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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f9e059 | The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil. | changeless disguise evil good struggle world | T.S. Eliot | |
| 6664e49 | There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2cadff4 | Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? | T.S. Eliot | ||
| e4d3ee7 | This is reality in a universe without God: there is no hope; there is no purpose. It reminds me of T.S. Eliot's haunting lines: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends | William Lane Craig | ||
| 47667ee | I that was near your heart was removed therefrom | love | T.S. Eliot | |
| 880ce73 | And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 3f2f850 | 'qwl lnfsy bqy bl Hrk wntZry bl 'ml fl'ml qd ykwn tmnyan llshy' lkhT' wntZry bl Hb flHb qd ykwn Hban llshy' lkhT' hnk b`d ymn wlkn lymn wlHb wl'ml klh fy lntZr ntZr bl fkr l'nk Gyr m`dW llfkr | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 6075983 | A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident. | by-chance christian god martyrdom saints | T.S. Eliot | |
| 962d7e5 | Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence ... Words, strain, Crack, and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 0535abb | Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one doing the persecuting-- both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| db77b75 | Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point where you could not go back, where--as the stories changed--it transformed you, too. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| b8c9f7f | The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along. | habit | Michel de Montaigne | |
| d450929 | Were our pupil's disposition so bizarre that he would rather hear a tall story than the account of a great voyage or a wise discussion; that at the sound of a drum calling the youthful ardour of his comrades to arms he would turn aside for the drum of a troop of jugglers; that he would actually find it no more delightful and pleasant to return victorious covered in the dust of battle than after winning a prize for tennis or dancing; then I .. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 87102dc | French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little." The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9149807 | I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 2476474 | He kissed her, because fuck it, he was probably about to die. | Max Barry | ||
| 4ba9405 | Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it was called smart trading. | satire stock-market | Max Barry | |
| a00eba4 | Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 50649d6 | When you raise a god instead of a child, you're bound to be serving him for the rest of your days. Same thing holds when you marry a god. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| ad3af38 | She done mellowed plenty since this marriage. Soft around the edges without getting too soft at the center. You fear that sometimes for women, that they would just fold up and melt away. She'd seen it happen so much in her time, too much for her to head on into it without thinking. Yes, that one time when she was way, way young. But after that, looking at all the beating, the badgering, the shriveling away from a lack of true touching was e.. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| e7e04e9 | He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one side into an amber world where bubbles burst and are born, burst and are born. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| 8c64b55 | Although consciousness is a patchwork of competing and often contradictory tendencies, the left brain ignores inconsistencies and papers over obvious gaps in order to give us a smooth sense of a single "I." In other words, the left brain is constantly making excuses, some of them harebrained and preposterous, to make sense of the world. It is constantly asking "Why?" and dreaming up excuses even if the question has no answer." -- | Michio Kaku | ||
| 6c1114d | The Pentagon has been looking into the possibility of developing "smart dust," dust-sized particles that have tiny sensors inside that can be sprayed over a battlefield to give commanders real-time information. In the future it is conceivable that "smart dust" might be sent to the nearby stars." | Michio Kaku | ||
| e705fc3 | In 1967, the second resolution to the cat problem was formulated by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose work was pivotal in laying the foundation of quantum mechanics and also building the atomic bomb. He said that only a conscious person can make an observation that collapses the wave function. But who is to say that this person exists? You cannot separate the observer from the observed, so maybe this person is also dead and alive. In othe.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 7961118 | Indeed, brain scans done by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis indicate that areas used to recall memories are the same as those involved in simulating the future. In particular, the link between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus lights up when a person is engaged in planning for the future and remembering the past. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 01a1426 | If time travel is possible, then where are the tourists from the future? -STEPHEN HAWKING | Michio Kaku | ||
| 575e832 | Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will. | indians war west | Jim Fergus | |
| 1a8ba94 | Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws was a death rattle. | moriarty smile | Kim Newman | |
| 714e1e2 | You know, I've always hated those stories about princes and princesses with some extraordinary ability, special because they're born special.' 'Like me?' He smiled wickedly, making me laugh a little. 'I didn't see how those were happy stories, because life has given princes and princesses unearned advantages. I'd rather believe that anyone can accomplish remarkable things when she really tries. Maybe her accomplishments will never be re.. | miracles special-snowflakes | Marta Acosta | |
| 59307d8 | I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright. I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Probably Jackass. | Marta Acosta | ||
| ee82149 | Nothing matters except what it takes to survive. You remember this, Madeline: You're born alone and you die alone. In between, you make deals. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 5f58404 | There never were any women who liked to cook for men everyday. There were only women who cooked for survival and pretended to like it. And now there are men who cook for survival. Like you. Think of this as survivalist training. Very macho. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 8fecc6b | I'll never forget my first time with you. The earth moved, and then mom asked dad who he was going down on during lunch. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 26ff293 | I had you pictured dead in a pool of blood in front of the fireplace. And now you show up alive, and I want to kill you myself. (Zack) | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 1a1abec | She gave Rachel her usual obsessively loving smile, including Phin in it, too, as her future son-in-law. , her smile said. Phin's answering smile said, , while Rachel gazed at Justice and Mercy, pretending she'd never heard of pornography or sex, or Phin, for that matter. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 42551f2 | Would she hit a dog to get great sex? | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 5346555 | But I'm not calm. It's all a lie." Quinn held Katie closer, breathing faster. "It's just that when everybody else is screaming, somebody has to be mature and unemotional, so I have these brain-dead moments where I don't react the way any sane human being would. I stay completely calm and ignore my feelings and compromise and make everything work again. And I'm not going to do that anymore. From now on, I'm going to be Zoe. Screw calm. Someb.. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 9dc5623 | Teach me something new, she said, and he bent her back onto the bed and she shivered as his body slid against hers. - Okay, Phin said. But pay attention, Julie Ann, there'll be a quiz. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| cbcddd2 | Kate picked up her coffee cup, frowning when she saw it was empty. "Did you drink my coffee?" "Yes. I was feeling aggressive." | friendship humor | Jennifer Crusie | |
| bb6a541 | Mason was leaving her for a fifty-four-year-old woman who didn't moisturize | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| f90933c | They stared at each other for a moment, perplexed by their newfound siblinghood. 'So we're the Luke and Leia of hell,' Mab said. | demon | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 0f6a704 | When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid. | Anna Maxted | ||
| 4064b6a | Looking at those photographs, I remembered how my parents had never said "I love you" to each other. How they had said only "I miss you." At the time, I hadn't been able to figure out what this meant. But now it seemed clear: this was how they defined their love--by how deeply they missed each other when they were together. They felt the loss before it happened, and their love was defined by that loss. They hungered even as they ate, thirst.. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 2bd1ee6 | Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome. | mental-health mental-illness | Kay Redfield Jamison |