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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d0b9e6c | We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people. | darwin faith freud lost religion science | Ray Bradbury | |
| 77c8899 | Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. | ray-bradbury wicked women | Ray Bradbury | |
| 76f9a97 | Spesso scivolo come un serpente su una vettura della sotterranea a sentire cosa dicono le persone. O nelle mescite di bibite dolci, e sapete che cosa ho scoperto? - - Che cosa? - - Che la gente non dice nulla. - | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a1e6628 | Sit down, Montag. Watch. Delicately, like the petals of a flower. Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh?' ... There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6ba2d1b | This is happening to me," said Montag. "What a dreadful surprise," said Beatty. "For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up with you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?" | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f4950c2 | And looking at one single label on a jar, he felt himself gone round the calendar to the private day this summer when he had looked at the circling world and found himself at its center. The word on the jar was RELISH. And he was glad that he had decided to live. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f5b42cd | Man had become too much man and not enough animal | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f72fb8c | Grandma, he had often wanted to say, Is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple. | grandma-s-cooking grandmas grandmother-cooking kitchens | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8333247 | Pasamos la vida entera aprendiendo a olvidar cosas que en realidad estan dentro | ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| 003a7a3 | The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They'll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read on Mars. | mars ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| de5ccc6 | There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. | memories | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9946fc7 | Being with a friend in great pain is not easy. It makes us uncomfortable. We do not know what to do or what to say, and we worry about how to respond to what we hear. Our temptation is to say things that come more out of our own fear than out of our care for the person in pain. Sometimes we say things like 'Well, you're doing a lot better than yesterday,' or 'You will soon be your old self again,' or 'I'm sure you will get over this.' But o.. | friendship presence | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| d59352b | It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention. | worry | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 72dc250 | The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim t.. | christianity clergy god-s-love jesus ministry pastoral-ministry | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| d446171 | Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These needs will never be satisfied; they will only increase when you yield to them. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 1165045 | Compassion is born when we discover in the center of our own existence not only that God is God and man is man, but also that our neighbor is really our fellow man. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 46234d2 | We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| a617223 | From the heart arise unknowable impulses as well as conscious feelings, moods, and wishes. The heart, too, has its reasons and is the center of perception and understanding. Finally, the heart is the seat of the will: it makes plans and comes to good decisions. Thus the heart is the central and unifying organ of our personal life. Our heart determines our personality, and is therefore not only the place where God dwells but also the place t.. | satan the-heart | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 5c66c8b | By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 75be55e | the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish. | Piers Anthony | ||
| ec0248b | Somewhere between the fact we know and the anxiety we feel is the reality we live."5" | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 6eb78bc | They dip their pens in our hearts and think they are inspired. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| d16e666 | m mn bh shm my gwym khh yn dw [shdy w ndwh] z ykhdygr jd nystnd yn dw b hm my aynd , w hr gh khh shm b ykhy z an h br sri sfrh my nshynyd , bh yd dshth bshyd khh an dygry dr bstri shm ...khfth st | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 177a222 | And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. --KAHLIL GIBRAN The Prophet | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2920b0c | There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I | David Allen | ||
| 9d80840 | Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. --Leonardo da Vinci | David Allen | ||
| a628652 | The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. | David Allen | ||
| 408ce24 | In this little room full of people he was suffering the pangs of men whose egos lose their virginity--as happens when they overhear for the first time a beautiful woman's undiluted, full-strength opinion of their masculine selves. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 8e26507 | The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| e350488 | How very American it was to assume that these unsmiling Chinese would be pleased if one showed a preference for their native implements...How very American it was to feel somehow guilty unless one struggled over rice noodles and lumps of meat with things that looked like enlarged knitting needles. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 70f9279 | She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| d5ab867 | More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give us an idea of the infinite. And that blood is red so that murder will be more easily detected and criminals will be brought to justice. Yes, and I believe that I shall live forever, but I shall live without reason. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 167b251 | Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find. It is being sucked out of the world to make way for the future of uncontrolled markets and huge investment potential. The future becomes insistent. "This is why something will happen soon, maybe today...to correct the acceleration of time. Bring nature back to normal, more or less." | Don DeLillo | ||
| 0357ebb | And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| c6e8a17 | For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on its axis but they say you don't feel it, you can't experience it. But to feel it is to be scared and happy at once and to know that nothing matters but that you do what you want to do and what you do you are. And I knew I was moving into the future. There is not PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or e.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| feaeb10 | A female is essentially a cunt, the pure purpose of the female is cunt, but a woman, a wife, is a cunt with a mouth, a man has to reckon with. It's a sobering fact: you start off with a cunt, you wind up with mouth. You wind up with your widow-to-be. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 3c1ae5e | Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0b863c6 | Time is the element in which we exist... We are either borne along by it or drowned in it. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 00e736c | All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 66ef91e | So you don't believe we have souls I guess?" and Legs laughed and said, "Yeah probably we do but why's that mean we're gonna last forever? Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?" | flame soul | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| fa9a990 | Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. Which will be soon, and then the dark, and then be done with this ugliness... | William Styron | ||
| 32dc611 | We are imprisoned by the truth we dare not see. We are imprisoned by the questions we dare not ask. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| d26cbce | It must have been almost 2.30 a.m. How could I have lost track of time like that? It was a severe lesson in the dangers of messing with the schedule. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 4bd441a | It may have been due to the effect of the gordo blanco on my cognitive functions, but I was suddenly overwhelmed by an extraordinary feeling--not of satisfaction but of absolute joy. It was the feeling I had in the Museum of Natural History and when I was making cocktails. We started dancing again, and this time I allowed myself to focus on the sensations of my body moving to the beat of the song from my childhood and of Rosie moving to the.. | Graeme Simsion |