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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 58a89bf | Don't let things sit for too long. It's always tempting to just ignore the things that aren't actually on fire just at the moment, but then you're also committing to spend your time putting out fires. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 9ad951a | Egypt is a fertile valley of rich river soil, low-lying, warm, monotonous, a slow-flowing river, and beyond the limitless desert. Greece is a country of sparse fertility and keen, cold winters, all hills and mountains sharp cut in stone, where strong men must work hard to get their bread. And while Egypt submitted and suffered and turned her face toward death, Greece resisted and rejoiced and turned full-face to life. For somewhere among th.. | Edith Hamilton | ||
| 8c7870a | When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without. | Edith Hamilton | ||
| 2097848 | A man without fear cannot be a slave. | manipulation | Edith Hamilton | |
| 9fa212e | What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| bb00b90 | Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 8d62b56 | A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders hell thro' all its regions. A dog starv'd at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. A horse misused upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear. A skylark wounded in the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing. The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fight Does the ris.. | William Blake | ||
| cee5e86 | Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five hundred Percy Shelleys, the same of Wordsworth and Keats, and a handful of Drydens. Such mass name-changing could have problems in law enforcement. Following an incident in a pub where the assailant, victim, witnes.. | law-enforcement names poets | Jasper Fforde | |
| d026f3c | But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 0c10ca7 | I feel freer with Dex than I ever did single, I feel more myself with him than without maybe true love does that. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 3d3f15b | Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested. | Emily Giffin | ||
| c390b9a | He was my escape, and sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 3020988 | What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now." -- | Emily Giffin | ||
| 68e7753 | It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 5af5351 | You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end, You'll have no time for grievin'. | Emily Giffin | ||
| d2bdba3 | IV The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. VI If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. VII The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself In.. | imagination limitation possession wishful-thinking | William Blake | |
| dec765b | Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. | sorrow | William Blake | |
| d6adc1f | I sought my God and my God I couldn't find; I sought my soul and my soul eluded me; | William Blake | ||
| 6e9804b | I have no name I am but two days old.- What shall I call thee? I happy am Joy is my name,- Sweet joy befell thee! Pretty joy! Sweet joy but two days old. Sweet joy I call thee: Thou dost smile. I sing the while Sweet joy befell thee. - "Infant Joy" | nfant | William Blake | |
| 0bc8404 | She's quite a nice looking lassie or she wid be if she didnae look shite. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 6dee86c | _ samep`o armiashi msaxurobdi, shvilo? ch`emi braianic` mand iqo, samep`o armiashi, braian ledlou. _ emmm, isa... ara, k`albatono, p`lotshi viqavi, _ mxrebs ich`ech`avs joni. _ braieni ag'ar damibrunda, g'mert`ma ac`xonos misi suli. oc`daert`i clis iqo, ch`emi sacqali bichi. iset`i kargi qmacvili iqo, _ k`als t`valebi c`remlebit` evseba. xma mt`lad ch`aucqda da sacqalobeli gauxda sakut`ari ususuri dardis gamo. _ ic`i, shvilo, eg sazizg'ari .. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ccb5a0b | casi todas nuestras penas surgen de nuestras relaciones con otras personas. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 02d4296 | The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him | Irvine Welsh | ||
| afe4b5d | I'm just interested in women, Brian -- So am I, Kibby whined in urgent complaint. -- You think you are, but you're not. You read sci-fi magazines, for fuck sakes. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 4166c7d | Contigo lo son todas, colega>>, le replico, entrando en un juego muy viejo. <> | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 09d2600 | Algunos pobres cabrones simplemente estan mucho mas predispuestos hacia la adiccion a ciertas drogas que otros. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ca0011a | The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light. | existentialism | Marshall McLuhan | |
| 8cb878e | To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. | machine slap-stick system | Marshall McLuhan | |
| 12c5683 | Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 2bbff24 | When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| e456eb0 | Don't worry about tomorrow or let the past ruin today. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| ea453e8 | A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?" | Doris Lessing | ||
| 996644e | So much of my life has been twisted and painful that now when happiness floods right through me like being flooded over with warm glittering blue water, I can't believe it. I say to myself: I am Anna Wulf, this is me, Anna, and I'm happy. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 643333e | Yes, my child, you must read. You must read everything that comes your way. It doesn't matter what you read at first, later you'll learn discrimination. Schools are no good, Matty, you learn nothing at school. If you want to be anything, you must educate yourself. | Doris Lessing | ||
| d3795ba | Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky flushed a little above a rim of dark mountains. The landscape 20,000 feet below gathered itself from the dark and showed a pale gleam of grass, a sheen of water. The red deepened and pulsed, radiating streaks of fire. There hung the sun, like a luminous spider's egg, or a white pearl, just below the rim of the mountains. Suddenly it swelled,.. | ethiopia nature sunrise | Doris Lessing | |
| 60eb1f4 | People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 39b52bf | Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 7e093c0 | Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and mental events march along exactly in step, with the stream of "actual moments" in the outside world and the stream of conscious awareness of them perfectly synchronized. The cinema industry depends on the phenomenon that what seems to us a movie is.. | now physics reality time time-passing | Paul Davies | |
| 8c898c3 | I couldn't think of anywhere I'd rather be. In the middle. | Megan McDonald | ||
| cc38b90 | We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly, and bitterly wept as we bore him along. For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome, we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong." The Cowboy's Lament" | forgiveness wrongdoing | Leif Enger | |
| d93f819 | You can't explain grace, anyway, especially when it arrives almost despite yourself. I didn't even ask for it, yet somehow it breached and began to work. | Leif Enger | ||
| 97c97a0 | Az viarvam v teoriiata za edinstveniia kurshum. Mozhesh da se vliubvash i liubish mnogo p'ti, no ima samo edin kurshum, na koito e gravirano imeto ti. I ako izvadish k'smeta da te prostreliat s tozi kurshum, | Michael Connelly | ||
| 4c8a377 | And what if I think you're doing this out of misguided sense of decency?" "Oh, any sense of decency I possess is most definitely misguided," he said cheerfully." | Anne Stuart | ||
| 36cd21e | Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?" | Anne Stuart |