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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 068da93 | Neverwinter Wood. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| e2c6f9f | One of the most common truths of life is that we all take for granted things that simply are. Whether a spouse, a friend, a family, or a home, after enough time has passed, that person, place, or situation becomes the accepted norm of our lives. It is not until we confront the unexpected, not until the normal is no more, that we truly come to appreciate what once we had. I | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 5b93e6e | For there is indeed a harmony in the universe, a concordant singing of common weal. To join that song, one must find inner harmony, must find the notes that ring true. There is one point to be made about that truth: Evil creatures cannot sing. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| da62a3f | The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 576c8f4 | I consider every person an enemy until he has proven himself differently, and I find that in knowing my enemies, I can prepare against anything they might send against me. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 426cc33 | For what is a rational being if not a choice? And there can be no evil, nor any good, without intent. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 1f86f77 | snarled, | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 82700d0 | outcropping | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 6615ec4 | crisis. Attempts were made to organize a captive breeding population, but the natural objections of the population in question to being so manipulated--combined with our own innate reflexive obedience-- foiled all such programs. We are conditioned to adore and obey our Creators on a personal basis, and while it is easy enough to understand the abstract need to preserve their kind as a whole, the conflict between their specific desires and t.. | Charles Stross | ||
| 523802d | How boring, just another billionaire necromancer cruising the Caribbean in his thinly disguised guided missile destroyer, plotting total world domination. | Charles Stross | ||
| af30383 | We loved them individually so much that we betrayed them collectively. | Charles Stross | ||
| cfb42b9 | the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments. | Charles Stross | ||
| ece3460 | I passed through this stage years ago on Venus, where I was so unfashionable that eventually I almost convinced myself I no longer cared that nobody wanted me; but recent events have reawakened my need for intimacy. | Charles Stross | ||
| 66366a4 | Sadeq, being human, has fantasies by the dozen, but he doesn't dare permit himself to succumb to temptation. I'm not dead, he reasons; therefore, how can I be in Paradise? Therefore, this must be a false paradise, a temptation sent to lead me astray. Probably. Unless I am dead, because Allah, peace be unto him, considers a human soul separated from its body to be dead. But if that's so, isn't uploading a sin? In which case, this can't be Pa.. | Charles Stross | ||
| ea9cb2e | Just as a snowflake went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the pumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens, and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, my father's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea. | grief katherine-dunn | Katherine Dunn | |
| 6350222 | Nash's lifelong quest for meaning, control, and recognition in the context of a continuing struggle, not just in society, but in the warring impulses of his paradoxical self, was now reduced to a caricature. Just as the overconcreteness of a dream is related to the intangible themes of waking life, Nash's search for a piece of paper, a carte d'identite, mirrored his former pursuit of mathematical insights. Yet the gulf between the two recog.. | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 6acbd2e | James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, "Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable identity, and its absolute character can maneuver the self into an unyielding position. In this respect, it is the internal mirror of political authoritarianism, the tyrant inside the self ... an internal domination as deadly as any external tyranny." | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| d6821e2 | 42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about whether Nash was now sane. Oppenheimer replied, "That's something no one on earth can tell you, doctor." | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 1a9f06b | several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15 | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| e8fb817 | Der Herr Gott ist raffiniert aber Boshaft ist Er nicht, | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 16fd4f0 | Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or who lacked social graces was warned that he or she was "going to wind up like the Phantom."10 Yet if a new student complained that having him around made him feel uncomfortable, he was immediately warned: "He was a better mathematician than you'll ever be!" -- | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 5f45a12 | Edward de Bono wrote a book called How to be Interesting which might be summarised in two words: Be interested. Ask questions and let your tone be gentle and inquisitive. | Laurence Endersen | ||
| f55eca3 | No amount of excellence on the part of a computer can lead to the solution of a problem if the problem has been incorrectly defined by the programmer. In | Edward de Bono | ||
| 5d1b0e4 | En la busqueda logica se aspira al mejor enfoque posible, mientras que en la busqueda lateral se aspira al mayor numero posible de enfoques, prescindiendo de su valor practico real. La busqueda logica se interrumpe cuando se llega a un enfoque satisfactorio. En el pensamiento lateral se reconoce tambien la calidad de un enfoque satisfactorio, pero se continua la busqueda de enfoques alternativos. Al final del proceso creador inicial se vuel.. | Edward de Bono | ||
| 92e4a07 | En la busqueda logica se aspira al mejor enfoque | Edward de Bono | ||
| 02b1f25 | I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. | shadows | Juliet Marillier | |
| 1693353 | You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little. | heart redemption | Juliet Marillier | |
| 56ec958 | It is a strange attitude, to view a woman merely as an object to be taken; to be so overwhelmed by the body's cravings that a man must satisfy them even at such a cost. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 2230d20 | He was, as I'd expected, sitting on the most precarious slope of the roof, knees drawn up, arms around them, his expression unreadable as he gazed out over the stonewalled pastures, the barns and byres and cottages, to the smoke gray and velvet green and misty blue of the forest. Not so far away the waters of the lake glinted silver. The breeze was quite chill, catching at my skirts as I came up the slates and settled myself down next to hi.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 452535e | Only a fool gives up his one treasure. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| a2e08fa | Aquilo pertubava Bridei porque lhe parecia que so havia um mundo e que, se tinha defeitos, as pessoas nao se deviam queixar deles, mas dar passos para o mudar | Juliet Marillier | ||
| f0222e8 | Faolan launched himself across the bridge, uttering a prayer to any deity that might be prepared to listen. "Let me reach her in time, let her keep hold, let this wretched apology for a bridge not crumble under my feet..." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 1639a24 | Best face your fears straightaway; putting things off only makes them harder. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 467460b | In time, your spirit will be with them again, perhaps in a great, spreading tree that shades the place where your grandchildren play. Maybe in a wide-winged eagle soaring aloft, watching as your dear one spreads her linen on the hawthorns to dry and looks suddenly to the sky, shading her eyes against the sunlight. You will be there, and they will know. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 7e1906e | Dawn will come,' I told him quietly. 'The night can be very dark; but I'll stay by you until the sun rises. These shadows cannot touch you while I am here. Soon we'll see the first hint of grey in the sky, the color of a pigeon's coat, then the smallest touch of the sun's finger, and one bird will be bold enough to wake first and sing of tall trees and open skies and freedom. Then all will brighten and color will wash across the earth and i.. | hope love | Juliet Marillier | |
| 5490b20 | I saw that in him she had found her sun and moon, her stars and her dreams. Sorrow | Juliet Marillier | ||
| e317905 | The god honors the faithful. And who is more true than a man who keeps his oath, though it breaks his heart? | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 51c9f42 | Prophecies don't simply come about of themselves, you know. They need a little helping along. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 2aa7bec | If you will count, count the stars, dear one. How many stars in the sky, looking down on us as we lie in each other's arms and taste joy? How many gleaming fish in the lake where I splash our son in the water and hear his streaks of glee ring out in the clear air? A fine little salmon you made, that night in the rain. How many times does the heart beat, how fast does the blood run when at last we touch, and touch again, and breathe the same.. | hope life love | Juliet Marillier | |
| da0fa2a | It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| e18c249 | There is the darkness of a moonless night out of doors, and there is the darkness of a house with its shutters closed and the lamps quenched. There is the darkness of sleep, relieved by the bright images of dreams But no darkness is as complete, as blanketing, as terrifying as the utter darkness of underground. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| edc0870 | Porque Sorcha? - disse ele. -Porque ela para tanto sofrimento? Ela esta inocente de qualquer maldade, incapaz de um pensamento mau. Porque ha-de ela fazer este sacrificio por nos? - Porque e a mais forte - disse Conor simplesmente. - Porque dobra com o vento, mas nao quebra. Sorcha e o fio que nos liga a todos. Sem ela somos como folhas ao vento, sopradas de um lado para o outro. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| cef7b72 | You speak like a jealous lover." -Fola to Broichan" | Juliet Marillier | ||
| b2c8dab | Can a split quill write fair script? Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire? Can a cripple please a lady? | romance | Juliet Marillier |