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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 20183b6 | The river Guadalquivir Flows between oranges and olives The two rivers of Granada Descend from the snow to the wheat Oh my love! Who went and never returned The river Guadalquivir Has beards of maroon The two rivers of Granada One a cry the other blood | Federico García-Lorca | ||
| 580aab8 | Gacela of the Flight" I have lost myself in the sea many tunes with my ear full of freshly cut flowers, with my tongue full of love awl agony. I have lost myself in the sea many times as I lose myself in the heart of certain children. There is no one who in giving a kiss does not feel the smile of faceless people, and no one who in touching a newborn child forgets the motionless skulls of horses. Because the roses search in the forehe.. | Federico García Lorca | ||
| 6a8cc1d | If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson | Chris Van Allsburg | ||
| f22cd7c | Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. | Graham Greene | ||
| 2422097 | So, what do you go for in a girl?" He crows, lifting a lager to his lips Gestures where his mate sits Downs his glass "He prefers tits I prefer ass. What do you go for in a girl?" I don't feel comfortable The air left the room a long time ago All eyes are on me Well, if you must know I want a girl who reads Yeah. Reads. I'm not trying to call you a chauvinist Cos I know you're not alone in this but... I want a girl who reads Who .. | Mark Grist | ||
| 4243856 | Be Disloyal. It's your duty to the human race. The human race needs to survive and it's the loyal man who dies first from anxiety or a bullet or overwork. If you have to earn a living...and the price they make you pay is loyalty, be a double agent--and never let either of the two sides know your real name. | Graham Greene | ||
| 24385be | We are possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves. | Graham Greene | ||
| 2d950f3 | Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate. | Graham Greene | ||
| a61b6ef | I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress. | Graham Greene | ||
| 0db2da8 | Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt. | Graham Greene | ||
| aa1537e | Who could blame her for seeking my scars in return? When we are unhappy we hurt. | Graham Greene | ||
| a6ad325 | It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows. | nightmares | Graham Greene | |
| 5575173 | So one always starts a journey in a strange land -- taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all. | Graham Greene | ||
| ef2a2da | What makes a man, without hope, cling to a few more minutes of existence? | Graham Greene | ||
| 912dc0c | Boss,' I said into my Airwave. 'It's getting needlessly metaphysical out here. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| ebf8b97 | The Folly had last been refurbished in the 1930s when the British establishment firmly believed that central heating was the work, if not of the devil per se, then definitely evil foreigners bent on weakening the hardy British spirit. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| bbdd64d | He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way. | london | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 7ce4ba6 | Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard. | nerdiness | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| dfef7af | This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them. | evolution human opposable primates quadruped thumb | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| f738c49 | I saw a dark void under the platform and had just enough time to think: "Fuck me he's a earthbender." | funny pop-culture | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 3f5d141 | NIGHTINGALE AND I did what all good coppers do when faced with a spare moment in the middle of the day--we went looking for a pub. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 942f578 | We'd considered wearing uniform but Lesley said, what with her mask and everything, she'd look like a plastic cop monster from Doctor Who. I managed to restrain myself from telling her their real name. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| d239f23 | Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary. | weird | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 96f3a55 | I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life. | apart dissociated the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch outcast invisible lonely | Iris Murdoch | |
| 550297b | We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom | Iris Murdoch | ||
| a192534 | Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveris amaverit... Everything was love. Everything will be love. Everything has been love. Everything would be love. Everything would have been love. Ah, that was it, the truth at last. Everything would have been love. The huge eye, which had become an immense sphere, was gently breathing, only it was not an eye nor a sphere but a great wonderful .. | wild-nothing-paradise lsd | Iris Murdoch | |
| b8d18c8 | There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made me want to crush her, even to crunch her. She had a slight cast in one eye which gives her gaze a strange concentrated intensity. Her eyes sparkle, almost as if they were actually emitting sparks. She is electric. And she could run faster in very high-heeled shoes than any girl I ever met. | women shoes | Iris Murdoch | |
| d990c12 | The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend: The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering, that to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really making for and is too tragic for any words. | Paul Fussell | ||
| afac25c | In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination--until after it's run through a grinder with a whole bunch of other meat from other sources...It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you--just so she can't point the.. | humor food-regulation | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 58830c5 | Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness. | thoughts prayer philosophy | Peter Kreeft | |
| c8c4fd5 | Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on. | feelings | Peter Kreeft | |
| 115f47d | The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures. | prayer faith god sufferings | Peter Kreeft | |
| 6b4f861 | We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust." | faith trust god try | Peter Kreeft | |
| 9044c73 | Prayer is not only conversation, it is transformation. It is not only light, it is fire. And the closer you get to Him, the hotter the fire gets. Words begin to melt. The first word that melts in His presence is the word 'I.' That is unique name. The closer you get to Him, the harder it is to begin a sentence with 'I.' It melts in the fire of 'thou. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8c218bd | Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. | christianity god philosophy deist presence-of-god jesus-shock theist deism catholicism theology theism | Peter Kreeft | |
| 09ce40f | Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that--and I'll learn by doing it." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| edfa7e3 | So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f57a924 | As an associate at McKinsey & Company, my first assignment was on a team that consisted of a male senior engagement manager (SEM) and two other male associates, Abe Wu and Derek Holley. When the SEM wanted to talk to Abe or Derek, he would walk over to their desks. When he wanted to talk to me, he would sit at his desk and shout, "Sandberg, get over here!" with the tone one might use to call a child or, even worse, a dog. It made me cringe .. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8fd3fde | When all t'world goes one road, I go t'other. | James Herriot | ||
| 78195cb | She's out, Jim! The bugger's out!" Well this was great. Anybody who has driven a car with a hysterical cat hurtling around the interior will appreciate my situation." | James Herriot | ||
| ea67890 | Well aware that to bring the voice of sober reason to bear upon the exaggerations of agitated females was both fruitless and perilous, Freddy wisely let this pass... | humor exaggerations freddy-standen | Georgette Heyer | |
| 533e5f2 | I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ab4eb05 | Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you! | insult | Georgette Heyer | |
| 3afd27f | How is this?" she demanded "I had thought a Marquis must always be acceptable!" "That, Miss Merriville, Depends on the Marquis!" | Georgette Heyer |