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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc33ab7 | Overindulgence" is a deprivation of constructive attention, a refusal to teach social/life skills, a refusal to teach self-regulation in social situations, a refusal to teach how to distinguish between wants and needs. Desires are indulged at the place where needs are starved." | Sarah Schulman | ||
| 62da9e5 | There is often a "cadre" of bad friends around a person encouraging them to do things that are morally wrong, unjustified, and unethical," | Sarah Schulman | ||
| 5890a45 | The real question is: Why would a person rather have an enemy than a conversation? Why would they rather see themselves as harassed and transgressed instead of have a conversation that could reveal them as an equal participant in creating conflict? There should be a relief in discovering that one is not being persecuted, but actually, in the way we have misconstrued these responsibilities, sadly the relief is in confirming that one has been.. | Sarah Schulman | ||
| c02cfb3 | What is most difficult to face, but increasingly obvious as gay visibility provokes containment, but not equality, is that homophobes enjoy feeling superior, rely on the pleasure of enacting their superiority, and go out of their way to resist change that would deflate their sense of supremacy. Homophobia makes heterosexuals feel better about themselves. It's not fear - it's fun. We know from photographs of happy picnicking white families .. | Sarah Schulman | ||
| 22eaff0 | Lori wanted Mom to try on the glasses, too. Mom slipped them on and, blinking, looked around the room. She studied one of her own paintings quietly, then handed the glasses back to Lori. "Did you see better?" I asked. "I wouldn't say better," Mom answered. "I'd say different." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 12fee63 | It's not being prejudiced," Mom said. "It's a matter of accuracy in labeling." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 2457aa3 | And if the world went to hell in a handbasket-as it seemed to be doing-you could say good-bye to everyone and retreat to your land, hunkering down and living off it. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| cad1f33 | I found the gas," he said. "Now all's I need to do is find the brake." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| e8e4743 | We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars." | gifts inspirational parental-love stars | Jeannette Walls | |
| e065c74 | There was no better way to read a man's character than to watch him play poker. Some played with the aim of holding on to what they had, others played to make a killing. For some it was gambling pure and simple, for others it was a game of skill involving small calculated risks. For some it was about numbers, for others it was about psychology. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 1caf77b | Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time. | life purpose time | Jeannette Walls | |
| 34f6cec | Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito", I'd tell people." | memoir voting | Jeannette Walls | |
| c92c9b2 | She loved the dry, crackling heat, the way the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire, and the overwhelming emptiness and severity of all that open land that had once been a huge ocean bed. pg. 21 | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 100e68c | I was torturing the fire, giving it life, and snuffing it out. pg. 33 | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 396dbca | I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. pg. 34 | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 1dc4762 | Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 9b8d379 | What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 012b029 | I never met a kid I couldn't teach. Every kid was good at something, and the trick was to find out what it was, then use it to teach him everything else. It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the next day. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 8a81182 | If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, Mom always said, just watch the sunrise. And if you want to be reminded of the wrath of the Lord, Dad said, watch a tornado. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 3b49606 | The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament. | humor rude-mechanicals | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 648b37b | There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she would die without ever having really lived. | death | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 85b7d10 | How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future. | future | Sebastian Faulks | |
| a77aa7e | The more you're challenged, the more rigidly you assert your beliefs. You have nothing to lose because without your beliefs you're nothing anyway: they make you what you are. It's shit or bust. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 6f9976b | The more I heard, the less I knew. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 25a1835 | No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 1435ee9 | All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 796e895 | But the weight of her anguish over Gregory - this one missing airman, this unreliable, perhaps unworthy man - filled her whole upper half, diaphragm, lungs, ribs, shoulders, with such crushing gravity that the sighs with which she was obliged to displace it shook her entire body. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| f78379a | I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information, say 1975. So a fifty-year dream." "I think what's happened is that because they themselves know less than their predecessors, innovators and leaders today have remade the world in their own image. Spellchecks. Search engines. They've remodeled t.. | knowledge | Sebastian Faulks | |
| c3203f1 | This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another - merely for the joy of the communion. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| f6f65ba | Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self. | self | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 3c1a8c7 | I looked at him on the bed. He coughed once and a trail of brownish dead blood came out of his mouth and ran down the side of his chin. Then he stopped breathing. And I thought, I'll make sure I never end up here, either. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| d7d0b73 | Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 0e8b997 | This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 5eb6234 | A problem is only insoluble to the sufferer; to others, it may have a comic or exasperating simplicity. It occurred to me that at this juncture I had become locked in, like one of my wretched patients for whom the moment for an easy solution has passed. I couldn't go forward in my life - whatever remained of it - until I had a better understanding of what was past. This was the 'hard work' that as a young therapist I had glibly recommended .. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| e7ec8b5 | Then under the indifferent sky his spirit left the body with its ripped flesh, its infections, its weak and damaged nature. While the rain fell on his arms and legs, the part of him that still lived was unreachable. It was not his mind, but some other essence that was longing now for peace on a quiet, shadowed road where no guns sounded. The deep paths of darkness opened up for it, as they opened up for other men along the lines of dug eart.. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 01dcd1f | With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a central human attribute. In fact, it's the first human quality ever recorded.' 'Where?' 'Genesis, Chapter Three. The covering of nakedness. The acquisition of shame was the first consequence of consciousness, of the speciating moment. Take shame from me and you are calling me pre-human. | consciousness humanity shame | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 5ddd346 | To wake up and feel enlivened; to be in a hurry to get out of bed and into the day. To have friends you want to speak to, compare experiences with and be on the phone to...Well, to be honest, I'm still some way from that. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| e036a74 | in time to come be shaped by the human mind." Asked" -- | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 53230d3 | Upon learning that Washington intended to reject the mantle of emperor, no less an authority than George III allegedly observed, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." True to his word, on December 22, 1783, Washington surrendered his commission to the Congress, then meeting in Annapolis: "Having now finished the work assigned me," he announced, "I now retire from the great theater of action." In so doing, he became th.. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 3530452 | But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history. | insecurity | Joseph J. Ellis | |
| 2379409 | All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees. | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| 6121692 | The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place - not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor - but the Continental Army itself. | military servant-leadership | Joseph J. Ellis | |
| d331082 | In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now. | founding-fathers patriotism | Joseph J. Ellis | |
| ebd640a | Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy." | leadership self-control the-arithmetic | Joseph J. Ellis |