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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b916f46 | No wars, in the war-logged record of our species, have been terminal. Until now, when we know that nuclear war would be the death of our planet. It is beyond belief that any governments-those brief political figures-arrogate to themselves the right to stop history, at their discretion. | war | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 7af4135 | Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity. | purge stalin | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 0299cc0 | I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way. | learning travel | Martha Gellhorn | |
| ce887ce | I love you. Have a hell of a good time. I don't really know what else is worth having. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 22f5248 | That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet. | Laura Dave | ||
| 0ed1cfe | The calm can't last, not if you're really living. if you're living fully, the storms coming to get you. | Laura Dave | ||
| 24cb53e | I explained my opinion of the ship's logic. "That is a strange designation," said the ship. "While I have certain organic elements incorporated into my substructure and decentralized DNA computing components, I am not--in the strictest sense of the term--a biological organism. I have no digestive system. No need for elimination, other than the occasional waste gas and passenger effluvium. Therefore, I have no anus in either real or figurati.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9402b19 | The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us | Dan Simmons | ||
| e2b2883 | Eagles are extinct," grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them." | Dan Simmons | ||
| ea8387d | pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ... | pain universe | Dan Simmons | |
| 364e2cd | My intellect was my greatest vanity. | intellectualism intellectuals vanity | Dan Simmons | |
| 632b560 | The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer | humankind natural-order | Dan Simmons | |
| 728dabb | The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out. | Dan Simmons | ||
| ec55b0d | You want to be a hero," he repeated. "You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 913d08c | I made myself a glass of chocolate milk using enough syrup for three normal glasses. I also made myself four peanut butter crackers. Then I walked out the living room door to our terrace. The trees were coming! New green was all over ... green so new that it was kissing yellow. | kissing-yellow leaves | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| 3297a2a | There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 5cfab11 | I prefer not to. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| fe917fa | Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. | miracles religion | Michael Chabon | |
| 7e1b7f0 | The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analogs in suffering, failure and pain. It was at once a prayer sent heavenward and the answer to that prayer: Bear me away from this awful place. | humanity rocket space war wwi | Michael Chabon | |
| 8c0d556 | I had a lot of disasters in the kitchen, even during the long period when I was cooking under my mother's supervision and with the benefit of her experience. I still fail all the time, in particular when I turn to baking. After hundreds of attempts, following dozens of different formulas, I don't think I have ever made what I would consider to be a completely successful pie crust. Disaster is somehow part of the appeal of cooking for me. If.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 936e898 | Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 0ed3a7e | The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this period of research "childhood." There follows a program of renewed inquiry, often involuntary, into the nature and effects of mortality, entropy, heartbreak, violence, failure, cowardice, duplicity, cruelty, and grief; the researcher learns their histories, and.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 7491569 | The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud? | snark | Michael Chabon | |
| 8fcc01d | The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 32220b4 | A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag. | insightful | Michael Chabon | |
| 5539390 | Sitting on Rosa's moth-littered bed, he felt a resurgence of all the aches and inspirations of those days when his life had revolved around nothing but Art, when snow fell like the opening piano notes of the Emperor Concerto, and feeling horny reminded him of a passage from Nietzsche, and a thick red-streaked dollop of crimson paint in an otherwise uninteresting Velazquez made him hungry for a piece of rare meat. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 6e00fbd | And in that moment he felt- for the first time that optimistic and cheerful boy allowed himself to feel- how badly made life was, how flawed. No matter how richly furnished you made it, with all the noise and variet of Something, Nothing always found a way in, seeped through the cracks and patches. Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almo.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| afa6b9b | She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton that she daily intoned. | Michael Chabon | ||
| d6db9f4 | Landsman recognizes the expression on Dick's face...The face of a man who feels he was born into the wrong world. A mistake has been made; he is not where he belongs. Every so often he feels his heart catch, like a kite on a telephone wire, on something that seems to promise him a home in the world or a means of getting there. An American car manufactured in his far-off boyhood, say, or a motorcycle that once belonged to the future king of .. | Michael Chabon | ||
| d057ffe | A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 55ea9b9 | I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 7dcf01c | it was the insoluble problems--the false leads and the cold cases--that reflected the true nature of things. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 67cd28f | It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that. | Michael Chabon | ||
| e081e39 | I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young. | human-nature youth | Michael Chabon | |
| c02575a | As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 30e2a8b | I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. You try to take advantage of the time you have. That's what they tell you to do. But when you're old, you look back and you see all you did, with all that time, is waste it. All you have is a story of things you never started or couldn't finish. Things you fought with all your heart to build that didn't last or fought with all your heart to ge.. | shame | Michael Chabon | |
| bd351aa | TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and soap operas. Besides, a TV-watching child was considered available for chores: take out the trash, clean your room, pick up that mess, fold those towels, mow the lawn... the list was endless. We all became adept at chore-avoidance. Staying out of sight was a reliable strategy. Drawing or painting was another: to my mother, ma.. | 1960s-nostalgia chores growing-up nostalgia summer | Pete Hautman | |
| b4db625 | Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference. | Max Lucado | ||
| de77005 | Your difficulty, your disease, your conflict are preparing you to be a voice of encouragement to your brothers. | Max Lucado | ||
| 33364dd | Let me be clear. You are a version of Joesph in your generation. You represent a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something this world needs- wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence. | Max Lucado | ||
| a272c23 | If pride is what goes before a fall, the shame is what keeps you from getting up after one. | max lucado | ||
| b358ca7 | Heaven does not know you as the fellow with the nice suit or the woman with the big house or the kid with the new bike. Heaven knows your heart. | Max Lucado | ||
| 325f09f | If you do not transform your pain, you will surely transmit it. --RICHARD ROHR | Max Lucado | ||
| 0d64b08 | And if we never agree, can't we agree to disagree? If God can tolerate my mistakes, can't I tolerate the mistakes of others? If God can overlook my errors, can't I overlook the errors of others? If God allows me with my foibles and failures to call him Father, shouldn't I extend the same grace to others? One thing's for sure. When we get to heaven, we'll be surprised at some of the folks we see. And some of them will be surprised when they .. | Max Lucado |