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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71f0282 | You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab as occasion serves. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 5c18671 | Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 3018632 | Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 61dfad2 | That holy shape becomes a devil best. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 1d54088 | Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 2133829 | Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He kept falling rapturously in love with women not his wife. And because that rapture was so wholly consuming, and felt so good, it struck him as impossible that God might possibly frown on such a thing. | plural-marriage religion | Jon Krakauer | |
| 8d3a374 | All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f031c83 | Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 77e6824 | Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name, gave the entire balance of a twenty-four-thousand-dollar savings account to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet. And then he invented a new life for himself, taking up residence at the ragged margin of our society, wandering across North America in.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9fcae70 | Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know. | Polly Horvath | ||
| 4393293 | At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists. | choices peace | Polly Horvath | |
| d5581f3 | All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places... | Polly Horvath | ||
| 6c7d06e | And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be. | Bette Greene | ||
| 7cfa658 | I want to see the Parthenon by moonlight.' I had my way. They floodlight it now, to great advantage I am told, but it was not so then, and since it was late in the year there were few tourists. My companions were all intelligent men, including my own husband, and they had the sense to stay mute. I suppose, being a woman, I confuse beauty with sentiment, but, as I looked on the Parthenon for the first time in my life, I found myself crying. .. | greece parthenon | Daphne du Maurier | |
| a5ec6ab | I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that freedom is the only thing that matters to me at all. Also utter irresponsibility! Never to have to obey any laws or rules, only certain standards one sets for oneself. I want to revolt, as an individual, against everything that 'ties.' If only one could live one's life unhampered in any way, not getting in knots and twisting up. There must be a free way, without making a muck of it all. | Daphne Du Maurier | ||
| 66619e3 | Little notes, scrawled on half-sheets of paper, and letters, when he was away, page after page, intimate, news. Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book. And I had to call him Maxim. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a0905f0 | But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness. | madness | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 55ed362 | The experts are right, he thought. Venice is sinking. The whole city is slowly dying. One day the tourists will travel here by boat to peer down into the waters, and they will see pillars and columns and marble far, far beneath them, slime and mud uncovering for brief moments a lost underworld of stone. Their heels made a ringing sound on the pavement and the rain splashed from the gutterings above. A fine ending to an evening that had star.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 32c9c1b | It's funny,' I noted in the diary, 'how often I seem to build a story around one sentence, nearly always the last one, too. The themes are a bit depressing but I just can't get rid of that. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 481557a | a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the lawns in swift, short rushes, stopping now and again to stab at the earth with his yellow beak. A thrush, too, went about his business, and two stout, little wagtails, following one another, and a little cluster of twittering sparrows. A gull poised himself high in the air, silent and alone, and then spread hi.. | garden nature | Daphne du Maurier | |
| e3ac24b | You're so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently. | James Salter | ||
| 7a22cf3 | Living in the middle of beauty like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted. | catherine-marshall christy christy-huddleston | Catherine Marshall | |
| 284552d | Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking. We have to do better. We have honest differences. We need vigorous debates. Health.. | Bill Clinton | ||
| e127ffe | As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA sequence, I stood beside President Bill Clinton in the East Room of the White House... Clinton's speech began by comparing this human sequence map to the map that Meriwether Lewis had unfolded in front of President Thomas Jefferson in that very room nearly two hundred years earlier. Clinton said, "Without a doubt,.. | religion science | Francis S. Collins | |
| 79ec8cd | And so they entwined their lives to drink from the pools of each other's sadness. From these special watering holes, each man drew strength. | Monica Ali | ||
| 21e44e0 | These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is a tool. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 58128ce | Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. | James Salter | ||
| 11ffdfb | He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in a special way, in every detail, roof and wall, in the leaves of trees fluttering faintly before the rain. The world was opening itself, as if to allow, now that life was shortening, one long, passionate look, and all that had been withheld would finally be given. | James Salter | ||
| 4f4a0c7 | One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should.. | living writing | James Salter | |
| 0a481a2 | I was not in bad health (aside from a cumulative hangover), I was still on the right side of thirty by a few days, and I was far from being broke. No police were looking for me, nor any husbands, nor any process servers; there was nothing wrong that a slight case of amnesia would not have cured. But there was winter in my heart and I was looking for the door to summer. If I sound like a man with an acute case of self-pity, you are correct. .. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 93db366 | Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes - make him feel shame if he doesn't have it. | god grace human innocence man mars martian naked nudity personality psychotic shame society taboo-breaking taboos tribe work-ethic | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 00c6863 | She holds the brightly colored wires in her hand. "Well, that did the trick," she says, smiling." | Beth Revis | ||
| 70180c6 | We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves. | ourselves part-of-me remember self steal take-away | Beth Revis | |
| bc637d7 | All I had to do was die a little, and you get a new planet!" I expected her to laugh, or at least smile. I did not expect her to slap my arm. "You stupid idiot!" she says, smacking me again. "I don't want the new planet without you!" Her eyes round as she realizes what she just said. Anytime we'd gotten this close to talking about before, Amy has shied away from the topic. But now, instead of drawing away from me, she leans closer. Her ha.. | Beth Revis | ||
| 0805a6a | I will do anything to make her happy again, so I give her the stars. | Beth Revis | ||
| 06f4090 | Now what?" Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. "Am I disturbing your Majesty?" Prala asked. "...You always disturb me, my beloved," he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly." | David Eddings | ||
| 2110c75 | Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly." | David Eddings | ||
| 4e273ff | Nel tennis il vero avversario, la frontiera che include, e il giocatore stesso. C'e sempre e solo l'io la fuori, sul campo, da incontrare, combattere, costringere a venire a patti. Il ragazzo dall'altro lato della rete: lui non e il nemico; e piu il partner nella danza. Lui e il o l' per incontrare l'io. E tu sei la sua occasione. Le infinite radici della bellezza del tennis sono autocompetitive. Si compete con i propri limiti per trasce.. | tennis vita | David Foster Wallace | |
| 1da3efc | It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages him to do his best. | inspirational medical | David Eddings | |
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| 923f24c | Wow, son. You're mad retarded." David whipped his head around and pinned my brother with a lethal glare. "Don't say that word." "Sorry." Raymond kept staring at me. "You're mad special ed." David scoffed, and I burst out laughing." | Santino Hassell | ||
| 1ba4157 | just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should. | David Eddings | ||
| 47d4bec | Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed again. Upon this field met they their ruin. The soul and pride of Arendia doth reside within that fortress and the power of the Dark One may not prevail against it." "We've been here before, Mendorallen," Mister Wolf said sourly." -- | David Eddings | ||
| 98e958e | Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again .... Now's the time to be alive-- to see it happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure. | David Eddings |