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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df13fb4 | One thinks of nothing,' he continued; 'the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes. | books emotions feelings madame-bovary reading | Gustave Flaubert | |
| a7019d0 | It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful." -- | gustave-flaubert oran | Albert Camus | |
| 45a78e9 | For work: I bought some pens. Normally, I used makeshift pens, the kind of unsatisfactory implements that somehow materialized in my bag or in a drawer. But one day, when I was standing in line to buy envelopes, I caught sight of a box of my favorite kind of pen: the Deluxe Uniball Micro. "Two ninety-nine for one pen!" I thought. "That's ridiculous." But after a fairly lengthy internal debate, I bought four. It's such a joy to write with a .. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 6c593bd | Life is too short to save your good china or your good lingerie or your good ANYTHING for later because truly, later may never come. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 2a83935 | The most important step is the first step. All those old sayings are really true. Well begun is half done. Don't get it perfect, get it going. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started, and strangely, starting is often far harder than continuing. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 3708004 | I should make one healthy choice, and then stop choosing. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| c629acf | Of course it's not enough to sit around wanting to be happy; you must make the effort to take steps toward happiness by acting with more love, finding work you enjoy, and all the rest. But for me, asking myself whether I was happy had been a crucial step toward cultivating my happiness more wisely through my actions. Also, only through recognizing my happiness did I really appreciate it. Happiness depends partly on external circumstances, a.. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| ad197b4 | While some more passive forms of leisure, such as watching TV or surfing the Internet, are fun in the short term, over time, they don't offer nearly the same happiness as more challenging activities. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 606f6f5 | There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up. | happiness plenty | Gretchen Rubin | |
| b969453 | However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| b3411fa | the majority were of the species who, all the world over, look on the world and at everything that goes on in it and merely scratch their noses. | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol | ||
| 1b5fd9e | A team that is not focused on results ... * Stagnates/fails to grow * Rarely defeats competitors * Loses achievement-oriented employees | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 3882677 | There is no such thing as a self-made man. Every businessman has used the vast American infrastructure, which the taxpayers paid for, to make his money. | George Lakoff | ||
| 085bc9f | Love isn't a smiling bride who holds a colorful bouquet and gazes lovingly at her husband; it's a corpse-littered battlefield where the walking wounded have to keep searching for survivors or die themselves. | Gary A. Braunbeck | ||
| fd94c6d | Noi siam venuti al loco ov'i' t'ho detto che tu vedrai le genti dolorose c'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto. We to the place have come, where I have told thee Thou shalt behold the people dolorous Who have foregone the good of intellect. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 71d4d8b | The Commedia , it must be remembered, is a vision of the progress of man's soul toward perfection. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| e002beb | As in the autumn-time the leaves fall off, First one and then another, till the branch Surrenders all its spoils to the earth; In similar fashion did these evil seeds of Adam throw Themselves from the group, one by one, into the boat At Charon's signal, as a bird is called to its lure. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| aa65975 | Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 0abc0a7 | Being by such a noble lover kissed, This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided, Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| ce9198b | Though every city shall he hunt her down, Until he shall driven her back to Hell, There from whence envy first did let her loose. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| ee968dd | I cannot well repeat how there I entered, | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 3cdab21 | And now I fell as bodies fall,for dead. | inferno | Dante Alighieri | |
| c38b5bb | I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: "The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]" | Dante Alighieri | ||
| fe432d6 | Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell! | satirical-quote very-old | Dante Alighieri | |
| 121cb87 | There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness. | sorrow | Dante Alighieri | |
| fcc9421 | She glanced over at the twisted wreckage of the chair -- (a nice, Swedish chair that had done nothing in its short life to hurt anyone | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 66e1557 | You are the soul of comedy, Mrs. Emerson. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 44c1c08 | he shrugged. "occupational hazard of being a research assistant to a total dick"." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| bf4c2c9 | Watch," he rasped, fluttering his mouth along her neck. "Watch what?" "Us. In the mirror." Julia opened her eyes and saw the mirror mounted on the wall on the other side of the room. Somehow, it was perfectly positioned to reflect her husband's magnificent and naked back and the dark-haired woman who was hidden by his body. (...) She'd never seen what they looked like together. His body long and lean, hers smaller and softer. Their skin had.. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| b272eb3 |
Francesco venne poi com'io fu' morto, (Francisco vino a buscarme, cuando estaba muerto,) per me; ma un d'i neri cherubini (pero uno de los querubines negros) li disse: "Non portar: non mi far torto. (le dijo: < |
Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 18084fd | She knew it was consonant with his character to be the avenging angel. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 84b5827 | Julia's heart nearly cracked under the weight of her realization that her love had not healed him. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| a043677 | But I want to be your last. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 18f4ea2 | Gabriel smiled slowly. "I will always need you, Julianne." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 8a6ddf8 | Then you're going to take off your suit and show me just how much you missed your phone cord." "And the attachment." "And the attachment." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| babf928 | She closed her eyes, listening to the sound of his heartbeat. She always found its rhythm comforting. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| f4f083d | We are killing off species at the rate of about one per day. It is estimated that humans are driving species to extinction at least a thousand times faster than the otherwise natural rate. | Bill Nye | ||
| 9772b65 | The takeaway message here, as Jablonski points out, is that there is no such thing as different races of humans. Any differences we traditionally associate with race are a product of our need for vitamin D and our relationship to the Sun. Just a few clusters of genes control skin color; the changes in skin color are recent; they've gone back and forth with migrations; they are not the same even among two groups with similarly dark skin; and.. | Bill Nye | ||
| 5102b64 | My enemies can soar into the night like invisible demons, conjure wolf creatures from hell, and read minds. On our side is a god that can lead a man to a ferry! | David Gemmell | ||
| 385f97a | All things that live must die. Man alone it seems lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on - otherwise he is useless. For most men, that purpose revolves around marriage and children who will carry on his seed. For others it is an ideal - a dream, if you like. Each of us here believes in a concept.. | honor | David Gemmell | |
| 99b85cc | How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors. | war | David Gemmell | |
| bbcfbb9 | No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for? | happiness life | David Gemmell | |
| 88e61f1 | Never liked Kolanos. Was at a feast with him one time. Never heard him fart at all. Can't trust a man who doesn't fart at a feast. | David Gemmell | ||
| 48ea5e6 | It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and you are no different from any other race. Family? Has Priam not killed wayward sons? When a king dies do his sons not go to war with one another to succeed him? Men speak of how you reacted to your father's death. They say it was amazing, for you did not order your little brother's execution. Your race thrives on blood.. | honour murder war | David Gemmell |