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| 2cd3edf | In was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last. I no longer believe that, but I am telling you how it was. | Joan Didion | ||
| 02c55e0 | If you can imagine the future being brighter, it lifts your energy and gooses the chemistry in your body that produces a sensation of happiness. If you can't even imagine an improved future, you won't be happy no matter how well your life is going right now. | Scott Adams | ||
| 46f6f70 | Women believe that men are, in a sense, defective versions of women, Men believe that women are defective versions of men. Both genders are trapped in a delusion that their personal viewpoints are universal. That viewpoint--that each gender is a defective version of the other--is the root of all misunderstandings. | Scott Adams | ||
| 5f02ccc | When you can release on your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, it gives you the freedom to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world. | Scott Adams | ||
| e6d2374 | Skeptics," he said, "suffer from the skeptics' disease-- the problem of being right too often." | Scott Adams | ||
| 58284ad | Listen, if I can manage it, I'll try to swing home this afternoon for a bit. To--I don't know--help you out or something." His smile was warm and gorgeous. "See there. You're acting like a wife." "Shut up." "I like it," he said, backing her against the door. "Quite a bit. Next thing I know you'll be down in the kitchen, baking." "Next thing you know I'll be kicking your ass, and you'll be the one who needs round-the-clock care." "Can we pla.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 1563b75 | Here some one thrust these cards into these old hands of mine, swears that I must play them, and no others. And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right, live in the game, and die in it. | game-theory hunts life | Herman Melville | |
| a7aee37 | Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen? | Herman Melville | ||
| 2b357f4 | Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeve of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost. | Herman Melville | ||
| 9345fba | for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown | soul thought | Herman Melville | |
| 49596c0 | Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon for the first time sitting there like a great beached whale, its big white bones exposed to the winds. But how can this happen? How can a whale turn into a building? Or into a book? In what way can words be alive? | Laurie Anderson | ||
| 7cd1ae5 | For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. | Herman Melville | ||
| 3004864 | wDTj`t lqwrb lthlth@ hnlk fy rfq `l~ sTH lm lmtdHrj why tHdq fy lZhyr@ l'bdy@ lzrq, wlm tnb`th mn '`mq lzrq@ 'nW@ 'w SyH@ m, l wlm tnTlq htzz@ 'w nfkh@ m, flw 'n 'Hd 'bn lbr shhd hdh lmshhd 'kn ykhTr lh 'n 'shd lHywnt lbHry@ wHshy@ ytlwW~ wyt`qS bl`dhb lmbrH tHt Zhr dhlk lSmt wtlk lskyn@ lmTmy'n@? | Herman Melville | ||
| 0bdbd04 | Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee. | Herman Melville | ||
| 280fa99 | wmthlm 'n 'Tfl ladmyyn yHdqwn fy hdw wthbt b`yd `n lthdy whm yrD`wn k'nm yHywn Hytyn fy an m` - fbynm hm ymtkwn lGdh ljsdy m yzlwn rwHy ystTybwn dhkryt Gyr 'rDy@ - kdhlk kn yf`l SGr 'wly'k lHytn, knw k'nm ynZrwn nHwn l~ '`l~ wlknhm l ynZrwnn, k'nn `shb@ mn '`shb lkhlyj fy 'nZrhm lwlyd@ lHdyth@ l`hd blnZr. | Herman Melville | ||
| ba32ad7 | fyn jmy`an HfWr dkhyl l ykf `n l`ml fy mnjmh. wlkn 'nW~ ln 'n ndry l~ 'yn ytjh lnfq ldhy yHfrh min lstm` l~ Swt f'sh lmktwm lmtnql 'bdan? | Herman Melville | ||
| 8e25925 | though the only spout in sight was that of a Fin-Back, belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of its incredible power of swimming. Nevertheless, the Fin-Back's spout is so similar to the Sperm Whale's, that by unskilful fishermen it is often mistaken for it. And consequently Derick and all his host were now in valiant chase of this unnearable brute. The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus th.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 797b834 | oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy. | liars oaths | Herman Melville | |
| f1c8de4 | Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. | Herman Melville | ||
| 159bbc5 | I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God? | Herman Melville | ||
| e4a02a0 | But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. | Herman Melville | ||
| f0114d8 | The sky slides into blue, the bluffs into bloom; the rapid Mississippi expands; runs sparkling and gurgling, all over in eddies; one magnified wake of a seventy-four. The sun comes out, a golden huzzar, from his tent, flashing his helm on the world. All things, warmed in the landscape, leap. Speeds the daedal boat as a dream. | Herman Melville | ||
| cd16aaf | The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swall.. | foreshadow | Herman Melville | |
| 0440cf8 | Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. | Herman Melville | ||
| 1cff665 | Round the World! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us. | Herman Melville | ||
| e092313 | and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. | Herman Melville | ||
| 26b9de8 | To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous. | Herman Melville | ||
| 1aab1a7 | For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one." | Herman Melville | ||
| 88bc48a | For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter than the presence of delight. | Herman Melville | ||
| b48c1fc | Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. | Herman Melville | ||
| f4d86a8 | What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who ain't a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about- however the.. | Herman Melville | ||
| e0aab78 | I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world. | Herman Melville | ||
| 734183b | Verily there is nothing new under the sun. | Herman Melville | ||
| 5642be4 | Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours--watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he had a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of .. | Herman Melville | ||
| 37fa543 | For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included. | Herman Melville | ||
| 63b76d1 | Yet, after all, insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing cares, my not the savage be the happier man..? | Herman Melville | ||
| 8222772 | In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant--the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes. | grandeur | Herman Melville | |
| 6a1fdcd | if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. | Herman Melville | ||
| 77545e4 | The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. | heart intellect | Herman Melville | |
| 1a5bf12 | One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of.. | english herman-melville history literature masterpiece moby-dick novel prose quotes | Herman Melville | |
| 835f1bc | I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts. | sea-voyages wanderlust | Herman Melville | |
| 855f452 | Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? | Herman Melville | ||
| 05503d2 | But I must be content with only one more and a concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one, by which you will not fail to see, that not only is the most marvellous event in this book corroborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages; so that for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon - Verily there is nothing new under the sun. | Herman Melville | ||
| 9a2334a | there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. | Herman Melville |