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| d19e157 | I hadn't thought about it until just now, but the night Daniel rang our bell in the winter of 1970 was the end of November, the same time of year she died twenty-seven years later. I don't know what's that supposed to tell you; nothing, except that we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 72316be | Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs. But sometimes, at rare moments, a memory of him will return to me with such suddenness and clarity that all the feeling I've pushed down for years springs out like a jack-in-the-box. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| e644522 | My mother was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve i.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| baf0bbe | By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly. My heart is weak and unreliable. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| afc3192 | It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous. | perspective time | Nicole Krauss | |
| 45aa45a | But then a foreboding thought cast a shadow over the rest, blunt and unadorned, and it was simply this: that for most of my life i had been emulating the thoughts and actions of other people. That so much I had done or said had been a mirror of what was said and done around me. And that if i continued in this manner, whatever glimmers of brilliant life still burned in me would soon go out. When i was very young it had been otherwise, but I .. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| ce8b454 | I know sometimes things are hard with Mum." "She misses Dad," I said, which was like pointing out that a sky-scraper is tall. Uncle Julian nodded." | Nicole Krauss | ||
| d1cafa0 | 23. OUTSIDE, IT WAS STILL COMING DOWN | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 9fc6d79 | When he read a book he gave himself over entirely to commas and semicolons, to the space after the period and before the capital letter of the next sentence. He discovered the places in a room where silence gathered; the folds of the curtain drapes, the deep bowls of the family silver. When people spoke to him he heard less of what they were saying, and more and more of what they were not. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| f22ef5c | The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy. | counseling | Nicole Krauss | |
| 65e0530 | And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58) | sad | Nicole Krauss | |
| 31b163e | The inclusion of lemon or lime juice in grog, made compulsory in 1795, therefore reduced the incidence of scurvy dramatically. And since beer contains no vitamin C, switching from beer to grog made British crews far healthier overall. | grog naval-crews scurvy | Tom Standage | |
| 71cc773 | I read that the body remakes itself every seven years. Every cell. Even the bones rebuild themselves like coral. Why then do we remember what should be long gone? What's the point of every scar and humiliation? What is the point of remembering the good times when they are gone? I love you. I miss you. You are dead. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d39f6b0 | Life in Australia would go on, and I would hear nothing, because once you leave Australia, Australia ceases to be. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 412707f | a society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| d8c1a5c | No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is." | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 688c363 | We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| a68ac5f | If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 34291d9 | No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| fc7afd1 | Nisbet could find much to disturb a traditional conservative even in the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan: "President Reagan's deepest soul is not Republican-conservative but New Deal-Second World War Democrat. Thus his well noted preference for citing FDR and Kennedy as noble precedents for his actions rather than Coolidge, Hoover, or even Eisenhower. The word 'revolution' springs lightly from his lips, for anything from tax reform to narcotics p.. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 0380071 | Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| afd9546 | Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. --Aristophanes, Greek comic poet (c. 450-385 BCE) | Tom Standage | ||
| 9b7b2d1 | You Americans are a very singular people," he later recalled to one of his friends. "I went with my automaton all over my own country--the Germans wondered and said nothing. In France they exclaimed, Magnifique! Merveilleux! Superbe! The English set themselves to prove--one that it could be, and another that it could not be, a mere mechanism acting without a man inside. But I had not been long in your country, before a Yankee came to see me.. | automata conduct | Tom Standage | |
| 232bd2b | As an inspiration for terrorism, however, nationalism has been far more productive than religion. Terrorism experts agree that the denial of a people's right to national self-determination and the occupation of its homeland by foreign forces has historically been the most powerful recruiting agent of terrorist organizations, whether their ideology is religious (the Lebanese Shii) or secular (the PLO). | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 45d66cb | Myths are universal and timeless stories that reflect and shape our lives - they explore our desires, our fears, our longings, and provide narratives that remind us what it means to be human. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 0f2a5a7 | Dropping cluster bombs from the air is not only less repugnant: it is somehow deemed, by Western people at least, to be morally superior,' says British psychologist Jacqueline Rose. 'Why dying with your victim should be seen as a greater sin than saving yourself is unclear.'The colonial West had created a two-tier hierarchy that privileged itself at the expense of 'The Rest'. The Enlightenment had preached the equality of all human beings, .. | neo-colonialism religion | Karen Armstrong | |
| 6c68c95 | Fundamentalism therefore reveals a fissure in society, which is polarized between those who enjoy secular culture and those who regard it with dread. As time passes, the two camps become increasingly unable to understand one another. Fundamentalism thus begins as an internal dispute, with liberalizers or secularists within one's own culture or nation. In the first instance, for example, Muslim fundamentalists will often oppose their fellow .. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 8326c50 | We routinely and rightly condemn the terrorism that kills civilians in the name of God but we cannot claim the high moral ground if we dismiss the suffering and death of the many thousands of civilians who die in our wars as 'collateral damage'. Ancient religious mythologies helped people to face up to the dilemma of state violence, but our current nationalist ideologies seem by contrast to promote a retreat into denial or hardening of our .. | terrorism | Karen Armstrong | |
| 8d68518 | Tu sei un predestinato, Howard; il tuo cammino e tracciato nelle stelle, ed e fatto della stessa sostanza dell'oro di Tutankhamon. Io, invece, rappresento solo una tappa. | love tutankhamon | Christian Jacq | |
| 94602c3 | Someone's affection would give someone else freedom. | Laura Dave | ||
| 8018a2f | But Eve - ow whoever comes after Eve - cant save him from eventually doing the hard work that comes after that. The work he has never wanted to do, that she spent the better part of her life trying to protect him from having to do. To jump beyond the impasses, the stuck places, to go deeper with someone. You can do the work to honor what you created, or you don't. But if you don't, you get to the same point with the next person, don't you? .. | Laura Dave | ||
| b43ac17 | If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn't it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted? | Laura Dave | ||
| 7783f24 | Where do we go from here? I started off this crazy weekend by trying to make sense of these moments--these moments that you know you're going to remember--but like anything else, nothing exists without its opposite. So maybe it makes a certain kind of sense that I ended up thinking about the moments you know you'll forget. Or, more accurately, try to remember incorrectly. How do we all learn how to do that? Relive something again and again .. | Laura Dave | ||
| 41b58f3 | Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after all? | Laura Dave | ||
| cdc7586 | why people travel far from home-far from where they started. There was, of course, the obvious reason:escape. Escape from the monotony of every day. SO many of us chasing what we wished our everyday existence could be instead. But there was a less obvious and perhaps more important reason. Somewhere, often right in the middle of a trip, you got to believe this was your everyday life. You got to believe you were never going home again. | Laura Dave | ||
| d3fa93a | A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always be there for me - as much it was exactly what another part of me wanted. | Laura Dave | ||
| 581439c | Sometimes there is no hope," whispered Das. "There's always some hope, Mr. Das." "No, Mr. Luczak, there is not. Sometimes there is only pain. And acquiescence to pain. And, perhaps, defiance at the world which demands such pain." "Defiance is a form of hope, is it not, sir?" | Dan Simmons | ||
| f7f595f | I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love. | love-story | Dan Simmons | |
| e7be060 | Thus evolved some members of the Core--not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 72401ab | For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 35d8c4a | The young remember most deeply | Dan Simmons | ||
| fe2a917 | I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2f44f02 | How do I know what I think until I see what I say? | Dan Simmons | ||
| a13c983 | He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses. | Dan Simmons |