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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 42b5fe7 | You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions. | Greg Iles | ||
| e741d7b | The only time we can attract a crowd is for some pilgrimage up some god-damned holy mountain to chase the snakes and banshees out of the country. | Leon Uris | ||
| e7665be | There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears? | Leon Uris | ||
| b3d8377 | All men have a measure of cowardice in them. I learned that love of one's mates can overcome your fears. I learned that every survivor of this horror must try to live a good life because he lives for many men. | Leon Uris | ||
| 10e2d61 | Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no idea where the top of the mountain was in the first place. | Leon Uris | ||
| 5a45e58 | Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. | Leon Uris | ||
| e9da9d4 | I'm one of those guys who actually listens when his woman talks. I'm a rare breed. Dangerous, apparently, since you aren't expecting me to hear you. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 10fc540 | Ever since I saw you in that hallway, I've been completely fixated on getting you naked. Inappropriate as hell, but I can't fucking help it. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 302c8ed | Just so you know, I.." He stopped. Her heart began to race at the softness of his expression. True love declaration? That would go so far to easing the pain of his treachery "You what?" He gritted his jaw and shook his head. "Nothing" He stepped away, grabbed her shoes, and handed them to her. Fantastic. She'd wanted an I'll Love You Forever, My Darling moment, and she'd gotten footwear. Sigh." | love | Stephanie Rowe | |
| a6f0a53 | Yes, what's wooing?" Natalie asked. "It means making a guy realize how completely awesome you are, and that he will die a horrible, suffering death if he doesn't get you as his girlfriend within the next thirty seconds," Allie explained." | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| c800174 | Half there, and half not," Grimalkin said, having suddenly appeared over Burton's shoulder. "Sounds implausible to me." | James A. Owen | ||
| 4cde3c1 | It was a silver watch with a matching chain and fob, and on the back was an engraving of Samaranth. 'Is it a time machine?' Jack asked. 'Will it let us travel through time?' 'I believe it will,' Ordo Maas replied. 'I've found that for every minute I watch it, I move a full minute farther into the future. | James A. Owen | ||
| d839fda | That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past. | decisions future lessons past philosophy time | James A. Owen | |
| 64f3e3e | It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed." "Well, doesn't it perhaps mean that the magic word that opens the door is 'allegiance'?" Said Jack. "In Elvish?" "That's a stupid idea," said John. "Then anyone who spoke Elvish could get in." | lord-of-the-rings-jokes tolkien-references | James A. Owen | |
| 2f30a35 | sometimes, it is not about guarding something of value that is important, but rather, being a valuable guard, so that when that thing comes along that needs guarding, there is no question. | James A. Owen | ||
| 68b50b1 | The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose. | James A. Owen | ||
| 0bbf198 | A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy. | Stephen Crane | ||
| a54a78a | There were many who went in huddled procession, They knew not wither, But, at any rate, success or calamity Would attend all in equality. There was one who sought a new road, He went into direful thickets, And ultimately he died thus, alone; But they said he had courage. | Stephen Crane | ||
| f1b766c | The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 0923ccb | Orang yang selalu menunda-nunda niatnya tidak akan mencapai apa-apa. | Og Mandino | ||
| d5ab950 | Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve. | Og Mandino | ||
| 52272f9 | Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions. | Og Mandino | ||
| 2737944 | So long as I have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, I shall be happy. | Og Mandino | ||
| 65f9214 | The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 14ec96d | Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?" | humor naturalism | Stephen Crane | |
| ac0b155 | This life is not about our comfort. We have an eternity for that. I really think this is about training and testing. We will have work to do in Heaven, work that is fulfilling and perfect for us. God needs to develop certain skill sets in us before that time. That may be what this life is about. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| c20c08d | Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it's useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1b29f6a | Getting a problem analyzed is two-thirds of solving it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b7b8187 | The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 34351c8 | though weather is important while it happens it seems to me to be pretty dull to look back on. You can take descriptions of most any sort of weather out of an almanac and stick them in just anywhere; they'll probably fit. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 7aa3794 | You have to have been out on a long patrol to appreciate this properly. You need to have looked forward to your day of guard duty, for the privilege of standing two hours out of each six with your spine against bulkhead thirty and your ears cocked for just the of a female voice. I suppose it's actually easier in the all-stag ships... but I'll take the Rodger Young. It's good to know that the ultimate reason you are fighting actually exist.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0a0f04e | Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 762af90 | Customs, morals--is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe--and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes--make him feel shame if he doesn't have it. | custom moral taboo | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 2f53778 | That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here. | god priests religion stranger-in-a-strange-land | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 9aa4dd1 | I hate to tell you this, but you are just stupid and eager and sincere enough to make the kind of officer that men love to follow into some silly predicament. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4098f78 | I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place. | zoos | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| aea5285 | I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers? | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5eb8aeb | Foster had in common with every great religious leader of that planet two traits: he had an extremely magnetic personality, and sexually he did not fall near the human norm. On Earth great religious leaders were always either celibate or the antithesis. Foster was not celibate. (p.289) | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 483752f | The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2c48be4 | Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 09edf93 | His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| fafa33c | in a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1cdd371 | Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human--'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average personal values, all of which must be quantitively different or trade would be impossible. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c69d3b2 | War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence. Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers | war | Robert A. Heinlein |