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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dc56d83 | The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| db06bf5 | Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am. | mouth reign tyrion | George R.R. Martin | |
| 8ea3df5 | The septons preach about the seven hells. What do they know? Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like" ...She was sad for him, she realized. Somehow, the fear had gone away. The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more, but she was afraid for him now, not for herself. She found his massive shoulder with her hand. "He was no true knight," she whispered to him." | game-of-thrones sandor-clegane sansa-stark the-hound | George R.R. Martin | |
| 2ee15a7 | Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion. | foolishness wall-street wisdom | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| 1a23682 | Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8b61189 | In order to live a life truly worth living you had to have strength in the face of adversity, patience when confronted by challenge, and bravery in the face of fear. As Sandy Portman I had used arrogance in the face of fear, disdain in the face of challenge, and selfishness in the face of adversity. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 42d6d44 | Aren't you a little young to be a captain? Not that I'm sure you weren't wonderful at it," I added hastily, "but Frank's got to be your same age, and Mr. Graces and Mr. Liu are both older than you. How on earth did it happen?" He shut down. It was like a curtain being pulled across a window. This was a subject he definitely did not wish to discuss. "The title is honorary," he said, not meeting my gaze. "I can't stop them calling me that, ev.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 91ab450 | Kayla snatched the ruby-coloured bra he'd dug out from behind his back. "You should know, you're the one who got it off me," she said." | humour kayla | Meg Cabot | |
| accb440 | He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night." Then Meena said, "I'm confused then. I thought the prince of darkness was the devil." [......] "Wait," Meena said, blinking. " Are you saying....." "Yes," Alaric said. "That is exactly what I'm saying." Jon looked blank. "I don't understand. Is he the devil or not?" "Lucien Antonescu," Alaric said. "is a vampire. Not just any vampire, but the ruler of a.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 033f7c1 | I thought you were bringing me back. Forever." He looked puzzled. "Why would I do that, when I waited almost two centuries to find you?" As he spoke, he reached out to take me by the waist and pull me against him, then lowered his mouth to mine and kissed me with a thoroughness that left no doubt in my mind that he had no intention of abandoning me anywhere. "John," I said a little breathlessly, when he let me up for air. "Maybe it would be.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| f985d7b | Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time. | Meg Cabot | ||
| a1af786 | It's seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days..." he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze lifted to meet mine, and his voice changed. "...at least until I found you." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 59b9b50 | It is a documented fact. I read it in People magazine. | Meg Cabot | ||
| cc88487 | I know you," he added, helping to arrange the blanket over my shoulders. "You won't drop the subject until I agree to check on your cousin, so I'll do it. But only under one condition." " ," I said, whirling around to clutch his arm again. "Don't get too excited," he warned. "You haven't heard the condition." "Oh," I said, eagerly. "Whatever it is, I'll do it. Alex has never had a very good life-his mother ran away when he was a baby, and.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| bf77cd0 | but you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist," -- | Meg Cabot | ||
| 96bfa5a | I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 8da2838 | Life is not a romance novel | Meg Cabot | ||
| b3b0c02 | His vision crawled with ghost hieroglyphs, translucent lines of symbols arranging themselves against the neutral backdrop of the bunker wall. He looked at the backs of his hands, saw faint neon molecules crawling beneath the skin, ordered by the unknowable code. He raised his right hand and moved it experimentally. It left a faint, fading trail of strobed afterimages. | William Gibson | ||
| 28c9994 | Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him, receded, returned. Rolling over, he sat up and held his head. | prose | William Gibson | |
| ce8a277 | This not flirting and just-being-friends business was going to be bloody hard. | Jill Mansell | ||
| b9a8cca | If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| ac05b8e | Dogs are the kids we've always wanted. They're totally devoted and want to live with you until they die. Not like children who can't wait to take off as soon as they grow up and don't need you anymore. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 588a020 | SEGISMUNDO: !Ay misero de mi, y ay infelice! Apurar, cielos, pretendo, ya que me tratais asi, que delito cometi contra vosotros naciendo. Aunque si naci, ya entiendo que delito he cometido; bastante causa ha tenido vuestra justicia y rigor, pues el delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido. Solo quisiera saber para apurar mis desvelos -dejando a una parte, cielos, el delito del nacer-, ?que mas os pude ofender, para cast.. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 140fb6b | The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not go.. | business-culture hustling motivation | Walter Isaacson | |
| c1b4346 | Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just outside Sunnyvale. "It was great," he recalled. "I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the whole field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat." | lsd music mystical psychological steve-jobs walter-isaacson | Walter Isaacson | |
| a7d7941 | I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it would get us a head of Atari in the phone book. He told Wozniak if a better name did not hit them by the next afternoon, they would just stick with apple and they did. 1 Apr 1976 " | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0b85412 | In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen," said Lack. "He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He's pathological, which can be useful in negotiations. And he's a genius." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fde9a76 | Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He was, indeed, an example of what the mathematician Mark Kac called a magician genius, someone whose insights come out of the blue and require intuition more than mere mental processing power. Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| dd16de3 | Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice. | racial-discrimination us-history | John Howard Griffin | |
| 2c120d8 | All over the world, people go to unimaginable lengths to find God--which is sad when you consider the unimaginable lengths God has already gone to find us | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 9e57add | I've only imagined seeing you again. That you'd come to my home. That I'd run into you on the street. That I'd look up, and you'd be there, and you'd be . . . and I'd tell you that I love you. | reunion | Meljean Brook | |
| 3cb2695 | She did like him...sometimes. When he was not a complete knacker. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 5959667 | A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy. | collaboration energy goals purpose values | Kenneth H. Blanchard | |
| 1753a46 | The best minute I spend is the one I invest in people. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| acd76f9 | lns tHtj 'n trtbT bmn yhtmwn bhm, lysh`rw b'nhm mqbwlwn wdhww qym@ lmjrd 'nhm bshr (..) 'yDan 'n lns yHtjwn l~ m`yn lyjdw mn yhtm bhm, `ndm yjnbhm lSwb S 91 | الحب الرعاية | Kenneth H. Blanchard | |
| 9f93b50 | It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along. | history stories | Ishmael Beah | |
| f7764fc | It is magnificent. At the moment of impact, the king's eyes are open, his body braced for the ; he takes the blow perfectly, its force absorbed by a body securely armoured, moving in the right direction, moving at the right speed. His colour does not alter. His voice does not shake. "Healthy?" he says. "Then I thank God for his favour to us. As I thank you, my lords, for this comfortable intelligence." He thinks, Henry has been rehearsing... | Hilary Mantel | ||
| b6beadd | Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love. | Toni Bentley | ||
| 502be31 | As one would expect of tourists, they tried to find poverty colourful, | Eric J. Hobsbawm | ||
| 742f647 | School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| da0511a | Kingsley smiled his Cheshire smile. And without a word, he called up the white darkness--the subvertio--a spell that unlocked what could not be unlocked, that destroyed what could not be destroyed. There was a rumbling, a shaking, like the strongest earthquake, and the iron gate crumbled, and the path began to melt. the demon shrieked, but Kingsley just looked at Mimi the entire time. "Azrael..." | love mimi separation | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 685e8f4 | Do you ever sense a little silver sliver of sadness around your happiest memories? I'm not sure I know what you mean... I do. There's something about remembering that just isn't the same as the real thing. No matter how happy it makes you feel. When you remember something, you have to recognize that the moment will never happen again. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 3c73742 | You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless. | life reality reasoning | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| c5742fe | She wouldn't have sex with me in public bathrooms. Little things like this haunted me. I was only twenty-five. | Michelle Tea |