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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9c3b907 | I have a little different definition of evil than most people. When you have the opportunity and the ability to do good and you do nothing, that's evil. Evil doesn't always have to be an overt act, it can be merely the absence of good. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 107b594 | That "relationship" was a perfect example of Callie convincing herself of something that didn't really exist. She'd believed in unicorns until she was eleven, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply because she'd wanted to." | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 78ecd14 | Poor Nate was always on the verge of saying how he really felt, but he didn't want to make a scene or say something he might regret later. Instead, he kept quiet and let other people steer the boat, while he laid back and enjoyed the steady rocking of the waves. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 00ef6ff | This is a love story, Michael Deane says. But, really, what isn't? Doesn't the detective love the mystery, or the chase, or the nosy female reporter, who is even now being held against her wishes at an empty warehouse on the waterfront? Surely the serial murderer loves his victims, and the spy loves his gadgets or his country or the exotic counterspy. The ice trucker is torn between his love for ice and truck, and the competing chefs go cr.. | Jess Walter | ||
| 87b11f4 | And he waited--as he always had--for life to come and find him. | Jess Walter | ||
| 6ace836 | She was asleep, that blond hair swirled like butter on the pillow beneath her | Jess Walter | ||
| 4664cd9 | The Rev. Jesse Jackson once said, "There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery--then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." | Walter E. Williams | ||
| 9f1342c | Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing. | Jess Walter | ||
| f1dbcc2 | Don't ever say that after sex, do you understand? If you feel the urge to say it, go see the girl first thing in the morning, with her night breath and no makeup...watch her on the toilet...listen to her with her friends...go meet her hairy mother and her shrill friends...and if you still feel the need to say such a stupid thing, then God help you. | Jess Walter | ||
| 48527d3 | Make them want to give you the thing you're taking. | Jess Walter | ||
| d8c86d6 | My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? I have studied it...I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things. --GEORG CANTOR | Charles Seife | ||
| 51f14ac | As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. In thermodynamics a zero became an uncrossable barrier: the coldest temperature possible. In Einstein's theory of general relativity, a zero became a black hole, a monstrous star that swallows entire suns. In quantum mechanics, a zero is responsible for a bizarre.. | Charles Seife | ||
| 0aefd72 | When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. --WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN | Charles Seife | ||
| 7aaa6ab | The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic. | british-empire | Nick Harkaway | |
| 51b7a6f | Mrs. Lambchop sighed and shook her head. "You're at the office all day, having fun," she said. "You don't realize what I go through with the boys. They're very difficult." Kids are like that," Mr. Lambchop said. "Phases. Be patient, dear." | kids parenting | Jeff Brown | |
| b70b64a | He paused for a while and then looked me in the eye. "Then you are blessed by her absence. Can't make someone ready to walk a path they aren't ready for. Just don't work." "Sometimes people push each other along..." "No, they got to want it. Listen buddy, if one person doesn't want the relationship, then it's simply not a fit. No sense trying to figure out why they don't want it. No" | Jeff Brown | ||
| a126496 | Unity consciousness is not simply a beautiful vision of possibility-it is our best and truest hope. Until each and every one of us rises into fullness, the collective cannot actualize its wholeness. Until we all rush to the side of someone in need, we are all fractured beings. Until we all recognize that each of us is a magnificent reflection of the Godself, we are collectively blind. Until everyone has what they need to flourish, we are al.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 4e6a69b | What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, Resonance that enlivens it, Resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins... | Jeff Brown | ||
| 18916f3 | If we age honestly, we become love. As the body weakens, love surges through us, longing to be released, longing to be lived. With no time left to not love, we seek authentic embrace everywhere. Our deft avoidance maneuvers convert into directness. Our armored hearts melt into pools of eternal longing. This is why we should look forward to aging. Finally, after all the masks and disguises fall away, we are left with love alone. God waits fo.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| e80dd41 | After what felt like an eternity, we started to walk the trails. I looked at my watch. We had only been by the river for 30 minutes. So strange. Time lasts forever when you are actually in the moment. | Jeff Brown | ||
| e41bf0e | have to open the gate to our heart. Opening the heart unlocks the heart of the universe, and we see what is always before us. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 755e1ea | word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move through our lives ashamed of ourselves, it is very difficult to imagine and believe in our highest possibilities. Unfortunately we often don't know how much shame we carry. Droplets of shame get behind our eyes and blind us to who we really are. | Jeff Brown | ||
| ed5b7ba | May we learn to love ourselves in the absence of the lover. | Jeff Brown | ||
| c9fd674 | Everything in me was transforming again. How beautiful, I didn't even need to be in a relationship for that to happen. | Jeff Brown | ||
| f0e1a92 | Humans believed they thought things consciously when most of the time they were simply rationalizing instinctive reactions as basic as the amoeba's, and after those reactions had already taken place. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 0f14c31 | I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades. | Karen Traviss | ||
| ab891b7 | All ships... we are now at battle stations. I expect this will now be known as the Second Battle of Fondor. | Karen Traviss | ||
| f412b42 | Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available.... | karen-traviss science-fiction | Karen Traviss | |
| 679242b | In Moscow there were a hundred different words for sadness, and one of them was joy. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 476a982 | Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 279800a | When I opened a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| ae2a262 | As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 8145b6c | There is no real dignity in any of these costumes. If I'm a maid, I do what the owner of the house tells me to do. If I'm a nurse, I do whatever the doctor tells me to do. What are we as women, other than barnacles that attach themselves to higher life forms in some pathetic attempt to clean up messes? Tidy up what men have left behind- make the world a lovelier, better place for men. I would like to play a part in which I don't have a supe.. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 27bce21 | He had intense gravitational force. He was like Saturn because Saturn has so many moons. If I kicked my shoes up in the air, they would go into orbit around him. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| dfa4aef | Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing as permanence. Even the most stalwart object--such as a statue in the park--was struggling to keep itself together. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 48d6738 | I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| f821e00 | We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection. Every night seemed like the last night because we would all freeze to death shortly. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 7f350cd | There are things that are permissible in sex that aren't permissible elsewhere. You can smack each other and tie one another up and pee on them and strangle them. That's when love shows its face. When love takes off its clothes and has a drink. It sometimes takes the most appalling forms. It made the night seem like it was going to last forever. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| ccb0f54 | Arrojo su taco de papel sobre la mesa, y pude ver que no habia estado tomando notas, como pense, sino simplemente dibujando equis una y otra vez, hasta que la hoja entera estaba cubierta de ellas. Por alguna razon esto me asusto mas que su uniforme o su cara de maton. | David Benioff | ||
| 8b82148 | He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once. | smile | David Benioff | |
| d861d9a | Ho sempre invidiato le persone che prendono sonno all'istante. Devono avere la testa piu ordinata, le pareti del cranio ben pulite, tutti i mostriciattoli chiusi in un baule ai piedi del letto. Io ho sempre sofferto d'insonnia e continuero a farlo fino all'ultimo giorno della mia vita. Nel frattempo sprechero ore e ore a evocare il sonno, a sperare che un manganello mi colpisca in testa, non troppo forte, non abbastanza da farmi male, giust.. | David Benioff | ||
| 9fd05df | What Slattery wants is a ring painted on concrete in the empty desert. With no living spectator around for miles, just him and the grinning demons. A chance to fight them each, one by one . . . to leave them broken and humbled, or even to lose the fights, but with nobility, and earn the respect of all the men who have showed him none. I want peace, he thinks to himself late at night. I want peace. But then he dreams of fistfights. | David Benioff | ||
| 2a67d00 | It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense. | poems poet poetry | David Benioff | |
| f60103e | El sonido mas solitario del mundo es el que producen otras personas haciendo el amor. | David Benioff |