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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2af1a10 | our comfort or discomfort with the outer dark is a good barometer of how we feel about the inner kind. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c5cd147 | At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 2f345ef | His mind had been working away behind his high forehead. Unimaginative himself he could recognize imagination in her: he had come upon one whose whole nature was the contradiction of his own. He knew that behind her simplicity was something he could never have. Something he despised as impractical. Something which would never carry her to power or riches, but would retard her progress and keep her apart in a world of her own make-believe. T.. | steerpike | Mervyn Peake | |
| f244cf9 | It is my cape of good hope, and if it isn't I will probably bite your nose off | Mervyn Peake | ||
| f40351e | He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The dawn was too tense and highly charged for any common happening to survive. | tension time | Mervyn Peake | |
| a720c35 | I hate things! I hate all things! I hate and hate every single tiniest thing. I hate the world." said Fuchsia aloud, raising herself on her elbows, her face to the sky. "I shall live alone. Always alone. In a house, or in a tree." Fuchsia started to chew at a fresh grass blade. "Someone will come then, if I live alone. Someone from another kind of world - a new world - not from this world, but someone who is different, and he will fall in l.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 1b21c86 | It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure. | independence revolution | Mervyn Peake | |
| 69d76c8 | You are a clever little monster,' said the Doctor, tossing off another cognac and placing the glass upon the table with a click. 'A diabolically clever little monster.' 'That is what I hoped you would realize, Doctor,' said Steerpike. 'But haven't all ambitious people soemthing of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous.' 'But, my poor youth, said Prunesquallor, beginning to pace .. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 7b63527 | Glorious,' said Steerpike, 'is a dictionary word. We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect. In dead and shackled language, my dears, you *are* glorious, but oh, to give vent to a brand new sounds that might convince you of what I really think of yo.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 95d035b | Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality. | life-changing self-help | Brian Tracy | |
| 793fedc | Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters. | Brian Tracy | ||
| b2ee6b8 | Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 205f59e | Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment. | moment present present-moment return thoughts | Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy | |
| a75ff4c | those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satiated. | C.S. Harris | ||
| e74ae7d | The Lawyers Know Too Much THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much. They are chums of the books of old John Marshall. They know it all, what a dead hand wrote, A stiff dead hand and its knuckles crumbling, The bones of the fingers a thin white ash. The lawyers know a dead man's thoughts too well. In the heels of the higgling lawyers, Bob, Too many slippery ifs and buts and howevers, Too much hereinbefore provided whereas, Too many doors to go i.. | Carl Sandburg | ||
| 41dbe6b | Never worry about how much money, ability, or equipment you are starting with; just begin with a million dollars' worth of determination. | John Mason | ||
| ff3c460 | Two centuries ago, the United States settled into a permanent political order, after fourteen years of violence and heated debate. Two centuries ago, France fell into ruinous disorder that ran its course for twenty-four years. In both countries there resounded much ardent talk of rights--rights natural, rights prescriptive. . . . [F]anatic ideology had begun to rage within France, so that not one of the liberties guaranteed by the Declarati.. | Russell Kirk | ||
| 29153e0 | Two centuries ago, the United States settled into a permanent political order, after fourteen years of violence and heated debate. Two centuries ago, France fell into ruinous disorder that ran its course for twenty-four years. In both countries there resounded much ardent talk of rights--rights natural, rights prescriptive. . . . [F]anatic ideology had begun to rage within France, so that not one of the liberties guaranteed by the Declarati.. | Russell Kirk | ||
| a3777be | Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long. | John Treadwell Nichols | ||
| 0041b96 | If the radical right had its way we'd all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct. | John Nichols | ||
| 8b86655 | You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own. | life self | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| 9914ea1 | It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again. | traveling traveling-alone | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| 2ba9dda | Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more? | existentialism questions | David Hewson | |
| 1a14c6c | Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting for one brief hour upon a stage, then heard no more. I'll weep an ocean in my heart, if the world would give me time. But not now. | grief insignificance life tomorrow | David Hewson | |
| efb45de | Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov "I don't want to die without any scars." - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are .. | Emanuel Andrei Cosutchi | ||
| 22105cc | retreat, with nothing to look forward to, nowhere to be, nothing to do, we are forced to confront the "wound of existence" head-on, to stare into the abyss and realize that so much of what we do in life--every shift in our seat, every bite of food, every pleasant daydream--is designed to avoid pain or seek pleasure. But if we can drop all that, we can, as Sam once said in his speech to the angry, befuddled atheists, learn how to be happy "b.. | Dan Harris | ||
| 3dba03f | That would do the trick," he said hoarsely. "Jesus, Harper, I don't understand why we don't have guys following us from town to town just to watch you do that." "Because I've never done it for anyone but you," I said. "You don't think I'd say something like that to anyone else, do you?" "Please," he said. "Please do that for me. And no one else." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| f8063d0 | That's just not right," Sam muttered. "Claude needs to keep his pants on." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b1d5d98 | Food, the southern offering on the altar of crisis. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5f5c662 | But I have no sex feelings about you, and I kind of feel the sleeping-together thing is just odd. So we're not doing the fairy sleep-athon of comfort anymore. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 1f8b96f | So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| c157885 | Why bother to change, if you can't change into a wolf? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ef3a7f5 | Lily might be icy on the outside, but inside she was Vesuvius. | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| a4bd146 | Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0490c80 | Despite the failure of Velda Cannon's Depends, we'd had a great time. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 24c3df5 | I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old." -- | humor | Charlaine Harris | |
| 5f15cc8 | It can be tiring knowing so many people with hidden depths," Joe said. "Some days, shallow is good." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 087eba0 | You've reached Fangtasia, where the undead live again every night...For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to a live person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you." -Pam" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ebb65e6 | Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5d58d97 | That was an idea I didn't want to have. But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 1922234 | That is what we are. Death. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7042771 | I want to call you all those gooshy words you use when you love someone, no matter how stupid it sounds. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0f6979e | My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me shaken and nauseated. I satisfied myself with just shifting my eyes around. I thought of all the books I'd read, all the mysteries. Spencer wouldn't have ended up this way. Neither would Kinsey Milhone. Or Henry O. Or Stephanie Plum, Well, yeah, maybe Stephanie Plum. | humor mysteries | Charlaine Harris | |
| e0ce24f | My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything. | poor | Garrison Keillor |