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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 635e75b | The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening. | confusion | David Benioff | |
| afeb739 | Stalin goes to visit one of the collectives outside of Moscow," began Kolya in his joke-telling voice. "Wants to see how they're getting on with the latest Five-Year Plan. 'Tell me, comrade,' he asks one farmer. 'How did the potatoes do this year?' 'Very well, Comrade Stalin. If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin." | stalin | David Benioff | |
| 9bcb58b | Kolya rose to a crouch and crept to the front door, keeping his head below the window line. I followed. We kneeled with our backs against the door. Kolya checked his pistol one last time. I pulled the German knife from my ankle sheath. I knew I looked silly holding it, the way a young boy looks holding his father's shaving razor. Kolya grinned at me as though he was about to start laughing. This is all very strange, I thought. I am in the m.. | David Benioff | ||
| ad6365a | Tate opened another beer. He was glad he had several. He held up the beer to his image in the mirror. "To bastards everywhere!" he said sarcastically, and chugged it down." | Diana Palmer | ||
| a44e230 | Leta walked to the door and opened it with a ready smile for Colby Lane. And found herself looking straight into the eye of a man she hadn't seen face-to-face in thirty-six years. Matt Holden matched her face against his memories of a young, slight, beautiful woman whose eyes loved him every time they looked at him. His heart spun like a cartwheel in his chest. "Cecily said it was Colby," Leta said unsteadily. "Strange. She phoned me and a.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| c2a957b | Steel tempered by fire," she said aloud, without thinking. "Am I?" he asked. She smiled sadly. "Aren't you?" He let out a long, slow breath and some of the tension drained out of him. He looked at her quizzically. "You give me peace," he said unexpectedly. "The only time I ever feel it is when I'm with you. God knows why, when you set me off like a bomb." She searched his eyes. "Tate, Senator Holden has a reason for what he did," she told h.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| c02b552 | What a curse, to want only one person." He drew her into his arms and kissed her again, hungrily. "What a glorious blessing, to want only one person and be wanted back, even after thirty-six long years," he whispered." | Diana Palmer | ||
| f524ea0 | She realized at once that he expected trouble and that he was used to handling deadly situations. It was the first time she'd actually seen him do it, despite their long history. It gave her a new, adult perspective on his lifestyle. No wonder he couldn't settle down and become a family man. She'd been crazy to expect it, even in her fantasies. He was used to danger and he enjoyed the challenges it presented. It would be like housing a tige.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 5d23eeb | I made decaf," he said. "Caffeine isn't good for you." "Thank you, Mama Lane." He made a face at her. "Tate and I used to share everything. Let him go off in a snit. I'll share his baby. If he doesn't come back, I'll appropriate it, and you." "That's one area where all your commando skills will fail, dear man," she said affectionately. "I like you very much, and you can be baby's godfather. But I'm raising this child myself." "Godfather." H.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| cfc0fc4 | I won't be responsible for helping you move someplace where you're at risk. For one thing, Tate would kill me if anything happened to you." "He might maim you a little..." "I'm not joking," Colby said quietly. "You don't understand how he is about you. He isn't normal when you're threatened, in any way." He studied her for a long moment. "Cecily, how do you think it would affect him if he knew you were carrying his child?" Her heart almost .. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 84947aa | Colby's resourceful, I'll give him that." "You used to be good friends." "We were, until he started hanging around Cecily," came the short reply. "I'm not as angry at him as I was. But it seems that he has to have a woman to prop him up." "Not necessarily," Matt replied. "Sometimes a good woman can save a bad man. It's an old saying, but fairly true from time to time. Colby was headed straight to hell until Cecily put him on the right track.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 1aea753 | God forgive her, but underneath the smiles and the good job and the great family, she was tired. Desperately tired. Tired to the point of breaking. In the last few years the exhaustion had grown, rising up like a specter to knock on her door. No one knew, she hadn't told even Kit, but in the past year she'd begun to question her entire existence. Why was she even here? What was life? Was she even necessary? Maybe all women had these thought.. | Jane Porter | ||
| 6f283be | They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the candle on the table startled me at first, just as it had in the icy night air. After seeing it on the street, I was afraid I had only imagined it: a still, luminous face with a silvery sheen. Finely hewn, with a long, straight nose and a wide mouth, it was nearly identical to another face, which I had photographed years before. Not on a person, .. | faces love magic reincarnation verona veronica | Nicholas Christopher | |
| 5889eb1 | The gnostic understands Christ's message not as offering a set of answers, but as encouragement to engage in a process of searching: "seek and inquire about the ways you should go, since there is nothing else as good as this."48 The rational soul longs to see with her mind, and perceive her kinsmen, and learn about her root ... in order that she might receive what is hers ...49 What is the result? The author declares that she attains fulfil.. | Elaine Pagels | ||
| 7f5641b | What interested these gnostics far more than past events attributed to the "historical Jesus" was the possibility of encountering the risen Christ in the present.49 The Gospel of Mary illustrates the contrast between orthodox and gnostic viewpoints. The account recalls what Mark relates: Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene ... She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned.. | Elaine Pagels | ||
| bb62e46 | Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to occur, consciousness is not necessary. The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. | consciousness definition logic metaconsciousness reasoning science | Julian Jaynes | |
| 604471a | We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| 9c553b8 | And as you read, you are not conscious of the letters or even of the words or even of the syntax or the sentences and punctuation, but only of their meaning. As you listen to an address, phonemes disappear into words and words into sentences and sentences disappear into what they are trying to say, into meaning. To be conscious of the elements of speech is to destroy the intention of the speech. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| 5512183 | Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. How simple that is to say; how difficult to appreciate! It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it. The flashlight, since there is light in whatever direction it turns, would have to conclude that there is light everywh.. | argument-by-analogy consciousness psychology | Julian Jaynes | |
| f76ef89 | It should also be remembered that art created to change minds often actually does more to bolster the spirit of those already in agreement than it does to convert opponents. | Steve Turner | ||
| 2aa0456 | Rembrandt didn't idealize his subjects. He painted what he saw, which was a mixture of glory and fallenness. He was criticized by his contemporaries for using washerwomen as his models rather than women who looked like Greek goddesses. | Steve Turner | ||
| e13d591 | and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them beautiful, is the fact that none of them last. | moments relationships | Joe Meno | |
| adc9683 | His face almost looked the way it did when he was a teenager, when there was the subtle expression of both confidence and mischief in his darkly handsome eyes. When I think of him now, though, I don't picture his face the way it is. What I see is from a memory, from a moment when he must have been eleven or twelve years old and we were both in our backyard and it was summertime and I was drawing in a coloring book and he was there in the gr.. | Joe Meno | ||
| fe1782a | I figured Alan wasn't really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid, someone I actually felt close to. I kept hoping that this would be it, that this would be as bad as it would ever get. | Joe Meno | ||
| e601392 | When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence. | nasa ndt science space | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| e0557d8 | Throughout history, different cultures have produced creation myths that explain our origins as the result of cosmic forces shaping our destiny. These histories have helped us to ward off feelings of insignificance. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| b26cba9 | If all mass has gravity, does all gravity have mass? We don't know. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 960efa9 | Science's skeptical core makes it a poor competitor for human hearts and minds, which recoil from its ongoing controversies and prefer the security of seemingly eternal truths. If the scientific approach were just one more interpretation of the cosmos, it would never have amounted to much; but science's big-time success rests on the fact that it works. If you board an aircraft built according to science - with principles that have survived .. | scientific-approach truth | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 06a2de1 | From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that!" --EDGAR MITCHELL, APOLLO 14 ASTRONAUT, 1974" | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 3f6b339 | There's no doubt about it: more varieties of carbon-based molecules exist than all other kinds of molecules combined. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 3bb31ca | Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 3cac4c3 | the only people who should have their head examined are those who never ask questions. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 5dd4d7a | Knowledge of physical laws can, in some cases, give you the confidence to confront surly people. A few years ago I was having a hot-cocoa nightcap at a dessert shop in Pasadena, California. I had ordered it with whipped cream, of course. When it arrived at the table, I saw no trace of the stuff. After I told the waiter that my cocoa was plain, he asserted I couldn't see the whipped cream because it sank to the bottom. Since whipped cream ha.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 51cd6d0 | Perhaps these ancient observatories perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky. To us, a simple rock alignment based on cosmic patterns looks like an Einsteinian feat. But a truly mysterious civilization would be one that made no cultural or architectural reference to the sky at all. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 3f8b40b | Without a doubt, Einstein's greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ce976c2 | What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure out how the universe works? Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us yet we can agree that no amount of tutelage will ever leave a chimp fluent in trigonometry. Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the uni.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ac9903d | The easy part is the ray's 500-second speed-of-light jaunt from the Sun to Earth, through the void of interplanetary space. The hard part is the light's million-year adventure to get from the Sun's center to its surface. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 9188892 | The most accurate measurements to date reveal dark energy as the most prominent thing in town, currently responsible for 68 percent of all the mass-energy in the universe; dark matter comprises 27 percent, with regular matter comprising a mere 5 percent. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| bbc59e9 | To picture a pulsar, imagine the mass of the Sun packed into a ball the size of Manhattan. If that's hard to do, then maybe it's easier if you imagine stuffing about a billion elephants into a Chapstick casing. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ff1b822 | The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war. | war | Robert Ferrigno | |
| db363c1 | Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| a2a0369 | In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happiness derives from nature, and all pleasure from the satisfaction of a desire. On the contrary, games, the sphere of play, reveal a passion for rules, a giddiness born of rules, and a force that comes from ceremony, and not desire. | fun games joy play pleasure religion rules seduction sex | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 8bd389c | Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein. | resurrection technology | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 0c44a61 | It is never too late to revive your origins. It is their destiny: since they were not the first to be in on history, they will be the first to immortalize everything by reconstitution (by putting things in museums, they can match in an instant the fossilization process nature took millions of years to complete). But the conceptions Americans have of the museum is much wider than our own. To them, everything is worthy of protection, embalmin.. | Jean Baudrillard |