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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a89ecc4 | You are my Easter. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 77be607 | Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility? | philosophy | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 628453a | What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them? | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 1a9b603 | Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention. | funny humour life | Orson Scott Card | |
| de28b23 | All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams. | dreams | Orson Scott Card | |
| d2fe625 | Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence. | business-advice business-management-training executive facebook management marketing social-media twitter youtube | Brian E Boyd | |
| 7793b61 | Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unforeseeability of the future. | Brian Boyd | ||
| 6eaf0b1 | It was then that my gaze happened to fall on the bookcase, on the gap there, where the old paperback of "Nine Stories" had fallen flat. "Where's the thing?" I said. "What thing?" "The mesh. My ." She shrugged. "I tossed it." "Tossed it? Where? What do you mean?" In the next moment I was in the kitchen, flipping open the lid of the trash can, only to find it empty. "You mean outside?" I shouted. "In the dumpster?" When I came thunderi.. | dysfunctional-relationships passive-aggression shaming | T.C. Boyle | |
| 0c2bf4d | Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death. | Herman Melville | ||
| ad1e45a | I try all things; I achieve what I can. | Herman Melville | ||
| 04b5bbf | Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit. If you're risk averse and have some doubts about the feasibility of your ideas, it's likely that your business will be built to last. If you're a freewheeling gambler, your startup is far more fragile. Like the Warby Parker crew, the entrepreneurs whose companies topped Fast Company's recent most innovative lists typically stayed in their day job.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| b6843c4 | Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why. | Scott Adams | ||
| adea90d | If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise. | Scott Adams | ||
| a8f1c8a | Gunun birinde Locke Lamora," dedi adam, "gunun birinde oyle ihtisamli, oyle hirsli, oyle muazzam bir hata yapacaksin ki gokyuzu isiga bogulacak, aylar firil firil donecek ve tanrilar neseyle kuyrukluyildizlar sicacak. Umarim o gunu gorebilecek kadar yasarim." "Avucunu yalarsin," dedi Locke. "Oyle bir sey asla olmayacak." | gentlemen-bastards locke-lamora locke-lamora-nın-yalanları | Scott Lynch | |
| c58f467 | Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time. | humour reassurance technology | Scott Adams | |
| 320f742 | Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things. | success | Scott Adams | |
| f48e21a | I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me. | Scott Adams | ||
| fbfdc23 | shyness is caused by an internal feeling that you are not worthy to be in the conversation. | Scott Adams | ||
| 5c42e05 | simplicity is not proof of truth. But since we can never understand true reality, if two models both explain the same facts, it is more rational to use the simpler one. It is a matter of convenience. | Scott Adams | ||
| a02fbb6 | If, as you say, our minds are delusion generators, then we're all like blind and deaf sea captains shouting orders into the universe and hoping it makes a difference. We have no way of knowing what really works and what merely seems to work. So doesn't it make sense to try all the things that appear to work even if we can't be sure? | Scott Adams | ||
| 5ad1bb7 | My definition of happiness is that it's a feeling you get when your body chemistry is producing pleasant sensations in your mind. | Scott Adams | ||
| 61430e7 | Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise. | Scott Adams | ||
| 81e2c95 | With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. | Herman Melville | ||
| 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 roman-empire the-boggart | 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. | god worship | 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. | curiosity hooping-this | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 9911f03 | Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin" | self-discipline self-indulgence | 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 |