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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f8201e5 | A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time. I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the river on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all time. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6105f5b | Mistakes can be profited by Man, when i was young I showed my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ac29332 | Her cheeks glowed with pink charcoals. | pink | Ray Bradbury | |
| 74abadb | You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4112a38 | we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.) | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e0be672 | He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out the vents. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4e094d4 | No to write, for many of us, is to die. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 56d34d2 | Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 846d1e5 | Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3ee9276 | Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist. We do it for a hundred reasons. (Because it's good to look forward, not back. Because we need to illuminate a path we hope or we fear humanity will take. Because the world of the future seems more enticing or more interesting than the world of today. Because we need to warn you. To encourage. To examine. To imagine.) | Ray Bradbury | ||
| bf1aaec | A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man? | dangerous oppression reading | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7922b2c | Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to represent abstract Beauty. Very wonderful. But I hope there will always be room for me to dart about among the statues, don't you, Father Stone? | church clergy religion | Ray Bradbury | |
| 5f7eca5 | My wife says books aren't real." "Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV and parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes truth and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argu.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 02acec9 | It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself. | nightmare poison scary-reality | Ray Bradbury | |
| f905310 | Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well .. | depravity patterns selfishness | Ray Bradbury | |
| 4aa2ec1 | I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. | crazy fahrenheit-451 mgg ray-bardbury seventeen teenagers | Ray Bradbury | |
| 72427d3 | What will that mean to each of you? "It will mean that those of you who might have lived to be seventy-one must die at seventy. Some of you who might have lived to be eighty-six must cough up your ghost at eighty-five. That's a great age. A year more or less doesn't sound like much. When the time comes, boys, you may regret. But, you will be able to say, this year I spent well, I gave for Pip, I made a loan of life for sweet Pipkin, the fai.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 660c8b0 | And, after all, isn't that what life is all about, the ability to go around back and come up inside other people's heads to look out at the damned fool miracle and say: oh, so that's how you see it!? Well, now, I must remember that. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 092fd42 | That's the trouble with your generation,' said Grandpa. 'Bill, I'm ashamed of you, you a newspaperman. All the things in life that were put here to savor, you eliminate. Save time, save work, you say.' He nudged the grass trays disrespectfully. 'Bill, when your'e my age, you'll find out it's the little savors and little things that count more than big ones. A walk on a spring morning is better than an eighty-mile ride in a hopped-up car, yo.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 9cb6aff | It stood in the middle of a vast yard behind the terribly strange house. And this tree rose up some one hundred feet in the air, taller than the high roofs and full and round and well branched, and covered all over with rich assortments of red and brown and yellow autumn leaves. "But," whispered Tom, "oh, look. What's up in that tree!" For the Tree was hung with a variety of pumpkins of every shape and size and a number of tints and hues o.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 342be03 | You had to run with a night like this, so the sadness could not hurt. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c789041 | We won't ruin Mars," said the captain. "It's too big and too good." "You think not? We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8f661fb | It shouldn't work. It shouldn't be magic. You shouldn't weep happy and then sad and then happy again. But you do. And I do. And we all do. | memory nostalgia | Ray Bradbury | |
| a899457 | A common flower, a weed that no one sees, yes. But for us, a noble thing, the dandelion. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f7b101a | And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the firemen and the ignorant, the ones afraid of tales and words and dreams and Hallowe'en and people who have tattooed themselves with stories and Boys! You Can Grow Mushrooms in Your Cellar! and as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed .. | the-man-who-forgot-ray-bradbury words | Neil Gaiman | |
| e75e7ce | Happiness is important. Fun is everything. | fun happiness mgg ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| fd5e076 | We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| aeeaf2f | But this was like old movies, the silent theater haunted with black-and-white ghosts, silvery mouths opening to let moonlight smoke out, gestures made in silence so hushed you could hear the wind fizz the hair on your cheeks. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6ebd4a0 | There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a319351 | When God makes a covenant with us, God says: 'I will love you with an everlasting love. I will be faithful to you, even when you run away from me, reject me, or betray me.' In our society we don't speak much about covenants; we speak about contracts. When we make a contract with a person, we say: 'I will fulfill my part as long as you fulfill yours. When you don't live up to your promises, I no longer have to live up to mine.' Contracts are.. | contracts covenant god god-s-faithfulness relationships | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| e672d29 | Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God's love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions .. | ideals lives truth words | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 40cb9b5 | The word is always a word for others. Words need to be heard. When we give words to what we are living, these words need to be received and responded to. A speaker needs a listener. A writer needs a reader. When the flesh - the lived human experience - becomes word, community can develop. When we say, 'Let me tell you what we saw. Come and listen to what we did. Sit down and let me explain to you what happened to us. Wait until you hear who.. | language words | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 120e97c | I am convinced that healing is often so difficult because we don't want to know the pain. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 8d98489 | Hope is not dependent on peace in the land, justice in the world, and success in the business. Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness. No one can truly say with certainty where he or she will be ten or twenty years from now. You do not know if you will be free.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6b47297 | The more I reflect on the elder son in me, the more I realize how deeply rooted this form of lostness really is and how hard it is to return home from there. Returning home from a lustful escapade seems so much easier than returning home from a cold anger that has rooted itself in the deepest corners of my being. My resentment is not something that can be easily distinguished and dealt with rationally. It is far more pernicious: something t.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| cba8d3e | At first sight, joy seems to be connected with being different. When you receive a compliment or win an award, you experience the joy of not being the same as others. You are faster, smarter, more beautiful, and it is that difference that brings you joy. But such joy is very temporary. True joy is hidden where we are the same as other people: fragile and mortal. It is the joy of belonging to the human race. It is the joy of being with other.. | immanuel jesus joy | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| d8ef495 | Come try my strength, you dogs who thought to attack helpless prey! But when you do, O beasts of night, know that you face the Lord of Night. I am Death! | Piers Anthony | ||
| 86e5606 | Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls. | challenging comfort marrying ministers prophets saving-souls sustenance | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| 8b89a12 | Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not. | David Allen | ||
| 72a2007 | At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering. | David Allen | ||
| 1860122 | The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time. | David Allen | ||
| b0f2fa2 | In his book Getting Things Done, David Allen shares a crucial insight: "You can't do a project. You can only do the next step." | Michael Bungay Stanier | ||
| 98faae8 | You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they're divorced. It's like you grow up knowing that you're missing something important that everyone else has, but you don't know exactly what it is. I remember hearing my friends talking about how their fathers wouldn't let them stay out late or didn't like their boyfriends. It used to make me so angry because they didn't even realize what they .. | different emptyness fatherless loneliness missing-something motherless parentless | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 1ccb4e5 | People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. | Clayton M. Christensen |