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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da7f10b | It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath my feet, and somewhere out there, in the farmsteads and plantations ahead of me, swift retribution! Freedom! The bloody work of the Lord! | freedom race-war slavery | Russell Banks | |
| 32dc099 | Poor, deluded fools. Because their skin's as white as the rich man's, they believe that they might someday be rich themselves. But without the Negro, Owen, these men would be forced to see that, in fact, they have no more chance of becoming rich than do the very slaves they despise and trample on. They'd see how close they are to being slaves themselves. Thus, to protect and nurture their dream of becoming someday, somehow, rich, they don't.. | Russell Banks | ||
| ac7ba48 | For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem. | russell-banks the-sweet-hereafter | Russell Banks | |
| 526dbd1 | 1. Knowing one's emotions. Self-awareness--recognizing a feeling as it happens--is the keystone of emotional intelligence. As | Daniel Goleman | ||
| e4fc0a4 | It's funny about 'passing.' We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it. | Nella Larsen | ||
| d1900be | That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience.. | Adam Hochschild | ||
| 17269c3 | Peter makes clear in an early sermon in Acts. You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, "And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed." When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways. (Acts 3:25-26) So before Jesus is the savior of the world, he is the savior of Israel, restorin.. | J. Richard Middleton | ||
| b7ce01d | I don't want anything now, Sarie thought, not a thing in the world. I have everything I want. Yesterday I wanted so much without knowing what. Today I've got everything... | Peter Abrahams | ||
| e8f0880 | I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up. | sexuality | Julie Phillips | |
| ae305d2 | People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. | Miranda July | ||
| ddbcb80 | There had been options, before the baby, but none of them had been pursued... I had been quiet when there was no reason to be quiet, consisten when consistency didn't matter. For the last twenty years I had lived as if I were taking care of a newborn baby. | Miranda July | ||
| dcfb6b1 | I could see it so clearly, the zygote- shiny and bulbous, filled with the electric memory of being two but now damned with the eternal loneliness of being just one. The sorrow that never goes away. | Miranda July | ||
| 47c6560 | I was still feeling the old loss, just in a new way. | Miranda July | ||
| 3742217 | She was standing on the moon and if I responded I would be on the moon too, right next to her. | Miranda July | ||
| a7c0362 | I went home early to study my apartment before the class. I wanted to look at everything through her eyes. I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me. | Miranda July | ||
| 38218b4 | She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare. | humour shakespeare | Miranda July | |
| cecc2c5 | But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this...as opposed to some other way? ...If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have? | Miranda July | ||
| b1ce08d | Morning had gotten lost on the way home. We would lie this way forever, always saying goodbye, never parting. | Miranda July | ||
| 042155a | But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us. She seemed to have room for me; she never turned away in the pauses that allow for turning away. | Miranda July | ||
| d7f591c | Finally, in a low whisper, he said, "I think I might be a terrible person." For a split second I believed him--I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing. "No," | Miranda July | ||
| 6e2d446 | I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced "shh." | Miranda July | ||
| 610b5ea | Tom began screaming, and I wondered if the baby's soft brain was, in this moment, changing shape in response to the violent stimuli. I tried to intellectualize the noise to protect the baby's psyche. I whispered: Isn't that interesting to hear a man scream? Doesn't that challenge our stereotypes of what men can do? And then I tried, Shhhhhhhhh. | melancholy men | Miranda July | |
| 2613272 | I cried in English, I cried in French, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world. Esperanto. | Miranda July | ||
| 03aab3f | Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief. | Miranda July | ||
| 649ba9a | I smiled into the air the way I smiled when customers unbuckled their belts, and I made my eyes laugh as if everything were some version of a good time. | Miranda July | ||
| ac6ee93 | It had not occurred to me that it would get this bad, that indignity would dance upon bloodshed. | Miranda July | ||
| 1f2da94 | adm hy fqyry khh dr bkht azmyy brndh myshwnd hych wqt pwldr nmyshwnd. | Miranda July | ||
| f9ca0d5 | He was wise in the ways of pain. He had to be, for he felt none. When the Xenons put electrodes to his testicles, he was vastly entertained by the pretty lights. When the Ylls fed firewasps into his nostrils and other body orifices the resultant rainbows pleased him. And when later they regressed to simple disjointments and eviscerations, he noted with interest the deepening orchid hues that stood for irreversible harm. "This time?" he aske.. | James Tiptree Jr. | ||
| 76a5ea0 | A voice spoke in his head, mellow and vast: "Who's there?" he quavered. "Who are you?" "Malfunction! Malfunction!" squalled the scouter. "Shut up, it's not a malfunction. Who's talking to me?" The scouter was lunging wildly, buffeting him as it tried to escape the white grasp. Strange crunches, firings of unknown weapons. Still the white stasis held. "What do you want?" he cried. | James Tiptree Jr. | ||
| 95d8e64 | Briefly he has lived in a dream more real than all his miserable life. | James Tiptree Jr. | ||
| 4a32574 | I can't help what people think sounds male or female. | prejudice | Julie Phillips | |
| 8e0cc9e | Get the hell away from her." "I mean it Solange," he said, his jaw clenching. "Get off her. Now." | nicholas | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| a5f8d5d | That's not a grenade, is it?" Christabel whispered. "Probably," I whispered back. "The have this awesome storage room full of cool stuff like that." "Grenades are cool?" She looked dubious. "Cooler than dead poets," I teased. "Hey," both she and Logan said at the same time." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| bbfd2df | i knew if lucy broke up with me i would love her til i turned to dust | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| e3c70c1 | One is reminded of the old joke about the centipede who was asked how he managed to coordinate his 100 legs : He started thinking about it and could never walk properly again. | Paul Krugman | ||
| 6e97409 | As long as there are no routes back to full employment except that of somehow restoring business confidence, he pointed out, business lobbies in effect have veto power over government actions: propose doing anything they dislike, such as raising taxes or enhancing workers' bargaining power, and they can issue dire warnings that this will reduce confidence and plunge the nation into depression. But let monetary and fiscal policy be deployed .. | Paul Krugman | ||
| 918420f | Between 2003 and 2008, Iceland's three main banks, Glitnir, Kaupthing and Landsbanki, borrowed over $140 billion, a figure equal to ten times the country's GDP, dwarfing its central bank's $2.5 billion reserves. A handful of entrepreneurs, egged on by their then government, embarked on an unprecedented international spending binge, buying everything from Danish department stores to West Ham Football Club, while a sizeable proportion of the .. | Michael Booth | ||
| 6e7b210 | The longer someone ignores an email before finally responding, the more relative social power that person has. Map these response times across an entire organization and you get a remarkably accurate chart of the actual social standing. The boss leaves emails unanswered for hours or days; those lower down respond within minutes. There's an algorithm for this, a data mining method called "automated social hierarchy detection," developed at C.. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| c9f134e | the fine art of relationships--requires the ripeness of two other emotional skills, self-management and empathy. With | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 2881fa2 | You see it in jazz musicians, who never rehearse exactly what they do, but just seem to know when to take center stage, when to fade into the background. When jazz artists were compared with classical musicians in brain function, they showed more neural indicators of self-awareness.15 As one jazz artist put it, "In jazz you have to tune in to how your body is feeling so you know when to riff." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 5cf92aa | we have a bit of self-interest in relieving the misery of others. One school of modern economic theory, following Hobbes, argues that people give to charities in part because of the pleasure they get from imagining either the relief of those they benefit or their own relief from alleviating their sympathetic distress. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 0f3af43 | The sweet spot for smart decisions, then, comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 4640e21 | Sharmayne Williams:]...puoi avere tutte le emozioni possibili, ma non devi permettere che siano loro a manovrarti. | emozioni | Daniel Goleman | |
| f55a099 | Stress makes people stupid." On" | Daniel Goleman |