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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c4e9d0 | What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant... | death travel | Victor Hugo | |
| 7c329c8 | Let us never fear robbers not murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters is what threatens our heads or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul. | Victor Hugo | ||
| bfc4229 | Venerons le chien. Le chien (quel drole de bete!), a sa sueur sur sa langue et son sourire dans sa queue. | french | Victor Hugo | |
| 4ad3684 | We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You must not forget that you have a chamber here, we want nothing more to do with the Rue de l'Homme Arme. We will have no more of it at all. How could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one is cold, and into one cannot enter? You are to come and install yourself here. And this ver.. | whiplash | Victor Hugo | |
| 26ea126 | Presents are made for the pleasure of the one who gives them, not for the merits of those who receive them,' said my father. 'Besides, it can't be returned. Open it.' I undid the carefully wrapped package in the dim light of dawn. It contained a shiny carved wooden box, edged with gold rivets. Even before opening it, I was smiling. The sound of the clasp when it unlocked was exquisite, like the ticking of a watch. Inside, the case was lined.. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 37b8f20 | It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| f87f315 | Vsio prikhodit vovremia dlia togo, kto umeet zhdat'. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a444cbf | Ruzan cin mozes da ne ponovis i mozes da se pokajes zbog njega, ali ruzne misli radaju iskljucivo ruzne cini. Ruzan cin samo utire put ruznim cinima, a ruzne misli nezadrzivo vuku tim putem. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ee149f0 | Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ddea5d5 | Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself." | Richard J. Foster | ||
| 22e99c7 | Career" Galileo, the clergy maintained, was a pernicious and stubborn man. But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent. In Galileo's day, a fellow scientist was no more stupid than Galileo. He was well aware the earth revolved, but he also had a large family to feed. Stepping into a carriage with his wife, after effecting his betrayal, he believed he was launched on a career, though he was undermining it i.. | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | ||
| 3e0fe48 | Toda la diversidad, la hermosura, el encanto de la vida, se componen de luces y sombras. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bad4e1b | philosophical inquiries (the reflections of specially trained observers on the nature of their own patterns of thought) or the insights of great novelists, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Leo Tolstoy. Those are the readings that inspired my first years at Harvard. But, as I learned from Ernst Kris, neither trained introspection nor creative insights would lead to the systematic accretion of knowledge needed for .. | Eric R. Kandel | ||
| aa0946d | No hay felicidad en la existencia, no hay mas que relampagos de felicidad. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 84245a5 | knt an rkdyyfn tqr' wtfhm, lknh lm tkn tjd mt`@ fy ttb` mGmrt lakhryn. knt trGb rGbh `rm@ fy 'n t`ysh bdhth | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2b9a892 | But in Old Rimrock, NJ, in 1995, when the Ivan Ilyches come trooping back to lunch at the clubhouse after their morning round of golf and started to crow, "It doesn't get any better than this," they may be a lot closer to the truth than Leo Tolstoy ever was." | Philip Roth | ||
| 830f267 | kn y`lm 'n lh zwjan, lknh lm yw'mn bwjwdh, wlm yw'mn bhdh lwjwd Hq l `ndm rah br'sh , wktfyh , wsqyh fy bnTlhm l'swd , amn bhdh lwjwd , `l~ lkhSwS , `ndm ray hdh lzwj ytnwl bhdw dhr` an, fy nw` mn lHss blmlky@ | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 6524b10 | What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 7ec7cb7 | He believed that there was need in the world for a class freed from the handicap of law and morality, a class acutely adaptable and immoral; a class bent on achieving, not the equality of all men, but the production, at the top, of the superman. | H.L. Mencken | ||
| cf293dd | If this is so, why should any man bother about moral rules and regulations? Why should any man conform to laws formulated by a people whose outlook on the universe probably differed diametrically from his own? Why should any man obey a regulation which is denounced, by his common-sense, as a hodge-podge of absurdities, and why should he model his whole life upon ideals invented to serve the temporary needs of a forgotten race of some past a.. | H.L. Mencken | ||
| 18af170 | There is something poignantly pathetic in the picture of this valiant fighter--this arrogant ja-sager--this foe of men, gods and devils--being nursed and coddled like a little child. His old fierce pride and courage disappeared and he became docile and gentle. "You and I, my sister--we are happy!" he would say, and then his hand would slip out from his coverings and clasp that of the tender and faithful Lisbeth. Once she mentioned Wagner to.. | H.L. Mencken | ||
| f949fbf | it occurred to him that time didn't move forward as he'd always thought. People move through time instead. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 1f32352 | The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes. It's the remainder that is left over when the failures have disappeared. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 6e47793 | The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 782b77c | I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to feel scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 9359cc0 | You wouldn't know from experience that small children are the most powerful learning engines in the known universe. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| f9e9ef3 | Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don't you think he'll do the same for you?' In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, 'Hell no!' Even the most dedicated monastics saw to th.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 18ac6d0 | You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 1d80198 | We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon. | funny humor ishmael | Daniel Quinn | |
| cadf388 | Here are some things we can expect of the New Tribal revolution, based on the experience of the Industrial Revolution.[...] Three: It will be led by no one. Like the industrial revolution, it will need no shepherd, no organizer, no spearhead, no pacesetter, no mastermind at the top; it will be too much for anyone to lead. Four: It will not be the initiative of any political, governmental, or religious body. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 17f4563 | With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man? | Daniel Quinn | ||
| f946eb3 | HUMANS don't generate toxic wastes--but our culture certainly does. HUMANS aren't toxic to the face of the earth--but our culture certainly is. It's vitally important for our children to know that the curse that needs to be lifted from the earth is not humanity. It's important for them to know that we may be a doomed culture, but we are not a doomed species. It's important for them to understand that it's not being HUMAN that is destroying .. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 3c00cd4 | You die because you think the gods are looking after you. That's ok for animals, but you should know better." "We should not trust the gods with our lives?" "Definitely not. You should trust *yourselves* with your lives. That's the human way to live." Ishmael shook his head ponderously. "This is sorry news indeed. From time out of mind we've lived in the hands of the gods, and it seemed to us we lived well. We left to the gods all the labor.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| c275235 | culture. A culture is a people enacting a story." "A people enacting a story. And a story again is ...?" "A scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods." "Okay. So you're saying that the people of my culture are enacting their own story about man, the world, and the gods." "That's right." | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 3c387f3 | This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood. | philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| 469ab53 | Don't wait. Writers are the only artists I know of who expect to get somewhere by waiting. Everyone knows you have to dance to be a dancer, you have to sing to be a singer, you have to act to be an actor, but far too many people seem to believe that you. don't have to write to be a writer. So, instead of writing, they wait. Isaac Asimov said it beautifully in just six words: "It's the writing that teaches you." Writing is what teaches you. .. | writing-advice | Daniel Quinn | |
| e90d41a | The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't--and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact .. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 587d58c | May the forests be with you and with your children. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| d752827 | Because six billion of us are pursuing an evolutionarily unstable strategy, we're fundamentally attacking the very ecological systems that keep us alive. Just like the goat that refuses to suckle its kids, we're in the process of eliminating ourselves. Think about the time line Charles drew in his talk about the boiling frog. For the first six thousand years, the impact of our evolutionarily unstable strategy was minimal and confined to the.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| abd4dcf | Nothing in the community lives in isolation from the rest, not even the queens of the social insects. Nothing lives only in itself, needing nothing from the community. Nothing lives only for itself, owing nothing to the community. Nothing is untouchable or untouched. Every life is on loan from the community from birth and without fail is paid back to the community in death. The community is a web of life, and every strand of the web is a pa.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 73bcd70 | I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be. | optimism | Roméo Dallaire | |
| 4e903c8 | The global village is deteriorating at a rapid pace, and in the children of the world the result is rage. It is the rage I saw in the eyes of the teenage Interahamwe militiamen in Rwanda, it is the rage I sensed in the hearts of the children of Sierra Leone, it is the rage I felt in crowds of ordinary civilians in Rwanda, and it is the rage that resulted in September 11. Human beings who have no rights, no security, no future, no hope and n.. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| 464b22d | At any rate," she prattled on, awkwardness making her words run together, "I really can't get up to get my clothing, and my dressing gown appears to be just out of reach. I'm not exactly certain how this is so, but it is, so perhaps you ought to get up first, as I've already seen you--" "Henry?" "Yes?" "Shut up." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 46fb90d | He poked her shoulder. 'Ellie? Ellie?' 'What? Oh, I'm sorry.' Her face colored, even though she knew he couldn't possibly read her thoughts. 'Just woolgathering.' 'Darling, you were practically hugging a sheep. | Julia Quinn |