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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f9870db | It was like living with a bad action movie, all excitement and motion, and no character development. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 9b57b4e | A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them | funny princesses | Christina Dodd | |
| 77d2382 | But some vows are made for good reason, and some are made for pride. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 09bb1d6 | Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed. | prophetic-pragmatism sad-but-true social-satire | Jules Verne | |
| ba1c5f0 | The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| a60b949 | How much of life is Christ to be Lord over? Is he only interested in that part of life we think of as religious or spiritual? Or is he interested in every facet of our lives--body, soul, mind and spirit? | Steve Turner | ||
| d601fb1 | A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily, songs that are positive and uplifting - in short, works of art that show a world that is almost unfallen where no one experiences conflict and where sin is naughty rather than wicked. | culture faith | Steve Turner | |
| 1648cd6 | After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night. | shadows vanishing | Joe Meno | |
| 983e325 | I was a shy kid and I was afraid what i said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever saud anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me. | Joe Meno | ||
| 9aaab02 | I did a bad thing tonight, one of the most terrible things ever: I waited for her to fall asleep, then stole the sheet from under her head. I am missing you or maybe just the idea of you. I have begun seriously thinking about other men. I am afraid I am not strong enough or tough enough for this. I am afraid all the time. I have not slept well in months. When are you coming back, you jerk? We are all trying to be brave without you and doing.. | Joe Meno | ||
| 0e3e1e2 | Apples are kissing other apples. Gray cats are kissing other gray cats. Trees are kissing trees. You and I are not kissing. We work in an office together. We are both married to other people. It is okay because we only have ideas, you and I, about whether we should kiss or not. These ideas are both good and bad, probably. At work, we do not say these words aloud but make elaborate diagrams for one another. You write these words: Kissing yo.. | romance | Joe Meno | |
| 58e3ac9 | Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen. | Joe Meno | ||
| 367d2a4 | Attention, God the Judge, God the Father, who Art in Heaven, give me one miracle, please. If You exist as I know You do, even if no one else in the world believes in You, please give me a brain tumor. Please tear my limbs from their sockets and let the backseat and my older sister be totally covered with blood. Please make me dumb and blind and deaf, please make me a martyr, please, dear heavenly Father. Tear my heart right from my chest. D.. | Joe Meno | ||
| 0f4a8c7 | When you are 31 years, 7 months, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds old, you've lived your billionth second. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| b085eea | I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard--explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species. | cosmos science space universe | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| dce1bad | Mount Everest is about as tall as a mountain on Earth can grow before the lower rock layers succumb to their own plasticity under the mountain's weight. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| df25e89 | Let's get China to leak a memo that says they want to build military bases on Mars. We'd be on Mars in twelve months. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| e5f8de9 | I learned in biology class that more bacteria live and work in one centimeter of my colon, than the number of people who have ever existed in the world. That kind of information makes you think twice about who-or what-is actually in charge. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 3987858 | Part the curtains of society's racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts, and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers. Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink--or never arise at all--and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavi.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| e85316e | To be penitent, to feel sorry for sin, to shed tears, to even make decisions does not bring in salvation. Confession, decision, and many other religious acts can never be and are not to be construed as new birth. Rational judgment, intelligent understanding, mental acceptance, or the pursuit of the good, the beautiful, and the true are merely soulical activities if the spirit is not reached and stirred. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 3b43a99 | Do we impress people with ourselves, or with the Lord? Do we draw people to our teaching, or to the Lord? This is genuinely vital. It determines the value of all our work and labor. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 12e30a9 | The author nicely encapsulates Paul's overarching intent in his letter to Corinth, to impress upon those in the church infatuated with the gifts of the Spirit a greater awestruck awareness of His presence in and among them. The author then illustrates thusly: if we have but a few coins, we may carry them lightly with little concern as to whether we lose them. But if we are aware that we carry a great sum, we will carry it with great care. H.. | holy-spirit | Watchman Nee | |
| 2616d70 | Surviving dangerous times require a sense of humor. | sense-of-humor time | Robert Ferrigno | |
| 0f6439b | ambitious people awe some and terrify others! | Ali Vali | ||
| e942ca6 | Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specificity and is reabsorbed by all the other categories. When everything is political, nothing is political anymore, the word itself is meaningless. When everything is sexual, nothing is sexual any more, and sex loses its determinants. When everything is aesthetic, nothing is beautiful or ugly any more, and art itself disappears. | generalization political-correctness value | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 038c806 | The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it has now been reduced. The world of the objects of old seems like a theatre of cruelty and instinctual drives in comparison with the formal neutrality and prophylactic 'whiteness' of our perfect functional objects. Thus the handle of the flatiron gradually diminishes as it undergoes 'contouring' - the .. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| ad93e45 | Forgetting extermination is part of extermination. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 64da5ce | Everyone seeks their look. Since it is no longer possible to base any claim on one's own existence, there is nothing for it but to perform an appearing act without concerning oneself with being - or even with being seen. So it is not: I exist, I am here! but rather: I am visible, I am an image -look! look! This is not even narcissism, merely an extraversion without depth, a sort of self-promoting ingenuousness whereby everyone becomes the m.. | self-promotion | Jean Baudrillard | |
| b644929 | It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge. | religion simulation social socialism | Jean Baudrillard | |
| c1bfac8 | Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they are themselves terrorists, insofar as they themselves march to the tune of seduction. | terrorism | Jean Baudrillard | |
| e747329 | Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to , was his favourite book. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 026e629 | Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)" | mystery religion spirituality theology | Ellis Peters | |
| 2e65220 | Child, [death] is with us always," said Cadfael, patient beside him. "Last summer ninety-five men died here in the town, none of whom had done murder. For choosing the wrong side, they died. It falls upon blameless women in war, even in peace at the hands of evil men. It falls upon children who never did harm to any, upon old men, who in their lives have done good to many, and yet are brutally and senselessly slain. Never let it shake your .. | faith justice suffering trust | Ellis Peters | |
| 3cef2f5 | What are wits for unless a man uses them? | thinking wits | Ellis Peters | |
| bcf3845 | I value devotion and fidelity, and doubt if it matters whether the object falls short. What you do and what you are is what matters. Your loyalty is as sacred as mine. | Ellis Peters | ||
| 4d49f86 | The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others' happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life--yes, the one life--you'll probably ever have. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 3c90c31 | If you prefer to perform well and want to be accepted by others, you are concerned that you will fail and be rejected. Your healthy concern encourages you to act competently and nicely. But if you devoutly believe that you absolutely, under all conditions, must perform well and that you have to be accepted by others, you will then tend to make yourself--yes, make yourself--panicked if you don't perform as well as you supposedly must. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 6d80036 | There is no doom so black or deep that courage and clear sight may not find another truth beyond it. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 52b6edc | I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named Jose, had just poured me another drink, and I was having one of those rare moments any serious drunk can tell you about. A piece of real quiet. Jose's cheeks bristled because he didn't shave very often, and his apron was dingy because it didn't get washed very often, and his fingernails had little crescents of grime under t.. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| a3f0e5a | It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 16e7132 | Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite" Foamfollower from (Lord Foul's Bane; 1977)" | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 66b7858 | Melenkurion abatha! Binas mill Bana Nihoram khabaal! Melenkurion abatha! Abatha Nimoram! | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 3f922ca | I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only thing he could do to keep on serving the symbol and not have to deal with a flesh-and-blood woman. | Glen Cook | ||
| b37c63e | books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. | Glen Cook |