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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d5f86e9 | The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 6b398f6 | Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| a2c4c05 | What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 6392646 | Footsteps shuffled on the stair/Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair/Spread out in fiery points/Glowed into words, then would be savagely still. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 69a9e81 | Where shall the word be found, where will the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence... | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 12df075 | We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two w.. | poetry time | T.S. Eliot | |
| 1a28ec1 | A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter. And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and grumbling And running away, and wanting their liquor and w.. | magi | T.S. Eliot | |
| f920e44 | For our own past is covered by the currents of action, But the torment of others remains an experience Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition. People change, and smile: but the agony abides. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| f44e8f9 | They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be. | escape goodness perfection shadow system utopia | T.S. Eliot | |
| 661aee2 | This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 97cb3ea | But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Eliot calls hollow men. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to. Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 25c8f8c | Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette a l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensees, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.) | goodness guilt laws privacy thoughts | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 603ac7a | Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct. | of-experience | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 2d652e0 | Function reforms form, perpetually. | Stewart Brand | ||
| 7cd1664 | She introduces me to a nurse as the Best Friend. The impersonal article is more intimate. It tells me that are intimate, the nurse and my friend. 'I was telling her we used to drink Canada Dry ginger ale and pretend were were in Canada' 'That's how dumb we were,' I say. 'You could be sisters,' the nurse says. So how come, I'll bet they are wondering, it took me so long to get to such a glorious place? But do they ask? They do not ask... | Amy Hempel | ||
| ab8b19e | A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life. | page-151 travel | Amy Hempel | |
| c88c2a0 | And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question than by giving them the answer. | Amy Hempel | ||
| f2145b8 | As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life. | life the-harvest | Amy Hempel | |
| 3d54081 | Words aren't just sounds or shapes. They're meaning. That's what language is: a protocol for transferring meaning. When you learn English, you train your brain to react in a particular way to particular sounds. As it turns out, the protocol can be hacked. | Max Barry | ||
| 8039ab5 | Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Power Point slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies. I don't understand these things. | jobs redundancy | Max Barry | |
| 4c91c7b | We all don't have to see eye to eye in order to see our way to the Kingdom. It's the heart condition of each man that the Lord will judge. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 6d4fe75 | The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with a pencil, paper and laptop- is going to have to write the codes... One can mass-produce hardware and increase it's power by piling on more and more chips, but you cannot mass-produce the brain. | inspirational science | Michio Kaku | |
| 9c4e79a | There is a saying among women scientists who attend highly specialized engineering universities, where the girl-to-guy ratio is decidedly in their favor: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd.")" | Michio Kaku | ||
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| af47a82 | Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want to buy a painting that would constantly remind them of the bone-chilling cold, the heavy snow that had to be shoveled, and the necessity of dressing up in survival gear to do nothing more than take out the garbage? | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 23d8b26 | One problem with the systems of assessment that use letters and grades is that they are usually light on description and heavy on comparison. Students are sometimes given grades without really knowing what they mean, and teachers sometimes give grades without being completely sure why. A second problem is that a single letter or number cannot convey the complexities of the process that it is meant to summarize. And some outcomes cannot be a.. | Ken Robinson | ||
| 27dddbd | We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun." | Kim Newman | ||
| 8d6cc23 | It's a mystery to me why extraordinary young women insist that they're normal. | Marta Acosta | ||
| 2c65ed2 | Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt, muss his hair, and exclaim, "Good heavens, Professor Dracula, you're stunning!" | Marta Acosta | ||
| f128f3f | I'm driving so it's your job to make small talk." "Oh." "Not that small." He waved at the security guard as we left the club. "Make medium talk." | Marta Acosta | ||
| b3e3e42 | nfatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you're worked your way through it. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| d520aa2 | Don't even think about it." "Well, when I walk by myself?" "When you get your driver's license." "You always, always say that." Dillie scowled at him. "That's when happens." "It's going to be a busy day," Phin agreed." | parenting | Jennifer Crusie | |
| e90d265 | It's just that you don't respect me enough to respect what I want. I have to want what you want or it doesn't count or its's no good. Well, I don't want what you want. And I don't see why I have to. I mean, as long as I respect what you want and let you live your life, why do you care? | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| fddc89e | Stephen Sondheim said : " If you know where you're going, you've gone. Move on." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| cf9ceef | We're going to need a bigger dock | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 17434fd | That woman needs protecting like Rambo needs a bodyguard. | men-and-women | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 2b69da7 | I believe things will work out for us if we just believe in ourselves. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 9417752 | Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease. | mood-disorder mood-disordersmood-disorders | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 3abdf49 | There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as "succesful" and "unsuccesful" to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who "fail" at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompeent incapable even of getting their dying quite right." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 1981554 | I lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my life. I can't tell you how tired I am of character-building experiences. But I treasure this part of me; whoever loves me loves me with this in it. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 9c3a1ba | Passionate people don't wear their passion on their sleeves; they have it in their hearts." The" | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 9bb2209 | This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. | Grant Ph.D. Adam M. | ||
| fdae5ee | Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk. | inspirational lessons-in-life life motivational opportunity | Andre Dubus III | |
| 433cfa5 | There's something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot...It's significant...Because somebody has to take them in...And if you know that, and you do it for that one guy, you do something else. You join the world...You move out of your isolation and become universal. | Andre Dubus |