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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bfc7ca8 | There is nothing to suggest a trangression of the universal laws of egotism and malice. It is ridiculous to imagine that at the edge of the cosmos, other well-intentioned and wise beings await to guide us toward some sort of harmony. In order to imagine how they might treat us were we to come into contact with them, it might be best to recall how we treat "inferior intelligences" such as rabbits and frogs. In the best cases they serve as fo.. | Michel Houellebecq | ||
| c201179 | Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. | weird science-fiction | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 9020b8b | It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness. ... The Thing cannot be described--there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| b4a6d9a | Though neither of them had ever called their meeting a case of love at first sight, they'd both agreed it had certainly been a case of "pretty damned sure at first hour." | love | Clive Cussler | |
| ce7213c | in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life. | who-you-are life-events | Lisa Unger | |
| b403dfb | It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our ti.. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 15fee80 | I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it. | stupidity ignorance pride | Bill Maher | |
| c8e2687 | Some people go, some people stay. I'm staying. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 5ab3651 | All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| ec58af9 | You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still a lot of good in the world. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| cab97bf | No quiero morir ahora. No ha sido suficiente tiempo. Dieciseis anos no son suficiente tiempo. No me importaria tanto si no hubiese tantas cosas que no he hecho y tantas otras que no he visto. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| cbe7eda | You oughta see Kathy's brother. Now there's a hood. He's so greasy he glides when he walks. He goes to the barber for an oil change, not a haircut. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 81eccde | Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters. None of them go hungry to bed at night. | politics congress | Audre Lorde | |
| f1a7a88 | It is not the destiny of Black america to repeat white america's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life. | Audre Lorde | ||
| c139cc7 | The way you get people to testify against themselves is not to have police tactics and oppressive techniques. What you do is build it in so people learn to distrust everything in themselves that has not been sanctioned, to reject what is most creative in themselves to begin with, so you don't even need to stamp it out. | Audre Lorde | ||
| b13701f | As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for liberation must be. For we must move against not only those forces which dehumanize us from the outside, but also against those oppressive values which we have been forced to take into ourselves. Through examining the combination of our triumphs and errors, we can examine the dangers of an incomplete vision. Not to condemn that vision.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| a9c655a | Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Carter and Hypatia and Patsy Cline. Next to it, an old podium that once held a Bible, on which we have repurposed an old chemistry handbook as the Book of Lilith. In its pages is our own liturgical calendar: Saint Clementine and All Wayfarers; Saints Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, observed in the summer with blueberries to symbolize the sapphire ring; t.. | literature religion | Carmen Maria Machado | |
| 6511188 | Nancy, you're a whiz, as I've often told you," her friend declared." | Carolyn Keene | ||
| ae74a83 | Everyone's alone--or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other, And I'm sure they don't. Is that delusion? Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? | imagination love everyone | T.S. Eliot | |
| 6fb180d | Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones -- In fact, he's remarkably fat. He doesn't haunt pubs -- he has eight or nine clubs, For he's the St. James's Street Cat! He's the Cat we all greet as he walks down the street In his coat of fastidious black: No commonplace mousers have such well-cut trousers Or such an impeccable back. In the whole of St. James's the smartest of names is The name of this Brummell of Cats; And we're all of us proud to.. | bustopher-jones st-james-street cats | T.S. Eliot | |
| 1f0d49e | It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe--until recently--have been rooted. It is against a background of Christianity that all of our thought has significance. An individual European may not believe that the Christian faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning...I do no.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 1a3b66c | And what you thought you came for is only a shell, a husk of meaning from which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled if at all. Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end you figured And is altered in fulfillment. | T. S. Eliot | ||
| 1731161 | What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us to futile activity, And in the end, Judge us still more severely, For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us? | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 87dae86 | Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, Tight-rope walkers and acrobats They had an extensive reputation. [...] When the family assembled for Sunday dinner, With their minds made up that they wouldn't get thinner On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens, And the cook would appear from behind the scenes And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow "I'm afraid you must .. | mungojerrie pranksters rumpleteazer cats | T.S. Eliot | |
| c80df1c | April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding | Thomas Stearns Eliot | ||
| ad26164 | Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience. | conscience | T.S. Eliot | |
| 45619e4 | I sat upon the shore Fishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina Quando fiam ceu chelidon--O swallow swallow | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 77f79d4 | To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; | confidence country cows timidity | T. S. Eliot | |
| 6fbb565 | ratio et prudentia curas, | on-solitude | Quintus Horatius Flaccus | |
| 7614383 | In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 33ad368 | l`lh yjdr bn thn lHdyth `n sh`r lakhryn b'hmythm n ntHdth `m ysh`rk nti bl'hmyh , mldhy ysh`rk bl'hmyh ? mldhy ylHZh lkhrwn wyqdrwnh fyk ? kln ybHth `n ltqdyr mqbl shy m .. sw mqbl mZhrn w mlbsn w nty'jn blmtHn . n hdh lsh`wr qd ykwn qwy w `ty wyw'dy l~ lnkhrT fy b`D lslwkyt lkhTy'h mthl lmtn` `n `n tnwl lT`m s`y wr lnHfh w tnwl b`D lmHrmt klkHwlyt wlmkhdrt lksb qbwl lSdq . n mthl hdh lslwk lmdmr qd ykwn SyHh mdwyh nb`h mn lrGbh fy ksb lhtm.. | Donna Dale Carnegie | ||
| 6c9df28 | A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. | free-market markets economics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 9164ab6 | It's easy to lie with statistics, but it's hard to tell the truth without them. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| d90ea88 | It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it. | truth speaking language talking | Max Barry | |
| d22730d | intelligence seems to be correlated with the complexity with which we can simulate future events, | Michio Kaku | ||
| f5248d0 | It means understanding that different kinds of oppression are interlinked, and that one can't liberate only one group without the others. It means acknowledging kyriarchy and intersectionality - the fact that along different axes, we're all both oppressed and oppressors, privileged and disprivileged. | kyriarchy privilege | Shiri Eisner | |
| c69f127 | Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entree. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 50697b8 | After you die, you're going to hell for being a dishonest bastard, and you'll burn for eternity." The guy snatched his hand back. "I don't believe in Hell." "Most people don't until they get there." Mab smiled at him. "Of course, if you stop lying and cheating, you can probably redeem yourself. If not, have them put marshmallows in your coffin. There's a bight side to everything, I always say." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| b046442 | You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart. | Anna Maxted | ||
| 54984f4 | He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of the error that the world was flat. . . 'And when they discover their mistake, I mean, truly discover it, it'll be as big as when they learned the world was, in fact, round. It'll open up a whole new world. And nothing will ever be the same. | Danzy Senna | ||
| baf385a | It never occurred to her to give up. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 7a2636b | It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun. | manic-depression | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 79b02c9 | knt qd nsyt T`m lHss blHy@ `ndm tnftH lrwH `l~ lryH w lmTr w ljml, wbd't 'sh`r btsrb lHy@ mjdd l~ ltSd`t lmwjwd@ fy jsmy w `qly lldhyn knt qd shTbthm tmm b`tbrhm mstnzfyn 'w hmdyn. lqd stGrq l'mr sn@ kml@ lj`ly 'drk 'nny knt fym mDy 'mshy `l~ lm mktfy@ bmjrd mHwl@ lbq `ly qyd lHy@ wtjnb l'lm bdl mn lndmj lHqyqy fy lHy@. lfrS@ llhrb mn bqy lmrD w lmwt, mn lHy@ lqlq@, wmn msw'wlyt ltdrys w l`yd@. lqd '`Ttny hdhh lfrS@ shkl mn lslm ldhy kn yrw.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 40b4b81 | Now I had no choice but to live in the broken world that my mind had forced upon me. | Kay Redfield Jamison |