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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 209634b | we don't have to live great lives, we just have to understand and survive the ones we've got. | Andre Dubus | ||
| 9299f4b | I know I shouldn't say this--I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil--and yet here it comes: "It's not too late to change your mind." | Sara Zarr | ||
| 9a8ccf0 | Because love, love never finishes. | Sara Zarr | ||
| a0009a7 | Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny -- and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do). | evidence evolution objectivity rationality rigor science scrutiny | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 705b908 | We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement between Professor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins, concerning "punctuated evolution" and the unfilled gaps in post- Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shall resolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| ad3191c | Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I've seen it happen before . - Mam | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 9786ff4 | How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 31a9276 | What I've done means no witch can ever control you like that. It's my mark, see. My brand. It warns them off. Apart from that, it don't mean much, though. Not if you don't want it to. Don't have to sit next to me. Movie if you want. Do you want to go?" I shook my head. "I'm happy sitting here next to you." "And I'm happy here sitting next to you. So we're both happy. What can be wrong with that?" | Joseph Delaney | ||
| abcf5a3 | Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| fff43c9 | Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 43fbd09 | A Ripple Song Once a ripple came to land In the sunset burning- Lapped against a maiden's hand, By the ford returning. Dainty foot and gentle breast- Here, across, be glad and rest. "Maiden, wait," the ripple saith "Wait awhile, for I am Death!" 'Where my lover calls I go- Shame it were to treat him coldly- 'Twas a fish that circled so, Turning over boldly.' Dainty foot and tender heart, Wait the loaded ferry-cart. "Wait, ah, wait!" the ri.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 7c33c59 | If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.......... | Kipling Rudyard | ||
| ec52e38 | Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength. | strength-of-character | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 6f83418 | The meaning of my star is war. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| be57abf | I am more likely to give help than to ask it"--Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it--"still I should like to know." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 6d7d314 | The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 401b625 | If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 5d26e83 | see. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| b4fc3d7 | Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all | evil sad | Alan Moore | |
| 1cd6659 | The earth is like a one-room schoolhouse in which students of different grade levels are assembled together: | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 78c5892 | It's not how much money you make. It's how much money you keep. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 4f1e4e8 | Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 3d4a831 | Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| e32da7b | A weirwood will live forever if left undisturbed. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 7e678fb | The only thing that mattered was that the quarter century or so he had remaining would be his life, to live out as he chose and in his own best interests. Nothing took precedence over that: not work, not friendships, not relationships with women. Those were all components of his life, and valuable ones, but they did not define it or control it. That was up to him, and him alone. | Ken Grimwood | ||
| 1383673 | I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because - ' He hesitated, 'because you mayn't find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 8674b6b | Life's not all beer and skittles | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 0792532 | The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge... | gay-teen lesbian lgbt lgbtq queer queer-youth trans | Radclyffe Hall | |
| 49e3cca | But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: 'I'm terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God--' would not be a very propitious beginning. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| cc13729 | He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness,.. | Greg Iles | ||
| f6477b4 | I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail. | inspirational writing | Leon Uris | |
| 9263161 | You know, you're hot and you've got that badass manly man thing going and I'm crazily attracted to you, but honestly, I suspect you're going to be a little too bossy for my tastes. Thanks for the offer on the whole love-me-die-for-me thing, but I'll pass. | quinn-masters | Stephanie Rowe | |
| 4c1c8a4 | What kind of man eats your fish when you won't sleep with him? | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| ae63232 | Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles?" said John. "I'm an editor," said Charles. "I have to make decisions like that all the time." | editor humor | James A. Owen | |
| 5524988 | The way to live a long time--oh, a thousand years or more--is something between the way a child does it and the way a mature man does it. Give the future enough thought to be ready for it--but don't worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e414303 | Anyone who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral--doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the cont.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 47c8d42 | I was just pulling your leg and it came off in my hand. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2273569 | Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing--with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a154a88 | I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2ef5ab3 | As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have... | jubal religion rules | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 1ef63f6 | That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f484f6a | Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring. | humility ignorance limitations | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| f37e2a5 | I don't pay much attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ecd51ff | I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise,.. | Robert A. Heinlein |