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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3d042eb | The fact was, if you paid attention, people tried to persuade each other all the time. It was all they did. | Max Barry | ||
| 3a17cd6 | Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance. | Max Barry | ||
| 3e746e9 | You can lose a lot when you travel too much. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 967fdb0 | I never dreamed that she meant lights. Sparkling. Shimmering. Waves of light. We could see them from the front of the cafe. Besides the few customers, everyone who lived on the street was gathered inside. And I mean everyone, even strange little Esther. She'd squeezed herself into the darkest corner of the room, sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her bent knees. But even her face was in awe. Silvers. Pearls. Iridescent pinks... | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 3d8788e | As Sir William Osler once said, "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow." | Michio Kaku | ||
| 0aa1eed | Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important--all the data indicate--for life success than your IQ or your grades. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 386d5e1 | she was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more... | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 6d68f1c | I'm surrounded by morons," I muttered, making certain both the accused in question could hear me, before I began hopping away from them. I was positive I looked like a psychotic Easter bunny terrorizing the woods." | Nicole Williams | ||
| bffd6ce | There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent of some damned regimental water-bearer.' In India, I knew a water-bearer who was a better man than most. | horror vampires | Kim Newman | |
| af26ff6 | Wilder watched Armstrong head back to video village under the lights of the set, attacking another apple as she went, and thought, . Not a good history there. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 7f9b83d | I was standing in the doorway when he said hi," Amy said. "And from the look on his face, what he has for you is not the key to the city." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| af3300a | Statistics show that men are interested in three things: careers, sports, and sex. That's why they love professional cheerleaders. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 27ecc34 | Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| bb775e7 | That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 5dc16b3 | I have a date this afternoon." "Oh, Lord." Jake closed his eyes. "Who are you going to destroy now?" "I beg your pardon?" "The hotel would appreciate it if you'd just throw back the men you don't like without maiming them." "I haven't maimed anyone." "You almost drowned Lance, you scared Peter into heart palpitations, you stabbed Donald with a fork, and you hit Brad over the head with a bottle." Jake shook his head. "And they still ask you.. | humor men-and-women | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 6aff1b3 | It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered, that damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again, and that freedom from the control imposed by medication loses its meaning when the only alternatives are death and insanity. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 3a455ca | Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| bda8d7a | One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not. | science | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
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| 0e8468b | Slowly the darkness began to weave its way into my mind, and before long I was hopelessly out of control. I could not follow the path of my own thoughts. Sentences flew around in my head and fragmented first into phrases and then words; finally, only sounds remained. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 641a074 | Success doesn't measure a human being, effort does. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 7ddc857 | Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| cc52fcd | We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses. | Andre Dubus | ||
| bc24479 | I should have shouted and wave my hands in case the driver looked back, but mostly in life I don't protest things. I go along, or at least I make people believe I'm going along. Sometimes it's better if people think you're dumb or don't care. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 823e9b9 | The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn't expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn't too m.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 47a7284 | The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he'd done for me and what we'd been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 73afebd | This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn't want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 0b42db3 | The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor -- not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to mor.. | metaphor mind nature | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 2a085bf | What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile" | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 22da7bc | These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why? | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 26ce8ff | One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. | recommendations | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 5a49c96 | One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| c58d060 | In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were only able to read authors who expressed points of view that one agreed with entirely. It would be a bland sort of world if we could not spend time with people who thought differently, and who saw the world from a different place. | rudyard-kipling | Neil Gaiman | |
| 13fec30 | If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 24fb8ad | As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Where there is nothing, Peter Walsh said to himself; feeling hollowed out, utterly empty within. Clarissa refused me, he thought. He stood there thinking, Clarissa refused me. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 21f3cc3 | anger is always fear in disguise | Spider Robinson | ||
| e4c0e44 | If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first... | Spider Robinson | ||
| c41f773 | Shared pain is lessened | Spider Robinson | ||
| 7614efa | If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| e92e2a9 | We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 74a080a | Our thoughts and actions have consequences, all the more reason to be loving and compassionate and not fearful or harmful. They create our destiny and our future. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 89722b2 | In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration. I do not ask that this be done everywhere, but perhaps we may be allowed at least one mansion where we can turn off the electric lights and see what it is like without them. | literature | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | |
| c79dea9 | We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil.. | beauty light-and-darkness far-east intercultural japanese-literature japan shadows | Junichirō Tanizaki | |
| efd5159 | dy'm myrdd rkbw l'mwj"hnlk dwm mwj@ tlyh" wlkn mlm thr` Swb lmwjh wtHtl mtnh 'wl, fswf ytm tnHytk jnb." | Robert T. Kiyosaki |