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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f5ad917 | He came over last night. He'd been out chasing foxes with his friends, and you know what he and the boys are like when they do the werewolf thing. The women, the drinking, and the farm animals." "Feeding on raw steak before he went out didn't curb the need to eat sheep?" | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| f17622e | My wife and I were living in Cambridge, Massachusetts--the quintessential college town. Rushing through the supermarket checkout, we didn't notice we were in a 12-item line and what we had was way over the limit. The weary cashier looked at all our groceries. "Are you from Harvard and can't count or from MIT and can't read?" -- BRADFORD" | Reader's Digest Association | ||
| e2a6694 | hiring new staff at her public library, my daughter always asks applicants what sort of supervision they'd be most comfortable with. One genius answered, "I've always thought Superman's X-ray vision would be cool." -- DAVE GLAUSER" | Reader's Digest Association | ||
| cfabe97 | A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it. | Reader's Digest Association | ||
| def6a20 | No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. | Reader's Digest Association | ||
| c35cd25 | Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. | Reader's Digest Association | ||
| 5c52f4e | Search his car for the bomb! He's got a logic bomb! | Kevin D. Mitnick William L. Simon | ||
| 9ed9bf6 | I'd like to ask you a question, if I may." "What?" "All these poems you've written and hidden--so many poems. Why?" While she thought, morning broke and the birds sang in the garden. "Because I could not stop." | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| 13c0498 | Illegal' takes on a whole new meaning when you're loaded like Barnes. The rich have a separate rule book. To them if it makes money, it can't be wrong. | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| 7e931f0 | But she's extraordinarily attractive, he thought, as, walking across Trafalgar Square in the direction of the Haymarket, came a young woman who, as she passed Gordon's statue, seemed, Peter Walsh thought (susceptible as he was), to shed veil after veil, until she became the very woman he had always had in mind; young, but stately; merry, but discreet; black, but enchanting. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 9b60ffd | Each outbreak, by this view, represents a local event primarily explicable by a larger cause--the arrival of the wave. The main proponent of the wave idea is Peter D. Walsh, an American ecologist who has worked often in Central Africa and specializes in mathematical theory about ecological facts. "I think it's spreading from host to host in a reservoir host," | David Quammen | ||
| 9b12f27 | Sir Peter Medawar, an eminent British biologist who received a Nobel Prize the same year as Macfarlane Burnet, defined a virus as "a piece of bad news wrapped up in a protein." -- | David Quammen | ||
| 5976990 | disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight. | David Quammen | ||
| db06cf5 | People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We're all in this together. | David Quammen | ||
| a426aa1 | When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes causing illness or death, the result is a zoonosis. | David Quammen | ||
| e43e1ba | Ebola is a zoonosis. So is bubonic plague. So was the so-called Spanish influenza of 1918-1919, which had its ultimate source in a wild aquatic bird and, after passing through some combination of domesticated animals (a duck in southern China, a sow in Iowa?) emerged to kill as many as 50 million people before receding into obscurity. | David Quammen | ||
| 8c2ab2f | Others are new and inexplicably sporadic, claiming a few victims (as Hendra does) or a few hundred (Ebola) in this place or that, and then disappearing for years. | David Quammen | ||
| 86c10b1 | Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle. | David Quammen | ||
| 048cde5 | Identifying the new virus was only step one in solving the immediate mystery of Hendra, let alone understanding the disease in a wider context. Step two would involve tracking that virus to its hiding place. Where did it exist when it wasn't killing horses and people? Step three would entail asking a further cluster of questions: How did the virus emerge from its secret refuge, and why here, and why now? | David Quammen | ||
| 3db7736 | In ecological terms, we are almost paradoxical: large-bodied and long-lived but grotesquely abundant. We are an outbreak. | David Quammen | ||
| 0aab636 | A high jeopardy of extinction comes with territory. Islands are where species go to die. | David Quammen | ||
| 64597c8 | Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I | Spider Robinson | ||
| f461082 | Notwithstanding our boastful assertions to the world, for nearly a century, that our government was based on the consent of the people, it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed. - Robert E. Lee | american-civil-war-biography confederate-army robert-e-lee union-army | William C. Davis | |
| 94af456 | Grant was forty-two and Lee fifty-seven, Grant at the peak of health and energy, while Lee feared his weakening body and lagging faculties. Each was defending his notion of home. Grant by now was the most popular man in the Union, arguably more so even than Lincoln. Lee was easily the most important man in the Confederacy, his popularity and influence, had he chosen to use it, far outstripping Davis's. Unquestionably, they were at this mome.. | american-civil-war-biography confederate-army confederate-states-of-america robert-e-lee union-army | William C. Davis | |
| 6d07022 | The mythology serves purposes darker than sentiment, nothing more so than the currently popular, and arrantly nonsensical, assertion that Lee freed his inherited slaves in 1862 before the war was over, while Grant kept his until the Thirteenth Amendment freed them in 1865. The subtext is transparent. If Southerner Lee freed his slaves while Northerner Grant kept his, then secession and the war that followed can hardly have had anything to d.. | american-civil-war-biography confederate confederate-states-of-america robert-e-lee slavery slavery-in-the-united-states | William C. Davis | |
| 5b9e338 | As students in this earth school, some of us may be in the first grade, the sixth grade, or high school, but eventually, with enough education, we will all graduate and leave this school behind. And then there are other schools, higher dimensions or levels where we continue our spiritual progression. But until we all graduate, none of us does, for we are all one. We may come back voluntarily to help other people, or animals, or sentient bei.. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 1481b4e | Hypnosis is an excellent tool to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 7afd44c | We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Spiritual" | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 5ce3742 | I learned about anger and resentment, about harboring your feelings toward people. I also had to learn that I have no control over my life. I want control, but I don't have any. I must have faith in the Masters. They will guide me throughout. But I did not have the faith. I felt like I was doomed from the beginning. I never looked at things very pleasantly. We must have faith ... we must have faith. And I doubt. I choose to doubt instead of.. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| e21c9b4 | El alma del hombre es como el agua. Viene del cielo, se eleva hacia el cielo y vuelve despues a la tierra, en un eterno ciclo. G | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| afd50d6 | Todo es amor... todo es amor. Con el amor llega la comprension. Con la comprension llega la paciencia. Y entonces el tiempo se detiene. Y todo es ahora.>> | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 13f0001 | People cannot be judged hastily. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 98b26e5 | The experience is necessary to add emotional belief to intellectual understanding. But the impact of experience always fades to some degree. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 2b5a680 | special?" "No, just" | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 12a26ff | Our body is just a vehicle for us while we're here. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 5e41e04 | But another type of life review happens to all of us when we die and our consciousness leaves the physical body at the end of each lifetime. This time it is not done with a therapist, but rather with our spiritual guides or other wise beings; it is not a clinical life review but a karmic one. As we are replenished by the beautiful light, our awareness is directed to review the results of our actions while we were on the physical plane. We s.. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| c9a431d | On another night, in a different dream I was asking a question. "How is it that you say all are equal, yet the obvious contradictions smack us in the face: inequalities in virtues, temperances, finances, rights, abilities and talents, intelligence, mathematical aptitude, ad infinitum?" The answer was a metaphor. "It is as if a large diamond were to be found inside each person. Picture a diamond a foot long. The diamond has a thousand facets.. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| e56f5c1 | Empathy teaches this lesson; it is one of the feelings we are put on Earth to learn, a key aspect of our preparation for immortality. It is difficult lesson in that we must experience it not only in our mind but in our physical bodies, and in the mind and body we have pain, dark emotions, difficult relationships, enemies, loss and grief. We thus tend to forget others and concentrate on ourselves. But we also have love, beauty, music, art, d.. | lesson positive | Brian L. Weiss | |
| 214f0a5 | I wouldn't mind being injured if that would bring Satsuko pleasure, and a mortal injury would be all the better. Yet to think of being trampled to death, not by her but by her dog... | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| f05e906 | Western clothes were intended for healthy, robust men: to anyone in a weakened condition they were quite insupportable. Around the waist, over the shoulders, under the arms, around the neck - every part of the body was pressed and squeezed by clasps and buttons and rubber and leather, layer over layer, as if you were strapped to a cross. And of course you had to put on stockings before the shoes, stretching them carefully up on your legs by.. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| 83d3cfe | Winston Churchill said, "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 22451ae | As Henry Ford said, "Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it." | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| a4ad181 | Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 8667611 | Why in the world would someone say, 'I can't afford it' or 'I can't do it' to something they want? Why would someone deny themselves the things they want? It makes no logical sense. | Robert T. Kiyosaki |