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| 264efcf | He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a whole universe lay at his fingertips, but the fraction of it he could explore in an entire lifetime was so negligible that he was sometimes overwhelmed with despair. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d94e35d | Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it's an ideal we don't all achieve. But in this modern world the great thing is to have an ideal. Achieving it is considerably less important. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 1f36a5c | Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 8f6a5ac | no one of intelligence resents the inevitable. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| b00bb62 | You know me. Guys like me come a dime a dozen. No fire. No backbone. Dead weight waiting to be pulled around and taken to places where we want to go but can't go alone. Because we're afraid to go alone. Because we're afraid to be alone. Because we can't face people and we can't talk to people. Because we don't know how. Because we can't handle life and don't know the first thing about taking a bite out of life. Because we're afraid and we d.. | David Goodis | ||
| 0e82c01 | It's just that I'm curious, that's all. He usually walks alone" "Yeah, he's a loner, all right," the waitress murmured. "Even when he's with someone, he's alone." | David Goodis | ||
| 538c3da | People stop, stare. No one stop and stare if one of your own beggars drop dead in street. No just step over him like he is a stone, or a dog turd and go away quickly. But when they see a white man with golden hair lying on the street, everyone stop, everyone cry, "Hai - hai, - poor boy, call doctor, call ambulance. What has happen, Farrokh-bhai?"..." - Farrokh said to Baumgartner when he wanted to get rid of the reluctant, overly drugged ho.. | Anita Desai | ||
| 9c00e64 | we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. This is why, as we'll discuss later, one of the fastest ways to restore trust is to make and keep commitments--even very small commitments--to ourselves and to others. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 5a8ec56 | Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right. | Elizabeth Lowell | ||
| df3d26e | capitalization learning": we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 90098ee | If you think about the world of a preschooler, they are surrounded by stuff they don't understand-things that are novel. So the driving force for a preschooler is not a search for novelty, like it is with older kids, it's a search for understanding and predictability," says Anderson. "For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, the not only are understanding it better, which is .. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| e8d6148 | think, for example, has a higher suicide rate: countries whose citizens declare themselves to be very happy, such as Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Canada? or countries like Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, whose citizens describe themselves as not very happy at all? Answer: the so-called happy countries. It's the same phenomenon as in the Military Police and the Air Corps. If you are depressed in a place where most .. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9a10159 | Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions.In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 7cce010 | Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were--that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made--on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community. | health | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 55016fe | Working really hard is what successful people do, and the genius of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard work gave those in the fields a way to find meaning in the midst of great uncertainty and poverty. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a88a5ba | The most intriguing candidate for that "something else" is called the Broken Windows theory. Broken Windows was the brainchild of the criminologist James Q. Wilson and George Kelling. Wilson and Kelling argued that crime is the inevitable result of disorder. If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will sp.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 4c912bf | We have trouble estimating dramatic, exponential change. We cannot conceive that a piece of paper folded over 50 times could reach the sun. There are abrupt limits to the number of cognitive categories we can make and the number of people we can truly love and the number of acquaintances we can truly know. We throw up our hands at a problem phrased in an abstract way, but have no difficulty at all solving the same problem rephrased as a soc.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 670cd33 | The contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 42843e4 | If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we're probably better off building lots of little schools than one or two big ones. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| bc2b1e0 | Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass: Their voices, articulating the feelings of innumerable others, ultimately prevailed in the causes of emancipation and of suffrage. It took presidential action to make things official--a Lincoln to free the slaves, a Wilson to support the women's suffrage amendment, a Lyndon Johnson to finish the fight against Jim Crow--but without the voices from afar, there would have been no cho.. | Jon Meacham | ||
| cdb8e1b | But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| 540e23c | We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| 9712d7e | Night's winged horses No one can outpace But midnight is no moment Midnight is a place. Meet me at Midnight, Among the Queen Anne's Lace Midnight is not a moment, Midnight is a place-- When, when shall I meet you When shall I see your face For I am living in time at present But you are living in space. Time is only a corner Age is only a fold A year is merely a penny Spent from a century's gold. So meet me, meet me at midnight (With sixty s.. | Joan Aiken | ||
| 5e7834e | It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| f8194fd | She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing. | compassion healing | Susan Wiggs | |
| 63db753 | Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people." | marriage | Susan Wiggs | |
| ce04a0f | I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them seems to shift very slightly, like a curtain blown by the breeze through an open window. Red is next to blue is next to cream is adjacent to beige. But when I look again, cream is next to green is next to black. A tall book shelters a small book, a huge Folio bullies a cowering line of Quartos. A child's nursery rhyme book does not h.. | Susan Hill | ||
| 81945fd | Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully. --Mark Epstein, Open to Desire | Danielle LaPorte | ||
| 21964a8 | The spiritual path means making a path rather than following one. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 89c3590 | He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on the future. And it would always be advantageous not to be closely known, never to be transparent. Passing a farmer on a day, he would tip his hat and grin. Everybody knew him. Nobody knew him. He would play the fool, the clown, the melancholy poet dying for love, the bumpkin. He would take the world by stealth and not by sto.. | Daniel Mark Epstein | ||
| b8f45da | I've been kissed Slade. I'm a virgin, not a nun. | Shayla Black | ||
| f954293 | Destiny sends us on journeys and to places that may seem to be one thing when we begin, only to show themselves as a fantastic surprise later. | L.A. Banks | ||
| 8e71404 | We can all be better than we've heretofore dreamed. Our potential is unlimited as long as we're not functioning from the negative. | L.A. Banks | ||
| ebe4ab6 | You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you." | archer good-boy | Lora Leigh | |
| 4ad2980 | Before she could say anything more, Sabella swung around at the sound of Noah's Harley purring to life behind the garage. God. He was dressed in snug jeans and riding chaps. A snug dark T-shirt covered his upper body, conformed to it. And he was riding her way. "Is there anything sexier than a man in riding chaps riding a Harley?" Kira asked behind her. "It makes a woman simply want to melt." And Sabella was melting. She watched as he pulle.. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 948cec9 | Don't worry about hurting me, Jordan." She brushed back her hair again as she turned from him and headed for the bedroom. "It was too late for that a long time ago." ... "I've heard the lecture," she informed him as she glared back at him. "I've heard you tell your men how love is an illusion, and how they need to watch their backs before that illusion bites him on the ass, so many times it sickens me. Unless you have something original to .. | Lora Leigh | ||
| c3a425a | She looked around the room, glanced over him and Micah waited. Her Gaze passed him, then again. On the third pass she lingered as she continued to watch her, allowing his gaze to memorize those features just before her eyes met his. A jolt od power flashed through him. Her ligth blue eyes flickered with interest, fear, then interest again, as though she wasn't certain which she should feel. He let his gaze continue to hers, let his mind rea.. | fear lora-leigh love-at-first-sight micah risa | Lora Leigh | |
| abdc556 | He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides." | lora-leaigh nathan-malone noah-blake sabella wild-card | Lora Leigh | |
| 378c308 | Love changes us, Son." Ray rose to his feet, crossing the room slowly to set his empty glass on the bar. "Don't make the same mistake I did, Rowdy. Once it's over that first time, once you've let another man claim what's yours and yours alone, you lose a part of your soul. Getting it back is hell. A hell I hope you never know." | Lora Leigh | ||
| daa2087 | I don't need you to make allowances for anything." Damn her pride. "If you can stand to pay for it, then I can wear it." His brow arched. "Don't let your mouth write checks your body can't cash, sweetheart. Because trust me, I know exactly how to dress a woman for prime impact." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 2ee6e15 | Oh yeah. Baby, so good." He had to release her nipple, had to hold her face in his hands, stare into her eyes. "So damned tight. Sweet. Ride me, sweetheart. Ride me out of hell." Noah & Sabella" | Lora Leigh | ||
| 0b7527e | Oh yeah?" Nathan arched his brows. "What's better the SEALs, Uncle? Hell? Been there, still take trips." Noah to Jordan" | Lora Leigh | ||
| d7e584d | If you focus on your problems or your frustrations, your attitude is going to be negative and defeated. But when you put your focus on God and His promises for your life, your attitude will immediately change. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 4532ee2 | Pray for your enemies, and bless those who mistreat you" (see Matt. 5:44)." | Joyce Meyer |