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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 010f255 | The complexity and efficiency of the physicist's technical apparatus is matched, if not surpassed, by that of the mystic's consciousness--both physical and spiritual--in deep meditation. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 74737f7 | Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended. | Huston Smith | ||
| f6551b4 | Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 0ca804e | Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief? | Laurie R. King | ||
| 9c2ace3 | I took the broom and made a wild sweep along the workbench, and an edge of the unwieldy head sent a tray of tools flying. Patrick picked up a chipped chisel and looked at me as if I had attacked his son. "Have you never used a broom before?" -- | Laurie R. King | ||
| 0a22f64 | The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 36ad72d | The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had been a great killer; it was his way and the way of his people; no one in his tribe had killed so often and so well. The killings were good to remember, as he rode his old horse deeper into the llano, away from all the places where people came. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 560866c | You should be proud of her. She cracked the wall, and I never thought I'd live to see it cracked." What are you talking about?" I said. "What wall?" The one you built around you," Jeannie said. "Don't say it wasn't there. It was there. I tried to crack it but I didn't have the confidence, you know? What happened is, it cracked me, but that's okay, I'm working around my crack pretty well. But you were dying behind your wall, and you're lucky.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| db6bdcd | he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a84b008 | Death and worse happened on the plains. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| e75e7cf | People got opinions, that's all they've got. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0d70900 | The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5efa76f | He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men. | apart like loner self | Larry McMurtry | |
| 0d35655 | Young things mainly belong to themselves. How they grow up depends on who gets attached to them. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f903028 | Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to be. In many cases not even the librarians want books to be there. What consumers want now is information, and information increasingly comes from computers. That is a preference I can't grasp, much less share, though I'm well aware that computers have many valid uses. They save lives, and they make research in most cases.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2408d24 | It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times," Augustus said." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b730986 | He said there were going to be literary parties. I tried to imagine a literary party and was unable to. It was a very abstract effort, like trying to imagine a triangle or a cube. Wearing a suit made me feel even more abstract. I had a mental picture of me inside my suit, inside a party, inside a building, inside San Francisco. I didn't know what I was doing, inside so many things that were unlike me. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 686efc7 | Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped. | love not-easy thought thought-to-ponder | Larry McMurtry | |
| 097d606 | It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acute misery, persistent hunger and deprived and desperate lives, and why millions of innocent children have to die each year from lack of food or medical attention or social care. This issue, of course, is not new, and it has been a subject of some discussion among theologians. The argument that God has reasons to want us to deal with these ma.. | development economics freedom responsibility social-commitment | Amartya Sen | |
| b29793c | ltfkyr mhm jdan lfhm l`dl@ Ht~ fy `lm fyh kthyr mn ljnwn. | Amartya Sen | ||
| c7650e0 | HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 5cca0a3 | El alma humana es la verdadera copula del mundo porque, por un lado, se dirige hacia lo divino y, por el otro, se introduce en el cuerpo y domina la naturaleza. | cuerpo divino mundo naturaleza | Umberto Eco | |
| 1200cb5 | The "thesis neurosis" has begun: the student abandons the thesis, returns to it, feels unfulfilled, loses focus, and uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life that he is too cowardly to address. This student will never graduate." | Umberto Eco | ||
| 9d46677 | Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others." "Never" | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 1d64ffd | A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a04f202 | Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 71b999d | In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| f04de23 | Besides, the storm which rages in her breast was increasing in its violence, and she would have burst her prison walls if her body could have enjoyed, for a single instant, the same proportions as her soul. | storm | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 947af60 | Speak, Madame; speak, queen," said Buckingham. "The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but the sacrilege is in the separation of hearts that God has formed for each other!" | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| d663632 | The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all. | politics | Alexandre Dumas | |
| eba4702 | Listen,' said Morrel; 'it is not the first time you have contemplated our present position, which is a serious and urgent one; I do not think it is a moment to give way to useless sorrow; leave that for those who like to suffer at their leisure and indulge their grief in secret. There are such in the world, and God will doubtless reward them in heaven for their resignation on earth, but those who mean to contend must not lose one precious m.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| bd1a042 | No, happily that unjust prejudice is forgotten which made the son responsible for the father's actions. Review your life, Albert ... | Alexandre Dumas pere | ||
| dacba23 | So like Athos." thought Aramis; "That which is actually good never alters." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| bebd756 | Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 37789f7 | Monsieur Man-in-a-hurry, you can find me without running--ME, you understand? | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9933eda | Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you are quite right in acting thus; nevertheless in losing you I lose part of my life. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 41f1820 | I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 1aa18cc | the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it. | mistakes perspective wisdom | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 675d7a1 | Dantes had entered the Chateau d'If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early paths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past. This was now all changed. The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, an.. | maturity optimism | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 215df54 | He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a6f1b8b | This will do," said he, "and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand." And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy procureur hastened to the house of his betrothed." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 4877f67 | I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 0532c03 | Dorinta prompt indeplinita genereaza pe data o alta. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| e4229e1 | Za vsiako zlo ima dva tsiara: vremeto i m'lchanieto | Alexandre Dumas |