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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6f6bbab | Several photographers have mumbled between each other about my glasses. They're just jealous because I make glasses sexy, and it must suck to not be me. | Katie McGarry | ||
| f020602 | Did you forget the dressing room at the mall?" Forget? I have wet dreams involving that day. "That's not my fault. You asked how you looked in those jeans." "Good would have sufficed. Attempting to take them off wasn't necessary." "They did look good. Good enough that I wanted to touch, and then I wanted to touch more." Echo laughs, and the sound warms my heart. "They have security cameras. People go to jail over stuff like that." I roll on.. | echo-emerson impossible noah-hutchins take-off | Katie McGarry | |
| ca8960f | El motivo de mi verguenza y de la revolucion es el mismo la diferencia de clase social | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 9c7dc69 | cuando entre en su habitacion estaba llorando... No perteneciamos a la misma clase social, pero al menos estabamos en la misma cama | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| cba02bf | La liberta ha sempre un prezzo. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 79c6f1d | In any case as long as there is oil in the middle east they will never have peace | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| d99afbf | I've never seen or touched anything." "Can you explain then how you had children?" "You're right. It's true I have four kids. Four! But still I have never seen the male organ. He came into the bedroom, he turned off the light, and then Bam! Bam! Bam! and voila I was pregnant! What's more, I was granted four girls. So I have never seen penises." | intercourse iran men patriarchy penis sex women | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 1b51037 | The purpose of learning to work with the unconscious is not just to resolve our conflicts or deal with our neuroses. We find there a deep source of renewal, growth, strength, and wisdom. We connect with the source of our evolving character; we cooperate with the process whereby we bring the total self together; we learn to tap that rich lode of energy and intelligence that waits within. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 090a7bd | The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: "Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me?" - No longer asks herself: "Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it livable? What's going on in the political prisons?" It's only natural! When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes.. | freedom freedom-of-speech freedom-of-thought political rebellion | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 704d1ea | For a revolution to succeed, the entire population must support it. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 3dae2d1 | They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned. | censorship fear iran iranian-revolution police secret-police | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 8258a09 | I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 596e342 | What do you want me to say, sir? That I'm the vegetable that I refused to become, that I'm so disappointed in myself that I can no longee look at myself in the mirror? That I hate myself? | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 11cedb2 | Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 4a620fb | We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| d04d89b | LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE LIVED BADLY | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 9404e18 | Dalam hidup kau akan bertemu banyak orang brengsek. Kalau mereka menyakitimu, katakan pada dirimu sendiri itu karena mereka bodoh. Itu akan membantu mencegahmu bereaksi pada kekejaman mereka. Karena tidak ada yang lebih buruk daripada kebencian dan balas dendam. Selalu jaga martabatmu dan jujurlah pada dirimu sendiri. | bodoh dendam hidup jujur kejam martabat | Marjane Satrapi | |
| bc852a1 | Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." Texas senator Lyndon Baines Johnson was" | Robert Kurson | ||
| d557226 | History was a crystal ball that told as much about the future as it did about the past. | liberal-arts | Robert Kurson | |
| b6ecdcc | He rolled with the unexpected--and much was unexpected on Seeker trips--because he believed in "No matter what." | Robert Kurson | ||
| aa3e7f3 | Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 64dc725 | If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say which of the three outcomes is worst. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 8cf4251 | Treasure shows who you really are. It strips away every facade you've constructed, every story you believe about yourself, and reveals the real you. If you are a miserable, lying, greedy, worthless fuck, treasure will tell you that. If you are a good and decent person, treasure will tell you that, too. And you needn't find a single coin to know. It's enough to get close to treasure, to believe it within reach, and you'll have your answer, b.. | Robert Kurson | ||
| f1e0916 | There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, "In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn't this happen anymore?" The master replied, "Because nowadays no one will stoop so low." | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 33ddc9f | To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it." PLATO, GORGIAS" | Julie Garwood | ||
| 1401c46 | 'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.' | interesting | Matthew Pearl | |
| 125cd63 | 'Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, my dear reverend president, she will not have succeeded in that high sense which alone makes a nation out of a people. That which raises it from a dead name to a living power.' | Matthew Pearl | ||
| d93e508 | Sepa que cuando soy amigo de un hombre lo soy para siempre, y es muy dificil hacerme volver atras. Y aunque un hombre pueda gozar siendo mi enemigo, no puede convertirme a mi en el suyo mientras yo no quiera. Buenas tardes. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 007e7e7 | 'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.' | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 6b3fb7e | exaggeration is the octopus of the English language | octopus | Matthew Pearl | |
| 18e07ec | Obsession of a strong-hearted woman, Mr. Dolby, can be more dangerous than ten men. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| a2f72d5 | These simple words reveal Rahab's amazing destiny: Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab (Matthew 1:5). In other words, Salmone and Rahab were married and had a son. The Bible gives us a glimpse into Salmone's background through several genealogies (1 Chronicles 2:11; Ruth 4:20-21). Clearly, he comes from a highly distinguished family in the house of Judah; his father Nahshon is the leader of the people of Judah, and his father'.. | Tessa Afshar | ||
| 0e5cdb1 | I was looking for something else in books. I could not really say what, but I think I can say why: a notion started in my own brain was probably wrong, but an answer read in a work of literature would be right. That was my conviction at nineteen, and only in later years would I come to trust myself over a book. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 6c1f7d3 | I do not seek the mantle of genius. I am an appreciator, an observer, a preposition, and content in that, and that's me in a nutshell. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 607bc05 | On the trees were no longer only leaves but brown fruits, on the bushes no longer blossoms but clusters of red berries. And the wind had a rough manliness in its voice - the tone not of a lover but of a husband. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| beac17e | The books do pretend, Mr. Branagan. Surely. But that is not all. Novels are filled with lies, but squeezed in between is even more that is true--without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see? | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 378e426 | How odd it must be to go through life believing that a book is a book. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 082a7e7 | and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| dc22f83 | In fact, the laboratory may be the greatest friend to dumb animals. As science advances, the lives of animals will improve as we depend less and less on their labor and no longer ignore their conditions in order to improve ours. You know, there is much to learn from animals if we are ever to be truly industrial creatures. The beaver is the finest builder of bridges and the silkworm a better weaver than any man or woman. God gave industry pe.. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 5fcd7da | These people build as if they were immortal and eat as if they were to die instantly. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 0b02563 | You are always better off to read a book, anyway, than to meet the person behind it. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| ffae91a | You have never fought for anything in your life. You write poems and articles about slavery and the murder of Indians and hope something will change. You fight what does not come near your door, professors. You've inherited everything in your lives and do not know what it is to cry for your bread! Well, with what other expectations did I come to this country? What should I complain of? The greatest bard had no home but exile. One day to com.. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| ce97158 | Remember that only when past genius is transmitted into a present power shall we meet the first truly american poet. And somewhere, born to the streets rather than the athenaeum, we will come upon the first true reader. The spirit of the american is suspected to be timid, imitative, tame -- the scholar decent, indolent, complaisant. The mind of our country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. Without action, the scholar is not y.. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| fe50ab8 | The force of Dante's poetry resonated most in those who did not confess the Catholic faith, for believers would inevitably have quibbles with Dante's theology. But for those most distant theologically, Dante's faith was so perfect, so unyielding, that a reader found himself compelled by the poetry to take it all to heart. | Matthew Pearl |