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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c15fe92 | You have to be careful, Terauchi always warned us, or you'll wind up in some database. Then adults will control you. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 1d21244 | Loneliness. Sometimes that awful feeling causes you to do something stupid. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 49d953d | I got up on time this morning, boarded the train, changed to the subway, and worked like an aggressive career woman in one of the biggest corporations around. At night I transformed into a prostitute sought out by men. Suddenly I remembered the argument I had had earlier with Arai and stopped short. I'm a company employee day and night. Or is it that I'm a prostitute night and day? Which is it? Which one is me? | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 0c2fc78 | It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. And I became afraid of myself for stirring up such hatred in others. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 8e3b8e8 | Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what? | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 36427ae | Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. This is one reason why men tend to fear commitment--and sometimes, as in Mystery's case, even rebel against it by endeavoring to bring out the worst in a woman. | Neil Strauss | ||
| f58d672 | As anyone who regularly reads newspapers or true-crime books knows, a significant percentage of violent crime, from kidnappings to shooting sprees, is the result of the frustrated sexual impulses and desires of males. By socializing guys like Sasha, Mystery and I were making the world a safer place. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 1820c1f | The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said. | Henry James | ||
| 4245642 | I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man. | tears women women-and-men | Esmeralda Santiago | |
| fe85177 | There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| fce5d40 | Who can see twenty-five years into the future?" she had asked. "Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything." | John Perkins | ||
| f22f906 | Right before Jesus went to the cross, He prayed that all believers, past, present, and future "may be one, as You, Father are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me" (John 17:21 NKJV). This was Jesus's prayer for us all, yet more often than not, I fear we have not lived up to it. Instead, we fight for our own way, for our selfish desires, for our right to be superior. We build churc.. | John M. Perkins | ||
| 793ccf0 | I am all for churches being a part of the nonviolent marches and protests that have happened in the wake of violent killings, but these protests happen only after a tragic event has taken place. I want the church to be what prevents these acts from ever happening. I want the church to be the community that is so dedicated to loving our neighbors, to caring for the poor and neglected, and to living out true reconciliation that these killings.. | John M. Perkins | ||
| fc16c81 | The difference between relocation and gentrification is motive, plain and simple. When we decide to move into an inner-city neighborhood we should always ask ourselves the question, Is this good for my new neighbors? Moving into inner-city neighborhoods for merely selfish reasons with no regard as to how it will affect the community residents will probably eventually do harm to your neighbors. | John M. Perkins | ||
| ff29b55 | Jangan menjadi pengikut Buddha. Dunia tidak butuh pengikut Buddha lebih banyak lagi. Tapi sebarkanlah kasih sayang. Dunia membutuhkan banyak kasih sayang. -Dalai Lama | John Perkins | ||
| 7c82eff | If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the debtor is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this happens, then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh. This often includes one or more of the following: control over United Nations votes, the installation of military bases, or access to precious resources such as oil or the Panama Canal. Of course, the debtor still owes us the money--and another.. | John Perkins | ||
| 8f77b5c | He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the antidote to superstition ... | Henry James | ||
| bcd636b | There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. | work | Henry David Thoreau | |
| f564a34 | though leaving him always to remark, portentously, on his probably having formed a relation, his probably enjoying a consciousness, unique in the experience of man. People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror? He might have found this sublime had he quite dared to think of it; but he didn't too much insist.. | haunting | Henry James | |
| 8fcd575 | there was something superior even in his injustice, and absolute in his mistakes. | Henry James | ||
| fa76e6f | When you are successful you naturally feel more at home | Henry James | ||
| cb9a6de | There is no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding | Henry James | ||
| b073ae2 | The sense of success -the most agreeable emotion of the human heart | Henry James | ||
| 4753766 | That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything. | poetical-passion power-of-will power-of-words | Henry James | |
| dc6ee0a | Adams's diplomatic victory was Napoleonic in its magnitude and completeness, Even Caulaincourt, whom he overthrew, good-naturedly congratulated him after he had succeeded,against Caulaincourt"s utmost efforts,in saving all American ships."It seems you are great favorites here;you have found powerful protection,"said the defeated ambassador.The American minister felt but one drawback, he could not wholly believe that his victory was sure.Anx.. | Henry Adams | ||
| e8d2d21 | The smash was their walk, their dejeuner, their omelette, the Chablis, the place, the view, their present talk and his present pleasure in it--to say nothing, wonder of wonders, of her own. To this tune and nothing less, accordingly, was his surrender made good. It sufficiently lighted up at least the folly of holding off. Ancient proverbs sounded, for his memory, in the tone of their words and the clink of their glasses, in the hum of the .. | Henry James | ||
| 42b76cf | She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity. | Henry James | ||
| b556786 | Under all his culture, his cleverness, his amenity, under his good-nature, his facility, his knowledge of life, his egotism lay hidden like a serpent in a bank of flowers. | Henry James | ||
| e90f4da | Progressives today are quick to fault "America" for slavery and a host of other outrages. America did this, America did that. As we will see in this book, America didn't do those things, the Democrats did. So the Democrats have cleverly foisted their sins on America, and then presented themselves as the messiahs offering redemption for those sins. It's crazy, but it's also ingenious. We have to give them credit for ingenuity. The second whi.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| dff2063 | Let a drop of wine fall into a glass of water; whatever be the law that governs the internal movement of the liquid, we will soon see it tint itself uniformly pink and from that moment on, however we may agitate the vessel, it appears that the wine and water can separate no more. All this, and have explained, but the one who saw it in the cleanest way, in a book that is too little read because it is difficult to read, is , in his Princ.. | gibbs j-willard-gibbs james-clerk-maxwell james-maxwell josiah-gibbs josiah-w-gibbs josiah-willard-gibbs ludwig-boltzmann ludwig-e-boltzmann ludwig-eduard-boltzmann maxwell science willard-gibbs | Henri Poincaré | |
| 985fc38 | The prompt Paris morning struck its cheerful notes--in a soft breeze and a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaiter.. | Henry James | ||
| 5db8e5c | Gone are the days when you took Henry James on the train and read it in front of cute guys to impress them. | henry-james reading | Amy Poehler | |
| c91c6bb | She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action. | Henry James | ||
| 82e2c32 | Why indeed should we perpetually be thinking whether things are good for us, as if we were patients lying in a hospital? | Henry James | ||
| 2ae0c10 | He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures. | focus meaning-of-life pleasures-of-life puritan | Henry James | |
| c4cef88 | She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an intimacy compared with which artless passion would have been but a beating of the air. Her | Henry James | ||
| 619b06b | He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks -- just as his gestures of response were the extravagant shadows, emphatic in proportion as they meant little, of some game of 'ombres chinoises' [French: "shadow play"]." | light shadows sound | Henry James | |
| 3feefe8 | It had been devilish awkward, as the young men say, to be found by Juliana in the dead of night examining the attachment of her bureau; and it had not been less so to have to believe for a good many hours after that it was highly probable I had killed her. | Henry James | ||
| 13007d7 | It had begun to be present to him after the first fortnight, it had broken out with the oddest abruptness, this particular wanton wonderment: it met him there--and this was the image under which he himself judged the matter, or at least, not a little, thrilled and flushed with it--very much as he might have been met by some strange figure, some unexpected occupant, at a turn of one of the dim passages of an empty house. The quaint analogy q.. | haunted-house haunting | Henry James | |
| d2f8c65 | I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've followed strange paths and worshipped strange gods; it must have come to you again and again--in fact you've admitted to me as much--that I was leading, at any time these thirty years, a selfish frivolous scandalous life. And you see what it has made .. | life | Henry James | |
| 25709fd | How in the world--when what is such knowledge but suffering? | Henry James | ||
| 7665d92 | The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen. Our surgeon, however, has observed the fact that injuries to the brain affect other parts of the body, especially in his experience the lower limbs. He notes the drag or shuffle of one foot, presumably the partial paralysis resulting from a cranial wound, and the ancient commentator carefully explains.. | ancient-medicine brain neuroscience | James Henry Breasted | |
| 31b2e62 | the first physician who is known to have counted the pulse, Herophilos of Alexandria (born 300 B.C.), lived in Egypt. | ancient-medicine heartbeat | James Henry Breasted | |
| 47af1c3 | He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in. | Henry James |