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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 68b1d05 | We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves. | mother phrase | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 7085f66 | It was one of her delightful qualities; she wept with those who wept. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 440138d | Perhaps the most fascinating character to emerge from the history of the Rape of Nanking is the German businessman John Rabe. To most of the Chinese in the city, he was a hero, "the living Buddha of Nanking," the legendary head of the International Safety Zone who saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives." | Iris Chang | ||
| 92c3c56 | Once in an endless meadow, just able to peer through the tawny haze of the grass tops, the child who was myself had watched a young fox catching mice, an elegant newly minted fox, straight from the hand of God, brilliantly ruddy, with black stockings and a white-tipped brush. The fox heard and turned. I saw its intense vivid mask, its liquid amber eyes. Then it was gone. An image of such beauty and such mysterious sense. The child wept and .. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| d14171f | Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| ef977a1 | Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| a2ad60f | The novel, then, provides a reduction of the world different from that of the treatise. It has to lie. Words, thoughts, patterns of word and thought, are enemies of truth, if you identify that with what may be had by phenomenological reductions. Sartre was always, as he explains in his autobiography, aware of their being at variance with reality. One remembers the comic account of this antipathy in Iris Murdoch Under the Net, one of the few.. | Frank Kermode | ||
| 22558bf | thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 28af5f2 | I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort. | depressed iris-murdoch suicidal tired world-weary | Iris Murdoch | |
| b9680e3 | Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved nothing is gauche. Every move of the head, every tone of the voice, every laugh or grunt or cough or twitch of the nose is as valuable and revealing as a glimpse of paradise. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 8a90d5a | However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after. | life | Iris Murdoch | |
| e30739a | Human beings crave for novelty and welcome even wars. Who opens the morning papers without the wild hope of huge headlines announcing another great disaster? Provided of course that it affects other people and not oneself. Rupert liked order. But there is no man who likes order who does not give houseroom to a man who dreams of disorder. The sudden wrecking of the accustomed scenery, so long as one can be fairly sure of a ringside seat, sti.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 2e9114c | Encontrar a alguien inagotable es simplemente la definicion del amor. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 19251cc | The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one of desolation and peace, a glorious past recalled, and now thankfully put to rest. | Stephanie Barron | ||
| c081d7c | Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance? | morals | Stephanie Barron | |
| a433d71 | The child-like, gum-chewing naivete , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones... | description philosophical quote warhol | Andy Warhol | |
| 1739e98 | You must always be yourself, no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality. | Candy Darling | ||
| eff06c9 | She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody's private fantasies. | Andy Warhol | ||
| b06149a | Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living. | cash james-bond lifestyle money resorts | Paul Kyriazi | |
| 3080752 | Neuro-nonsense occurs when people take on board the supposed discoveries of neuroscience - all these brain images that tell us, for instance, that we've discovered now exactly what love is, it's this little bit in the hippocampus, so we have no need to question what the meaning of these things is. But these images have no meaning, any more than a chemical reaction in a test-tube has a meaning. All kinds of nonsense comes into being as a res.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| faf68ce | These are the end products of the Masterminds of Safety and Ethics, bulked up on cheese that contains no cheese, chips fried in oil that isn't really oil, overcooked gray disks of what might once upon a time have been meat, a steady diet of Ho-Hos and muffins, butterless popcorn, sugarless soda, flavorless light beer. A docile, uncomprehending herd, led slowly to a dumb, lingering, and joyless slaughter. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8baad59 | He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 990c4c1 | While we're on brunch, how about hollandaise sauce? Not for me. Bacteria love hollandaise. And hollandaise, that delicate emulsion of egg yolks and clarified butter, must be held at a temperature not too hot nor too cold, lest it break when spooned over your poached eggs. Unfortunately, this lukewarm holding temperature is also the favorite environment for bacteria to copulate and reproduce in. Nobody I know has ever made hollandaise to ord.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| afb3b2c | Male, female, gay, straight, legal, illegal, country of origin--who cares? You can either cook an omelet or you can't. You can either cook five hundred omelets in three hours--like you said you could, and like the job requires--or you can't. There's no lying in the kitchen. The restaurant kitchen may indeed be the last, glorious meritocracy--where anybody with the skills and the heart is welcomed. But if you're old, or out of shape--or were.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| d933c7a | The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 6f1ae5b | A three-star Italian chef pal of mine was recently talking about why he -- a proud Tuscan who makes his own pasta and sauces from scratch daily and runs one of the best restaurant kitchens in New York -- would never be so foolish as to hire any Italians to cook on his line. He greatly prefers Ecuadorians, as many chefs do: 'The Italian guy? You screaming at him in the rush, "Where's that risotto?! Is that fucking risotto ready yet? Gimme th.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b42feb4 | Everyone should be encouraged at every turn to develop their own modest yet unique repertoire--to find a few dishes they love and practice at preparing them until they are proud of the result. To either respect in this way their own past--or express through cooking their dreams for the future. Every citizen would thus have their own specialty. Why can we not do this? There is no reason in the world. Let us then go forward. With vigor. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 78d50f9 | But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not take us down from our crosses: so that we do not substitute feelings and experiences for faith. He wants the very best for us, the strongest and most precious gift, and that is faith. | cross faith gift suffering | Peter Kreeft | |
| 2541fd4 | It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray. | heart prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| faf1c90 | No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze. | bible catholic christian-philosophy christianity church eucharist jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock kreeft resurrection | Peter Kreeft | |
| 10afd15 | If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God. | god the-presence-of-god trust | Peter Kreeft | |
| 570099e | don't confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method was to question everything. But he believed in absolute truth; he was no sceptic. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f8c1c8e | But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb. | Gerald Lawson Sittser | ||
| 1fdc52f | The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression--rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected against discrimination and prejudice, and they are free to maintain whatever part of their ethnic heritage or identity they wish, consistent with the rights of others. But their efforts are purel.. | discrimination ethnicity individuals liberalism liberties multiculturalism nations neutrality prejudice states | Will Kymlicka | |
| d1a5078 | If you always read books, you'll always be happy. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 73a31e9 | Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next thirty years, what difference does going "back" four years really make? If the other path made her happier and offered her a chance to learn new skills, that meant she was actually moving forward." | career-paths | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 4fcaa3e | For many men, the fundamental assumption is that they can have both a successful professional life and a fulfilling personal life. For many women, the assumption is that trying to do both is difficult at best and impossible at worst. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| fb7bee1 | The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. | inspirational power | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| efbcc87 | The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| eaaac5b | A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable, predictable, and meaningful. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 35bb743 | A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments. | glass-ceiling women work | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| fa65ff0 | Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| d5393d5 | Tanrim bana degistiremeyecegim seyleri kabul etme gucu, degistirebilecegim seyleri degistirme cesareti ve bu ikisi arasindaki farki anlayabilme sagduyusu ver | dua | Marlo Morgan | |
| 715b65e | I had read four thousand pages of letters by Lawrence and I wanted thousands of pages more... I wanted them not to end. And yet, at the same time that I was wishing they would not come to an end, I was hurrying through these books because however much you are enjoying a book, however much you want it never to end, you are always eager for it end. However much you are enjoying a book you are always flicking to the end, counting to see how .. | reading | Geoff Dyer |