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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f28d20 | They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 642c6ab | But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp! | cats humor | H.G. Wells | |
| f03c147 | The ocean rose up around me, hiding that low, dark patch from my eyes. The daylight, the trailing glory of the sun, went streaming out of the sky, was drawn aside like some luminous curtain, and at last I looked into the blue gulf of immensity which the sunshine hides, and saw the floating hosts of stars. The sea was silent, the sky was silent. I was alone with the night and silence. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 423db5d | Can an instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?' Filby became pensive. 'Clearly,' the Time Traveller proceeded, 'any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and--Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There a.. | H.G. Wells | ||
| e2b69a4 | I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer. | cool determination willpower | Darren Shan | |
| 6f34991 | Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it. | Darren Shan | ||
| cd3803f | Then we still have time!" I gasp. "It's not too late. We know what he's going to do. We'll return to the cave and fight." " ?" Kernel says sarcastically. "Yes! I'll fight to save Dervish and Bill-E. I don't care what those monsters throw at us. When it's family, it's different." "You really think you can choose not to be a coward if and when it suits you?" Kernel jeers. Beranabus interrupts wearily before I can retort. "It doesn't matter.. | family grubbs-grady kernel-fleck | Darren Shan | |
| a6a377e | Wi-Fi is a blessing from the gods. | wi-fi | Darren Shan | |
| db3c66d | You obviously haven't lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics. | Jeri Smith-Ready | ||
| fc4dcf1 | Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human. | mean people someone something | John Scalzi | |
| 72a4dc7 | Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it's not the same thing. Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential. | John Scalzi | ||
| 98033ed | Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote , so you tell me. | John Scalzi | ||
| 3b6862d | Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you're an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a living, which means that you don't have to lift heavy boxes or ask people if they want fries with that. Grow up and get back to work. | life work writing | John Scalzi | |
| d725cfb | Confidence isn't about knowing you're right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. | John Scalzi | ||
| 668a709 | If all of the money was gone from my life, Would you still love me?" a man asks his wife. "Of course," she replies. "Come here, let me kiss you. I'll love you forever, but would I miss you!" -- | David Rakoff | ||
| 38d418a | Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want | Tucker Max | ||
| 2a996b6 | If God invented anything better than drunk sex with a hot girl, he kept it to himself. | god | Tucker Max | |
| 8ca86a4 | FK THAT. I AM TUCKER MAX. I AM BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU. | inspirational | Tucker Max | |
| 3a68334 | One of us needs to get laid." "Just one of us?" "What are the odds of both of us getting laid?" | Tucker Max | ||
| 93ecbca | Girl3 "You don't have to be a jerk" SlingBlade "Quite the contrary, my sloppy penile scholar.Order me another drink and be quick about it." | Tucker Max | ||
| 5ada1bf | See, what you're talking about is why hanging out with ME would be fun for YOU. It doesn't explain anything about why it'd be fun for ME. You don't bring banter. You aren't witty. You aren't funny. There is nothing to pick from your brain. You're looking for me to entertain you. A relationship is an exchange, not a one-way street. Look beyond your own personal desires for a second and understand what you bring to the exchange- nothing. | pa | Tucker Max | |
| b5de0eb | Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 74" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7809d82 | Failure really can be an asset if what you're trying to do is improve, learn, or do something new. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0cf9ce6 | Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 88932b0 | Take inventory for a second. What do you dislike? Whose name fills you with revulsion and rage? Now ask: Have these strong feelings really helped you accomplish anything? Take an even wider inventory. Where has hatred and rage ever really gotten anyone? Especially because almost universally, the traits or behaviors that have pissed us off in other people--their dishonesty, their selfishness, their laziness--are hardly going to work out well.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 24c6c71 | If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive functions. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2c7ab16 | In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change. That someone decided not to fund your company, this isn't up to you. But the decision to refine and improve your pitch? That is. That someone stole your idea or got to it first? No. To pivot, improve it, or fight for what's yours? Yes. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e43344b | In failure or adversity, it's so easy to hate. Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible. It's a distraction too; we don't do much else when we're busy getting revenge or investigating the wrongs that have supposedly been done to us. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3915593 | Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." "Ambition," | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 52ba745 | I thought the president-elect's identity as a despicable human being was something we could all agree on. | David Sedaris | ||
| 3e94f5b | Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world | Erik Larson | ||
| 949c02d | I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open." | relationships | Erik Larson | |
| f8ebb2c | Coordination' occurred with astonishing speed, even in sectors of life not directly targeted by specific laws, as Germans willingly placed themselves under the sway of Nazi rule, a phenomenon that became known as Selbtsgleichschaltung, or 'self-coordination.' Change came to Germany so quickly and across such a wide front that German citizens who left the country for business or travel returned to find everything around them altered, as if t.. | Erik Larson | ||
| e35d7b6 | And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of love: it is brutal in its demands. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| aab2974 | Banks felt more alone and further away for having just talked to Sophia than he had before her call. But it was always like that - the telephone might bring you together for a few moments, but there's nothing like it for emphasising distance. | Peter Robinson | ||
| e0059d3 | In my hands is power. The power to hear or to destroy. To grant life or to cause death. I revere this gift, have honed it over time an art as magnificent and awesome as any painting in the Louvre. I an art, I am science. In all ways that matter, I am God. God must be ruthless and far-sighted. God studies his creations and selects. The best of these creations must be cherished, protected, sustained. Greatness rewards perfection. Yet even th.. | god | J.D. Robb | |
| 2fe6516 | Problem is, it'll be like looking for the crazy needle in a stack of needles. And nobody say 'haystack,'" she warned. "Because that's just stupid." | J.D. Robb | ||
| f61e371 | Are you gonna arrest a robber?" "Know any?" "My friend Everet stoled a candy bar from the store, but his ma found out and made him go pay for it out of his 'lowance, and he couldn't have candy or for a whole month. You could arrest him. He's over there." He pointed, cheerfully ratting out his pal. "It sounds like he's paid his debt to society." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 78697cf | She didn't know how seriously to take the fact that he claimed to be in love with her. Love meant different things to different people. It had never been a part of her life. She poured herself a half glass of wine, then merely frown into it. She felt something for him, certainly. Something new, and uncomfortably strong. Still, it was best to let things coast as they were. Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 84bb400 | Roarke, one thing." She walked to him, well aware he was all but snarling with temper. "I haven't kissed you good-bye," she murmured and did so with a thoroughness that rocked him back on his heels. "Thank you." Before he could speak, she kissed him again. "For always knowing what matters to me." "You're welcome." Possessively, he ran a hand over her tousled hair. "Miss me." "I already am." "Don't take any unnecessary chances." His hands gr.. | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| b59a81c | You need more sleep." "Skillet, pan." "What?" "You know, the skillet says the pan's the same deal." He thought a moment. "I believe that's the pot calling the kettle black." "Whatever, kitchen stuff can't talk anyway." | J.D. Robb | ||
| bdb25cd | He watched, somewhat fascinated as she swished a slice of bacon through the pool of syrup. His steely-minded cop had the appetite of a five-year-old. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 68b912f | It's always a pleasure watching you wake up," he commented. "But sometimes I wonder if you want me only for my coffee." "Well..." She grinned at him and sipped again. "I really like the food, too. And the sex isn't bad." | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 8a2c7f2 | If you're dizzy at all, sit down. Just sit down wherever you are. It's better than falling. Range of motion in the shoulder?" Eve demonstrated it by raising her arms and scrubbing shampoo into her hair. "Hip?" Eve wiggled her butt and made Louise laugh. "Glad to see you're feeling frisky." "That wasn't frisky. I was mooning you, which is supposed to be insulting." "But you have such a cute little butt." "So I've always said," Roarke added. .. | J.D. Robb |