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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d51c825 | Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good death is better than a poor one. | philosophy | michael moorcock | |
| 7caa9d5 | a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 624304d | Unsettled by the sudden appearance of Captain Quire within her court, Gloriana resolved to forego all frivolous entertainments and shun the more unnecessary pleasures. Yet, the queen reasoned, this surely did not apply to healthful exercise, such as riding in the royal park. Nor could she refuse to spend the remainder of the afternoon in quiet seclusion, lying face down upon a cushioned bench in her private dressing room while gentle Lady M.. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| a959726 | Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatures who were still little more than animals. It was as if vultures feasted on and squabbled over the paralyzed body of the youthful poet who could only stare at them with puzzled eyes as they slowly robbed him of an exquisite existence they would never appreciate, never know they were taking. | exquiste fantasy human-nature injustice | Michael Moorcock | |
| fafb952 | In 1949 the Smokejumpers were still so young that they referred affectionately to all fires they jumped on as "ten o'clock fires," as if they already had them under control before they jumped. They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy." | Norman Maclean | ||
| 407309a | My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 84e5408 | In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of little screwups recedes now for a few hours to be taken over by the inside world of blowups, this time by a colossal blowup but shaped by little screwups that fitted together tighter and tighter until all became one and the same thing--the fateful blowup. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 6a8e63d | Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brothers' keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possibly one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting of instincts. It will not let us go." | Norman Maclean | ||
| 57dc2ec | I hope there are others also who don't mind trees. | Norman Maclean | ||
| cece941 | Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear | inspiration sunrise | Norman Maclean | |
| b3a3292 | If our father had had his say, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 365f67c | It is those that we live with and love and should know who elude us. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 1cd1dbe | She wasn't ready to give her real name to anyone, not until she knew exactly how Brad had found her the last time. Now that she didn't trust Kat; she'd simply learned that she really couldn't be too careful. Her gaze scanned the counter. A few feet away was a full bottle of ketchup, and inspiration struck. "Hunt," she said swiftly. "Carlin Hunt." Kat snorted as she ended the handshake. "Well, at least you didn't look at the floor and tell m.. | Linda Howard | ||
| 374b04f | Know why PMS is called PMS?" "Don't you dare," she threatened. "Only women can tell PMS jokes." "Because 'mad cow disease' was already taken." | Linda Howard | ||
| df654b5 | C'mon! Anything over eight inches is strictly for show-and-tell. It's there, but you can't use it. It might look good in a locker room, but let's face it--those extra two inches are leftovers." "Leftovers," Luna gasped, holding her stomach and shrieking with laughter. "Let's hear it for l-leftovers!" | Linda Howard | ||
| 276d20a | hay tu dung len bang chinh minh, hay tin vao ban nang va dung bao gio ban dung chinh minh. | Linda Howard | ||
| b49c896 | When we're married and he looks at me sitting beside him at the table, he should feel as if he's fought a great battle and accomplished something--namely, winning me. He'll treasure me more. I like being treasured. | Linda Howard | ||
| a0122f5 | From some infinite distance, ten thousand twists of light are suddenly projected into your eyes. You watch as they shimmer and tighten together like the hooks of metal in a tangle of barbed wire. More and more of them appear, filling in the gaps one by one, and soon you are conscious of nothing else. What would the sky be like if there was nothing to see but stars? You know that you will not experience anything so beautiful again. | Kevin Brockmeier | ||
| 2ab1b15 | He has always been the kid who cries too easily and laughs too easily, the kid who begins giggling in church for no reason at all, who blinks hotly in shame and frustration whenever he misses a question in class, living in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes. | crying daydreams laughing life | Kevin Brockmeier | |
| aca7ba7 | You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground. | Kevin Brockmeier | ||
| 368d0e6 | The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break. | control habits | Kevin Brockmeier | |
| 3b60f0b | Far from being tortured, the prisoners [at Guantanamo] are being handled literally with kid gloves (or simulated kid-effect gloves). The U.S. military hands each jihadist his complimentary copy of the Koran as delicately as white-gloved butlers bringing His Lordship the Times of London. It's not just unbecoming to buy in to Muslim psychoses; in the end, it's self-defeating. And our self-defeat is their surest shot at victory...Even a loser .. | Mark Steyn | ||
| ffd4b63 | The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 15a32de | When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word. | Mark Steyn | ||
| f7e91a9 | In his book "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift", Paul Rahe writes, "Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own affairs." But today the state cocoons "one's own affairs" so thoroughly as to remove almost all responsibility from modern life, and much of human dignity with it. And, if personal consequences have been all but abolished, societal consequences are harder to dodge...A society of children cannot su.. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 6a2487b | The end-game for statists is very obvious. If you expand the bureaucratic class and you expand the dependent class, you can put together a permanent electoral majority. In political terms, a welfare check is a twofer: you're assuring yourself of the votes of both the welfare recipient and of the mammoth bureaucracy required to process his welfare. | Mark Steyn | ||
| fb66c30 | You cannot wage a sustained ideological assault on your own civilization without grave consequences. We are approaching the end of the Anglo-American moment, and the eclipse of the powers that built the modern world...Cecil Rhodes..said that to be born a British subject was to win first prize in the lottery of life. One the eve of the Great Ward, in his play "Heartbreak House", Bernard Shaw turned the thought around to taunt a ruling class .. | Mark Steyn | ||
| acf9675 | In Europe, where dependency, decadence, and demographic decline are extinguishing some of the oldest nations on earth, a successor population is already in place in the restive Muslim housing projects. | Mark Steyn | ||
| d1641f4 | Micro-regulation is micro-tyranny, a slithering, serpentine network of insinuating Ceaucescu and Kim Jong-Il mini-me's. It's time for the mass rejection of their diktats. A political order that subjects you to the caprices of faceless bureaucrats or crusading "judges" merits no respect. To counter the Bureau of Compliance, we need an Alliance of Non-Compliance to help once free people roll back the regulatory state." -- | Mark Steyn | ||
| 73387c7 | Our new elite have more refined sensibilities than the old aristocracy: just as dowager duchesses would sniff that so-and-so was "in trade", so today's rulers have an antipathy to doers in general. How could Sarah Palin's executive experience running a state, a town, and a commercial fishing operation compare to all that experience Barack Obama had in sitting around thinking great thoughts? In forming his war cabinet, Winston Churchill said.. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 30b5bbf | In his book "Men to boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity", Gary Cross asks simply: "Where have all the men gone?" Like George Will, Victor David Hanson, and others who've posed that question, Professor Cross is no doubt aware that he sounds old and square. But in a land of middle-aged teenagers somebody has to." | Mark Steyn | ||
| 414121e | Today, in what Harvey Mansfield calls our "gender-neutral" society," there are no social norms. Eight decades after the Titanic, a German-built ferry en route from Estonia to Sweden sank in the Baltic Sea. Of the 1,051 passengers, only 139 lived to tell the tale. But the distribution of the survivors was very different from that of the Titanic. Women and children first? No female under fifteen or over sixty-five made it. Only 5 percent of a.. | Mark Steyn | ||
| c94e800 | Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically. | Mark Steyn | ||
| da3d218 | About half the global economy is living beyond not only its means but its diminished number of children's means. Instead of addressing that fact, countries with government debt of 125 percent of GDP are being "rescued" by countries with government debt of 80 percent of GDP. Good luck with that." | Mark Steyn | ||
| 85287a9 | Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. "Atheistic humanism" became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today's European Union, a kind of dehumanism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction... | Mark Steyn | ||
| 7e6a18f | The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the state to make all the choices in respect of their health care. It's a curious inversion of citizenship to demand control over peripheral leisure activities but to contract out the big life-changing stuff to the government. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 0682e72 | Unfortunately, magnanimity is often seen as weakness by those on the receiving end. It's easy to be sensitive, tolerant, and multicultural--it's the default mode of the age---yet, when you persist in being sensitive to the insensitive, tolerant of the intolerant, and impeccably multicultural about the avowedly unicultural, don't be surprised if they take it for weakness. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 97dbc4e | a final word to "the children": do you want to get suckered like your big brothers and sisters? Those saps who spent 2008 standing behind the Obamessiah swaying and chanting, "We are the dawning of the Hopeychange" like brainwashed cult extras? Sooner or later you guys have to crawl out from under the social engineering and rediscover the contrarian spirit for which youth was once known...This will be the great battle of the next generation.. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 0485abb | The business of America is business," said Calvin Coolidge. Now the business of America is regulation. It is necessary for once free people to take back responsibility for their own affairs. Ultimately, judge-made law and bureaucrat-made regulations and dancing with the czars strike at the compact between citizen and state. By sidestepping the consent of the governed, as regulators do, or expressing open contempt for it, as judges do, the g.. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 01fa511 | And then one Thursday night they found him Dead- with his wishes piled around him, And they counted the lot and found that not A single one was missing. All shiny and new - here, take a few And think of Lester as you do. In a world of apples and kisses and shoes He wasted his wishes on wishing. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 8994c96 | It's Privacy, Please, for the Penguins. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 6b7f4ea | A grumpy vampire is a homicidal vampire. Hungry ones were even worse. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| a4b225c | Quit doing your game show host schtick, Marc," I ordered. "You're confusing the vampires. They're not big TV watchers." "Certainly not daytime television," Sinclair sniffed." | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| fb5f5a5 | if hanging with other vamps means I have to go the whole movie cliche route, then forget it. Cemeteries? Acolytes? Partying in chilly mausoleums? Yuck-o. Also, nobody wears a tux this time of year unless they're going to a wedding. You look like an escapee from the set of Dracula Does Doris. | MaryJanice Davidson |