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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8856bd9 | Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me. | motherhood mrs-irene-riley | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 0b5a340 | There are a hundred ways a man can bleed to death. And he can be pulled from the rubble of bitterness, of despair, as well as the wreckage of the Phoenix. And which rescue is the more real? Nothing you could have done for me... was more important than the restoration of my hope. | Connie Willis | ||
| e9a8d65 | I picked out F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and a couple of mysteries, which always have simple, solvable problems like "How did the murderer get into the locked room?" instead of hard ones like "What causes trends?" and "What did I do to deserve Flip?" and then went over to the eight hundreds." | Connie Willis | ||
| d53c473 | Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping. | Connie Willis | ||
| 702a6d8 | Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym." | management | Connie Willis | |
| 9ff3cea | It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts. | sad | Connie Willis | |
| cd6b027 | Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything worthwhile, and eel pie besides. | women | Connie Willis | |
| a4e14a4 | Because around a crisis point, even the tiniest action can assume importance all out of proportion to its size. Consequences multiply and cascade, and anything--a missed telephone call, a match struck during a blackout, a dropped piece of paper, a single moment--can have empire-tottering effects. The Archduke Ferdinand's chauffeur makes a wrong turn onto Franz-Josef Street and starts a world war. Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard steps outside fo.. | Connie Willis | ||
| 5a141fb | The English language was spoken and written--but at the time of Shakespeare it was not defined, not fixed. It was like the air--it was taken for granted, the medium that enveloped and defined all Britons. But as to exactly what it was, what its components were--who knew? | Simon Winchester | ||
| 6cd83b5 | All of a sudden his books, which had hitherto been merely a fond decoration and a means of letting his mind free itself from the grim routines of Broadmoor life, had become his most precious possession. For the time being at least he could set aside his imaginings about the harm that people were trying to inflict on him and his person: It was instead his hundreds of books that now needed to be kept safe, and away from the predators with who.. | escapism | Simon Winchester | |
| 98f2b6c | They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to things or people. They pursued the wondrous deed, the heroic gesture: fighting, fucking, drinking, art - poetry for intense emotion, the music that accompanied the heroic drinking with which each day ended, bewitching ornament for one's person and possessions. | Thomas Cahill | ||
| 7d42fd4 | The problem is, for some reason you think you are going to meet the kind of girl who is not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. | Jay McInerney | ||
| c6a9870 | Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls. | Colum McCann | ||
| 0dbe280 | The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes. He could see the structures of them through their skin. The bony residue of their lives. | potato-famine | Colum McCann | |
| 5fca842 | There comes a point when, tired of losing, you decide to stop failing yourself, or at least to try, or to send up the final flare, one last chance. | Colum McCann | ||
| 777cea5 | People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one knows except the person who carts it around her own self. | Colum McCann | ||
| b55a6d0 | The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no | Colum McCann | ||
| 0593574 | An optimist is a braver cynic. | Colum McCann | ||
| 02d3e6d | If you think of the world without people it's about the most perfect thing there ever is. It's all balanced and shit. But then come the people, and they fuck it up. It's like you got Aretha Franklin in your bedroom and she's just giving it her all, she's singing just for you, she's on fire...and then all of a sudden out pops Barry Manilow from behind the curtains. | Colum McCann | ||
| 1b1ac8c | The smell of the earth, so astoundingly fresh: it strikes Brown like a thing he might eat. His ears throb. His body feels as if it is still moving through the air. He is, he thinks, the first man ever to fly and stand at the exact same time. The war out of the machine. He holds the small bag of letters up in salute. On they come, soldiers, people, the light drizzle of gray. Ireland. A beautiful country. A bit savage on a man all the same... | Colum McCann | ||
| d3becc8 | Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher would call evil. Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people-that is my idea of evil." | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 710f3fc | A dream does not die on it's own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.The motive may be different, and I'm sure it often is; the consequence is not. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 701c373 | Dad, is she serious?" John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she doesn't feed me. So i dont argue with your mama." | humor laugh-out-loud relationships truth truth-of-life | Molly McAdams | |
| 75579eb | Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity. | introversion | Alexandra Robbins | |
| ac13c46 | Unruly geeks change the world | robbins | Alexandra Robbins | |
| fb3827e | Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but not together. | loneliness love | Craig Thompson | |
| ebf3a5f | We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained by a stranger on a street corner). We try not to carry these things over to tomorrow. It is not strange, therefore, that the whole human race is trying to put Hiroshima, the extreme point of human tragedy, completely out of mind. | responsibility tragedy | Kenzaburō Ōe | |
| 38955ff | When you sail, don't Pull up the anchor weeping. Be a man, do it laughing... | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| cede5c1 | The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 801344f | History, is a conscious, self-meditating process -- Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externalization, this kenosis, is equally an externalization of itself; the negative is the negative of itself. This Becoming presents a slow-moving succession of Spirits, a gallery of images, each of which, endowed with all the riches of Spirit, moves thus slowly just because the Self has to penetrate and digest this entire wealth of its substance. A.. | meditation silence | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| e309b00 | For , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other | georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel hegel | Francis Fukuyama | |
| d943e5a | The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees. | escape flee fleeing freedom german-idealism philosophy | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| bc28023 | If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end. | Peter Singer | ||
| 5bf1b67 | The first-century Jews who wrote about Jesus had already made up their minds about who he was. They were constructing a theological argument about the nature and function of Jesus as Christ, not composing a historical biography about a human being. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 490636d | As a believer and a pantheist, I worship God not through fear and trembling but through awe and wonder at the workings of the universe--for the universe is God. I pray to God not to ask for things but to become one with God. I recognize that the knowledge of good and evil that the God of Genesis so feared humans might attain begins with the knowledge that good and evil are not metaphysical things but moral choices. I root my moral choices n.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 1aa126e | Thus, a story concocted by Mark strictly for evangelistic purposes to shift the blame for Jesus's death away from Rome is stretched with the passage of time to the point of absurdity, becoming in the process the basis for two thousand years of Christian anti-Semitism. | Reza Aslan | ||
| e905399 | It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its "false idols." It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols--bigotry and fanaticism--worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it." | Reza Aslan | ||
| b3f1b53 | The memory of the revolutionary zealot who walked across Galilee gathering an army of disciples with the goal of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, the magnetic preacher who defied the authority of the Temple priesthood in Jerusalem, the radical Jewish nationalist who challenged the Roman occupation and lost, has been almost completely lost to history. That is a shame. Because the one thing any comprehensive study of the historical J.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 4b7ba40 | In the Ummah, there was no tradition of veiling until around 627 C.E., when the so-called "verse of hijab" suddenly descended upon the community. That verse, however, was addressed not to women in general, but exclusively to Muhammad's wives:" | Reza Aslan | ||
| 1e907e0 | As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up." Collin" | Danielle Steel | ||
| 2f72939 | Nothing is irreversible except dying. | Danielle Steel | ||
| a28cedb | On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. | Danielle Steel | ||
| bd162d1 | I decided then and there I was never going to have kids. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 98f5b1f | As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's why I will lust forever after men. Before I even began to worry about homework or any of those school things, I began having secret liaisons with men. And it is men who give me the proof I need now to feel I'm alive. | lust | Natsuo Kirino |