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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ae6ad0 | A confused labyrinth of smoky stars | hope labyrinth stars | Federico García Lorca | |
| 46de44d | He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. (The Power and the Glory) | Graham Greene | ||
| 130c6ec | St. Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist. | Graham Greene | ||
| 319bd99 | Do you like dogs?' 'No.' 'I thought the British were great dog-lovers.' 'We think Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions. | Graham Greene | ||
| 0f44ece | Nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1a164d8 | Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went with men and enjoyed my drinks. What happens if you drop all the things that make you I? | drinking love | Graham Greene | |
| 8aa0d6b | If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire. | Graham Greene | ||
| 4751d5e | Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim | impossibility | Graham Greene | |
| c3b9c20 | tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, "I never quite understand why English people like teas so." | Graham Greene | ||
| 8581bf9 | Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity. | greeneland | Graham Greene | |
| 6abc35e | I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry? | work writing | Graham Greene | |
| c3288ad | Can you explain away love too?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' he said. 'The desire to possess in some, like avarice: in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired. Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won't be bored. The desire to find again a father or a mother. And of course under it all the biological motive. | explanation love | Graham Greene | |
| 41ee5ce | Time gives poetry to a battlefield... | Graham Greene | ||
| eb65b8f | When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen,' the Warmaster had told him. 'And what are they?' he had asked. 'That there will be something solid to stand on or you'll be taught to fly,' laughed Horus as he jumped. | flying inspirational jumping leap-of-faith | Graham McNeill | |
| 43a3e31 | I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 374c641 | Rule of policing number one - when something good falls into your lap, pass it up the chain of command as quickly as possible before something else bad can happen. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 813bbe5 | Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn't going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed-dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining .. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 6c262e1 | Now, personally, I'd have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we're the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn't have one. | international-audience militarization police-brutality | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| d81590c | So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. | problems root-causes | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| ed76b98 | In the feudal fiefdom of school, rank was determined early. You could change your hair and clothes. You could, having learned your lesson, not write a paper on Julius Caesar entirely in iambic pentameter or you could not tell anyone if you did. You could switch to contact lenses, compensate for your braininess by not doing your homework. Every boy in school could grow twelve inches. The sun could go fucking nova. And you'd still be the same.. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| e9835b8 | All the time when I speak to you, even now, I'm saying not precisely what I think, but what will impress you and make you respond. That's so even between us - and how much more it's so where there are stronger motives for deception. In fact, one's so used to this one hardly sees it. The whole language is a machine for making falsehoods. | language | Iris Murdoch | |
| fed0579 | Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duracion temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente. | español eternidad iris-murdoch vida-y-muerte | Iris Murdoch | |
| 2852513 | Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| c91b6e9 | When you're interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them. Maybe, say, you have a permanent beauty problem you can't change, such as too-short legs. Just say it. "My legs, as you've probably noticed, are much too short in proportion to the rest of my body." Why give the other person the satisfaction.. | beauty | Andy Warhol | |
| e963927 | Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say "so what." That's one of my favorite things to say. --ANDY WARHOL" | Arianna Huffington | ||
| e3067a7 | A human being can choose what to do, what to become. We are all free. No one but you can decide what you make of your life. If you let other people decide how you live, that is, again, a choice. It would be a choice to be the kind of person other people expect you to be. Obviously if you make a choice to do something, you might not always succeed in doing it. And the reasons why you don't succeed may be completely outside your control. But .. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| d2e8f72 | Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 75d462a | I often use the hypothetical out-of-control ice-cream truck. What would happen if you were walking across the street and were suddenly hit by a careening Mister Softee truck? As you lie there, in your last few moments of consciousness, what kind of final regrets flash through your mind? 'I should have had a last cigarette!' might be one. Or, 'I should have dropped acid with everybody else back in '74!' Maybe: 'I should have done that hostes.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| e26b99f | God wants us to worry about our sins we sin; the devil wants us to worry we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then); the devil is a deceiver). The devil tempts us to cavalier pride before we sin and worrisome despair afterward, since pride and despair both separate us from God, and anything that separates us from God is the devil's friend and our enemy, while anything that brings us close to God is t.. | evil faith god prayer sin | Peter Kreeft | |
| 8ec7586 | when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8160ca0 | Hard work and results should be recognized by others, but when they aren't, advocating for oneself becomes necessary. As discussed earlier, this must be done with great care. But it must be done. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 89c4ee7 | We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8b44f05 | I couldn't understand when friends didn't ask me how I was. I felt invisible, as if I were standing in front of them but they couldn't see me. When someone shows up with a cast, we immediately inquire, "What happened?" If your ankle gets shattered, people ask to hear the story. If your life gets shattered, they don't. People" -- | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 73acea3 | Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said that life can only be understood backward but it must be lived forward. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0f8734a | When companies fail, it's usually for reasons that almost everyone knows but almost no one has voiced. When someone isn't making good decisions, few have the guts to tell that person, especially if that person is the boss. One | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 3798d61 | It was to a moribund horse, and Mr. Sidlow, describing the treatment to date, announced that he had been pushing raw onions up the horse's rectum; he couldn't understand why it was so uneasy on its legs. Siegfried had pointed out that if he were to insert a raw onion in Mr. Sidlow's rectum, he, Mr. Sidlow, would undoubtedly be uneasy on his legs. | James Herriot | ||
| 3e0a99c | The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her.. | love sense-of-humor | Georgette Heyer | |
| a85c8e7 | And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy's floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it." (Charles)" | love overprotective-brothers | Georgette Heyer | |
| 55caa45 | Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| e5674f2 | Wretch! I shan't allow you to take a rise out of me! I want to talk to you about Jane!" "Who the devil is--Oh, yes, I know! One of your girls!" "My eldest daughter, and, let me remind you, your niece, Alverstoke!" "Unjust, Louisa, I needed no reminder!" "I am bringing the dear child out this season,"[...] "You'll have to do something about her freckles--if she's the one I think she is," he interrupted. "Have you tried citron-water?" "I didn.. | niece | Georgette Heyer | |
| ddb3c7c | Well, I think I laid down my sunshade first,'said Mrs. Twining reflectively. 'Ah, that doesn't interest you. I told Finch that I wanted to tidy my hair (a euphemism for "powder my nose", of course), and would show myself out on to the terrace.' 'And you did in fact powder your nose, Mrs. Twining, at the mirror over the fireplace?' 'Most thoroughly,' she agreed. 'How long did that take you?' She looked rather amused. 'When a woman powders he.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| f80a0d0 | Perhaps you have friends already who laugh when you do,' she said diffidently. 'I haven't, and it's important, I think - more important than sympathy in affliction, which you might easily find in someone you positively disliked.' 'But to share a sense of the ridiculous prohibits dislike - yes, that's true. And rare! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 702bc75 | Are you well? You look a trifle peaked." "If I do, it is because black doesn't become me. I mean to lighten my mourning, and have ordered a charming gray gown." "You are mistaken." "What, in going into half-mourning?" "No, in thinking black does not become you." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 81e649a | How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way? | Georgette Heyer |