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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f7be697 | Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied. | natural-history | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 7d9477b | If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 61b3083 | madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 4dd4a0f | A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.] And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry....' So it comes with all faiths. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| d5340fe | The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kipling There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; And when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie-- Perfect passion and worship fed By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head. Neverthele.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| d790980 | Threatened men live long. | oliviu-craznic-selected-quotes prudence quotes quotes-about-life quotes-to-live-by | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 8dc6c7e | Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 4892328 | Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 31ec60a | Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance, | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| e99a026 | Mark my trail... | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| e12f2d3 | Adam arrived at 735 Monroe Street prepared for the woman to be a bit skittish. After all, she'd run from him earlier, obviously intimidated by his overwhelming masculinity and epic sexuality. Women often had that reaction to him, especially when he was stripping off his pants. Or kilt, depending on the century. He was also prepared, however, for her inhibitions to drop swiftly, as did all women's when they got a good, close-up look at him.. | gabby karen-marie-moning the-immortal-highlander | Karen Marie Moning | |
| 7f894c5 | You only have one life to live. How you live that life is your choice. As far as I know, no one has ever had 'I wish I had bought more stuff' inscribed on their tombstone. What you own can easily blind you to who you are and what you can be. | Peter Walsh | ||
| 9ca5836 | Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection." "It does not require dissimulation, my lord," said Bunter. "Thank you," said Peter." | friendship lord-peter lord-peter-wimsey | Jill Paton Walsh | |
| 4dd3b70 | Ah well, so be it. The compensation of growing old, Peter Walsh thought, coming out of Regent's Park, and holding his hat in hand, was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 473f98c | I had not until then fully realized that I was odd, that there was anything strange about growing up with a single-parent genius. I thought all homes had equations scrawled with disc-marker across all the cabinets and walls, and clean laundry in the freezer, and defrosting chicken in the tool drawer. I thought everyone read a book a day and listened to hours of ancient music. | Spider Robinson | ||
| 698dc78 | After looking at myself in the mirror, I looked at Satsuko. I could not believe that we were creatures of the same species. The uglier the face in the mirror, the more extraordinarily beautiful Satsuko seemed. If that ugly face were only uglier, I thought regretfully, Satsuko would look even more beautiful. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| 29f6ed9 | For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face --a full body was unnecessary. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| c5d8de5 | But does a decent man make promises just to please a woman? Isn't it more honest to refuse to?" "I don't like that sort of honesty. It's not honesty, it's lack of steadiness." | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| 799e8d7 | The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| 89eed75 | If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| e2f0b79 | Cynics criticize, and winners analyze | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| ea0bbc5 | The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction. | war | Leonard Wibberley | |
| ab253e5 | Th communique repeated the information. "He went to the body of his wife and wouldn't leave it, although she was dead." How strange. why didn't he run and save his own hide? What made him go back? is it possible that he loved her? Is it possible that he wanted to hold her in his arms one last time? Is it possible that he needed to cry and grieve? Is it possible that he felt the stupidity of war? Is it possible that he felt the injustice of .. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 97e2075 | Man plans, God laughs, | Greg Iles | ||
| 59d34e1 | A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt. | inspirational novel writing | Leon Uris | |
| 76c1323 | Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness. | Leon Uris | ||
| 99d84fa | The adventurous part of me was looking forward to getting out into the world, meeting new people, trying new things. But another part of me was thinking that it was just too soon. Why couldn't everything stay the same for a little while longer? | Catherine Hapka | ||
| 21bafff | Wealth should never be your goal in life. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse. | wealth | Og Mandino | |
| f17743a | I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. | Og Mandino | ||
| 3641aa5 | In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is--I will form good habits and become their slave. | Og Mandino | ||
| 9f689da | Failure will never overtake we if my determination to succeed is strong enough. | Og Mandino | ||
| fb30a1f | To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed. It is no accident that in the comedies of Shakespeare, people go into the greenwood to grow, learn and change. It is where you travel to find yourself, often, paradoxically, by getting lost. Merlin sends the future King Arthur as a boy into the greenwood to fend for himself in . There, he falls asleep and dreams himself, like a chameleon, into the live.. | Roger Deakin | ||
| 85c52c8 | Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ef881a2 | a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4328607 | Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e9e51a7 | The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable - from table tapping to the superiority of their own children - has never been plumbed. Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it --- especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5c0e246 | No one ever does anything but what he wants to do--'enjoys'--within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5c2d0d0 | Jill... had explained homosexuality, after Mike had read about it and failed to grok--and had given him rules for avoiding passes; she knew that Mike, pretty as he was, would attract such. He had followed her advice and had made his face more masculine, instead of the androgynous beauty he had had. But Jill was not sure that Mike would refuse a pass, say, from Duke--fortunately Mike's male water brothers were decidedly masculine, just as hi.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f53e397 | Now let me get something straight: you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible - because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. So please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or before you know it you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step downward to complete moral degradation. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d617ede | Marriage is a young man's disaster and an old man's comfort. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6a34e8f | Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs. | justice society | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| fe3fd34 | Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method. | dry-humor political-philosophy | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| a96faeb | I had no sympathy for him and still haven't. That old saw about "To understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 184c703 | The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion . . . and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value. | Robert A. Heinlein |