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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d8fc279 | The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to c.. | robots | Isaac Asimov | |
| 3aa476b | Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul. | humor management | Kim Harrison | |
| 2a23ec4 | There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5799c74 | Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. | complain time whine work | Joan Didion | |
| 016d166 | After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about try.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c6bc12c | We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. | Arthur Golden | ||
| af7d4ec | I'm not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn't seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| db6c8f1 | My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind. | true-love women | Charles Dickens | |
| 1b68433 | A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3d69555 | Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 755407d | In rode the Lord of the Nazgul. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgul, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ca03851 | That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price. | the-summoning | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 61ef03c | Screw caution," Tori said. "I'm outta here." We looked at her. "Well, I am. As long as someone comes with me." We kept looking at her. She sighed. "Fine, but when everything goes to hell, just remember, I get to blame you guys, because I wanted to leave right away." | chloe derek kelley reckoning tori | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 3922922 | For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 10c3253 | The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 19b8726 | But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were! | balcony-scene juliet love plays romeo romeo-and-juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| 7499c14 | Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. | Harper Lee | ||
| d754d8d | I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite of passage, a sacrament. It will not be wasted on some hormone-driven frenzy. This is why I wanted you to feed from me." "I will not drink it in a house, I will not drink it with a mouse. I will not drink it here or there, I will not drink it anywhere," I wheezed, hoping I was able to communicate adequate sarcasm through the crippling belly .. | hungry vampire | Molly Harper | |
| 0086b44 | There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive. | David Levithan | ||
| 5db6bf9 | What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty. | beauty | Alain de Botton | |
| 7a2464e | I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get. | appearance beautiful beauty bukowski classic classics loneliness lonely mirror people poem poetry reflection self self-esteem soul superficial superficial-beauty superficiality ugly | Charles Bukowski | |
| a8ff910 | It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. | peeps scott-la scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 224670f | The faculty to think objectively is ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of . To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference betw.. | conflict empathy erich-fromm humility love narcissism objective objectivity reason reasoning selfishness subjective the-art-of-loving understanding | Erich Fromm | |
| b8b8363 | People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. | libel neighbor people prejudice reputation rumor slander truth | George Eliot | |
| f5637bc | Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book i.. | reading | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 4195dc5 | For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert." | Robert Greene | ||
| 20827b1 | That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer feel it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2131370 | Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same shore before the same mighty ocean. The ocean of love. There it is - in perpetuum. As much in a broken blossom, the sound of a waterfall, the swoop of a carrion bird as in the thunderous artillery of the prophet. | Henry Miller | ||
| 65d3dd8 | He faced us. "You hear that, guys? A batch of cookies is depending on me. If you get me killed on the way to camp, I am going be ticked off." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0c9b8a9 | The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| ff0871a | Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. | paper | Dodie Smith | |
| ab1ab93 | Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. | philosophy-of-life reading | Italo Calvino | |
| b741e61 | What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 58a98dc | I meant it, Claire,' he said quietly. 'My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we go next. To France, to Italy, even back to Scotland. My heart has been yours since first I saw ye, and you've held my soul and body between your two hands here, and kept them safe. We shall go as ye say. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5169902 | Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed! | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c343489 | The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 81315d2 | The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is. | poor | Howard Zinn | |
| 123d042 | Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state? | Tite Kubo | ||
| fc34a53 | Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2666f43 | Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars.. | exploration night-sky nocturnal skywatcher space stars | Carl Sagan | |
| 39ac2ef | Not much had changed at Magnus's since the first time Jace had been there. Jace used an open rune to get through the front door and took the stairs, buzzing Magnus's apartment bell. It was safer that way because Magnus could be playing video games naked or really anything. Magnus yanked the door open, looking furious. He was wearing a black silk dressing gown, his feet were bare, his dark hair was tangled, "What are you doing here?" "My," s.. | magnus | Cassandra Clare | |
| 21fa3e1 | Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone." "It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard." | magnus-bane malec | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3d71512 | Clary glanced past him and asked, "Where's Magnus?" "He said it would be better if he didn't come. Apparently he and the Seelie Queen have some kind of history." Isabelle raised her eyebrows. "Not that kind of history," said Alec irritably. "Some kind of feud. Though," he added, half under his breath, "the way he got around before me, I woudn't be surprised." | isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 049f868 | It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand--a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love--then you are human." | clockwork-angel jem-carstairs tessa-gray the-infernal-devices | Cassandra Clare |