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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5b04979 | It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good. | could-not-bear disappoint for-good own-good weakness woman women | Larry McMurtry | |
| c51b426 | Earlier in his life he had done many foolish things in order to convince himself that he was not worthless | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 040ee24 | He had known several men who had lost limbs in battle; the men all claimed that they still felt things in the place where the limb had been. It was natural enough, then, that with Bill suddenly gone he and Gus would continue to have some of the feelings that went with friendship, even though the friend was gone. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a79a148 | It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae -- Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove" | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c8859e7 | Part of him wanted to remember; part of him needed to forget. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 113967c | I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. | songs | Larry McMurtry | |
| b5fe736 | I nowadays have the feeling that not only are most bookmen are eccentrics, but even the act they support--reading--is itself an eccentricity now, if a mild one. Interrupted narrative has become a natural thing. One could argue that Dickens and the other popular, serially published nineteenth-century novelists started this, and the television commercial made interruption come to seem normal. But the silicon chip has accelerated the process o.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f677d25 | the moment indifference took over, life began to subside. Few men rose out of it: most lost all impulse toward activity and ended by offering death at least a halfhearted welcome. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8646ff8 | He didn't understand why women had such a need to question. He himself preferred just to let life happen, and act when opportunity arose. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4f0272f | Captain McCrae was wanting to know the answer to questions that had no answer. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 73aa0a9 | woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b817425 | Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 9c0806e | ymkn 'n tnbthq mn lns mtnw`y ltjrb wlmshrb nthsht `qlny@ mtDd@, lkn hdhh t'ty kdhlk mn mjtm` b`ynh , 'w mn wjh@ lnZr hdhh mn lshkhS nfsh . | Amartya Sen | ||
| b527194 | lt`Sb tjh m`tqdt wdynt lakhryn l ys`d `l~ twlyd lthq@ fy smH@ m`tqd wdyn lmr nfsh. | فكرة-العدالة | Amartya Sen | |
| aea69da | What are all those people doing under the trees?" I asked. "Those are students," Grandpa said. "They're probably studying their lessons. They have their classes inside those buildings." "That wouldn't be a bad place to go to school," I said. "Instead of having to stay in the schoolhouse to study, you could just go outside and sit under a tree. I think I'd like that." "I hope I live to see the day when you go to college here," Grandpa said. .. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 456e8ad | flouncing | Wilson Rawls | ||
| ffff2cc | Daisy smiled and said, "Jay Berry, you won't die. You may think you will, but you won't. In a day or two, you'll be as good as new, I hope." "You're just saying that because you heard Papa say it," I said. "No, I'm not!" Daisy said. "I'm saying it because I'm a nurse, and nurses are supposed to cheer up their patients." I knew all too well that once Daisy had gotten into one of her Red Cross nursing spells, it was ridiculous to even think o.. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| d61490f | Grandpa," I asked, "what good's it going to do us, knowing his name?" "It might do a lot of good," Grandpa said. "This trainer says that if you could make friends with that monkey he would probably do anything you wanted him to do." "Make friends with him!" I said. "Grandpa, I don't" | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 94ef4ef | I couldn't understand these town people. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 813b02c | I have never been back to the Ozarks. All I have left are my dreams and memories, but if God is willing, some day I'd like to go back--back to those beautiful hills. I'd like to walk again on trails I walked in my boyhood days. Once again I'd like to face a mountain breeze and smell the wonderful scent of the redbuds, and papaws, and the dogwoods. With my hands I'd like to caress the cool white bark of a sycamore. I'd like to take a walk fa.. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| aaac72d | Gabriel | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 66e3ea1 | On hearing this remark, my heart jumped clear up in my throat.. I thought surely it was going to hop right out on the depot platform. I looked up and tried to tell him who I was, but something went wrong. When the words finally came out they sounded like the squeaky old pulley on our well when Mama drew up a bucket of water. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 300065e | If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| f489d25 | The amount of surprise you feel when something goes wrong is directly proportional to the amount of trust and faith you have in the code being run. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 4e2c5ac | Unprotected by the army, the Mexican peasants were helpless to resist the Apache raiders, with scores carried off into captivity and hundreds more slaughtered. The desert now reclaimed the untilled fields. Cattle, sheep, mules, and goats wandered free only to fall prey to the great packs of wolves and coyotes that trailed the Apache raiding parties just as the raven shadows the predator on his rounds. Skeletons lined the roads, littered the.. | Paul Andrew Hutton | ||
| 5cbc05e | The language of the packers quickly entered the army vocabulary. A skittish, inexperienced young mule had its tail shaved so as to be instantly recognizable to the packers. "Shavetail" soon became the name for every spit-and-polish, greenhorn lieutenant from the East. A" | Paul Andrew Hutton | ||
| 3b8c321 | We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 0befda6 | What an odd place for a school." "It's an odd school." -- | Andrew Cartmel | ||
| 399a032 | Doing nothing guarantees failure -Rubens | Stephen Coonts and William H. Keith | ||
| 50ad459 | In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith. | Eugene Linden | ||
| 4f56b10 | And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd just stand aside and get out of my fucking way. | Frank Portman | ||
| b7081e5 | 1975 was a great year for rock and roll, and don't believe anyone who tells you different. | Frank Portman | ||
| e37a313 | No one does antimaterialism better than multigazillionaire rock stars. | Frank Portman | ||
| 5db7d90 | Life is a wince-a-thon. | Frank Portman | ||
| f345c17 | It has been said that, in scale, a human being is about halfway between an atom and a star. Interestingly, this is also the regime in which physics becomes most complicated; on the atomic scale, we have quantum mechanics, on the large scale, relativity. It is in between these two extremes where our lack of understanding of how to combine these theories becomes apparent. The Oxford scientist Roger Penrose has written convincingly of his beli.. | Brian May | ||
| f52331a | Roger Penrose and I showed that Einstein's general theory of relativity implied that the universe must have a beginning and, possibly, an end. | Stephen Hawking | ||
| 1eaf1ca | You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b4d42c9 | But knowing what we want means, in essence, being able to anticipate accurately how one choice or another will make us feel, and that is no simple task. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| faf7121 | Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have shown that what we remember about the pleasurable quality of our past experiences is almost entirely determined by two things: how the experiences felt when they were at their peak (best or worst), and how they felt when they ended. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 45c564c | Most of us think about empathy as a "feeling" or an "emotion." It is. To be empathetic is to be able to feel what the other person is feeling. But empathy is more than just a feeling. In order to be able to feel what another person is feeling, you need to be able to see the world as that other person sees it. This ability to take the perspective of another demands perception and imagination. Empathy thus reflects the integration of thinking.. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| a1c7cd7 | Most people give substantial weight to anecdotal evidence, perhaps so much that it will cancel out positive recommendations found in consumer reports. People's tendency to give undue weight to some types of information is called the availability heuristic. A heuristic is a rule of thumb, a mental shortcut. Suppose someone asked you a question like what's more common in English, words that start with the letter to r words that have t as the .. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 9cd8223 | We are free to be the authors of our own lives, but we don't know what kind of lives we want to 'write. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| bbe3e9e | When people are looking for causes of failure, they are predisposed to one of these positions. Suppose you apply for a job, but fail to get hired. Here are some possible answers you give. Global: I don't look good on paper and I get nervous at interviews. Specific: I don't really know enough about the kinds of products they sell. To look good at an interview, I need more of a feel for the business. Chronic: I don't have a dynamic, take-char.. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 2aee8ae | Freedom to choose has what might be called expressive value. Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about. | Barry Schwartz |