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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a20e4e | They say that one chooses one's friends, but one's relations are thrust upon one. | Victoria Holt | ||
| 385b329 | Schneider has made a career of telling the public that the climate is going to change drastically, and indeed every spring and fall he's been right. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 3e9c3d1 | A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| ccc173e | The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it. | greed | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 030bc5e | The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it. | democrats government humor politics republicans | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 7feabfd | It's pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won't take you that far. Work takes you a lot further. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 60666f4 | I'm sorry I don't have brilliant reasons for beginning a novel. As you go along, you make up reasons to do what you want. There's an open space. Enter it. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 14fc5bd | Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| d3e0dbf | If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| a609531 | OK, now write for ten minutes, keep the hand moving, tell me what you carry. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| d3103d9 | This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don't drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 4881e46 | Don't worry, no one ever died of it. You might cry or laugh, but not die. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 35fa455 | It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 799e064 | Somalia) was a watershed," said one State Department official, "The idea used to be that terrible countries were terrible because good, decent, innocent people were being oppressed by evil, thuggish leaders. Somalia changed that. Here you have a country where just about everybody is caught up in hatred and fighting. You stop an old lady on the street and ask her if she wants peace, and she'll say, yes, of course, I pray for it daily. All th.. | Mark Bowden | ||
| cbf528c | Their eyes met, and Nancy felt a charge pass between them, like a small electric shock. Hold it, she warned herself. Since when do you respond to anyone other than Ned Nickerson? | Carolyn Keene | ||
| cc69e9c | I'm Fred Mathews | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 763494a | Encapsulation is important, but the reason why it is important is more important. Encapsulation helps us reason about our code. | Michael C. Feathers | ||
| eb0c835 | Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- But what is that compared to Mozart?' Suddenly, Bess and George spotted Nancy coming towards them. 'Nancy!' the cousins chimed simultaneously and raced toward her. 'I see our bus driver is still at it.' Nancy grinned. 'All the way from Salzburg." George groaned. 'Did he run off the road again?' 'Not once but many times,' Bess said. 'It was awful. Once he got so angry because someone co.. | humor mozart nancy-drew | Carolyn Keene | |
| f8e6f40 | The others laughed and Burt said, "All you need are girls who paddle like boys, and you're set!" | Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) | ||
| c896ca3 | Laws are made to free people, not to bind them - if they are the proper laws. They tell each of us what he may do without transgressing on the equal liberty of any other man. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| ec93024 | difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it's a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one's own actions. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 2767bcf | The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposeful blindness has prevented us from understanding? We accept the fact that there may be other worlds out in space, but might there not be other worlds here? Other worlds, in other dimensions, coexistent with this? If there are other worlds parall.. | ghosts paranormal spirits | Louis L'Amour | |
| 31c1c19 | To survive? What is that? A mouse lives, a fly lives; one flees in terror, another lives in filth. They exist, they are, but do they live? | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 1bd25d1 | I can't tell you how much I don't care. | LAmour Louis | ||
| d24eb60 | sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Each day must be approached as a unit; each day must be lived with care; and if this was done, the procession of days would turn out all right." | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 879e703 | Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?" "Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot." | future-prediction | Louis L'Amour | |
| d80cc10 | You know I wouldn't know a Louis Vuitton from a Louis L'Amour | Juliet Blackwell | ||
| df89337 | You are an educated man, Old One.' 'What is education besides a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life? There are many kinds of education, and often education closes as many doors as it opens for to believe implies disbelief. One accepts one kind of belief but closes the mind to all that is, or seems to be contradictory. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| f4e7d95 | I came into the world with two priceless advantages: good health and a love of learning. When I left school at the age of fifteen I was halfway through the tenth grade. I left for two reasons, economic necessity being the first of them. More important was that school was interfering with my education. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 5994a4a | Ours was a family in which everybody was constantly reading, and where literature, politics, history, and the events of the prize ring were discussed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 44eb3a0 | Yol Bolsun" (May there be a road) [Louis L'Amour}" | inspirational-quotes | Louis L'Amour | |
| b9d8a54 | Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| afd38d2 | Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| dd44b8e | A forest is a living thing like a human body...each part dependent on all the other parts. A forest needs its birds, its beaver...all its animals and plants. The forest gives shelter to the birds, but they repay the debt with the insects they eat, the droppings they leave, the seeds they carry off to plant elsewhere. The beaver builds dams for himself, but the dams keep water on the land, and although the beaver cut trees to use and to eat,.. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 3c798b6 | How many time have I talked with people who have ridden the trails where I have ridden, yet had seen nothing? They passed over the land just to get over it, not to live with it and see it, feel it. There was beauty out there... | Louis L'Amour | ||
| ff2875e | Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in working unless one works for someone, for something. | life | Louis L'Amour | |
| cb2c1e1 | this guy is pretty slick, Atticus. What else do you think he has in his pockets? Maybe a thick salami for me?> I almost dropped the goblets. Gods, Oberon, it's a good thing no one can hear you. It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay? Especially this guy. Laughter bubbled forth from Jesus as he poured two generous shots for us. "I like your hound, Siodhachan." He turned his head a bit to address him. "Hello, Obe.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b238a4f | I quietly cast camouflage on myself, which is the nearest I can come to invisibility. It binds my pigment to my surroundings, so that I become practically invisible when I remain still. People can see me if I move quickly, but if I imitate the Rock of Gibraltar they have to really know I'm there to spot me. I figured it was best: Naked women rarely welcome the approach of strange naked men, except in porn movies. | humor | Kevin Hearne | |
| bfb722d | But for me, the true attraction of America is that it's practically godless. When I was younger and dodging the Romans, I could hardly walk a mile in Europe without stepping on a stone sacred to some god or other. But out here in Arizona, all I have to worry about is the occasional encounter with Coyote, and I actually rather like him. (He's nothing like Thor, for one thing, and that right there means we're going to get along fine. The loca.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 59ce0e5 | You must be thinking of stories from other cultures. Irish women tend to kick ass and do whatever they want. For exhibits A, B, and C, I give you the Morrigan, Brighid, and Flidais. Fair enough. So who's the god of cooking among the Tuatha De Danann? I don't think there is one. So the ancient Irish had a god of brewing but not cooking? We had our priorities straight. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5dbfb93 | No matter how old I get, I keep running into people who are smarter, nobler, and kinder. I really ought to start listening to them and telling my pride to shut up. I had gods tell me not to go to Asgard. I had witches tell me not to go to Flagstaff. You told me this plan wouldn't work. But I barreled ahead anyway for my own reasons. I still have plenty of growing to do. | pride | Kevin Hearne | |
| 29e0291 | It's a coffee place. You can't just automatically classify anything that isn't a steak house as vegetarian. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| fe1ac7c | Like many silly codes of bravery and manliness, the meat of my father's instruction on how to die well can be distilled to a simple slogan: Die angry at maximum volume. (Dying silently is out of the question; the world's last Druid should not go gentle into that good night.) During | Kevin Hearne | ||
| fa289db | It's only a slight modification of causality. | Kevin Hearne |