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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a1270c9 | He wished he'd been able to think of some rousing last words. "Bugger you all" was not like to earn him much of a place in the histories." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e6ea044 | To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9f222e4 | Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King's Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| abee030 | For she was his secret treasure, she was his shame and his bliss. And a chain and a keep are nothing, compared to a woman's kiss. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 633b9d6 | In his youth, Jon Connington had shared the disdain most knights had for bowmen, but he had grown wiser in exile. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| fffdf22 | But Theon Greyjoy found himself wondering why any man would climb the snow-slick steps to the battlements in the black of night just to take a piss. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d1c9688 | Though Roose had been in battles, he bore no scars. Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 52a8a6d | Pride goes before a fall. | failure fall fire-and-blood pride | George R.R. Martin | |
| fc101c7 | The day before last, Jon had made the mistake of wishing he had hot water for a bath. "Cold is better," she had said at once, "if you've got someone to warm you up after. The river's only part ice yet, go on." Jon laughed. "You'd freeze me to death." "Are all crows afraid of gooseprickles? A little ice won't kill you. I'll jump in with you to t'prove it so." "And ride the rest of the day with wet clothes frozen to our skins?" he objected. .. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| da7e3d3 | Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tendi his garden in content, someone had written once for this wide world has no greater wonder. | garden | George R.R. Martin | |
| 61bc6c3 | What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs? | gods plagues rats | George R.R. Martin | |
| 461d168 | In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| ca4d1f6 | Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent. | u-s-politics | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| 7eddaf9 | The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful.. | mathematics | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| f3bd5c2 | None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some of the best have been very good writers. He should know, moreover, that at least for a few great men ambiguity of expression has been a positive asset. But with these exceptions he may safely conclude that what is wholly mysterious in economic.. | writing | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| 6a19bfd | The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 47ad73f | The worst continued to worsen. What looked one day like the end proved on the next day to have been only the beginning. Nothing could have been more ingeniously designed to maximize the suffering, and also to insure that as few people as possible escape the common misfortune. The fortunate speculator who had funds to answer the first margin call presently got another and equally urgent one, and if he met that there would still be another. I.. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 1a38816 | The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... & | conservative liberal libertarian politics progressive selfishness | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| 2acc22c | One of the many signs of verbal virtuosity among intellectuals is the repackaging of words to mean things that are not only different from, but sometimes the direct opposite of, their original meanings. 'Freedom' and 'power' are among the most common of these repackaged words. The basic concept of freedom as not being subjected to other people's restrictions, and of power as the ability to restrict other people's options have both been stoo.. | big-business control economics freedom government-power john-kenneth-galbraith monopoly power | Thomas Sowell | |
| 929c2bf | There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral. | political-philosophy | Steven D. Levitt | |
| ff340ba | There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 7a9d6a5 | Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 069e2ae | It's hard to believe in miracles until you've seen one happen. But once you've seen, well, life alters and you can never look | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| c441bfe | Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them. | goal-setting leadership motivation | H.W. Brands | |
| cdf5966 | Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning. When the sky lightened, when the birds awoke, I knew I would never again see anything so splendid as the round red sun coming up over the earth. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| 243107b | Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth." | culture eskimo remember | Jean Craighead George | |
| 09d591d | There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods. | intelligence life love riches | Jean Craighead George | |
| 615f7ea | cultivate the godly treasures within you by experience and the Word, then bring them to the surface by prayer and obedience. Believe God for signs and wonders to come through you. Determine to be used in this hour and press on to the fullness that God has for you. | Roberts Liardon | ||
| 7ae04dc | for angels and anointings work together. | Roberts Liardon | ||
| 5b030a3 | Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be. | Eleanor Estes | ||
| 765f3dc | Ginger twitched his ears and the loose skin on his back and legs to let Jerry know he was here and he was happy. Then he lowered his head down on his paws again and he let out a deep sigh that sounded almost like a sob, there was in it so much relief and pain and pleasure and remembering. | Eleanor Estes | ||
| 77cb419 | I'm already fantasizing about the Chinese food IO'm going to order in. Moo shu chicken with hoisn sauce. Maybe I'll even eat it in the bathtub. | Meg Cabot | ||
| aa95a85 | Cabrero, kayla said, narrowing her eyes at Alex." If you do that one more time, I will take this book from you and hit you with it till you're dead. Again." | Meg Cabot | ||
| bf3174a | You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway. | Meg Cabot | ||
| a0c2e35 | Plus, I have two television sets. How many does Cal have? Oh, that'd be none. I asked. Yeah, Cal doesn't "believe" in TV. Right. You know what I don't believe in? People who don't believe in TV." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 491525e | Lars watches Pretty Little Liars. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 1a7e7cc | When you fuck up, shit gets real. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 3b85341 | That part of the press release about me asking your father's permission to marry you was true--well, partly true, anyway. I didn't ask permission--I knew you wouldn't like that, it's sexist. You're not your father's property. But I did see him before we left, to tell him I was going to propose to you this weekend, and ask for his blessing." I was stunned. "Wait . . . is this what you meant when you said before we left that you'd talked to m.. | princess-diaries relationships | Meg Cabot | |
| bead5f4 | Subject:My butt | Meg Cabot | ||
| 20dde07 | Flinging dog drool on innocent passersby? | Meg Cabot | ||
| 96cbee7 | Dala by som cokolvek, keby na miesto toho, aby som bola stosedemdesiatpat centimetrov vysokou princeznou s plochou hrudou, som mohla byt stosestdesiatpat centimetrovym normalnym dievcatom s prsiami. COKOLVEK. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 8d55d91 | Come on." He pressed his forehead against mine, grinning. "You're happy about this. I can tell. It wasn't exactly what we had planned, but it's a surprise, not a disaster. A surprise is a good thing. Right?" | Meg Cabot | ||
| 7d59d55 | Hello," Lilly said."Movie. Of your life.You were portrayed as shy and awkward." "I am shy and awkward," I reminded her. "They made your grandmother all kindly and sympathetic to your plight," Lilly said."It was the grossest mischaracterization I've seen since Shakespeare in Love tried to pass off the Bard as a hottie with a six-pack and a full set of teeth." | Meg Cabot | ||
| bb9a22f | Why hadn't she said anything? It wouldn't have been weird for her to tell me, "Pierce, back when I was in high school and had terribly poor judgment, I used to go out with an extreme douche." | Meg Cabot |