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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8c4cbf6 | You shouldn't make jokes about these things," she said. "Science doesn't have all the answers, you know." "It's got all the best questions, though," | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 050beec | In some households you only have to turn up three times before you're expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 18f90de | It took the Fire Brigade a day and a half to secure the remains of the house enough to recover Crew Cut's body, which was described by Dr Jennifer Vaughan as 'suffering from crush trauma' and by Dr Walid as 'mostly flat'. | humor | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 4bb5cce | The Rape of Nanking did not penetrate the world consciousness in the same manner as the Holocaust or Hiroshima because the victims themselves had remained silent. | Iris Chang | ||
| 229c300 | How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 15a05cb | When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love. | relationships life love | Iris Murdoch | |
| 53c5665 | The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks and months, then suddenly it's over, it's perpetual destruction, perpetual divorce, perpetual adieu. It's like , it's a koan. It's like falling in love and being smashed over and over again.' 'You do, then, fall in love.' 'Only with fictions, I.. | theatre jealousy love remorse regret hamlet theater | Iris Murdoch | |
| 7634da7 | It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is a.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| f552650 | I believe in low light and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery. | Andy Warhol | ||
| fc0c656 | If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. | Andy Warhol | ||
| e63a527 | We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves--or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves. | Roger Scruton | ||
| c20e264 | while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind. | wine | Roger Scruton | |
| cb866bc | Music is a wonderful example of something that's in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds. | Roger Scruton | ||
| c0db3e8 | Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b430359 | People confuse me. Food doesn't. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 14108a7 | To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 727db3e | We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7). | prayer god | Peter Kreeft | |
| e406d1b | The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have."13" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| af4af04 | The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful place. It even told him as much. When he walked through the gutted wreck of old Saint Paul's, he tripped and fell over a piece of rubble -- a tombstone. When he got to his feet and dusted himself down he saw that it read, in Latin, 'Resurgam' -- 'I Will Rise Again. | ruin london | Jonathan Barnes | |
| a5f564f | long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately--to set limits and stick to them. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f8a777d | Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional--or worse, sometimes even a negative--for women. "She is very ambitious" is not a compliment in our culture." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| dcb74f5 | Building resilience depends on the opportunities children have and the relationships they form with parents, caregivers, teachers, and friends. We can start by helping children develop four core beliefs: (1) they have some control over their lives; (2) they can learn from failure; (3) they matter as human beings; and (4) they have real strengths to rely on and share. These | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 9e51b29 | But instead of blaming women for not negotiating more, we need to recognize that women often have good cause to be reluctant to advocate for their own interests because doing so can easily backfire. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0ca0265 | No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat | James Herriot | ||
| 302b5d2 | I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning; we had just about decided that the man with a lot of animals couldn't be expected to feel affection for individuals among them. But those buildings back there were full of John Skipton's animals - he must have hundreds. Yet what made him trail down that hillside every day in all weathers? Why had he filled the last years of those two old horses with peace and beauty? Why had he giv.. | love horse | James Herriot | |
| ad11d84 | since he was himself of a forthright disposition he was inclined to like Sophy's frank, open manners, and obstinately refused to agree that she put herself forward unbecomingly. He did not think that she put herself forward at all, which made it difficult to see just how it was that she contrived to introduce quite a new atmosphere into the house. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 7f485e3 | I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing! | manners | Georgette Heyer | |
| 58b3bc6 | They used to say of me that I'd as many lucky escapes as Harry Smith!' 'Shouldn't be at all surprised: I've seen one of 'em myself,' Brough said cryptically. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 53dbabd | Who is he, the ill-disposed gentleman in pink?" inquire the Comte, when they were out of earshot. "A creature of no importance," shrugged Philip. "So I see. Yet he contrives to arouse your anger.?" "Yes," admitted Philip. "I do not like the color of his coat." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9af5f69 | He did not defy convention: when it did not interfere with whatever line of conduct he meant to pursue he conformed to it; and when it did he ignored it, affably conceding to his critics their right to censure him, if they felt so inclined, and caring neither for their praise nor their blame. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6771c8d | It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor. | wisdom doctor labor health normal | Ina May Gaskin | |
| 290db60 | May you always look as beautiful as this last time I saw you. | Owen Jones | ||
| 1f7c304 | Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. | politics inequality | Owen Jones | |
| 5838fa6 | Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst. | life rizzoli-and-isles | Tess Gerritsen | |
| 8ce4def | You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'? The Sixth Sense. Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't.. | autopsy dead-people the-sinner the-sixth-sense tess-gerritsen meat | Tess Gerritsen | |
| abff146 | No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you. | life mistakes | Tess Gerritsen | |
| 05e49b8 | We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of God). | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d942329 | There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 2a064e0 | The quintessential emblem of religion and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core is the sacrifice of a child by a parent. Almost all religious faiths incorporate the myth of such a sacrifice, and some have actually made it real. Lucretius had in mind the sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father Agamemnon, but he may also have been aware of the Jewish story of Abraham and Isaac and other comparable Near Eastern stor.. | sacrifice religion | Stephen Greenblatt | |
| 8e00ad5 | What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all. | life lisa-gardner quotes | Lisa Gardner | |
| 186375d | The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident that the contemplative Egyptians, together with such later poetic spirits as Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Swinburne, were all sincere worshippers of the supple grimalkin. | cats-vs-dogs | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 1786922 | The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| ae3723c | The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it. | cats-vs-dogs | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 137f5bc | Ho visto oscuri universi spalancarsi Dove neri pianeti ruotano senza meta... | H. P. Lovecraft |