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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a18bb3 | Scully was appallingly gregarious--so outgoing she was practically incoming. | wordplay | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 596559c | Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it. | different outsider self | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| d1366f0 | Fair warning, as it turned out--kindergarten is all about learning which parts of you are welcome at school and which are not. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 90e4114 | We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| a96b89c | He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| f257323 | The heroic efforts of the Americans and Europeans during this period are so numerous (their diaries run for thousands of pages) that it is impossible to narrate all of their deeds here. | Iris Chang | ||
| 08f3fb2 | Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that's why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that's what I am experiencing right now. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 7ebaff3 | The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes. | humanity theatre transience | Iris Murdoch | |
| 29905d5 | I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 71f73c7 | Events stream past us like these crowds and the face of each is seen only for a minute. What is urgent is not urgent for ever but only ephemerally. All work and all love, the search for wealth and fame, the search for truth, like itself, are made up of moments which pass and become nothing. Yet through this shaft of nothings we drive onward with that miraculous vitality that creates our precarious habitations in the past and the future. So .. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 0fc5c3a | I have to give birth to be a good Ameican? No. There are more than four million babies born in this country every year. The American Way is covered. If it worries you, you can have extra to make up for mine. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 75c7f20 | In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." ~Andy Warhol 1968 | Andy Warhol | ||
| 306de19 | Philosophy is not a spectator sport. | philosophy spectator sport | Nigel Warburton | |
| 1d03f20 | The contradictory nature of the socialist utopias is one explanation of the violence involved in the attempt to impose them: it takes infinite force to make people do what is impossible"." | Roger Scruton | ||
| ca496a6 | The doctrine of Original sin, which is contained in the story of Genesis - one of the most beautiful concentrated metaphors in existence - is about the way we human beings fall from treating each other as subjects to treating each other as objects. Love, respect and forgiveness come from that. When we treat each other as objects, then we get the concentration camps. | Roger Scruton | ||
| c917c00 | Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . . | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| ddf75ba | I wanted kicks - the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I'd yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I'd found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| cf32168 | Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman -- not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen -- though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| bfed765 | One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility. | humility-is-a-good-friend prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| f66f030 | God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first. | god making-time-for-prayer time | Peter Kreeft | |
| bcb4b1b | The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin! | prayer talking-to-god | Peter Kreeft | |
| 063a596 | Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God. | god prayer sanctity | Peter Kreeft | |
| a277cf8 | Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1dd06f8 | I believe women can lead more in the workplace. I believe men can contribute more in the home. And I believe that this will create a better world, one where half our institutions are run by women and half our homes are run by men. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 70c2a53 | We see the potential for good in others and gain hope that we can survive and rebuild. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 674fea0 | I thought resilience was the capacity to endure pain, so I asked Adam how I could figure out how much I had. He explained that our amount of resilience isn't fixed, so I should be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity--and we can build it. It isn't about having a backbone. It's about strengthening the muscles around our backbone. Since | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 3036e08 | The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d03d3c8 | What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it? | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 61653e1 | Theology, it turns out, is Satan's favorite game. | Mike Mason | ||
| 6a9b887 | Why had I entered this profession? I could have gone in for something easier and gentler--like coalmining or lumberjacking. | James Herriot | ||
| 1d1bc35 | He said nothing. Juliana peeped at him again. "You're very anxious to get her in your power again, Vidal. But I don't quite know why you should be, for you meant to marry her only because you had ruined her, and so were obliged to, didn't you?" She thought that he was not going to answer, but suddenly he raised his eyes from the contemplation of the dregs of his wine. "Because I am obliged to?" he said. "I mean to marry Mary Challoner becau.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 5c54e41 | It is possible," said Miss Marling stiffly, "that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of the journey." Vidal chuckled. "Not if I know my Mary," he replied" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| c8ef2f6 | I didn't smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 0ee5ae7 | Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| d5a18a0 | I hope you mean to contribute a handsome wreath to my obsequies?' 'Certainly! In the nature of things, it is likely that you will predecease me.' 'If I survive this adventure there can be no question of that. Your fate is writ clear: you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since!' 'How odd! Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it!' 'There is nothing odd in it: any sensibl.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 88db685 | I devoutly hope you are wrong, my dear," replied his lordship humourously. "For when my father uses every means to achieve an end, he invariably does achieve it." Miss Challoner got up, smiling a little ironically. "Vastly pretty, my lord. I could almost suppose that you wanted to marry me." She moved towards the door which his lordship held open for her. "I assure you, ma'am, I am becoming hourly more reconciled to the prospect," he said, .. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| fe23927 | Well, I must own that you are not at all goodnatured to your sisters," she said frankly. "Not that I blame you for that - at least, not altogether! They seem positively to take delight in setting up your back! I wonder they shouldn't know that pinching at one's brothers is fatal! But whatever you may say you are not a monster of selfishness. You wouldn't be so kind to Jessamy and Felix if that were so." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 4f6e8df | O God, Mama, I've made such a mull of it! What am I to do? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 7a2c01f | I cannot bear to go back alone - to the world I have lived in with you. | avon leonie | Georgette Heyer | |
| 28603bb | A voice that to Dominica's fancy seemed to hold all the sunshine and the salt wind of fine days at sea smote her ears. | romance true-love | Georgette Heyer | |
| 028c293 | Surely, cousin, you cannot mean to *jilt* her?' said Anthea, in accents of reprobation. 'Nay, it wouldn't be seemly,' he agreed. 'I'll just have to dispose of her, as you might say.' 'Good God! *Murder* her?' 'There's no need to be in a quake,' he said reassuringly. 'No one will ever know!' 'If only - oh, if only I could do to you what I *long* to do!' exclaimed Anthea. 'If you were but a *few* inches shorter -- !' He said hopefully: 'Nay, .. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9791adf | Were you locked in your room?" enquired Sir Richard. "Oh no! I daresay I should have been if Aunt had guessed what I meant to do, but she would never think of such a thing." "Then--forgive my curiosity!--why did you climb out of the window?" asked Sir Richard. "Oh, that was on account of Pug!" replied Pen sunnily. "Pug?" "Yes, a horrid little creature! He sleeps in a basket in the hall, and he always yaps if he thinks one is going out. That.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 1982bee | Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every .. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 5024129 | She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late. | Tess Gerritsen |