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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dbecd7d | No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. | tribal | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 40679f1 | He wrapped his hand around mine and moved it from his lips, laying a gentle kiss on my fingers as he did it. 'When I saw you on the television bleeding and hurt I knew you would not die, because I could feel how hurt you were, and I knew we had power to heal you and bring you safely home to me, to us, but it wasn't enough, ma petite.' He pressed my hand to his chest. 'I needed to feel this. I needed to touch your skin, kiss your lips, hold .. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 12977e0 | You cannot die from grief, though it feels like you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes you chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him so much as you once did, and giving up your grief .. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ae584dc | Let's fool around." "And then?" he asked, voice low. "When it's time, take blood, and then let's fuck." He gave a surprised burst of laughter. "Ma petite, you are such a sweet-talker, how can I refuse?" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 695fb96 | It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 90b6148 | Once, the belief that his love would heal all the wounds, and finally make me feel safe, had been true. True, and a lie. Love is real, and false, even true love. Because love alone cannot keep you safe, if there is still a trembling fear inside you. Still a knowledge of what it was like to love and believe and have it all taken away. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ca95d1b | There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 05b8c1b | Compromise is an imperfect act. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| e06f603 | I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f0ef815 | We'd put a big sign over our territory saying, Nothing here is worth dying over, but if you insist, we will fucking kill you. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 8c2095d | Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind." -- | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 9e3f4f7 | You just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your butt | funny-quotes humorous-quotations | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 11b9669 | I love you, Emmy, scars and all. | L.D. Davis | ||
| e7338f5 | I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realize--it's a kind of horror--that this is my life. And I can't stop. I just can't stop. I can't stop anymore. | Luke Davies | ||
| 12374fe | Luke's like no other guy that I know. I mean, I respect him. I have really high standards and I only respect two other guys," she said, casually. "I know." I said dryly, "Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr." | Tijan | ||
| 5373167 | The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism. | Sam Harris | ||
| c830267 | Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this "terrorism"), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this "collateral damage"). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or state.. | collateral-damage moral-equivalence noam-chomsky | Sam Harris | |
| ada84af | Anyone being flown to a distant city for heart-bypass surgery has conceded, tacitly at least, that we have learned a few things about physics, geography, engineering, and medicine since the time of Moses. | Sam Harris | ||
| 6d9e21b | When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives--about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world. | Sam Harris | ||
| d1d588c | How to Meditate 1. Sit comfortably, with your spine erect, either in a chair or cross-legged on a cushion. 2. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and feel the points of contact between your body and the chair or the floor. Notice the sensations associated with sitting--feelings of pressure, warmth, tingling, vibration, etc. 3. Gradually become aware of the process of breathing. Pay attention to wherever you feel the breath most distin.. | Sam Harris | ||
| f939ec6 | There is nothing novel about trying to become happy. And one can become happy, within certain limits, without any recourse to the practice of meditation. But conventional sources of happiness are unreliable, being dependent upon changing conditions. It is difficult to raise a happy family, to keep yourself and those you love healthy, to acquire wealth and find creative and fulfilling ways to enjoy it, to form deep friendships, to contribute.. | Sam Harris | ||
| e05b882 | Every moment of the day--indeed, every moment throughout one's life--offers an opportunity to be relaxed and responsive or to suffer unnecessarily. | Sam Harris | ||
| 19ce9c1 | To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication. | Sam Harris | ||
| 193bdeb | Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticize ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous. | Sam Harris | ||
| 6a6cbc8 | Countries with high levels of atheism are also the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world. The dubious link between Christian literalism and Christian values is belied by other indices of social equality. Consider the ratio of salaries paid to top-tier CEOs and those paid to the same firms' average employees: in Britai.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 6f2430b | Criticizing a person's ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about physics or history is not. | Sam Harris | ||
| 58322f6 | it seems profoundly unlikely that our universe has been designed to reward individual primates for killing one another while believing in the divine origin of a specific book. | Sam Harris | ||
| 6e331f2 | His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed. | beauty sports-inspirational | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 1f83214 | those features are burned so deep into my memory and my heart that I should recognize them anywhere in the world from among a thousand others, who might appear identical to any one but me. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| b658d0e | In his savage, untutored breast new emotions were stirring. He could not fathom them. He wondered why he felt so great an interest in these people--why he had gone to such pains to save the three men. But he did not wonder why he had torn Sabor from the tender flesh of the strange girl. Surely the men were stupid and ridiculous and cowardly. Even Manu, the monkey, was more intelligent than they. If these were creatures of his own kind he wa.. | love primeval-man | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 18cd8e9 | whw'l hm 'shkhSun yqtSrwn `l~ l`ysh kyfm 'tfq , 'shkhSun lm ywjhw lqdr qT wjhan lwjh | القدر | José Saramago | |
| 99e2bfc | fhmt lmdh tDjr! l'nh l shy yjd qbwlan fy nZrk | José Saramago | ||
| 4e00a8f | 'n lTby'` Ht~ lHdhr@ wlmHtshm@ mnh lh nqT D`fh . | José Saramago | ||
| d2cf007 | Ni la juventud sabe lo que puede, ni la vejez puede lo que sabe. | José Saramago | ||
| 3af1085 | tmnt bSf lw 'nh t`my 'yD, tkhtrq lqshr@ lmry'y@ ll'shy w tlj `mqh, ly `my'h lmdwkh Gyr lqbl llshf | José Saramago | ||
| 6d0f366 | flrjl,wyjb `lyn 'n n`trf bdhlk df`@ wHd@,ln ytwSlw 'bd l~ fhm lns. | José Saramago | ||
| 7abf687 | Tanto e o que precisamos de lancar culpas a algo distante quando o que nos faltou foi a coragem de encarar o que estava na nossa frente. | José Saramago | ||
| 17ca03f | time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out. | time | José Saramago | |
| df5ff16 | Dentro di noi c'e una cosa che non ha nome, e quella cosa e cio che siamo | José Saramago | ||
| ab4cd4a | A quien tal vez no veamos mas, o tal vez si, porque la vida se rie de las perversiones y pone palabras donde imaginabamos silencios y subitos regresos cuando pensabamos que no volveriamos a encontrarnos. | José Saramago | ||
| 0debea5 | Entao Jesus compreendeu que viera trazido ao engano como se leva o cordeiro ao sacrificio, que a sua vida fora tracada para morrer assim desde o principio dos principios, e, subindo-lhe a lembranca o rio de sangue e de sofrimento que do seu lado ira nascer e alagar toda a terra, clamou para o ceu aberto onde Deus sorria, Homens, perdoai-lhe, porque ele nao sabe o que fez. | José Saramago | ||
| f649ae5 | We all know, however, that the enormous weight of tradition, habit, and custom that occupies the greater part of our brain bears down pitilessly on the more brilliant and innovative ideas of which the remaining part is capable, and although it is true that, in some cases, this weight can balance the excesses and extravagances of the imagination that would lead us God knows where were they given free rein, it is equally true that it often ha.. | José Saramago | ||
| a8eef51 | lys hnk Hb 'kbr mn lbk `l~ shkhS lm t`rfh | José Saramago | ||
| a5dc4a7 | Beethoven was ugly too, and no woman ever loved him, and he was Beethoven! He didn't need to be loved in order to do what he did. He just needed to love and he did. | José Saramago |