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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9e5ba57 | By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms. | Holly Black | ||
| b759d55 | because she remembered things that hurt more easily than anything nice. | Holly Black | ||
| d35ea80 | Have a heartattack! | David Lubar | ||
| c005f39 | You know what guys do? They stand up for people. | David Lubar | ||
| f3045e6 | The only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen. | Mark Epstein | ||
| be1fa22 | In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a waste. Trees are extravagant. Tree trunks are standing monuments to futile competition - futile if we think in terms of a planed economy. But the natural economy is not planned. Individual plants compete with other plants, of the same and other species, and the result is that they grow taller and taller, far taller than any pla.. | science trees | Richard Dawkins | |
| 5bded49 | A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 190cc9e | Less abject but more shocking was the letter from the Founder of the Calvary Tabernacle Association in Oklahoma: Professor Einstein, I believe that every Christian in America will answer you, 'We will not give up our belief in our God and his son Jesus Christ, but we invite you, if you do not believe in the God of the people of this nation, to go back where you came from.' I have done everything in my power to be a blessing to Israel, and t.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 5ad3abd | Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. . . . Natural selection . . . is a non-random force, pushing towards improvement. . . . Every generation has its Darwinian failures but every individual is descended only from previous generations' successful minorities. . . . [T]here can be no going downhill - species can't get worse as a prelude to getting better. . .. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| ff1ad3d | When we die there are two things we can leave behind us: genes and memes. We were built as gene machines, created to pass on our genes. But that aspect of us will be forgotten in three generations. Your child, even your grandchild, may bear a resemblance to you, perhaps in facial features, in a talent for music, in the colour of her hair. But as each generation passes, the contribution of your genes is halved. It does not take long to reach.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| ccc82e8 | I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| ee0ade1 | God likes to have his free lunch and be it too. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 2d64014 | The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less). | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b64200f | It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 3bdb6b3 | Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 4eebe98 | hmhchyz r bsnj; hmwrh bwrhy khwd r b wq`yt bz azm, w amdhbsh t Hty `zyztryn bwrhyt r hm khh b wq`yt nmykhwnnd khnr nhy. `qyd khwd r mstqlan w br mbny khrd w tjrbhy khwd brgzyn; ngdhr dygrn tw r bh pyrwy khwrkhwrnh bkhshnnd. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 29bbf3d | To say that something happened supernaturally is not just to say 'We don't understand it' but to say 'We will never understand it, so don't even try. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 582e59a | What, after all, is so special about genes? The answer is that they are replicators. The laws of physics are supposed to be true all over the accessible universe. Are there any principles of biology which are likely to have similar universal validity? When astronauts voyage to distant planets and look for life, they can expect to find creatures too strange and unearthly for us to imagine. But is there anything which must be true of all life.. | evolution life science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 0e0980f | one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| eadf172 | Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it! | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 524f805 | God ordered Abraham to make a burnt offering of his longed-for son. Abraham built an altar, put firewood upon it, and trussed Isaac up on top of the wood. His murdering knife was already in his hand when an angel dramatically intervened with the news of a last-minute change of plan: God was only joking after all, 'tempting' Abraham, and testing his faith. A modern moralist cannot help but wonder how a child could ever recover from such a ps.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 435d7f5 | Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it. | life natural-selection oxygen | Richard Dawkins | |
| 471a9b6 | She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and die | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 082a357 | Loving isn't finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 8eaeccd | Time had lost its importance. That was one of the good things about getting old: you weren't perpetually in a hurry. All her life, Penelope had looked after other people, but now she had no one to think about but herself. There was time to stop and look, and, looking, to remember. Visions widened, like views seen from the slopes of a painfully climbed mountain, and having come so far, it seemed ridiculous not to pause and enjoy them. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 5a381c1 | She had never lived alone before, and at first found it strange, but gradually had learned to accept it as a blessing and to indulge herself in all sorts of reprehensible ways, like getting up when she felt like it, scratching herself if she itched, sitting up until two in the morning to listen to a concert. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 333a0df | Curiosity could be almost as powerful as desire. | Shayla Black | ||
| 8d0da0e | I want to be tangled up in all her strings. | Shayla Black | ||
| f4dd5d6 | I got shot saving you. That should speak very clearly about my feelings. After all, I'll bear the scars of loving you for the rest of my life. | Shayla Black | ||
| 79271aa | Do not be afraid to try. Do not be afraid to fail. Be afraid to simply exist never knowing either the high of success or the low of failure. | Shayla Black | ||
| fc09926 | Picture the rest of your life without Del and give me a one word description of it." "I can't decide between bleak or pathetic," Tyler admitted finally. "There you go." | Shayla Black | ||
| b850eee | His pretty face could not make up for the fact that he had the IQ of a dead houseplant and the emotional range of a frozen pea. | Shayla Black | ||
| 6077e38 | You smell like happiness, | Shayla Black | ||
| 36fb4e1 | Stretch your mind past the emotion and search for the lesson. | L.A. Banks | ||
| 509c093 | If there had been any doubt in her mind that John hadn't placed some emotional claim on her, then it was gone in that second. Pure male possession marked his kiss. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 735d81c | It was my baby, too." His voice was husky, filled with regret, with pain. "But even more than that, Sherra, you're my soul. You're every breath I take. I would give my life to have saved you. I would give it now if it would mean I could go back and spare you this pain." The dampness from his eyes soaked the swarthy complexion, lined with pain and regret. "I would do anything, everything, baby, to ease this pain for you." | my-baby-too sherra | Lora Leigh | |
| e2f35bf | Micah knew the power of a look. When two people touched from across a distance, that touch could be frightening, wary, or a stroke of gentleness. He stroked her gently. He never let his eyes dip below her chin; rather, he let himself take in every nuance of expression, every shift of each facial motion, the flicker of her lashes, the shadows in her eyes, the tension in her small body. She was like a bird ready to fly. Poised at the edge of.. | Lora Leigh | ||
| d725c52 | I waited for you. All these years I watched and waited, knowing, somehow, that what we would have would be different. That it would be worth the lonely nights and the fears that I had missed you somewhere. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 8b87544 | It's instinct," he said then. "For centuries, it's been our job to protect our home, our women, and our children. We're emotional cowards. We don't talk about our feelings, we're not comfortable putting our soul into words. So we give of ourselves the only way we know how. We protect. We smother those we love in protection, fight for ways to keep them always safe, even from what we deem as a threat from themselves. It's in our genes, Kira. .. | Lora Leigh | ||
| f359006 | She said we can't save everyone, but we can damned sure as hell fight to save those we love. ... She taught me that we can only do our best. You've done your best. ...not beat yourself up because you missed something or someone. It makes you weak. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 2659eb4 | I love you, Anya," he said. "You are my soul." | Lora Leigh | ||
| e5f7c65 | You're being awful generous with your late husband's possessions," he told her. She grinned back at him. "You've loosened me up maybe? Besides, you've already slept with his wife, why not drive his truck? Kira drank his 1925 Chateau Feytit Clinet red wide today." Did he look pale? Noah swore he could feel himself blanch. His 1925 Chateau Feytit Clinet? No. She hadn't shared that with Kira Richards. The one person in the world besides Sabell.. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 0f70f43 | When it came to a man's soul, Noah (Wild Card) thought that maybe his uncle (Jordan, Elite Ops commander) was finally realizing that once a man lost his soul to a woman, it was gone forever. And life wasn't much worth living without her. | Lora Leigh | ||
| da07089 | Tease?" he groaned. "Ah, baby, I'm not teasing you. I'm giving to you. Giving you every ounce of pleasure I know how to give you." -Jordan(Live Wire) to Tehya (Enigma)" | Lora Leigh |