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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1158285 | Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent. | David Morrell | ||
| 1040099 | These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| e9dcdce | He claimed that there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues. | Mario Puzo | ||
| fe47c23 | A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 7b3577b | the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 8ab0d9b | The whole world is sick...we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention. | Jess Walter | ||
| d6ffa53 | After a horrible, crazy speeder race by Bardan] "Thank you for flying Jedi Air." Jusik grinned and shook their hands. "Have a nice afternoon." "You're all insane," said Sev." | Karen Traviss | ||
| ec314dc | Do we get to do assassinations?" "If we do, they never happened. You imagined them." "Whoops. My trigger finger just slipped, Sarge. Honest." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 15b0af5 | Why should I cooperate with you now?" "Because you're stuck in a ship with four creatively sadistic people who hate your grey guts, and maybe the Jedi and the strill aren't that fond of you either, and all you've got are the clothes you stand in. See how long you last..." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 7ec2106 | Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 39b31b2 | Touch me again, chakaar, and I'll ram this into your carotid artery." "I haven't got one." "Then I'll have to keep stabbing you until I find somewhere else that bleeds copiously." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 20c0a1e | Your boys okay?" "Tired, edgy, but giving it all they've got. One of 'em has sworn to get Vau, another is having a love affair with a woman he shouldn't even look at, I'm collecting waifs and strays like an animal shelter, and we nearly killed a treasury agent. But if I told you the really bad stuff, you'd think I have problems." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 9579f71 | Visit Mandalore before Mandalore visits you. Take home some souvenirs--a slab of uj cake and a smack in the mouth. | Karen Traviss | ||
| e1e4f7a | A young girl's body is the most dangerous place in the world, as it is the spot where violence is most likely to be enacted. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 9def224 | Many of them, like him, would never grow old enough to understand that you only go from one hardship to another. And that the best we can hope from life is that it is a wonderful depression. | life | Heather O'Neill | |
| dd3f3c0 | Love is like this small room where a child brings you to show you all their treasures. First the child shows you all the new toys that are bright and shiny and top of the line. But then she shows you all the stuff that has ended up at the bottom of the trunk. There are dolls with eyes that wobble, hair that is falling out of their heads, and dirt behind their ears. Their fingertips have been chewed off by dogs and they have been drawn on wi.. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 859bcee | When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more. | routine | Heather O'Neill | |
| 993c0ca | We're lucky." He slipped his hand around her waist and splayed it in the small of her back. "Most couples have only one first kiss. We'll have two." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 9133b34 | She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he .. | people emotions | Christina Dodd | |
| 1d98c42 | Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely. | englishmen tears | Charles Darwin | |
| 7a3378c | You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles | marriage way-to-be tenderness | Deborah Heiligman | |
| 3b54aa5 | As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear. It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the , , , , Tyndalls, , , , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds.. | prejudice mind world stupidity reason fear adulterers alexander-humboldt children-science david-hume draper ernst-haeckel haeckel herbert-spencer humboldt hume john-draper john-william-draper persecutors propositions spencer theologian vilify wilhelm-humboldt wilhelm-von-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt murderers astronomy charles-darwin theologians geology afterlife theology darwin paine thomas-paine voltaire sublime knowledge power poison john-tyndall tyndall | Robert G. Ingersoll | |
| 74708c9 | As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me. | money wealth nature debt food | Margaret Atwood | |
| ab5713c | One hand has surely worked throughout the universe. | religion science | Charles Darwin | |
| cd28086 | When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 0d5eb39 | Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed | emile | Jean Jacques Rousseau | |
| bb074c9 | It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything which troubles or affects him. It is philosophy which isolates a man, and prompts him to say in secret at the sight of another suffering: 'Perish if you will; I am safe.' No longer can anything but dangers to society in general disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher or drag him from.. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 9735769 | Man's first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 701b7ae | To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason. | Colin McGinn | ||
| 88fed7d | Just because you have blue hair and fucked-up clothes doesn't mean you're better than everyone else. Because you know what? You're just conforming to someone else's code. Even though you don't wear khakis or sweaters or whatever, but to me all you guys look the same. You think you're so individualistic, but you're not. You guys--you and Kim and all the rest--you're like anti-snob snobs. But you're just as mean as the preppy kids. You're all.. | Joe Meno | ||
| 1ba8ec3 | Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego. | universe science cosmos nasa space | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 12ad9c8 | Time to get cosmic. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on any beach, more stars than seconds have passed since Earth formed, more stars than words and sounds ever uttered by all the humans who ever lived. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 9db76b1 | The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| a34aec6 | The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to everyone. The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual, even redemptive, but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 485349b | It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this. | Watchman Nee | ||
| fe5a1d0 | I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me. | presence-of-god | Watchman Nee | |
| a9b9b2b | We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them. | post-structuralism | Jean Baudrillard | |
| b90f08e | it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them). | reality unmasking simulation | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 6fa26ce | We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas .. | baudrillard sociology | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 73ced35 | This country is without hope. Even its garbage is clean, its trade lubricated, its traffic pacified. The latent, the lacteal, the lethal - life is so liquid, the signs and messages are so liquid, the bodies and the cars are so fluid, the hair so blond, and the soft technologies so luxuriant, that a European dreams of death and murder, of suicide motels, of orgies and cannibalism to counteract the perfection of the ocean, of the light, of th.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| ca68262 | I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal. | love happy-ever-after | Robin Wasserman | |
| d5d014c | A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. | responsibility courage death life | Ellis Peters | |
| 64c706d | Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely. | self-determination freedom free-will life conduct-of-life giving | Ellis Peters | |
| 6b5d3b5 | Well, hell," muttered Drake. "Do you do that to all the human women?" "No. Usually they've already started taking off their clothes by now. She's beginning to hurt my feelings." "We need to get you a paper bag or a giant scar or something." "Yeah," said the man, his tone dry. "I'll get right to work on that" -- | Shannon K. Butcher |