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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a8d7427 | The queen bee's life is totally overrated. All she does is lay eggs, lay eggs. She takes one nuptial flight. That one stuns her with enough fertile power to be trapped in the hive forever. The workers--the sexually undeveloped females--have the best life. They have fields of flowers to roll in. Imagine turning over and over inside a rose. | Frances Mayes | ||
| fa532cc | A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol! | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d2574cb | Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| fb4dbeb | Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if they were ushered in to witness the scene. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 78392a4 | In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of confusing realism with cynicism, moral stoicism with moral sloth, of letting oneself become jaded and lazy and self-satisfied--what used to be called an 'appetitive' person. | eating ethics food meat | Matthew Scully | |
| 3f956cf | The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b50fcc6 | if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well. | earning enough family materialism money more needs others scripture selfish stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| 670f923 | I could feel the baby being torn from my insides. It was really painful....Three-quarters of the way through the operation I sat up....In the cylinder I saw the bits and pieces of my little child floating in a pool of blood. I screamed and jumped up off the table....I just couldn't stop throwing up.... | anti-abortion pro-life | Randy Alcorn | |
| 7b60acb | tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do. | money obedience stewardship tithing | Randy Alcorn | |
| 8501cdb | I can manage," said Frodo. "I must." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f608d4d | To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising very slowly to a great height like smoke from a fire, as a pale shrouded figure it loomed over the Hill. For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 94d3ea7 | Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on. | time-passing | E. Annie Proulx | |
| b2b5333 | As it did go. They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at night, then in the full daylight with the hot sun striking down, and at evening in the fire glow, quick, rough, laughing and snorting, no lack of noises, but saying not a goddamn word except once Ennis said, "I'm not no queer," and Jack jumped in with "Me neither. A one-shot thing. Nobody's business but ours." | Annie Proulx | ||
| 6759368 | By January it had always been winter. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 2eb853c | I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead. | life love relationships | Sandra Steffen | |
| 450c9d1 | if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 8cf5b06 | My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right. We try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path..... But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter, and we have come to know something of ourselves in the perilous cli.. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 527f1c9 | But there are higher stakes than youth or Latah, games where only two players in the world know what the stakes are. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 26aee58 | Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are subject to junk climate. They are warmed and chilled by junk. The kick of junk is living under junk conditions. You cannot escape from junk sickness anymore than you can escape from junk kick after a shot. | drugs heroin withdrawal | William S. Burroughs | |
| ff6e82a | Lee watched the thin hands, the beautiful violet eyes, the flush of excitement on the boy's face. An imaginary hand projected with such force it seemed Allerton must feel the touch of ectoplasmic fingers caressing his ear, phantom thumbs smoothing his eyebrows, pushing the hair back from his face. Now Lee's hands were running down his ribs, the stomach. Lee felt the aching pain of desire in his lungs. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 10a8c33 | The unworthies in power feel danger, like cows uneasily pawing the ground with a great "Moo." | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 2e3db17 | I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 70fd2d2 | What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. 'How does it come, then?' As God wills. | Epictetus | ||
| 8061ba5 | It is a universal law -- have no illusion -- that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest. | Epictetus | ||
| c6673e6 | Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely. | Epictetus | ||
| efb4bf3 | Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day - especially death - and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess. | Epictetus | ||
| b4e17d3 | As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies. . . . Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore:-- Death has no terror; only a Death of shame! | Epictetus | ||
| 964f3ee | we both stood a better chance if we took on the world together. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 7e30979 | History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 4070981 | Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 3250c95 | Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 8fc6f90 | I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| accd664 | Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior. | cry parenting | Jeannette Walls | |
| 77f4a9b | The baby went without a name for weeks. Mom said she wanted to study it first, the way she would the subject of a painting. We had a lot of arguments over what the name should be. I wanted to call her Rosita, after the prettiest girl in my class, but Mom said the name was too Mexican. "I thought we weren't supposed to be prejudiced," I said. "It's not being prejudiced," Mom said. "It's a matter of accuracy in labeling." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 837a3ad | The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable. | pain | Sebastian Faulks | |
| fdecb43 | she read with undifferentiated glee . . . | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 9e4c514 | I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| b31eb5b | You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts. | Denis Waitley | ||
| 6bee160 | I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right? | Chris Ware | ||
| 7815a19 | The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things.... Stop being a glass. Become a lake. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 5d9b9c5 | In short, he was a dope. He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modern museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger's predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all. | humor | Joseph Heller | |
| 99bf06c | The spirit gone, man is garbage. | garbage man spirit | Joseph Heller | |
| 7e94729 | Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure he saw.. | insightful | Joseph Heller | |
| bc68842 | Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. The affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great wo.. | lolita reading reading-thinking tehran tragedylolita-in-tehran why-we-love-reading | Azar Nafisi |