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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 45d3882 | You can't understand command till you've had it. It's the loneliest, most oppressive job in the whole world. It's a nightmare, unless you're an ox. You're forever teetering along a tiny path of correct decisions and good luck that meanders through an infinite gloom of possible mistakes. | Herman Wouk | ||
| ad6d65e | I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 13fd79a | If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming. | Jon Ronson | ||
| c108406 | It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you're perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you're perceived to be alluringly stupid. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 544f2ae | We were much more frightening than Judge Ted Poe. The powerful, crazy, cruel people I usually write about tend to be in far-off places. The powerful, crazy, cruel people were now us. It felt like we were soldiers making war on other people's flaws, and there had suddenly been an escalation in hostilities. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 7db88d8 | Practically every prime-time program is populated by people who are just the right sort of mad, and I now knew what the formula was. The right sort of mad are people who are a bit madder than we fear we're becoming, and in a recognizable way. We might be anxious but we aren't as anxious as they are. We might be paranoid but we aren't as paranoid as they are. We are entertained by them, and comforted that we're not as mad as they are. | page-210 | Jon Ronson | |
| 24b44e2 | A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 0e9eaf9 | The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 397965a | Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 45ea848 | I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write. | poetry writing | Francesca Lia Block | |
| c3175c7 | People worry so much. Just enjoy your body. That you can love. And you're alive. | love | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 8e3fef6 | If you were sad about something that hadn't happened yet you couldn't be disappointed. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| efc43d3 | So Witch Baby played. Tossing her head, sucking in her cheeks and popping up with the impact of each beat. Thrusting her whole body into the music and thrusting the music into the air around her. She imagined that her drums were planets and the music was all the voices of growth and light and life joined together and traveling the universe. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| e54ab6d | for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground for burned mermaids and sick vampire girls for wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair | feminism girls mermaids strength vampires wild-women wolves women | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 5856385 | But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you. | darkness death | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 8164ace | Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!" -- | patti-smith please-kill-me punk-rock | Legs McNeil Gillian McCain | |
| af80e0a | Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'. | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 33b7ad9 | Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind? | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 31b07c8 | Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation. | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 0bee3e0 | The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to tell us what to do. Which religion, anyway? The one in which we happen to have been brought up? To which chapter, then, of which book of the Bible should we turn--for they are far from unanimous and some of them are odious by any reasonable standards. How many literalists have read enough of the Bible to know that the death penalt.. | religion theology | Richard Dawkins | |
| 2632f8c | ykh nmwnh an prssh flsfy qdymy st khh mygwyd: ay tw hm mthl mn qrmz mybyny? shyd anchh bry tw qrmz mynmyd bry mn sbz bshyd y Slan rngy bshd khh dr khyl mn hm nmygnjd! fylswfn yn prssh r dr zmrh prsshhyy mydnnd khh hrgz pskhy ndrd. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| c981307 | So I could write a story about a girl who was a lot like me, her ex-boyfriend, who was a lot like Satan, witha twitchy eyelid and a penis the size of a worn-down nub of an eraser. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 46d3332 | She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name... | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| fe68ada | I had started on the marriage and motherhood beat by accident with a post on my personal, read only by friends, blog called 'Fifty Shades of Men'. I had written it after buying Fifty Shades of Grey to spice up what Dave and I half-jokingly called our grown up time, and had written a meditation on how the sex wasn't the sexiest part of the book. "Dear publishers, I will tell you why every woman with a ring on her finger and a car seat in her.. | fifty-shades-of-grey no-worries | Jennifer Weiner | |
| cb56dc4 | I know that what had happened with my father - his insults, his criticism, the way he made me feel that I was defective and deformed - had hurt me. I'd encountered enough of those self-help articles in women's magazines to know that you don't go through that kind of cruelty unscathed. With every man I met, I'd watch myself carefully. Did I really like that editor, I'd wonder, or am I just searching for Daddy? Do I love this guy, I'd ask mys.. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 19a89d1 | True faith always produces real conformity to Christ. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c81a0a2 | The idea of holiness is so central to biblical teaching that it is said of God, "Holy is his name" (Luke 1:49). His name is holy because He is holy. He is not always treated with holy reverence. His name is tramped through the dirt of this world. It functions as a curse word, a platform for the obscene. That the world has little respect for God is vividly seen by the way the world regards His name. No honor. No reverence. No awe before Him... | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 37affa8 | We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e3cd725 | Luther examined the Great Commandment, "'Live the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all yor strength and with all your mind.'; and, 'Love yor neighbor as yourself'" (Luke 10:27) Then he asked himself, What is the Great Trangression?" Some answer this question by saying that great sin is murder, adultery, blasphemy, or unbelief. Luther disagreed. He concluded that if the Great Commandment was to live Gid with .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e846d40 | The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine's epistemology, or theory of knowledge. The metaphor of light is instructive. In our present earthly state we are equipped with the faculty of sight. We have eyes, optic nerves, and so forth- all the equipment needed for sight. But a man with the keenest eyesight can see nothing if he is locked in a totally dark room. So just as an external source of light is needed for seeing, so a.. | light revelation sproul the-consequences-of-ideas truth | R.C. Sproul | |
| ac3e8cf | One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 492c35b | the family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-means capturing and holding , something more. That something more is the future-to excel is very well, but one needs to excel and survive. To seize lands is well and good, but we want to hold them for.. | future-generations wealth | Stephanie Laurens | |
| 3b01802 | Don't misunderstand, What the did you think, to leap over like that? You could have stayed safe on this side and " Even to her ears, her tone bordered on the hysterical. Beneath her fingers, the white lawn started to redden. She sucked in a shaky breath. "How could you risk your life-your , you idiot!" She leaned harder on the pad, dragged in another breath. He coughed weakly, shifted his head. " " His lips twisted, but his eyes remai.. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 5fd84cb | Just her luck to be abducted by kidnappers who could think. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 63014c1 | Religion would have you take its word for it. That is why all religions ultimately fail. Spirituality, on the other hand, will always succeed. Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own. Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion than a particular religion--and this no known religion can tolerate. Religion encourages .. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| a7dd012 | Jesus knew that if he gave people the help they asked for, rather than merely the help he wanted to give, that he was empowering them at the level at which they were ready to receive empowerment. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 9358043 | If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something--and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it--then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than I. You truly are Children of a Lesser God. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| e2fcc37 | In this way, feelings can be tricky. Feelings are the language of the soul, but you must make sure you are listening to your true feelings and not some counterfeit model constructed in your mind. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 9dcafe8 | Some feelings are true feelings--that is, feelings born in the soul--and some feelings are counterfeit feelings. These are constructed in your mind. In other words, they are not "feelings" at all--they are thoughts. Thoughts masquerading as feelings. These thoughts are based on your previous experience and on the observed experience of others." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 3415ed3 | It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have. | David Baldacci | ||
| 50f41b2 | Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill) | David Baldacci | ||
| 5f6ef21 | You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell. | David Baldacci | ||
| ec0f248 | The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy | David Baldacci | ||
| 21d86e9 | We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it. | David Baldacci |