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| 6c70666 | There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything. | future moments | Mary Balogh | |
| 324f04f | Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic. | love | Mary Balogh | |
| 36a26e7 | Sometimes love was to be grasped in any form and in any manner it was offered. And sometimes love must be given in the same way. | Mary Balogh | ||
| dca9158 | But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers. | peers self-esteem | Mary Balogh | |
| 1536616 | Sita. He loved you and you loved him. You can't measure that love by how many days you spent together. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 6ccb2e3 | We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 77f5ae3 | Time is like constellations that swing in a great circle in the sky's vast bowl. There is no beginning, no end; all returns again and again, forever. | Linda Lay Shuler | ||
| 1f1e693 | Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil. | Shauna Singh Baldwin | ||
| d81ea88 | I love you Utanapishtim. Ziasudra. And if I die tonight, my only regret will be that we didn't have more time together. And if I die a thousand years from now, my only regret will be exactly the same. I love you, I love you. I love you | Maggie Shayne | ||
| e95df63 | You removed my spectacles!" A disbelieving snort of laughter escaped him. "The way you're taking on, you'd have thought I removed your clothing!" Samantha clutched at the high-necked bodice of her homely bottle-green day dress. "How do I know you didn't?" Silence hung between them, thicker than the heated air. Then his smoky voice dipped into low and dangerous territory. "If I had removed your clothing, Miss Wickersham, I can assure you it .. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 5c7d4e1 | MarkBaynard: If you start hanging out over here, won't your Facebook Friends miss you? Abby_Donovan: Those people weren't my friends. If they had been, they wouldn't have sent me all those annoying quizzes. MarkBaynard: A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops. Abby_Donovan: Although with a little coaxing, I might be persuaded to take home your imaginary kitten. So how is Twitter differen.. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 22fc7d5 | Abby_Donovan: Heathcliff was a misogynistic asshole. MarkBaynard: Could you explain that to my Lit 101 class? I hate to see all those impressionable young females swoowing over him like he's Edward Cullen. Abby_Donovan: I've always been Team Jacob myself. And Team Mr Rochester. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 555622e | He had been willing to hold on to hope even when it looked like all hope was lost. She owed him no less. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| dbaff3c | A great tactician creates plans. A good tactician recognizes the soundness of a plan presented on him. A fair tactician must see the plan succeed before offering approval. | star-wars thrawn | Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Thrawn | |
| 4b2aeab | Military leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is continually challenged, and must continually prove it self anew against fresh obstacles. Sometimes those obstacles are external events. Other times they are the doubts of those being led. Still other times they are a result of the leaders's own failures and shortcomings. | star-wars thrawn | Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Thrawn | |
| 6abacb9 | Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 63f1cce | And when a mind is too deficient in understanding, the resulting gap is often filled with resentment. -- | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 38a982e | There are times in every commander's life when he must yield the stick of authority to a subordinate. Sometimes the reason is one of expertise, when the subordinate has skills the commander lacks. Sometimes it is positional, when the subordinate is in the right place at the right and the commander is not. Often it is anticipated there will be loss of direct communication, which means the subordinate may be given general instructions but mus.. | star-wars thrawn | Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Thrawn | |
| ff7edf8 | It is never wrong to be curious. But it can sometimes be dangerous. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| a040286 | All strive for victory. But not all understand what it truly is. To a soldier or pilot on the line, victory is surviving the current battle. To a politician, victory is an advantage one can bring to a bargaining table. To a warrior, victory is driving an enemy from the field of battle, or bringing him to surrender. | star-wars thrawn | Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Thrawn | |
| 38b1867 | A Jedi with ignited lightsaber, in Mara's experience, was a sight that normally caused sentient beings to pause for a moment or two of sober reflection. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| b63a8d6 | Equality is a lie," Bane told her. "A myth to appease the masses. Simply look around and you will see the lie for what it is! There are those with power, those with the strength and will to lead. And there are those meant to follow--those incapable of anything but servitude and a meager, worthless existence. "Equality is a perversion of the natural order!" he continued, his voice rising as he shared the fundamental truth that lay at the cor.. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 4d0a6f2 | Take what makes you weak and turn it into something that makes you strong. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 7cae547 | Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The Dark Side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual. | dark-side darth-bane inspirational motivation motivational sith sith-lord star-wars zannah | Drew Karpyshyn | |
| 2836207 | The reason so many well-considered ideas appear laughable in retrospect is that people involuntarily assume that whatever we believe and prioritize now will continue to be believed and prioritized later, even though that almost never happens. It's a mistake that never stops being made. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 66e0305 | Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 1cf4b49 | I tend to equate sadness with intelligence. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| bcb8dd0 | We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 00ac4b5 | F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential re.. | internet online-writing social-networking twitter | Chuck Klosterman | |
| e8c938e | What music "means" is almost completely dependent on the people who sell it and the people who buy it, not the people who make it. Our greatest artists are the ones who understand how they can be interesting and unique within those limitations." | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| c098209 | And this, of course, is the central problem with conspiracy theorists -- once you inflexibly accept that something is a conspiracy, any contrary evidence has the paradoxical effect of making your case stronger. Every contradiction deepens the conspiracy. | politics-of-the-united-states | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 064829b | I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters in a poorly written novel about myself, which was poorly written by me. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 9825576 | What those anti-cookie-baking mothers wanted me to do was turn baseball into soccer. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 138d78e | Fake love is a very powerful thing. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 8f1e545 | Up until the mid-eighties, there was always a shared assumption that the Right controlled the currency of outrage; part of what made conservatives "conservative" was their discomfort with profanity and indecency and Elvis Presley's hips. But then -- somewhat swiftly, and somehow academically -- it felt as if the Left was suddenly dictating what was acceptable to be infuriated over (and always for ideological motives, which is why the modifi.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 0931e55 | The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. | media truth | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 3bf7de2 | You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 638f99c | The reward is in the risk. I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire. I abruptly stood up from my chair so I could return to my room and feel terribly sorry for myself and eat away too much chocolate in private "Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time??" -"You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?" "Yeah, that would be nice" They think t.. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 55b7c74 | Without Laura here, food is the only thing I love that loves me back. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 1cba830 | We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 4044878 | It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 3a9548d | I never married because I was too easily boref. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| fde9d35 | All I ever think about is food or sex. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 79ec5ca | But she looks at me with this total incomprehension, like she's watching footage of the world being blown up, and I'm the little blurb on the corner of the screen saying what the weather is like outside. | Rachel Cohn |