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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e504eac | Son of a turtle | Merline Lovelace | ||
| ab1f5b8 | History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
| 8bd937d | But America, as I look at you from afar, I wonder whether your moral and spiritual progress has been commensurate with your scientific progress. It seems to me that your moral progress lags behind your scientific progress. Your poet Thoreau used to talk about "improved means to an unimproved end." How often this is true. You have allowed the material means by which you live to outdistance the spiritual ends for which you live. You have allo.. | Clayborne Carson | ||
| bc3fab8 | for so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| 61e605e | though we all applaud the thought of transformation, most of us don't appreciate the process that gets us there. To be transformed means we have to change, and change too often hurts. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 80fdfe4 | A blacksmith can go anywhere. A detective inspector only goes where the dead bodies are." "But there aren't any dead people here today." Mina glanced over her shoulder at the chest Newberry carried. "That's why I brought my own." | inspector dark-humor | Meljean Brook | |
| 9b87711 | A jagged stone existed where her heart had been. | heartbreak love | Meljean Brook | |
| 71c19cd | Use me," he said. "For as long as you like." | Meljean Brook | ||
| 7d39ffd | Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs. | Jimmy Buffett | ||
| 93c682b | She's a pit bull," I told them, making sure to say it as matterof-factly as I could. But no matter how I said the words, the parents always took the children by the hand and led them away. People hear about pit bulls, but often they have no idea what they really are-that they used to be considered nanny dogs, trusted members of the family. Or that even when they do have issues, it's not with people but with other dogs. The breed may attract.. | Ken Foster | ||
| 31b02d3 | Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports. | leadership coach leaders collaboration teamwork | Kenneth H. Blanchard | |
| c6c9391 | Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 79f036f | A passionate activity is one you're doing without regard for time. | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| b3aaee7 | I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 1c17824 | If you're alive, then there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| c52d4d1 | Ah, the ancient language of sarcasm. How it suits you." "Why thank you, petal. It is one of my many talents, and I happen to be fluent in the language." I dazzled him with my smile. "You need to give me a manly nickname." "You haven't given me any reason to give you one yet." "That's harsh." | paranormal-erotic-romance she-wolf werewolf-romance | Elizabeth Morgan | |
| 7357952 | Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone. | werewolves zombies young-adult-fiction ya vampires | Rusty Fischer | |
| c3142e2 | If I've got a Dad, and his name is Wormwood Rot, and he's in some heavy metal rock band called Grave Dirt . . . then I'm definitely meeting him! She stares at me awkwardly, and I'm about to ask again--maybe even insist--when she says, "Honey, why do you think he's on the news? Wormwood, I mean . . . your father? Becca, he's . . . dead." | romance rock-and-roll romance-novel young-adult-romance heavy-metal ghouls | Rusty Fischer | |
| a6cda3d | Sometimes an ember is all we need. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 55b0eb3 | So, before we go too much further, now is a good chance to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, we are all a little guilty of sometimes living someone else's aspirations for us instead of our own. And this is a great time to say 'No more!' to living out of fear and other people's expectations. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 5f3ca25 | If Bear Grylls bred with Chuck Norris, I would be their love child. That's how skilled I am." Lucy's face remained carefully blank. "Thank you for that disturbing imagery. But we both know Chuck Norris needs no one. He creates children from thought alone." "Agree" | Jaymin Eve | ||
| 427dcbc | You climb only because the mountain allows it. If it says wait, then you must wait, and when it allows you to go, then you must struggle and strain in the thin air with all your might. Listening to the mountain and having patience on it are the keys to survival. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 7000891 | Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around. | Bear Grylls | ||
| e99d037 | I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known. | Bear Grylls | ||
| bf13310 | If the person you're speaking to will think worse or less of the person you're speaking about, then it's gossip, so cut it out! | Bear Grylls | ||
| 5a1c376 | Bliss, I learned from being sodomized, is an experience of eternity in a moment of real time. | Toni Bentley | ||
| 3ac3442 | As a means of alleviating poverty, Christian charity was worse than useless, as could be seen in the Papal states, which abounded in it. But it was popular not only among the traditionalist rich, who cherished it as a safeguard against the evil of equal rights... but also among the traditionalist poor, who were profoundly convinced that they had a to crumbs from the rich man's table. | social-justice french-history capitalism revolution | Eric Hobsbawm | |
| 6be5a20 | Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick to financial orthodoxy, balance budgets and cut costs, were visibly not making the situation better. Indeed, as the depression continued, it was argued with considerable force not least by J.M. Keynes who consequently became the most influential economist of the next forty.. | Eric J. Hobsbawm | ||
| 5b58c40 | I think our challenge as parents is to rise above that preference for the child of least resistance and to think beyond short-term success as a criterion--particularly if success is defined by conventional and insipid standards. Don't we want our kids to be inspiring rather than spend their lives just collecting tokens (grades, money, approval)? Don't we want them to think in the plural rather than focusing only on what will benefit them pe.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| fefb327 | They're arguing for giving homework and tests to all young children, or separating them into winners and losers, because these tykes need to get used to such things -- as if exposure itself will inoculate them against the negative effects they would otherwise experience later. If we were interested in helping children to anticipate and deal with unpleasant experiences, it might make sense to the details with them and perhaps guide them th.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 7772161 | Picasso had a saying--'good artists copy, great artists steal | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7d7697e | Leonardo's relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it--to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c2e0b80 | The next phase of the Digital Revolution will bring even more new methods of marrying technology with the creative industries, such as media, fashion, music, entertainment, education, literature, and the arts. Much of the first round of innovation involved pouring old wine--books, newspapers, opinion pieces, journals, songs, television shows, movies--into new digital bottles. But new platforms, services, and social networks are increasingly.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 981956c | innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humanities and sciences interact. When Einstein was stymied while working out General Relativity, he would pull out his violin and play Mozart until he could reconnect to what he called the harmony of the spheres. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| eb6ce3e | Knowing that great conceptions are worth little without precision execution | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a03e8ef | up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 978254f | A physicist is one who's concerned with the truth," he later said. "An engineer is one who's concerned with getting the job done." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 690d597 | When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fffed08 | A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way," Einstein once said. "But," he hastened to add, "intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5e11ae9 | He wished to please everybody," Franklin later said of Keith, "and having little to give, he gave expectations." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 12584c1 | Falling in love is not the most stupid thing that people do," Einstein scribbled on the letter, "but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9d70351 | Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not."*" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b27b63c | Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example" -- | product visionary | Walter Isaacson | |
| 0237efc | Leonardo became known in Milan not only for his talents but also for his good looks, muscular build, and gentle personal style. "He was a man of outstanding beauty and infinite grace," Vasari said of him. "He was striking and handsome, and his great presence brought comfort to the most troubled soul." | Walter Isaacson |