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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 981c8ad | The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 5b8c3cb | For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging the foundations of a house. I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no lon.. | master philosophy power | H.G. Wells | |
| 8b2fc5f | No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complac.. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 983f1f5 | What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things... | daring risk | H.G. Wells | |
| 527bf01 | Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of their secrets regardless. Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always - will always be - there. | Darren Shan | ||
| 7b11f2d | hych chyzy skht tr z yn nyst khh khsy dnbl rwyy bshd w ndnd khh an rwy chy hst. | Darren Shan | ||
| 5fbf49c | Shark snorts. " ? What's that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale." -- | Darren Shan | ||
| 1793bc4 | But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius. | Darren Shan | ||
| e281f04 | What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too," I said. "And you wait around for your body to catch up." | John Scalzi | ||
| de97da0 | Ensign Davis thought, Screw this, I want to live, and swerved to avoid the land worms. But then he tripped and one of the land worms ate his face and he died anyway. | John Scalzi | ||
| 892cbda | She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star. | death friend hell lover moment shooting star | John Scalzi | |
| 85d3504 | When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else. | childhood wanderlust | John Scalzi | |
| d24a683 | I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder. | bigger bladder empty imagine meet pee stranger universe | John Scalzi | |
| bde8f42 | I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done. | John Scalzi | ||
| 0e72308 | My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous enough in my writing to make them interesting. | John Scalzi | ||
| a58f213 | Q'eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of "I offer you the bread of life," but his phrasing and accent had transmuted the statement into "Let us violate cakes together." | John Scalzi | ||
| 2c49906 | Dirk Moeller didn't know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out. | John Scalzi | ||
| 306e202 | After another few days, I noticed I became annoyed whenever I would actually have to ask Asshole for something. How quickly the creepy becomes commonplace. | commands commonplace creepy | John Scalzi | |
| 4caafbc | I propose a toast. Here's to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us." They all clinked glasses to that." | John Scalzi | ||
| 96ba777 | Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one. | John Scalzi | ||
| 460e684 | This is my rife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rife is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I have master my life. My rife, without me, is useless. Without my rife, I am useless. I must fire my rife true. I must shoot before he shoots me. And I will. - Marine Rife Creed | John Scalzi | ||
| 1df605c | Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up. | writing | David Rakoff | |
| 43622aa | the flipside of love is indifference not hate | David Rakoff | ||
| 4dfab52 | I masterbate in the shower. My action figures judge me. Especially the Justice League. | Tucker Max | ||
| 2d3f787 | Gotta love alcohol and sex hormones. | Tucker Max | ||
| 01277f4 | When people ask where we are, what we're doing, how that "situation" is coming along, the answer should be clear: We're working on it. We're getting closer. When setbacks come, we respond by working twice as hard." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| aea7049 | The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later. It's worth saying: just | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4f0f2bc | Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. --PUBLIUS SYRUS | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 26870fa | What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. --WENDELL PHILLIPS | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b230065 | What matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e3d9ad7 | It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. --MARCUS AURELIUS | Ryan Holiday | ||
| baadebc | The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown." The only way out is through." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3bb57ef | How we interpret the events in our lives, our perspective, is the framework for our forthcoming response--whether there will even be one or whether we'll just lie there and take it. Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d455e83 | Aspiration leads to success (and adversity). Success creates its own adversity (and, hopefully, new ambitions). And adversity leads to aspiration and more success. It's an endless loop. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 19b644b | BE RUTHLESS TO THE THINGS THAT DON'T MATTER "How many have laid waste to your life when you weren't aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, and social amusements--how little of your own was left to you. You will realize you are dying before your time!" --SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 3.3b" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 13ebb67 | There's no one to perform for. There is just work to be done and lessons to be learned, in all that is around us. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ff982f2 | When you don't have a next place to go, time slows down enormously. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a04b96c | As a member of the avant-garde who is capable of perceiving the conspiracy before it is fully obvious to an as yet unaroused public, the paranoid is a militant leader. He does not see social conflict as something to be mediated and compromised, in the manner of the working politician. Since what is at stake is always a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, what is necessary is not compromise but the will to fight things out to a.. | Richard Hofstadter | ||
| 6e026e1 | To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.... | Richard Hofstadter | ||
| 935cf27 | A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments. | politics politics-of-the-united-states | Richard Hofstadter | |
| ffa158d | I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| c48b575 | He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 48940ea | Justice doesn't hide behind anonymity. It doesn't operate without rules of conduct. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0398e5a | Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve) | crisis interesting-perspection-of-life psychology | J.D. Robb |