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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f510439 | sociological research is part of a continuous 'two-way' process between sociologists and the subjects they study. | Anthony Giddens | ||
| 319a274 | They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like animals, and because I hate the sight and sound of them, and because you're a Britisher, I'm telling you to get out now while the going's good. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 46232bf | It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesman, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the great powers might make the actual declarations of their Governments' policies; but it was the Big Business men, the bankers and their dependents, the arms manufacturers, the oil companies, the big industrialists, who determined what those policies should be. | Eric Ambler | ||
| e2ad11a | A man's features, the bone structure and the tissue which covers it, are the product of a biological process; but his face he creates for himself. It is a statement of his habitual emotional attitude; the attitude which his desires need for fulfilment and which his fears demand for their protection of prying eyes. He wears it like a devil mask; a device to evoke in others the emotions complementary to his own. If he is afraid, then he must .. | Eric Ambler | ||
| d37b587 | I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man. | Eric Ambler | ||
| c29f449 | In a dying civilisation, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best beside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance. Yet there remains one sort of political prestige that may still be worn with a certain pathetic dignity; it is that given to the liberal-minded leader of a party of conflicting doctrinaire extremists. His dignity is that of all doomed men: for, whe.. | mediocrity political-extremism | Eric Ambler | |
| 49ca5d4 | We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger. | god thunderstrorm tune | Raymond Khoury | |
| 3a428e7 | They don't understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this planet and beyond works - us, nature, everything we see around us. That's fact - no one with a working brain can question that. But we also need religion. Not for ridiculous counter-theories about things that science can prove. We need it for something else, to fill a different kind of need. The need fo.. | philosophy raymond-khoury religion science-and-religion | Raymond Khoury | |
| 14eed52 | It would be hard to get statistics on violent death -- what do you count as murder? When people starve to death because of policies of governments and corporations, is that murder? Nature does a fair amount of murdering itself, which is why this whole notion of dominating nature arose: it was one of those things that seemed a good idea at the time. No one ever believes a cure will prove worse than the disease. And maybe it isn't. An invasio.. | Marilyn French | ||
| b62c30b | But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another. | Marilyn French | ||
| c2d927c | Men: they are what they are and women have to accept that and try to shift around them. Especially men with power. Money. The upper hand. The raised hand. Momma`s philosophy. Here`s to you, Momma. She raised the empty cup. What`s the use of fighting them. What`s the use. To struggle, to live in anger takes everything out of you, drains you, makes people hate you and what`s the use? You get nothing you want, all you get is tired. | Marilyn French | ||
| 27d5971 | At some level of consciousness, all lovers know this. If you cease to care for the person you love, you will give up a vital piece of your identity. You will become someone else. You will look back on your past love with tenderness or anger or some other combination of feelings, but you will not be able to recapture the same emotions you once felt. | Marilyn Yalom | ||
| e344044 | Kiedy los nam nie sprzyja, w glebi serca wszyscy jestesmy egoistami i wszyscy wznosimy te same modly: tylko nie ja, tylko nie ja, jeszcze nie teraz. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 187d5d1 | Nigdy nie watp w czleka prawego i szlachetnego. Taki zawsze cos spieprzy. Oczywiscie wszystko w imie wiekszego dobra. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 338f194 | Nic nie pozostaje ukryte na zawsze. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 9c65ff8 | yjb 'n t`lm 'n qlb lnsn yjb 'n ykwn kbyran jdan lHtw kl mn nHb. shjrty shjr@ lbrtql lry'`@ - khwsyh mwrw dy fskwnsylws (S158) | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| 08d1b7d | To those you care for, a nurse is a person of many faces: You are a warrior against death and suffering, a technician of the highest degree; you are a mother, a sister, a best friend, a psychiatrist; you are a teacher, a magician, a sounding board, a secretary, a fortuneteller, a politician, but most of all, you are a loving human being who has chosen to give that love in one of the best ways you can. | Echo Heron | ||
| dd9f472 | Las relaciones se supone que te hacen sentir bien. Las relaciones no se supone que te hagan sentir mal. O culpable, insegura, avergonzada, paranoica, o sin esperanza. Bien. Asi que cuando una relacion te hace sentir mal, culpable, insegura, avergonzada, paranoica, o sin esperanza, acaba con ella. Superalo. Sigue adelante. | Laura Bowers | ||
| 259d11c | Relationships are supposed to make you feel good. Relationships are not supposed to make you feel bad. | Laura Bowers | ||
| 006906f | If we sound like a couple of callous assholes, it's because that's how we were raised. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 0d0da61 | It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. | self-awareness thoughts | Jonathan Tropper | |
| aeeb951 | N]o one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 1180f8c | And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 22661b0 | Man muss die Originalitat des eigenen Lebens infrage stellen wenn es sich mit den Zeilen eines Rocksongs perfekt umschreiben lasst. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 130ca8d | Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them. | selfishness thoughts | Jonathan Tropper | |
| d0ddc6a | The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent pregnancies. They silently evaluate and pass judgment, realigning themselves in the pecking order. It's a brutal business, being a woman. Wendy sucks in her gut and crosses her legs, pointing her toes like a ballerina in a last-ditch effort to coax her calf muscle out of hiding. She has our mother's legs, sheath.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 5fae15a | You can't let your dog crap on the sidewalk, but it's perfectly acceptable to blow carcinogens down other people's throats. Somewhere along the way, smokers exempted themselves from the social contract. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| d4fb5c1 | We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| b6ec2a5 | She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky. | death plane sadness travel vivid-descriptions | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 55de581 | The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 4c254dc | Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation, | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| dbba22a | Wir sehen Menschen, die wir lieben, meist nur so, wie wir sie im Kopf haben. Hin und wieder aber erhaschen wir zufallig einen Blick darauf, wie sie in Wirklichkeit aussehen, und in den Sekundenbruchteilen, die unser Gehirn braucht, um sich auf die neue Realitat einzustellen, kommen kleine Dinge in uns vom Weg ab und wirbeln schreiend irgendeinen Abhang hinunter. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 627aa67 | Your way of dealing with your child will have lots of unique aspects, because you and your child are unique human beings, and the blend is yet another special level of uniqueness. | Laura Schlessinger | ||
| c113103 | In agricultural communities, male leadership in the hunt ceased to be of much importance. As the discipline of the hunting band decayed, the political institutions of the earliest village settlements perhaps approximated the anarchism which has remained ever since the ideal of peaceful peasantries all round the earth. Probably religious functionaries, mediators between helpless mankind and the uncertain fertility of the earth, provided an i.. | utopia | William H. McNeill | |
| a2b11c2 | Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes. | running | Jim Butcher | |
| 7215784 | He reached out a hand to the middle head of the dog and scratched it beneath the chin. One of the beast's rear legs began to thump rapidly against the floor. It sounded like something you'd hear coming from inside a machine shop. "Do you know my dog's name?" "Cerberus," I said promptly. "But everyone knows that." "Do you know what it means?" I opened my mouth and closed it again. I shook my head. "It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It me.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cd8f58f | When I look into someone's eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return--the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3c1d964 | A house doesn't make a home. When the place has got history, family, emotions, worries, joys worked into the wood, that's when it gets a solid threshold. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 340d614 | I knew what it was like to have holes in my life in the shape of people who should have been there. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6bbfb6c | Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either." "Why not? You've done it before. And you've got a new gun and everything." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 49bc701 | I mean, a lot of teenage guys fail in their first relationships. Not many of them murder the girl involved. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d62f73d | More than that, though, it gained a definite spiritual chill. Malevolent energy hovered around us, slow and thick like half-frozen honey. There was a gloating, miserly quality to it, bringing to my mind images of old Smaug lying in covetous slumber upon his bed of treasure. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ab44ad5 | Wizardry is all about thinking ahead, about being prepared. Wizards aren't really superhuman. We just have a leg up on seeing things more clearly than other people, and being able to use the extra information we have for our benefit. Hell, the word wizard comes from the same root as wise. We know things. We aren't any stronger or faster than anyone else. We don't even have all that much more going in the mental department. But we're god-awf.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f14d2d7 | Professional Wizard Incinerates Amateur Vampire. News at ten. | Jim Butcher |