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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6efd6ab | Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 0862416 | Can you feel the blood falling? | D. M. Thomas | ||
| 82ff079 | The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other. | mississippi-authors | Lewis Nordan | |
| 0c83c78 | We can build a palace around us if everything is right between us. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| e3c8f03 | My father had a similar saying. He said that in heaven there's a huge cake reserved solely for married people who've never once regretted getting married. The cake's never been touched. | Bernardo Atxaga | ||
| c6601dc | I felt knots untie themselves, knots I didn't know were there. I could already tell there were things happening deep inside of me that were irreversible. Is there any scarier word than "irreversible"? It's a hiss of a word, full of side effects and mutilations. Severe tire damage - no backing up. Falling in love with Renee felt that way." | love | Rob Sheffield | |
| e332d5d | The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are there, my friend. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| aa986c7 | I believe that when you're making a mix, you're making history. You ransack the vaults, you haul off all the junk you can carry, and you rewire all your ill-gotten loot into something new. You go through an artist's entire career, zero in on that one moment that makes you want to jump and dance and smoke bats and bite the heads off drugs. And then you play that one moment over and over. A mix tape steals these moments from all over the musi.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 2e6b39c | We couldn't believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We'd lived for just twenty-five years; we weren't planning to die for fifty more. We danced and drank and went to rock shows. Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. | music | Rob Sheffield | |
| 4a3bf00 | You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We're Going to Be Friends | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 37c94ac | I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 4029eaa | Renee and I met at a bar called the Eastern Standard in Charlottesville, Virginia. I had just moved there to study English in grad school. Renee was a fiction writer in the MFA program. I was sitting with my poet friend Chris in a table in the back, when I fell under the spell of Renee's bourbon-baked voice. The bartender put on Big Star's Radio City. Renee was the only other person in the room who perked up. We started talking about how mu.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 2f905c1 | It's not human to let go of love, even when it's dead. We expected one of these monthly anniversaries to be the Final Goodbye. We figured that we'd said all our goodbyes, and given up all the tears we had to give. We'd passed the test and would get back what we'd lost. But instead, every anniversary it hurt more, and every anniversary it felt like she was further away from coming back. The idea that there wouldn't be a final goodbye--that w.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 1deb541 | Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself. | inspirational life | Maria Shriver | |
| 5b75793 | Ari said you screamed and raved a lot while he took care of you. In fact, he said that if Reyad was alive today, he'd gut the bastard without a moment's hesitation. I just thought you might want to know." Janco gave me a brotherly kiss on the forehead and left." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| f658408 | We should make a list of who want to kill you, love. It'd be shorter." I'd be offended, but it was actually a good idea." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 44858d6 | You could put the sass into assassin | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 321c1af | Lavender Lady not go again," Kiki said in my mind. "I'll try to avoid it. No promises, though." She huffed. "Next time Kiki go." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 9b5ab8b | Hasn't stopped us before. And besides, if they wanted to kill us, we'd be dead by now and would be having an entirely different conversation. I wonder if I'd still be mad at you, or if we would talk in words or pictures. Maybe in smells. That would be cool." -Janco" | afterlife-speculation funny-and-random funny-but-true funny-quotes humor thought-provoking | Maria V. Snyder | |
| cd8fac5 | Devlen: Stop second-guessing yourself. Do what you need to do. Don't apologize. When the time comes, you'll know what is important and what isn't. Opal: I thought you said there weren't any easy answer. Devlen: I didn't say it would be easy. Sometimes being true to yourself is the hardest thing to do. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| b952f1f | You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you, I wouldn't exist. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 872d8bf | Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. --ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 596d3e9 | That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another -- that, in fact, has never been observed. | darwin darwinism evolution natural-selection neo-darwinism science speciation | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| f1f91ad | Well, good Christ, how was I supposed to know all that, Hannah? Who looks into the fine points when he's hungry? I'm eight years old and chocolate pudding happens to get me hot. All I have to do is see that deep chocolatey surface gleaming out at me from the refrigerator, and my life isn't my own. | humor | Philip Roth | |
| 92c9eff | ywsf gft:"Hrf ssy mn yn bwd khh bhshn gftm bh yn asny khh shm khyl mykhnyd nyst. gftm mrkhsysm y Hty swsylysm shywh' fkhry mshkhly st khh t`lym w trbyt dqyq mykhwhd. gftm tTbyq an b zndgy w rwHyh w rwsh jtm`y m, mstlzm pkhtgy w ws`t nZr w fdkhry byHd w HSry st. gftm mytrsm nmyshy b bzygrn nshy rwy SHnh bywryd, chnd SbHy, bh `lt wjwd bzygrn tzh w Hrfhy tzhtrshn, `dhy zydy r bh khwd jlb khnyd, m zwd Glb tmshgrn w bzygrn r nmyd w khsth w dlzdh.. | Simin Daneshvar | ||
| 43f7770 | khwd Hj aqym mygft: msjd w drsm r khh zm grfthnd, dr khrhy dygr hm stGfrllh, nmytwnm dkhlt khnm. khrdym w dydym. akhr adm byd dr yn dny ykh khr bzrgtry z zndgy rwzmrh bkhnd. byd btwnd chyzy r tGyyr bdhd. Hl khh khry nmndh bkhnm ps `shq mywrzm... | Simin Daneshvar | ||
| 306aee1 | That was what collaboration meant for Steve Woz: the ability to share a donut and a brainwave with his laid-back, nonjudgmental, poorly dressed colleagues--who minded not a whit when he disappeared into his cubicle to get the real work done. | Susan Cain | ||
| e42e7fc | the results have consistently suggested that introversion and extroversion, like other major personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness, are about 40 to 50 percent heritable. | Susan Cain | ||
| e43c5d8 | Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. --MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI | Susan Cain | ||
| ac392bf | I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas," he said. "It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent." | Susan Cain | ||
| 106ef85 | That was exactly what happened--the conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem. | Susan Cain | ||
| 41183de | If you're an introvert, find your flow by using your gifts. You have the power of persistence, the tenacity to solve complex problems, and the clear-sightedness to avoid pitfalls that trip others up. You enjoy relative freedom from the temptations of superficial prizes like money and status. Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert t.. | Susan Cain | ||
| ee8b38d | Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. | Susan Cain | ||
| 7bf44fd | Why shouldn't quiet be strong? | Susan Cain | ||
| 60afddd | This teacher was kind and well-intentioned, but I wonder whether students like the young safety officer would be better off if we appreciated that not everyone to be a leader in the conventional sense of the word--that some people wish to fit harmoniously into the group, and others to be independent of it. | independence leadership | Susan Cain | |
| cc828f5 | If you're a teacher, enjoy your gregarious and participatory students. But don't forget to cultivate the shy, the gentle, the autonomous, the ones with single-minded enthusiasms for chemistry sets or parrot taxonomy or nineteenth-century art. They are the artists, engineers, and thinkers of tomorrow. | Susan Cain | ||
| 118e148 | It's about the call of his conscience. "It's about the survival of the planet," he says. "Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable." If you're a sensitive sort, then you may be in the habit of pretending to be more of a politician and less cautious or single-mindedly focused than you actually are. But in this chapter I'm asking you to rethink this view. Without people like you, we will, quite lite.. | Susan Cain | ||
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| 4e4d0a6 | You see, Yousef, you can't force someone in their hearts to believe the way you do. They all tried and failed. They judged by their own convictions--not even by the truth of the teachings of Isa. No one is above God's judgment. No one has the right to judge for him. | hafez jew muslim yousef | Pola Muzyka | |
| ddac0d9 | On the day I lost my passport I discovered, at the age of fifty-eight, that losing one's native land implies more than parting with a circumscribed area of soil. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 7e016ed | Bize bir sey yapmadilar, sadece mutlak hiclige soktular, cunku dunyada hicbir seyin insan ruhu uzerinde hiclik kadar baski yapmayacagi bilinir.... | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 0c89a03 | happiness would prevail where trees were planted. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 87c38d4 | lHZ dy'man shryk mtTw` lkhdm@ lmGmr ljswr. | حظ | Stefan Zweig | |
| a5d2d31 | In medicine the use of the knife is often the kinder course. | Stefan Zweig |