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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a3109bd | You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore. | John Green | ||
| 1f7aad5 | It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time." | change generations good-people indifference repentance silence social-justice social-movements violence vitriol | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| fe607d0 | It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. | game-of-thrones reality truth | George R.R. Martin | |
| 1af0335 | It's just a stupid sword," she said, aloud this time... ... but it wasn't. Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow.. | needle sibling-s-love stark | George R.R. Martin | |
| cbc1a02 | Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9dfccfe | Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of. | Sara Gruen | ||
| b213e7a | Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle." | women | Jim Butcher | |
| d0203dc | Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9968047 | Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. | process | Charles Baudelaire | |
| fe89845 | For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert. | inspirational | Robert Greene | |
| 81501db | Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all. | inspirational | Augustine | |
| 3cb1917 | The shell must break before the bird can fly. | inspirational | Alfred Lord Tennyson | |
| 6d37d22 | In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture | inspirational | Ayn Rand | |
| 38b52b4 | I wrote the song 'Down to Earth' a few years ago, and i was really excited to record it for My World album. It's a huge fan favourite. So many people feel where i'm coming from. It doesn't need any spectacular stage effects in the touring show; the best thing i can do is just sing it straight from my heart. I'm not afraid to show my emotions; if you love someone, you should tell them. If you think a girl is beautiful, you should say that. U.. | amazing cute inspirational | Justin Bieber | |
| 88c68d5 | My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens: men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then.. | inspirational | Antoine St | |
| 06d4997 | He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE. | futility ignorance inspirational | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| d0cb83f | I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant. | music poetry rampant volatile | Joanne Harris | |
| 418214e | This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ead505d | Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. | James Baldwin | ||
| 11608b6 | A screaming comes across the sky. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 089ad31 | They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d4e94f7 | Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers. He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers--and spirit itself will stink. Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking. Once s.. | zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 2760977 | Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me." | curse death harry-potter mad-eye-moody survive | J.K. Rowling | |
| ee6aee5 | Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| dbf29d6 | He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls...." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7054675 | Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e619257 | The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and always will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. When I look at you, I see your beauty and gr.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3cd7955 | Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? | choice cleverness good-looks questions | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 43ce3f9 | How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! | london morning nature petty-ambitions sherlock-holmes strange-errands strivings sunrise | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 090c961 | I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? | electricity energy exhaustion futility sherlock-holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 537a61e | Any woman who counts on her face is a fool. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 274ba6a | What made you fall in love with a prostitute?" "I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul." | lovers | Paulo Coelho | |
| 2efaa13 | You always wear that necklace," he said. "Is it another gift?" Though she wore gloves, he glanced at her hand - where the amethyst ring always sat - and the spark died from his eyes. "No." She covered the amulet with her hand. "I found it in my jewellery box and liked the look of it, you insufferably territorial man." | dorian throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8909216 | If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good help to you nevertheless And filter and fiber your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop some where waiting for you | Walt Whitman | ||
| 4b27756 | There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it. I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way.. | sensitive | Lynda Barry | |
| cddb6fb | If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind. | Rick Warren | ||
| 37401ff | Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 6589a3b | So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 47b4649 | Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith--acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. Should we wave.. | dan-brown god religion | Dan Brown | |
| 918ea28 | Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have live.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0a59365 | There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. | zealots | Charles Dickens | |
| e8a8853 | In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations. | philosophy | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| e1947eb | When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started." | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| f9cff3f | The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind.. | Albert Camus |