy-love teens young-love | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 627c1ad | It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| f511a0e | I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people. | education leadership servanthood teaching | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 9dd2fde | For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 7eee19e | The bodies of irrational animals are bent toward the ground, whereas man was made to walk erect with his eyes on heaven, as though to remind him to keep his thoughts on things above. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| c1cee97 | My soul is like a house, small for you to enter, but I pray you to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I ask you to remake it. It contains much that you will not be pleased to see: this I know and do not hide. But who is to rid it of these things? There is no one but you | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| f13b90d | the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord. | theology | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 27adcac | This joy in God is not like any pleasure found in physical or intellectual satisfaction. Nor is it such as a friend experiences in the presence of a friend. But, if we are to use any such analogy, it is more like the eye rejoicing in light. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| a88e085 | You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things. | thoughts | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 7018b50 | What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, "What is this?" Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you." | Saint Augustine of Hippo | ||
| ee3e375 | I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| a0402b4 | To what place can I invite you, then, since I am in you? Or where could you come from, in order to come into me? To what place outside heaven and earth could I travel, so that my God could come to me there, the God who said, ? | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| c622d81 | Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving for results. It is impressive for the uninitiated. It makes one feel that one belongs. Jargon divides men into Us and Them.... | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 7191b20 | All girls should be treated with respect regardless of whether or not they're virgins. Being a virgin doesn't make me any more or less worthwhile than a non-virgin. | Penny Reid | ||
| 52239e0 | Listen to me for one fucking second, okay?" I also whispered, but only because he was whispering, "Only if you stop using the f-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it." "I'll fucking use whatever fucking word I want to fucking use whenever I fucking want to." | Penny Reid | ||
| 09f6fae | You're disgusting and that's completely misogynistic. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you're using her? What if she's just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he's sewing oats. When a girl does it, she's a hook-up girl. | Penny Reid | ||
| fc696f7 | Over the years I'd learned absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. The heart becomes wary, somnolent and cynical during periods of prolonged absence, burdened with cares and fears borne in solitude. However, absence does make the body greedy and irrationally amorous with frustrated need. | Penny Reid | ||
| 12beb46 | Don't Drink and DERIVE, Alcohol and Calculus Don't Mix | Penny Reid | ||
| 2c37ee3 | Dan was shorter than me, especially as I was wearing sky blue silk stilettos. He appeared to be my age or a few years older,stocky, and thick necked with swirling tattoos just visible beneath the blue collar of his uniform.Dan gave me a plain once over as he walked me to an elevator and placed his palm against a glass screen. The screen retracted to reveal keypad. Dan then punched in a series of numbers and he said- "You're very big."I gave.. | tall-girls vegetables-and-milk | Penny Reid | |
| 75e2ec4 | I wondered what steps I could take to remove the word 'moisture' or even 'moist' from the English language; I really hated the way it sounded and always went out of my way to avoid saying it. I also really didn't like the word slacks | Penny Reid | ||
| 9956ef0 | Me want Martin flavored cookie! Me want cookie now!! | Penny Reid | ||
| 6df4ac1 | Little did he know, I possessed no feminine wiles. Only the willies and the hibby jibbies. | Penny Reid | ||
| 0db7b19 | Life is a struggle for relevancy. | Penny Reid | ||
| 39cd49f | I'd kiss you but I don't want our beards to tangle. | Penny Reid | ||
| 700f7cf | It's seductive, to live in a virtual space, especially when the real world isn't what you want it to be. | Penny Reid | ||
| d5ec85a | As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on. | Karen Hesse | ||
| e8dd429 | Until and unless you know that you are enough just the way you are, you will always be driven to look for more. Knowing that you are enough is a function of consciousness. Your enough-ness develops in direct proportion to the relationship you have with your true identity. Until you wholeheartedly believe in your own worth, in spite your of accomplishments and possessions, there will be a void in your Spirit. I had more than a void. I had a .. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 0803358 | FORGIVENESS ADDRESSES HOW WE THINK AND FEEL ABOUT OTHERS AND OURSELVES AND HOW THOSE THOUGHTS MANIFEST WITHIN OUR LIVES AS ENERGY. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| d37af26 | From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| f1fcccf | We can always be sure of one thing--that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments. | bible brave-new-world history martyrs old-testament prophets religion | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 4bdaf3d | You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (it occurs in a passage of perfectly demented detail about the exact rules governing mutual ox-goring; you should look it up in its context (Exodus 21). The second is from the Gospels an.. | christianity compassion guilt immorality justice morality punishment relavitism religion | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 2800aa0 | As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street. | death-of-osama-bin-laden fascism mass-murder obituary osama-bin-laden september-11-attacks | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 185a1cf | We are an adaptable species and this adaptability has enabled us to survive. However, adaptability can also constitute a threat; we may become habituated to certain dangers and fail to recognize them until it's too late. Nuclear armaments are the most conspicuous example; as you read this you are in effect wearing a military uniform and sitting in a very exposed trench. You exist at the whim of people whose power does not derive from your o.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| ae03252 | Since this often seems to come up in discussions of the radical style, I'll mention one other gleaning from my voyages. Beware of Identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics. I remember very well the first time I heard the saying "The Personal Is Political." It began as a sort of reaction to defeats and downturns that followed 1968: a consolation prize, as you might say, for people who had missed that ye.. | humanity identity-politics politics regressives travel wise | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 5356892 | The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation and faith. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 4cbed74 | Many readers are familiar with the spirit and the letter of the definition of "prayer," as given by Ambrose Bierce in his Devil's Dictionary. It runs like this, and is extremely easy to comprehend: Prayer: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favor of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy. Everybody can see the joke that is lodged within this entry: The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters a.. | Christopher Hitchens |