1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
2709
2710
2711
2712
2713
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2281633 | The upper classes of this country raped this country. You fucked people. You built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience. Nobody | Michael Lewis | ||
| c79b4e5 | Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don't know," said" | Michael Lewis | ||
| 0ea2bbb | If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 3b265dd | My biggest concern is the misuse of science to support policies. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 2f470da | It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 6a8bd88 | good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. | Michael Lewis | ||
| f28c817 | The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I" | Michael Lewis | ||
| 661b07f | knock, knock. who's there? it's cancer. cancer who? cancer of the section right behind your belly button that you have been trying to pass off as the pinch of ovulation. but it's not. it's cancer. it's me. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 47643ef | If Nana thinks you're trying to scam her, she'll tell you, and if she thinks you ruined her life by discontinuing Arnold's Thin bread, she'll let you know that, too. I guess when you spend eighty-seven years swallowing other people's bullshit, there comes a time when you gotta spit some back. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| f05f557 | I looked around. This house only the night before had been a home, and serves as a storage locker for memories that I could barely remember and a bunch of things I'd rather forget. | laurie notaro | ||
| d8dec9a | Finally, your self worth will, to a large extent, determine your eventual net worth. In other words, you will earn and accumulate what you believe you're worthy of having. Unless you're worth it, you won't be worth the effort that it takes to get it or do it. Denis Waitley | Janet Bray Attwood | ||
| 8eb4869 | In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 06a6f40 | There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness. | Tom Robbins | ||
| dc86e71 | How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. If you wish to gain the favor of the two-legged ilk, you must learn to fabricate as wholeheartedly as they do. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5a63ffe | Memories are not images of loved ones returning to us. They are the spirits of loved ones visiting us. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 9ff675f | we can go below our hardened ways to the soft impulses that birth them. Instead of breaking the bone of our stubbornness, we can nourish the marrow of our feeling unheard. Instead of breaking the bone of our fear, we can cleanse the blood of our feeling unsafe. Instead of counting the scars from being hurt in the world, we can find and re-kiss the very spot in our soul where we began to withhold our trust. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 3db2e23 | He was like a man who had grown frozen with horror once and had never come completely unthawed. | Joseph Heller | ||
| a1e9f96 | Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out | heller satyrical | Joseph Heller | |
| 19d4e2c | A distant warm look entered Major Danby's eyes. "It must be nice to live like a vegetable," he conceded wistfully. "It's lousy," answered Yossarian. "No, it must be very pleasant to be free from all this doubt and pressure," insisted Major Danby. "I think I'd like to live like a vegetable and make no important decisions." "What kind of vegetable, Danby?" "A cucumber or a carrot." "What kind of a cucumber? A good one or a bad one?" "Oh, a go.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| a3427fe | It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others. They rant. They lecture. They scold. This incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy. | narcissism narcissists | Azar Nafisi | |
| a431018 | I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded photographs of women. Gradually, her work became more abstract, and in her last exhibition, her paintings were splashes of rebellious color, like the two in my living room, dark patches with little droplets of blue. I asked about her progress from modern realism to abstraction. Reality has become.. | art dreams reality | Azar Nafisi | |
| 161d539 | Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more repressive. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 6cb31c5 | The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102) | proposition test truth | Neil Postman | |
| b1e5223 | Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on a foundation. The learner must be allowed to enter at any point without prejudice. This is why you shall never hear or see a television program begin with the caution that if the viewer has not seen the previous programs, this one will be mea.. | epistemology knowledge learning rational-thought television | Neil Postman | |
| f7fd128 | We are all, as Huxley says someplace, Great Abbreviators, meaning that none of us has the wit to know the whole truth, the time to tell it if we believed we did, or an audience so gullible as to accept it. | huxley | Neil Postman | |
| 660caca | Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone." | writing | Neil Postman | |
| fc01955 | All along the line,' said the volunteer, pulling the blanket over him, 'everything in the army stinks of rottenness. Up till now the wide-eyed masses haven't woken up to it. With goggling eyes they let themselves be made into mincemeat and then when they're struck by a bullet they just whisper, "Mummy!" Heroes don't exist, only cattle for the slaughter and the butchers in the general staffs. But in the end every body will mutiny and there w.. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| 9489f30 | This may be why Einstein once said; "Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind." The fact is that we need the insights of the mystic every bit as much as we need the insights of the scientist. Mankind is dimi.. | science spirituality | Michael Crichton | |
| 6d9abe9 | Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe science. I think it is possible to invert that idea, and to say that the wonders of real consciousness far surpass what conventional science admits can exist. | science skepticism | Michael Crichton | |
| 6c42cd1 | Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 1be80d1 | You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual Guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to.. | life meaning-of-life science | Michael Crichton | |
| 53bb00d | The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 74df8d8 | Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 25c4b47 | I'll tell you the problem with engineers and scientists. Scientists have an elaborate line of bullshit about how they are seeking to know the truth about nature. Which is true, but that's not what drives them. Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.' | Michael Crichton | ||
| 57c5ae0 | Hammond turned to Gennaro. "You know, of course, what Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler do. They are paleontologists. They dig up dinosaurs." And then he began to laugh, as if he found the idea very funny." | Michael Crichton | ||
| f1056e0 | Like everything else I'd seen at Xymos, it was jerry-built, half-baked, concocted in a hurry to solve present problems and never a thought to the future. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 62b5ef9 | If you [don't] know history, then [you don't] know anything. You [are] a leaf that [doesn't] know it [is] part of a tree. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 4292d38 | lys hnk wllh khwf '`Zm nt khwf lnsn Hyn l y`rf lsbb | Michael Crichton | ||
| f35e434 | Sometimes being around children was the perfect abstinence program. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ba092e5 | The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs. The duty of government is to help them do it. This is the pasta of politics. The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta. --Bombolini | leaders | Robert Crichton | |
| 0ec91de | C'est plein de disputes, un bonheur. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 493ad3f | Il y a l'amour... | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 1ec1db2 | That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized ontologies does not imply that repetition itself ought to be stopped--as if it could be. If repetition is bound to persist as the mechanism of the cultural reproduction of identities, then the crucial question emerges: What kind of subversive repetition might call into q.. | subversive | Judith Butler | |
| 12b79aa | Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, be the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the .. | Judith Butler |