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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cf51f2c | If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal. He will have nothing to live for. | greed greed-of-man immortality life man-s-pride page-58 true | James Edwin Gunn | |
| 98d90c2 | Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435 | distance introvert people | Joseph Delaney | |
| f990164 | Death changes things,' I said. 'It happens and you can't stop it. You don't have a choice. This is different.' 'Life changes things, too. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 1baab29 | You don't get anything without giving up something. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 6e5ed3e | I can be human to strangers and coworkers, just not to the people who actually care about me. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 14cb1f9 | You didn't call me last night." "Was I supposed to?" He looked down. "Just figured now that you had my number...Kept my phone on all night, just in case." He laughed. "I started to worry that it didn't work. Actually went out to a pay phone to test it." "You could have called me. That way you left me after lunch on Saturday, I figured..." I ended there and shrugged, not wanting to be mad at him or get into any kind of argument. "Anyway, aft.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 9efa9e6 | Wait in the car." He opened the door and started to climb out. "Hold on! How long should I give you? What if you don't come back in a certain number of minutes? Should I call the cops?" "Don't do anything. Don't call anyone. I'll be fine." "But what if you're not?" "Then go home." And with that, he got out and jogged down the street, like if I heard screams or gunshots or whatever I would just drive on home like nothing happened. Well, good.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 56fc112 | How did you find me?" "I've followed you for a long time." He must have mistaken the look on my face for alarm or fear, and said, "Not literally. I just mean I never lost track." But it wasn't fear, or anything like that. It was an instant of realization I'd have a lot in the coming days: I'd been thinking of him as coming back from the dead, but the fact was he'd been there all along. He'd been alive when I cried in my room over him being .. | Sara Zarr | ||
| a27d6c1 | At least you know what you want. I don't know what I want." Then he was quiet for a long time. We were almost home before he said, "Just want to be with you. Like this." My heart sped up. I made a joke. "That's probably not a viable career option." "Yeah," he said, laughing a little. "Probably not." | Sara Zarr | ||
| c27d26d | I'm going to check on you in the night," he said. "At random intervals of my choosing." "I figured." | Sara Zarr | ||
| 4544a6a | This was why Mom had told me to keep an eye on her. As tough as Dixie was, when it came to Dad she was a regular girl who wanted her father to love her. So | Sara Zarr | ||
| 90fef61 | The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 0c8f109 | Is this okay with you, Jenna? For him to stay here?" "Yeah," I said. "It's good. You have no idea what it takes for him to ask for help." I spent all evening in Alan's office, reading at his desk and keeping Cameron company. Mostly he slept, snoring lightly and once in a while murmuring unintelligible something into his pillow. I turned my chair so that I could look at him whenever I wanted, at his face or at the bare foot that stuck out fr.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 5661111 | We should just get a giant bottle of bargain vodka or something," Gil said, pushing his gorilla mask back on his head. "Not classy," Steph said. "This is a special night, not a frat party." "Special? Classy??" Ethan asked. "Steph. We're seniors in high school going trick-or-treating. We look like third-rate street performers." | Sara Zarr | ||
| d1c2b49 | Story of a Girl By:Sara Zarr *Lexile:760 SRC:12 pts. *Personal Issues *Choice of getting a job to move out *Major Choice *In Process of making it happen *It effects her bother his girlfriend and their baby, because they will move out with her too. *Sometimes we need to take choices that will make your life easier and also others. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 9df33e9 | I didn`t say it didn`t feel good..." They never tell you this part in sex ed, how to talk about what you did and why you did it and what you thought about it, before, during, and after." | Sara Zarr | ||
| e5ffa4f | Only, don`t mistake a new place for a new you. I`ve done that more than once. You asked me before why I stay here. Maybe that`s why," he said, "now that I think about it. Might as well deal with myself right here. It`s as good a place as any." | Sara Zarr | ||
| 46a4ef5 | I thought of what Cameron said about the day I came across the yard to him to ask him to be in my club. About how I had guts. About how I was brave and strong. He was around to tell me these things now, to remind me, but I was going to have to learn to remember them myself, and believe them. I got up, crept to Alan's office, and went in. "Cameron? Cam?" He didn't move, and appeared to be fast asleep. I'm not sure what I wanted. To look at h.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| b02cb1a | As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment. | Sara Zarr | ||
| e1c88bb | We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility. Organisms inherit a body form and a style of embryonic development; these impose constraints upon future change and adaptation. In many cases, evolutionary pathways reflect inherited patterns more than current environmental demands. These inheritances constrain, but they also provide opportunity... | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 379f0f4 | This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity. | charles-darwin consensus darwin darwinian ernst-mayr evolution history science | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| c82c49f | We should therefore, with grace and optimism, embrace NOMA's tough-minded demand: Acknowledge the personal character of these human struggles about morals and meanings, and stop looking for definite answers in nature's construction. But many people cannot bear to surrender nature as a "transitional object"--a baby's warm blanket for adult comfort. But when we do (for we must), nature can finally emerge in her true form: not as a distorted m.. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 33c61e3 | Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied. | human-species natural-history | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 8570c1a | The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| c5398b6 | Genius has as many components as the mind itself. | stephen jay gould | ||
| 31e10a6 | Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| fbb75a6 | If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 5d1a01d | Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| b4238fc | Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size, and you are on the set of a science-fiction film... | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 4b91b0b | Duke est desipere in loco [it is pleasant to act foolishly from time to time--a line from Horace]. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 40b4729 | The Mismeasure of Man treats one particular form of quantified claim about the ranking of human groups: the argument that intelligence can be meaningfully abstracted as a single number capable of ranking all people on a linear scale of intrinsic and unalterable mental worth. Fortunately--and I made my decision on purpose--this limited subject embodies the deepest (and most common) philosophical error, with the most fundamental and far-rangi.. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 1bd6f92 | self-deception as the preliminary to public deception is almost automatic. --WALTER LIPPMANN, | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 3b7341e | In biologist Stephen Jay Gould's illustrative phrase, human beings should be seen as a "tiny, late-arising twig on life's enormously arborescent bush."14 That" | Matthew Calarco | ||
| 46596a5 | Consider the magnitude of this... Taxonomists have described almost a million species of arthropods, and all fit into four major groups; one quarry in British Columbia, representing the first explosion of multicellular life, reveals more than twenty additional arthropod designs! | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 02a89ea | The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billion years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to. Stephen Jay Gould expressed it succinctly in a well-known line: "Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured--never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history." | Bill Bryson | ||
| ac39518 | Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam | Joseph Delaney | ||
| fec56b5 | You are feeling better, no?' he asked. My mouth dropped open. 'I thought you didn't speak our language...' I said. He shrugged. 'I do not speak well, but I can say enough. I understand more what I hear than I am able to reply. To rule, you must learn. I study many languages. You learn more by listening than speaking, no? So that is what I do. I have learned much already by listening to your conversation with the sorceress. I know you false... | Joseph Delaney | ||
| cd33c40 | Each breath, each beat of your heart makes you stronger, braver, better. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 346c8be | Lonely? How can you be lonely ? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. In the meantime, stop complaining. You're nearly a man now, and a man has to work. Ever since the world began, men have been doing jobs they didn't like. Why should it be any different for you? You're the seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the job you were born to do. - Mam | Joseph Delaney | ||
| e752abb | He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job. - Spook | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 8197678 | Are you my enemy? Are you strong, with speed and agility and the training of a warrior? It matters naught to me. Run now! Run fast into the forest! I'll give you a few moments' start--an hour, if you wish. But you will never be fast enough. I'll catch and kill you before long. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 8f1b9c6 | ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 614b3d6 | Nosotros no nos hemos separado por completo, pero aun no ha llegado el momento de que volvamos juntos a la carretera. Ahora esta adquiriendo conocimientos en otro lugar. No tenemos mas remedio que esperar. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 943eb18 | We be of one blood, thou and I-- | Rudyard Kipling |