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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d94678b | fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| e095582 | I'm a tone-deaf siren, a wallflower at the mating dance. And I do wonder why men can't want me for me. I'm smart, I don't defer, and I didn't put making babies number one on my list of priorities. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| d1c0c7c | I'm only an ex-astronomer; it's years since I did any real research. Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 966caa6 | At some signal, floodlights around the lip of the crater were switched on, and the bright earthlight was obliterated by a far more brilliant glare. In the lunar vacuum the beams were, of course, completely invisible; they formed overlapping ellipses of blinding white, centered on the monolith. And where they touched it, its ebon surface seemed to swallow them. Pandora's box, thought Floyd, with a sudden sense of foreboding--waiting to be op.. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 0a09944 | You cannot reason with a rifle bullet fired from across the battlefield. You cannot negotiate with an artillery shell lobbed from over the horizon. You cannot compromise with a nuclear warhead screaming in from half a world away. The only answer to the gun, the only defense for the gun, has been more guns. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 28e1ca2 | It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every few days, but also swing through a velocity range of tens of kilometers a second. Anything like a regular schedule is out of the question; there are times when one must forget the whole idea and stay in port--or at least in orbit--waiting for the Solar System to rearrange itself for the greater convenience of Manki.. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 1a435d3 | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke | Kyle Simpson | ||
| 0f4af3e | Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance of her form. She seemed to radiate kindness and essential goodness, and Darby, trying to measure the value of her, told himself it was immeasurable. | value woman | David Goodis | |
| 73a87d6 | There's nothing fragile about this one. That ain't a fragile nose or mouth or chin, and yet it's female, more female than them fragile-pretty types who look more like ornaments than girls. | David Goodis | ||
| 5eb44cc | Her features were thin and her skin was pale and she was certainly not pretty. But it was an exciting face. It was terribly exciting because it radiated something that a man couldn't see with his eyes but could definitely feel in his bloodstream. | David Goodis | ||
| 8978406 | all begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people--the good and authentic people--and "unsurrounding" yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world." | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 5293302 | Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 54275fb | First, you're going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 4ad54ef | Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived. | care-taker center | Anita Desai | |
| 7cc89e0 | It seemed to her that the dullness and the boredom of her childhood, her youth, were stored here in the room under the worn dusty red rugs, in the bloated brassware, amongst the dried grasses in the swollen vases, behind the yellowed photographs in the oval frames-everything, everything that she had so hated as a child and that was still preserved here as if this were the storeroom of some dull, uninviting provincial museum. | Anita Desai | ||
| 869d98a | And again the news offered no news: On CNN, a rerun of Larry King interviewing the widowed and the suffering. On CNN2, a rerun of Larry King interviewing a fatherless son. On CNN3, a rerun of Flight 11 flying toward the first tower, in slow motion. On CNN4, a rerun of the tower collapsing, in slow motion, and again the towers fell, again people jumped and died. On CNN5, a rerun of Larry King interviewing a motherless daughter, a daughterles.. | Pearl Abraham | ||
| 73c0cab | Et puis, meme si j'etais un garcon, je vois pas pourquoi seules les filles auraient le droit de se maquiller. C'est pas juste. | leticia-king | simon boulerice | |
| ab4b558 | Oh, Mummy, it was hilarious," laughed William. "They had a photo of Mrs. Parker Bowles and a horse's head and asked what the difference was. The answer was that there isn't any!" Diana absolutely exploded with laughter. We talked about which was the hottest photo to get. "Charles and Camilla is still the really big one," I said, "followed by you and a new man, and now, of course, William with his first girlfriend." He groaned. So did Dia.. | Larry King | ||
| a4b07d2 | My first rule of conversation is this: I never learn a thing while I'm talking. I realize every morning that nothing I say today will teach me anything, so if I'm going to learn a lot today, I'll have to do it by listening. As | Larry King | ||
| 040ff02 | Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was pumped up and down exactly three times and let go. It reminded Larry of the time he had shaken hands with George Bush back when the old bushwhacker had been running for President. It had been at a political rally, which he had attended on the advice of his mother, given many years ago. If you can't afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you can't .. | society truth | Stephen King | |
| ebe0ee1 | we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| e0b0db7 | Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both." I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one." | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 6e117e5 | The beauty of trust is that it erases worry and frees you to get on with other matters. Trust means confidence." --Stephen M.R. Covey" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| e403280 | The trust we have in people and in organizations comes, in part, from believing that they do care. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 3d4def3 | When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 55e43b0 | Trust, but verify. --RONALD REAGAN | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 8ca1b60 | A leader doesn't need any credit.... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway. --ROBERT TOWNSEND, FORMER CEO, AVIS | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| c031abf | for every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the roots. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| d26d099 | keeping your commitment becomes hard, you have two choices: You can change your behavior to match your commitment, or you can lower your values to match your behavior. One choice will strengthen your integrity; the other will diminish it and erode your confidence in your ability to make and keep commitments in the future. In addition, that shift in direction with regard to values--even if it's slight--will create a change in trajectory that.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 7af1920 | I was too young to care about money at the time. That didn't motivate me. What motivated me was I didn't want to let my father down. Stephen M. R. Covey | Janet Bray Attwood | ||
| 762719a | Low trust causes friction, whether it is caused by unethical | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| ba09b4c | If we can't trust ourselves, we'll have a hard time trusting others. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| db6ebfd | A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| ee5287e | And it all boils down to two simple questions: 1) Do I trust myself? and 2) Am I someone others can trust? With regard to having trust in self, it often begins with the little things. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 9e35e3d | What happens when we do this time after time? What's the net result of repeated failure to make and keep commitments to ourselves? It hacks away at our self-confidence. Not only do we lose trust in our ability to make and keep commitments, we fail to project the personal strength of character that inspires trust. We may try to borrow strength from position or association. But it's not real. It's not ours . . . and people know it. And whethe.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 3cfaf25 | EB: 'Ll showed me a long verse-letter, very obscene, he'd received from Dylan T[Thomas] before D's last trip here [New York]--very clever, but it really can't be published for a long, long time, he's decided. About people D. met in the U.S. etc.--one small sample: A Streetcar Named Desire is referred to as 'A truck called F------.' RL: 'Psycho-therapy is rather amazing--something like stirring up the bottom of an aquarium--chunks of the pas.. | letters robert-lowell | Robert Lowell | |
| 71e2f34 | You saw too late. Now you are as she is, bewteen two worlds, warmth bleeding into cold. | Elizabeth Lowell | ||
| 82264f7 | What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles. | imagination style value | Elizabeth Lowell | |
| 1421010 | The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock," Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour," Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," William Carlos Williams's "Red Wheelbarrow," Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife," Sylvia Plath's "Daddy," Pound's "In a Station of the Metro," Frost's "Mending Wall," Wallace Stevens's "The Snow Man," and Williams's "The Dance." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 7cbb4d8 | If I should never see him again--she thought, Blessed Mother, how could I live, and yet it was the fear of seeing him again which had driven her to this desperate haste. The fear that if he were there so near her she | Anya Seton | ||
| 9b88290 | I have of sorrow so great wound That joy get I never none, Now that I see my lady bright, That I have loved with all my might, Is from me dead, and is agone. Alas, Death, what aileth thee, That thou should'st not have taken me, When thou took my lady sweet, That was so fair, so fresh, so free, So good, that men may well say Of all goodness she had no meet! Right on this same, as I have said Was wholly all my love laid For certes she was, .. | Anya Seton | ||
| 06e10a5 | The house of fame, he thought, is built on melting ice, not steel, and rumbles ever with a sound of rumors, while the goddess of fame is as false and capricious as her sister--Fortune. | Anya Seton | ||
| ad23484 | Her body consented willingly to all that her soul found most abhorrent. As Nicholas had promised, there was a hellish delight in knowing she was damned. | Anya Seton | ||
| ee38d8d | Treat your children the way You wanted your parents to treat you Do not do to them that which would cause you pain If the same was done to you | Jason King Godwise |