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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a201bbb | The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 6820caa | He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country - the sea. One ship is very much like another, and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 67f3755 | No, they did not bury me, though there is a period of time which I remember mistily, with a shuddering wonder, like a passage through some inconceivable world that had no hope in it and no desire. I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 984b4cc | She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| bf58e60 | Walking to the taffrail, I was in time to make out, on the very edge of a darkness thrown by a towering black mass like the very gateway of Erebus--yes, I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left behind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered himself into the water to take his punishment: a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new d.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 6f0983f | One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad. | experience good life wisdom | Joseph Conrad | |
| 752c450 | And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all? | ambitious-minds ambitious-people driven fall fear fire grace haunted human-condition humanity idlesness mankind pride self-hate self-loathing self-motivated truth | Joseph Conrad | |
| 595c27e | I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces. | dark-sky death depressing depression doomed grey-sky lost-love morose mortality overcast pity sadness temporal | Joseph Conrad | |
| 48b15af | His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. | evil | Joseph Conrad | |
| 20a8f74 | the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint... | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 34e16a6 | The room seemed to have grown darker, as if all the sad light of the cloudy evening had taken refuge on her forehead. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 8e99e9f | Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very last. But the wilderness found him out early, and had taken vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude--and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly .. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 5352743 | The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea. It had known and served all the men of whom the nation is proud, from Sir Francis Drake to Sir John Franklin, knights all, titled and untitled--the great knights-errant of the sea. It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time, from the Golden.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 78f44b1 | Have you ever used your neighbor's Wi-Fi when it wasn't on a password? If you have the opportunity to observe someone at work, you are getting mentoring out of them even if they are unaware or resistant. Make a list of the people you think would make the greatest mentors and try to get close enough to steal their Wi-Fi. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e80be6b | stay in school and be a respectful and hardworking wallflower, and go to an accredited non-online university | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 1e1bab3 | I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it. So, yeah, it all added up to a happy, memorable time. Even though I was never a star. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 042920e | I will employ the gentle, vague expression "I'm not crazy about that on you," which should mean to you, "Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible!" I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle prod: painful but quick." | friendship | Mindy Kaling | |
| ab56406 | I find it extremely impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 07f3955 | And that's all show business is, really. Transitioning panics. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ecd0dd3 | I laugh thinking about if they ever tried to do "Who Wore It Best?" for men's magazines. They wouldn't, because no one would care. Men don't care which men looked better in the same clothes because it's so obviously a huge waste of time. It's also why they don't have astrology sections in men's magazines." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| b10f601 | Unfortunately, I can't be Tina, because it's very difficult to lure her into a - type situation where we could switch bodies, even though in the movies they make it look so easy. Believe me, I've tried. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 22883cc | And the stairs. Oh, the stairs. The staircase in our third-floor walk-up was the steepest, hardest, metal-est staircase I have ever encountered in my life. It was a staircase for killing someone and making it seem like an accident. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e60420c | When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e593888 | No pasta. I'm serious. I will climb out of my coffin if anyone brings a baked ziti. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 3b19bde | sometimes you like the idea of someone so much, you just want to do whatever it takes to make it work. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 623a694 | But I feel like, if you have every material good you want, you're probably doing well enough to plan a honeymoon that is within your means. Because a honeymoon is, after all, a sex vacation you're giving yourself after a massive party in your honor. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| a367a28 | Mom was impressed but didn't want me to go overboard, which was impossible, because I was still eating a lot. I just had taken a break from eating like a professional football player. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 19e14c8 | Like every heterosexual woman and gay man in the country, I think James Franco is a very mysterious and sexy weirdo and I'd like to be invited to do a love scene with him in one of his art house movies. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| cef1b18 | Esses gerais sao sem tamanho., Enfim, cada um o que quer aprova, o senhor sabe: pao ou paes, e questao de opiniaes... O sertao esta em toda a parte. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| be00f16 | Any love is already a little bit of health, a rest in the madness. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 7660d84 | Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife? | duty wife | Hilary Mantel | |
| 0088884 | If his medium had been words instead of war, he would have been a poet. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| f39e9d1 | and I could imagine myself searching for lost time under the tree ... | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| efda37f | One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 5f1fd40 | Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 5170178 | I don't believe I exist, and soon I won't. I am a time being about to expire. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| a82e094 | Information about toxicity in food is widely available, but people don't want to hear it. Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little control. Coming at us like this -- in waves, massed and unbreachable--knowledge becomes symbolic of our disempowerment--becomes bad knowledge--so we deny.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| a4e9e09 | A free man, that is to say, a man who lives according to the dictates of reason alone, is not led by fear of death, but directly desires the good, that is to say, desires to act, and to preserve his being in accordance with the principle of seeking his own profit. He thinks, therefore, of nothing less than death, and his wisdom is a meditation upon life. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 6ae4471 | In the time it takes to say 'now,' now is already over. It's already 'then.' 'Then' is the opposite of 'now.' So saying 'now' obliterates its meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn't. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 334c69c | You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| ce9bf95 | Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed--guilty they hadn't accomplished more.. | guilt illness teaching | Richard Russo | |
| 8444d54 | The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding. | Richard Russo | ||
| 899218e | His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing. | Richard Russo | ||
| a0ca435 | Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup. | Richard Russo |