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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5bcaa2d | We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. | mental-illness | Ken Kesey | |
| 0c22cef | There is generally one person in every situation you must never underestimate the power of. | Ken Kesey | ||
| c04db6f | Neha el is felejtem, milyen csodakat tud tenni a nevetes. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 61f412f | Thursday," McMurphy says again. "Looooo," yells that guy upstairs. "That's" | Ken Kesey | ||
| 9667582 | The more he tries to stop it, the faster it goes. When he lets his hands and face move like they want to and doesn't try to hold them back, they flow and gesture in a way that's real pretty to watch, but when he worries about them and tries to hold back he becomes a wild, jerky puppet doing a high-strung dance. Everything is moving faster and faster, and his voice is speeding up to match. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 1eaa64a | It was a sound like . . . I remember thinking . . . a sound kind of like Joe's little girl Squeaky made the time she come running in from the barn hollering that her special cat was in the bottom of the milk can drowned and where was everything? She wasn't crying or carrying on, just hollering my cat got drowned where is everybody? She wouldn't calm down till she'd gone all over the whole house and talked to everybody and seen everything. T.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 4b67ec3 | Nem lehet a mult dolgoknak utjaba allni, hogy elo ne jojjenek. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 15bfe44 | Itt az osz, jart a fejemben, itt az osz. Mintha most eloszor volna itt, fura dolog. Osz. Meg nem is olyan regen tavasz volt, aztan nyar, most meg osz - fura csakugyan. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 17a6233 | Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 0acc7fc | Soha meg nem fordultak a fejemben a lelki betegseg hatalmi vonatkozasai. Gondold csak meg: minel orultebb az ember, annal nagyobb lehet a hatalma. Vedd Hitlert. Tebolyban az ero. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 9edd9ec | The walls are white as the white suits, polished clean as a refrigerator door, and the black face and hands seem to float against it like a ghost. | Ken Kesey | ||
| ab55de7 | I have nobody in the world. I'll kill myself. That's best. Everyone will say, It's for the best that she killed herself, she's better off dead . . . I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it . . . | depression the-black-prince iris-murdoch suicidal self-loathing self-hatred | Iris Murdoch | |
| d56c4f9 | male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around. | men complicity male-friendship males guys masculinity | Iris Murdoch | |
| 9e14d99 | Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.) | religion science | Susan Howatch | |
| 8f93c64 | Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be. | faith religion god | Susan Howatch | |
| 23bd6ba | There's a pattern. Never, never doubt that there's a pattern. There's a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone. | Susan Howatch | ||
| 094e716 | Think of me as the porter . . . and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded some of your bags on to my empty trolley. | Susan Howatch | ||
| 6d699c4 | L'ondata divenne una massa urlante di rivoltosi; in quel momento, la somma dei quozienti d'intelligenza era molto inferiore a quella del piu modesto componente singolo. La folla ha passioni, non cervello. | Dan Simmons | ||
| e00ecd2 | Haven't you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are--at this instant--poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago? | Dan Simmons | ||
| 99c3498 | Luckily, I am writing a memoir and not a work of fiction, and therefore I do not have to account for my grandmother's unpleasing character and look for the Oedipal fixation or the traumatic experience which would give her that clinical authenticity that is nowadays so desirable in portraiture. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 0382dee | And it was that idea of the divorce between women and power that made Melissa McCarthy's parodies of the one time White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live so effective. It was said that these annoyed President Trump more than most satires on his regime, because, according to one of the 'sources close to him', 'he doesn't like his people to appear weak.' Decode that, and what it actually means is that he doesn't like hi.. | Mary Beard | ||
| 18fa0d9 | But a wild creature will always go back to the wild, in the end. | returning wild | Susan Cooper | |
| 6ecf949 | There was something about Christmas Eve, they both felt, that demanded company; one needed somebody to whisper to, during the warm beautiful dream-taut moments between hanging the empty stocking at the end of the bed, and dropping into the cosy oblivion that would flower into the marvel of Christmas morning. | Susan Cooper | ||
| b1a8353 | For half an hour they poked about in a happy dusty dream, through the junk and broken furniture and ornaments. It was like reading the story of somebody's life, Jane thought, as she gazed at the tiny matchstick masts of the ship sailing motionless forever in the green glass bottle. All these things had been used once, had been part of every day in the house below. Someone has slept on the bed, anxiously watched the minutes on the clock, pou.. | jane-drew | Susan Cooper | |
| 569fed5 | In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 4bbd864 | Little Hawk, it is not for us to tell how great and terrible things come about. Only the Great Spirit can see all. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 7769000 | Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it. | tough-love | Susan Cooper | |
| 75d7e85 | He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which--having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred years during which it had included the British Isles--he found inaccurate and boring. | history the-boggart roman-empire | Susan Cooper | |
| 99124e6 | If you are concerned for the future of our civilization, there is no more cheering sight than a boy or girl who is lost in a book. It's an image I cling to, in moments of depression: the absorbed child, reading. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 611957f | every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 05ba880 | If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling. | worship god | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| 010272b | Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden. | original-sin utopia | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 44fdabc | He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION. | hooping-this curiosity | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 9911f03 | Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin" | self-indulgence self-discipline | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 74203ba | Fear of God is thrown away," lamented Brigitta in Rome, "and in its place is a bottomless bag of money." All the Ten Commandments, she said, had been reduced to one: "Bring hither the money." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 469fec8 | To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 0021205 | Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight; the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 2a6adc3 | Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come. | discipleship | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| f2273ad | Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 787ab5a | Although the defects of the Russian Army were notorious, although the Russian winter, not the Russian Army, had turned Napoleon back from Moscow, although it had been defeated on its own soil by the French and British in the Crimea, although the Turks in 1877 had outfought it at the siege of Plevna and only succumbed later to overwhelming numbers, although the Japanese had outfought it in Manchuria, a myth of its invincibility prevailed. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 85548c4 | In France they were called ecorcheurs (skinners) and routiers (highwaymen), in Italy condottieri from the condotta or contract that fixed the terms of their employment as mercenaries. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 84ee7be | Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a0666ce | I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse! | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 526c8e2 | all of the good-intentioners who wanted to 'do something for the common people' were insignificant, because the 'common people' were able to do things for themselves, and highly likely to, as soon as they learned the fact. | Sinclair Lewis |