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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| edba911 | shkran lk y qlby/ l'nny styqZtu mn jdyd/ wlw 'nW lywm hw l'Hd/ ywm lrH@/ l 'n tHt lDlw`/ ttwSl lHrk@ lm`td@ lm qbl l`yd | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 0fcff9f | Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is the way it's always been: bad with large numbers. It is still moved by particularity. It flits about the darkness like a flashlight beam, disclosing only random faces, while the rest go blindly by, unthought of, unpitied. Not even a Dante could have stopped that. So what do you do when you're not, even with all the muses on your side? Non omnis moriar--a premature worry. Yet am I full.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 3be097e | Sled vsiaka voina niakoi triabva da raztrebi. "Krai i nachalo" | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 0606ee9 | Because men are sentimental over women they will throw away military advantages, and hesitate and weigh the chances of failure when attack is their best or only hope, and lose their opportunity because they "have to think of the women and children". Men who would otherwise not dream of surrendering will make terms with an enemy in return for the safety of a handful of women. If a man is killed, it is an accident of war; but if a woman or a .. | women-and-children | M.M. Kaye | |
| 8dcca38 | Perhaps I myself am a pompous and conceited old fool. And perhaps if these fools I complain of were French or Dutch or German I would not mind so much, because then I could say 'What else can you expect?' and feel superior. It is because they are men of my own race that I would have them all good. | east-india-company | M.M. Kaye | |
| 18b9b1e | There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that. | war | M.M. Kaye | |
| ce75e72 | But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible -- something that remained of men who had walked and talked with one and told one stories, men whom one had loved and looked up to. But where had it gone? It was all very puzzling, and he did not understand. | death-of-a-loved-one incomprehensible | M.M. Kaye | |
| 42019c7 | What could be more entrancing than a carefree nomadic existence camping, moving, exploring strange places and the ruins of forgotten empires, sleeping under canvas or the open sky, and giving no thought to the conventions and restriction of the modern world? | M.M. Kaye | ||
| ed0074e | Nor have I become so blind that I cannot see what is written on your face, or so deaf that I cannot hear what is in your voice; and I am not yet so old that I cannot remember my own youth | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 4bf8c6c | Did you ever read Aurora Leigh? - "Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes." | M.M. Kaye | ||
| b1d0102 | I tried to read this book, Huckleberry Finn, to my grandchildren, but I couldn't get past page six because the book is fraught with the 'n-word'. And although they are the deepest-thinking, combat-ready eight- and ten-year-olds I know, I knew my babies weren't ready to comprehent Huckleberry Finn on its own merits. That's why I took the liberty to rewrite Mark Twain's masterpiece. Where re repugnant 'n-word' occurs, I replaced it with 'warr.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| c9dba60 | Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary. | Paul Beatty | ||
| b1b935c | There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be indifferent to the simple mention of either group. We're two insightful people looking for reasons to love ourselves; and let's not forget we both love pork and wear sandals with socks. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 01ccd4c | My litmus test of compatibility is 'Tom Cruise.' I hate people who hate Tom Cruise, cultural automatons who at the mention of his name reflexively bridle and say the diminutive thespian and Theta level Scientoligist is 'crazy' and 'a terrible actor'. They hate him because he's easy to hate. They think that despising Tom Cruise's lack of personality and supposed lack of talent is somehow a blow against the bland American Anschluss of the res.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 70a9e1b | Semper Fi, Semper Funky | Paul Beatty | ||
| a9927d7 | One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function." | Paul Beatty | ||
| 34442b1 | Leonardo did not pursue science and engineering in order to dominate nature, as Francis Bacon would advocate a century later, but always tried to learn as much as possible from nature. He was in awe of the beauty he saw in the complexity of natural forms, patterns, and processes, and aware that nature's ingenuity was far superior to human design. Accordingly, he often used natural processes and structures as models for his own designs. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 9963a28 | Communication, according to Maturana, is not primarily a transmission of information, but rather a coordination of behavior between living organisms. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 46fe73c | This exceptional ability to interconnect observations and ideas from different disciplines lies at the very heart of Leonardo's approach to learning and research. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 167d3e0 | The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7). | Fritjof Capra | ||
| caf2463 | It is wrong to draw a sharp line in one's imagination between the "nature" present on the Rocky Mountain front and that available in the suburbanite's own front yard. The natural world found on even the most perfect and stylized of lawns is no less real than that at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Different, yes, but to draw too sharp a distinction between the sparsely settled world of Alaska and the dense suburbs of Levittown is a pre.. | Ted Steinberg | ||
| d1504dd | Lincoln Steffens has a fable of a man who climbed to the top of a mountain and, standing on tiptoe, seized hold of the Truth. Satan, suspecting mischief from this upstart, had directed one of his underlings to tail him; but when the demon reported with alarm the man's success--that he had seized hold of the Truth--Satan was unperturbed. "Don't worry," he yawned. "I'll tempt him to institutionalize it." That" | Huston Smith | ||
| ca32702 | Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn. | Huston Smith | ||
| 6b07e8e | To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life's final and fascinating challenge. | Huston Smith | ||
| 622cbf5 | I think I have changed," I said. "I think changes have happened to you," said Kristin. "But that is not the same thing..." -- | Jim Powell | ||
| 545ff8c | I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life in exploration, not of the darker crannies of human misbehaviour, but of the heights of human speculation concerning the nature of the Divine. That the two were not unrelated did not occur to me for years. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 33abc5c | Holmes, you're a genius. So I have been told. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 72a2d6d | That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 8b4ec82 | Interpreting the Bible without training is a bit like finding a specific address in a foreign city with neither map nor knowledge of the language. You might stumble upon the right answer, but in the meantime you've put yourself at the mercy of every ignoramus in town, with no way of telling the savant from the fool. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 5030fa1 | I dislike the idea of a murderer employing children,' said Holmes darkly. 'It is, I agree, bad for their morals, and interferes with their sleep.' 'And their schooling,' added Holmes sententiously. | humor | Laurie R. King | |
| 1562fe8 | The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 21dae4e | Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being." Holmes could be surprisingly empathetic at times," | Laurie R. King | ||
| 0bab51f | Do you know what it means to be heartbroken? It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a6096e4 | His feet were swollen to twice their size, besides being cut here and there. Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 818863c | It's his dern laziness," Call said. "Jake just kind of drifts. Any wind can blow him." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 265b568 | I miss Gus...I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain't here. My ears sort of get empty. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d386ecd | Things are just put together wrong. There's so much shit in the world a man's gonna get in it sooner or later, whether he's careful or not. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 64bd2bc | It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2d3e693 | A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| af6bdfd | If I'd have wanted civilization I'd have stayed in Tennessee and wrote poetry for a living, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0d8a171 | See this page of paper? It's blank," Scull said. "That, sir, is the most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page. I mean to fill this paper with decent sentences, sir--this page and hundreds like it. Let me tell you, Colonel, it's harder than fighting Lee. Why, it's harder than fighting Napoleon. It requires unremitting attention," | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 66e141b | Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 7147c57 | You're like a starving person whose stomach is shrunk up from not having any food. You're shrunk up from not wanting nothing. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| af4f791 | Well, boys," Long Bill said. "I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe." | Larry McMurtry |