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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 60b07d4 | The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the rest. | Robert Harris | ||
| 4530fce | I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 9f8971b | Sure I got sins. Ever'body got sins. A sin is somepin you ain't sure about. Them people that's sure about ever'thing an' ain't got no sin-- well, with that kind a son-of-a-bitch, if I was God I'd kick their ass right outa heaven! I couldn' stand 'em! | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7dbb1f6 | A dog...is a bond between strangers. | travel-writing | John Steinbeck | |
| 08dacb8 | They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way, for they never sounded the same repeated in their own kitchens. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 31b273c | He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4815cb4 | When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ships's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c361f1c | Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 059c844 | war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 042fd7b | Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1461265 | Her shame and fierceness were blended. | John Steinbeck | ||
| aa1cbc4 | He's a nice fella," said Slim. "Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 256c4f2 | When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley" | hunter | John Steinbeck | |
| 694e869 | There was a huge moon over the western mountains, and it made the city seem even more mysterious and old, and the great black castle on the ridge stood out in front of the moon. And if there are ghosts anyplace in the world, they must be here, and if there is a ghost of Queen Tamara, she must have been walking the ridge in the moonlight that night. | tbilisi | John Steinbeck | |
| d54f71b | Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn't be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb. He saw a time when one man would know only one little fragment, but he would know it well." "Yes," Lee said from the doorway, "and he deplored it. He hated it." "Did he, now?" Adam asked... "Now you question it, I don't know," he said. "I don't know whether he hated it or I hate it for him.. | knowledge money specialization | John Steinbeck | |
| 8543600 | No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ed0fb38 | It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. At first the rocks are bright and every moving animal makes his mark on the attention. The picture is wide and colored and beautiful. But after an hour and a half the attention centers weary, the color fades, and the field is likely to narrow to an individual animal. Here one may observe his own world narrowed down until interest and, with it,.. | ecology science scientists weariness | John Steinbeck | |
| eb03faf | Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry. | jokes | John Steinbeck | |
| e07794a | Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things--property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know--that when a man loses his possessi.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d5b4735 | I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 72e6e39 | I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind. Why this is, I'm not sure. Perhaps because great books seem heavensent. Perhaps because I know that each nove is a puny but very valiant attempt at godlike behavior. Perhaps because there is no difference between the finest poetry and most transcendent mysticism. Perhaps because writers like Thomas Merton, who .. | spirituality true writing | Paul Quarrington | |
| 8880ec0 | I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it." | Neil Strauss | ||
| 547aa68 | Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 136b168 | Knowing isn't always believing. | knowing knowledge | Nora Roberts | |
| defbd17 | Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life? | Nora Roberts | ||
| 5311926 | They never see what you are." Shocked, Jude glanced around to see who'd spoken, then realized she had. "Don't they?" Brenna wanted to know, lifting her brow as she topped off Jude's glass yet again. "They see a reflection of their own perception. Whore or angel, mother or child. Depending on their view, they're compelled to protect or conquer or exploit. Or you're a convenience," she murmured. "Easily discarded." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8427989 | Pleasure at simply being there had him swinging fast across the road, shooting up the snaking lane carved into the rock, then, in shock, slamming on the brakes to avoid crashing into a high iron gate. He scowled at it for a moment before the intercom beside his car buzzed on. "Templeton House.May i help you?" "What the hell is this? Who put this damn thing up?" "I-Mr. Joshua?" Recognizing the voice, he struggled to bank down on his irritat.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 258752e | Hold on." Beckett shot out a hand, shoved Ryder back. "Are you saying Mom and Willy B are . . ." "That's what I'm saying. And they have been for a couple years now." "Fuck," Ryder muttered. "Don't say fuck when he's telling us about Mom and Willy B. I don't want that verb and those names together in my head." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4c13c9d | People say to someone they love: I'd die for you. They don't expect to, of course, have no plans to. They may believe it, or mean it, or it may simply be an expression of devotion. But I know what it means now, I understand that impossible depth of emotion now. And I know you would die for me. You'd put my life before yours to protect me. And that terrifies me. | the-witness | Nora Roberts | |
| 53eb20e | He handed her her cap and sunglasses, then put on his own while she frowned at them. "What is this?" "A disguise." He grinned at her. "Dobie wants you to wear them. Let's give him a break, or he might order fake mustaches and clown noses off the Internet." She rolled her eyes, but put them on. "And what, this makes us look like twins? Where are your tits?" | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8eb51d8 | It's not right," he repeated, grabbing her again and turning her to face him. "I'm not having it." "So you said, in clear terms." "I don't mean that." "Oh, well, if you've decided you'd like to have sex with me after all, I've changed my mind." "I haven't decided--" He broke off, staggered. "Changed your mind?" "I have. Kissing you wasn't altogether what I thought it would be. So you were right and I was wrong." She gave him a deliberately .. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a194980 | When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 57532a9 | Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold." | mia-devlin | Nora Roberts | |
| c6c0ea6 | I've been happy alone and I've been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2d88e40 | One morning early, I couldn't sleep, so I walked down to the beach. And I saw you. For a minute- I didn't realize it was you. You were wearing this long scarf thing tied around your waist, lots of wild colors, and it blew around your legs. You had on a red bathing suit under it." "You..." She literally had to catch her breath. "You remember what I was wearing?" "Yes I do. And I remember your hair was longer than it is now, halfway down you.. | jack-cooke | Nora Roberts | |
| d6d62ef | She's in love, and that makes her strong. She'll need to be." "What makes you strong, Mia?" "Purpose. Love never worked for me." | Nora Roberts | ||
| d19e1eb | We're going to change. We're going to throw out what's worse in us and keep what's best. But come hell or high water, we three will stick together, all for one, one for all. We're going to grow, Cathy, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not only that, we're going to reach the goals we've set for ourselves. I'll be the best damned doctor the world's ever known and you will make Pavlova seem like an awkward country girl. | emotion emotional goals mental physical | V.C. Andrews | |
| 51f5a47 | We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did. | distance landry love lust pearl-in-the-mist possibilities time v-c-andrews withstand | V.C. Andrews | |
| 1a659d5 | Little rabbits have big ears. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 6a897b5 | I don't explain love, Bart. I don't think anyone can. It grows from day to day from having contact with that other person who understands your needs, and you understand theirs. It starts with a faltering flutter that touches your heart and makes you vulnerable to everything beautiful. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 7431128 | You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel." I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of--when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man." | child feminist girl innocence lmao man woman | V.C. Andrews | |
| f8ea994 | When no buyers were near, he talked to me earnestly to impress upon me how valuable work would be to me in the future: 'Some men hate it. They make it their enemy. Better to treat it like a friend, make thyself like it. Don't mind because it is hard. If thou thinkest about what a good house thou build, then who cares if the beams are heavy and it is far from the well to carry the water for the plaster. Promise me, boy, if thou get a master,.. | George S. Clason | ||
| 8d2f86c | Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding. | George S. Clason | ||
| 1e0857c | The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea at the time. Like most colossal disasters. | Mary Doria Russell |