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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 46ca9e3 | You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all." - Matthew Farrell" | games life | Judith McNaught | |
| 8a1e259 | Matt: I know you can cook. Meredith: What makes you so sure? Matt: Because less than an hour ago, you set me on fire. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 519d3b4 | Have you missed me?" he asked. "What do you think?" she evaded smoothly-but not smoothly enough, because he chuckled. "Good.How much?" "Is your ego in need of bolstering today?" she countered lightly. "Yep." "Really,why?" "Because I got shot down by a beautiful twenty-three-year-old, and I can't seem to get her out of my mind." "That's too bad," Lauren said, trying unsuccessfully to hide the joy in her voice. "Isn't it," he mocked. "She's l.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 5be6302 | Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention. | Lorna Landvik | ||
| 07aa853 | He treated the stars as though they were love songs written to him by God. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 4e1adc1 | They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull . | Pat Conroy | ||
| 19cb0fb | My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 47b0d89 | Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political correctness is going to kill American liberalism if it is not fought to the death by people like me for the dangers it represents to free speech, to the exchange of ideas, to openheartedness, or to the spirit of art itself. Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the .. | Pat Conroy | ||
| fd815c5 | Later, long after my grandfather was dead, I would regret that I could never be the kind of man that he was. Though I adored him as a child and found myself attracted to the safe protectorate of his soft, uncritical maleness, I never wholly appreciated him. I did not know how to cherish sanctity, and I had no way of honoring, of giving small voice to the praise of such natural innocence, such a generous simplicity. Now I know that a part of.. | praise worship | Pat Conroy | |
| 1bf42bf | Humanity is best described as inhumanity. | Pat Conroy | ||
| a8e2138 | A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up. | rights surrender | Pat Conroy | |
| 02ac3b9 | From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible yearnings, and their most soul-killing doubts. I trust the great novelists to teach me how to live, how to feel, how to love and hate. I trust them to show me the dangers I will encounter on the road as I stagger on my own troubled passage through the complicated life of books that try to.. | Pat Conroy | ||
| c715817 | Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the keys to paradise. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 10e6a1b | Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the minor elevation," "the lavabo," "the apparition of Lourdes," and hundreds more. Latin deposited the dark minerals of its rhythms on the shelves of my spoken language. You may find the harmonics of the Common of the Mass in every book I've ever written. Because I was raised Roman Catholic, .. | language | Pat Conroy | |
| a8d5c2b | The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 8f94395 | The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story." | imagination narrative storytelling | Pat Conroy | |
| 1e8a877 | It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. | humility self-awareness | Pat Conroy | |
| 4197f2b | I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 9081e7c | Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. | mindfulness past present | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7f40633 | Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 79fcd2e | Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 8281414 | Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. | enterprise life new-clothes old-clothes | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 84b8b4b | Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid. | heritage | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 741f679 | Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4306ead | Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation. They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of taxation and finance, commerce and manufacturers and agriculture. Nuestros legisladores no han aprendido todavia el valor comparativo del libre cambio y la libertad, la union y la rectitud hacia la nacion. No tienen genio ni talento para hacerse.. | congress individuals legislators liberalism | Henry David Thoreau | |
| d9671f7 | It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. | appleseed | Henry David Thoreau | |
| c90244b | The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 7390b4c | It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such. | self-belief society | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 5638ed2 | We live in a world in which there is nothing that cannot be narrated, but nothing that needs to be either. | Terry Eagleton | ||
| 805032e | Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage. | Terry Eagleton | ||
| f1eeedd | If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious wh.. | consciousness discourse failure freudian-slips lacan language meaning parapraxis psychoanalysis unconscious | Terry Eagleton | |
| 29db738 | In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big - ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western c.. | belief capitalism faith grand-narratives islam islamic-fundamentalism islamic-terrorism islamism life metaphysics philosophical-scepticism philosophy postmodernism pragmatism religion western-culture western-world | Terry Eagleton | |
| 17f6684 | A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists. | knowledge | Terry Eagleton | |
| c70c4f6 | It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. | capitalism criticisms-of-marxism future futures-exchange marxism utopianism | Terry Eagleton | |
| 420ff9c | The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the 'literariness' of the work - the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska. | Terry Eagleton | ||
| 37ce61b | You must excuse my gruff conduct," the watchdog said, after they'd been driving for some time, "but you see it's traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious." | time-management | Norton Juster | |
| c3908a5 | I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be. | Norton Juster | ||
| 8a093e2 | Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of ten, conspirators behaved like buffoons and wound up exposing themselves out of sheer, bumbling incompetence. | humor politics | Eric Flint | |
| 908302f | No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| e6edf86 | It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I reached my arm back and threw the phone as hard as I could (sadly, not that far), and it vanished into the snow. The eight-year-olds, who were truly fascinated with our every move at this point, chased after it. 'Lost it,' I said. 'Whoops. | stuart | Maureen Johnson | |
| f67b8ce | All right. Normal rules apply." "Right." The man walked off, leaving us. "What are the normal rules?" I asked. "He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions." -- | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 6c24b09 | A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| f72ede7 | People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 67533a8 | Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart | Maureen Johnson |