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| 13ac61b | Inverted commas (or speech marks, or quotes) are sometimes used by fastidious writers as a kind of linguistic rubber glove, distancing them from vulgar words or cliches they are too refined to use in the normal way. This 'N' character in Iris Murdoch's novel evidently can't bring himself to say 'keep in touch' without sealing it hygienically within inverted commas, and doubtless additionally indicating his irony with two pairs of curled fin.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 47fc4fc | I remember a conversation which we had once about translating. Hugo knew nothing about translating, but when he learnt that I was a translator he wanted to know what it was like. I remember him going on and on, asking questions such as: What do you mean when you say that you think the meaning in French? How do you know you're thinking it in French? If you see a picture in your mind how do you know it's a French picture? Or is it that you sa.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 07cfcf4 | It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day. | birthday iris-murdoch the-green-knight unhappy | Iris Murdoch | |
| b08a589 | An experience is richest not talked of. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 48b16fb | The chief requirement of the good life', said Michael, 'is that one should have some conception of one's capacities. One must know oneself sufficiently to know what is the next thing. One must study carefully how best to use such strength as one has. ... One must perform the lower act which one can manage and sustain: not the higher act which one bungles. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| dbaaa07 | It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way. | violence | Iris Murdoch | |
| db7ae72 | What we really are seems much more like an obscure system of energy out of which choices and visible acts of will emerge at intervals in ways which are often unclear and often dependent on the condition of the system in between moments of choice. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| a748cde | That night at the Brooklyn party, I was playing the girl who was in style, the girl a man like Nick wants: the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like sh.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 288e0f2 | Help me out," I pleaded. "You've left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we're being dealt the consequences." I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make sure it hadn't turned into a tiny lion." -- | fantasy fiction gabriella-moretti humor joseph-carter keepers novella timeless-series tom-morris ya young-adult | Laura Kreitzer | |
| 65511fe | I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real. | Candy Darling | ||
| df4aef2 | The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something. | Andy Warhol | ||
| b4ff383 | Materialism is a beautiful and compelling view of the world, but to account for consciousness, we have to go beyond the resources it provides. | David J. Chalmers | ||
| 4fe6182 | Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is far from clear how to reconcile it with everything else we know. Why does it exist? What does it do? How could it possibly arise from lumpy gray matter? We know consciousness far more intimately than we know the rest of the world, but we understand the rest of the world far .. | David J. Chalmers | ||
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| d9c2fe8 | When John accuses "evildoers" of leading gullible people into sin, what troubles him is what troubled the Essenes: whether--or how much--to accommodate pagan culture. And when we see Jesus' earliest followers, including Peter, James, and Paul, not as we usually see them, as , but as they saw themselves--as --we can see that they struggled with the same question. For when John charges that certain prophets and teachers are encouraging God'.. | apocalypse apostles gentiles pauline-epistles revelations sectarianism | Elaine Pagels | |
| 690c51e | In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called in English Hours "persons for whom the private machinery of ease has been made to work with extraordinary smoothness." | Paul Reid | ||
| cac94a0 | Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should.. | act advice alone and apostle are attracted avoid away be bear bed beyond can change chastity circumstances commandments compromise considered continue culture day did do door eternal failure first follow girl glad go god-s guy he head help her him hold honor house important intended is keep knows let likely may mocked moral narrow near never not old-fashioned path paul place preserve principle proberbs promise reason relationship remeber result right scriptures she should single-date slower solomon someone son sounds standards stay tempted those to trust trying use very virginity wants what-you whims who whom will with words would wrong you you-ll your | James C. Dobson | |
| c6d6a52 | I don't know how I didn't see it for so many years of Bible reading, but I didn't. Paul didn't teach the Gentiles not to follow the law, he didn't teach people not to have their sons circumcised (in fact he himself had Timothy circumcised in Acts 16:3). And Paul himself kept the law. Otherwise, James would have been telling Paul to lie about what he was doing. So we traded Christmas for Sukkot, the true birth of Messiah during the Feas.. | Tyler Dawn Rosenquist | ||
| ae30a8a | Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. | international-sanctions iraq iraq-sanctions kim-jong-il north-korea saddam-hussein | Roger Scruton | |
| 75351e2 | The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass movement of solidarity, with the promise of emancipation at the end. My father's grievances were real and well founded. But his solutions were dreams. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 8af8081 | There's a real question as to what beauty is and why it's important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they're not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that's in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds. | Roger Scruton | ||
| f611373 | Remember, brunch is only served once a week -- on the weekends. Buzzword here, 'Brunch Menu'. Translation? 'Old, nasty odds and ends, and 12 dollars for two eggs with a free Bloody Mary'. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| c07caa5 | Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these water heads imagine, is a temple that should no.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 4dc6ad4 | for the rest of my life- to resemble this one: both complex and strangely comforting. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 60eb706 | There is no halfway. You don't, it turns out, sell out a little bit. Maybe you thought you were just going to show a little ankle - okay, maybe a little calf, too - but in the end, you're taking on the whole front line of the Pittsburgh Steelers on a dirty shag carpet. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b353f68 | What took me to cooking was that there was something honest about it," says David Chang. There is no lying in the kitchen. And no god there, either. He couldn't help you anyway. You either can--or can't--make an omelet. You either can--or can't--chop an onion, shake a pan, keep up with the other cooks, replicate again and again, perfectly, the dishes that need to be done. No credential, no amount of bullshit, no well-formed sentences or ple.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b8abc87 | We are, after all, citizens of the world - a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald's? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I.. | eating food food-writing travel | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 2df5960 | Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life. Here | Peter Kreeft | ||
| b33e78f | We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--especially ourselves and our own will. So we must renounce this too, this especially. God's world is not the problem; our attitude is. God does not want us to renounce the unspeakably beautiful world he gave us as creation, as gift, as it reall.. | faith god perspective | Peter Kreeft | |
| 63b6e46 | What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike, or the high road to Heaven, we must simply climb on again as soon as we are aware of the fact that we have fallen off, rather than sitting there stewing in self-pity or self-hatred. | faith god humilty perseverance trust | Peter Kreeft | |
| f6b7ed9 | Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 622e1c4 | In reality, the damned are in the same place as the saved--in reality! But they hate it; it is their Hell. The saved love it, and it is their Heaven. It is like two people sitting side by side at an opera or a rock concert: the very thing that is Heaven to one is Hell to the other. Dostoyevski says, 'We are all in paradise, but we won't see it'...Hell is not literally the 'wrath of God.' The love of God is an objective fact; the 'wrath of G.. | damnation divine-love eternal-punishment heaven hell wrath-of-god | Peter Kreeft | |
| 64fd2a1 | Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 61b0b81 | I have long believed the city, the country, indeed the world at large to be run by precisely the wrong kind of people. From the government to the great financial institutions, the peerage to the police force, our lives are controlled without exception by the stupid and greedy, the venal, the rapacious and the undeservedly rich. How much more comfortable would it be if the rulers of the world were not the cognoscenti of the bank balance, the.. | Jonathan Barnes | ||
| cc551a9 | He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 3f7d11d | No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels. | negotiating salary women | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| e445d24 | That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 4ac3bea | Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 395d064 | We also all know people who could do so much more if only they believed in themselves. Like so many things, a lack of confidence can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't know how to convince anyone to believe deep down that she is the best person for the job, not even myself. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 36f2a2f | If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them. | success | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| a4bfc02 | When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot, but is "not well-liked by her peers." She is probably also "too aggressive," "not a team player," "a bit political," "can't be trusted," or "difficult." | workplace-attitudes | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 9085af4 | At a small dinner with other business executives, the guest of honor spoke the entire time without taking a breath. This meant that the only way to ask a question or make an observation was to interrupt. Three or four men jumped in, and the guest politely answered their questions before resuming his lecture. At one point, I tried to add something to the conversation and he barked, "Let me finish! You people are not good at listening!" Event.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 80df822 | When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter. They see that others care and want to be there for them. They understand that they are not alone and can gain some control by reaching out for support. They realize that pain is not permanent; things can get better. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 81602bb | Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. | Sheryl Sandberg |