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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 637e95a | I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it is over I do not know what to do with the rest of my life. | William Goldman | ||
| a4e8357 | Wesley: To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right. Prince Humperdink: And then my ears, I understand let's get on with it. Wesley: WRONG. Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe .. | William Goldman | ||
| 6814d17 | Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life... | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 35bf0ce | Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| d16dea2 | You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance of my son. But I have selfish reasons, my youngest son was forced to leave this country because of this Sollozzo business. All right, now I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely cleared of all these false charges. But I'm a superstitious man and if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he should get shot .. | Mario Puzo | ||
| def9937 | We want customers who need our clothing, not just desire it. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 4359b14 | We are the last generation that can experience true wilderness. Already the world has shrunk dramatically. To a Frenchman, the Pyrenees are "wild." To a kid living in a New York City ghetto, Central Park is "wilderness," the way Griffith Park in Burbank was to me when I was a kid. Even travelers in Patagonia forget that its giant, wild-looking estancias are really just overgrazed sheep farms. New Zealand and Scotland were once forested and .. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 9d30757 | She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying. | book books friends friendship fun funny gossip-girl happy knowledge life love quote quotes strength woman | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 14b31b5 | But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 226c26b | The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about." | Jess Walter | ||
| f7957bc | Society was built on a foundation of fear, not authenticity. I get too numb when I join the world. I lose my openness, my access to the divine. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 2939816 | I shall remain vigilant and unyielding in my pursuit of the enemies of the Coalition. I will defend and maintain the Order of Life as it was proclaim by the Allfathers of the Coalition in the Octus Canon. I will forsake the life I had before so I may perform my duty as long as I am needed. Steadfast, I shall hold my place in the machine and acknowledge my place in the Coalition. I am a Gear. | Karen Traviss | ||
| ae30d96 | Oh, you are a little ray of sunshine today, aren't you? Now, look at your progesterone levels. Still higher than normal. Are you pregnant? Have you been throwing up?" "No. But I get cravings. Will I get stretch marks?" said Fi. Gilamar kept a straight face. "Yeah, say goodbye to your figure. Everything sags from now on." | Karen Traviss | ||
| f3f1da5 | That's the worst thing about having chakaare like us around. We just wander off, find someplace you don't know about, and hole up in it and get into all sorts of mischief that you know nothing about. And then we bill you for it. Dreadful." "Dreadful. Is this the kind of thing that CSF might notice?" "Were we to get out of hand, I imagine very senior officers in CSF might need to be reassured, but not by you." "Dreadful. Hypothetically, anyw.. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 23bf6fe | The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that...and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 7f78255 | Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as "right" and "wrong" is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they are good. That idea is the impetus behind evil." | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 05ed71f | You know you're my best friend, right?' he said. I shrugged. I guessed it was true. Now that I wasn't going to be at the parade, they would all hate me. Everything had been carefully choreographed, and me not being there would throw them all off. I realized that kids like Theo and me weren't supposed to have real friends. We were supposed to be all alone and confused. By being each other's friend, we were defying our laws of gravity. | lonely | Heather O'Neill | |
| 7bd4ba0 | I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 352cc4e | Your mother's cunt has a peculiar tubular shape!' he yelled. 'Nonetheless, I tolerate its effluvium and enthusiastically lick its inner folds whenever she demands! | David Benioff | ||
| faa9c9d | The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever,' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you. | marriage wedding-vows | Diana Palmer | |
| 432a30a | Bring Cecily home," he said curtly. "I won't have her at risk, even in the slightest way." "I'll take care of Cecily," came the terse reply. "She's better off without you in her life." Tate's eyes widened. "I beg your pardon?" he asked, affronted. "You know what I mean," Holden said. "Let her heal. She's too young to consign herself to spinsterhood over a man who doesn't even see her." "Infatuation dies," Tate said. Holden nodded. "Yes, it .. | Diana Palmer | ||
| e300479 | but it won't last," "Yes," he replied. "Yes it will. You're all I see, hear, or need in all the world." | Diana Palmer | ||
| cf8577a | the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 6c9ed76 | I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity. | christina-dodd duke governess-brides historical-adventure historical-fiction historical-romance romance | Christina Dodd | |
| 88deb2e | But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture. | Charles Darwin | ||
| b82ee9b | As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety wil.. | change evolution life nature | Charles Darwin | |
| 351cba2 | The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power. | earthquakes power | Charles Darwin | |
| c8698a0 | b`d 'sbw` mn mwt any " bn@ drwyn" bynmlSwr@ l tzl HDr@ fy ldhkr@, ktb drwyn mdhkr@ khS@ qSyr@ tsjl lqlyl mn mftnh, w`dth, wsmth, wrqSth Hwlh bTwl lmmsh~ lrmly, wtdqyqh S`b lrD, wHbh ll'Tfl l'SGr snan, wmwhbth lmwsyqy@, wHmsh llqwmysh wlkhry'T . ktb drwyn 'nh fqd hw wym "zwjth" mt`@ drhm w'nys@ wHdthm fy `mrhm lmtqdm. l shk 'n lft@ lSGyr@ knt tdrk l'y md~ knt mHbwb@. thm ynhy drwyn m ktbh bqwlh : "fltHl `lyh lbrkt", wqd 'sqT hdhh lmr@, `l~ n.. | David Quammen | ||
| af98c5c | A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct. | evolution science | Charles Darwin | |
| 288783f | It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of his reason the shadows in which nature had enveloped him, rising above himself, soaring in his mind right up to the celestial regions, moving, like the sun, with giant strides through the vast extent of the universe, and, what is even greater and more difficult, returning to himself in order to study man there a.. | Jean Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 986b4c8 | Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| cf3990d | The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language. | culture | Steve Turner | |
| ac34f5c | In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we k.. | Joe Meno | ||
| 59c958d | Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this. | Joe Meno | ||
| edfd7ef | The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told. The | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| be215ac | Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| b9871c8 | But what if the universe was always there, in a state or condition we have yet to identify--a multiverse, for instance, that continually births universes? Or what if the universe just popped into existence from nothing? Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species? These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that .. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| e11e437 | During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's fun to do. But there's a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their 'low contracte.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| d33ea81 | If a huge genetic gap separated us from our closest relative in the animal kingdom, we could justifiably celebrate our brilliance. We might be entitled to walk around thinking we're distant and distinct from our fellow creatures. But no such gap exists. Instead, we are one with the rest of nature, fitting neither above nor below, but within. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 0ed4c3c | Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me. | ministry social-gospel | Watchman Nee | |
| b61cf4a | God does not blame me for being an individual, but for my individualism. His greatest problem is not the outward divisions and denominations that divide His church, but our own individualistic hearts. | Watchman Nee | ||
| a284814 | There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins. | imagery meaning nihilism | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 07208c1 | Today...no performance can be without its control screen video...its goal is to be hooked up to itself...the mirror phase has given way to the video phase. What develops around the video or stereo culture is not a narcissistic imaginary, but an effect of frantic self-referentiality, a short-circuit which immediately hooks up like with like, and, in doing so, emphasizes their surface intensity and deeper meaninglessness. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 8c8674c | In every decision there must be some regrets. | Ellis Peters |