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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1d125b5 | Perhaps the choice was neither right nor wrong. It only existed. | Ashley Gardner | ||
| e245142 | I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne. | Ashley Gardner | ||
| e3769d0 | He shook his head. "Not a bit of it. When I arrived, I was small and dark and ugly. The perfect quarry for every bully. And then, one day, I grew tired of it. I had discovered that sarcasm and wit could be far more effective than fists. The duller-brained the boy, the more others laughed at my bons mots. And so I became a nasty bit of goods in my own way, fighting with words where I could not fight with fists." | Ashley Gardner | ||
| d7a9632 | Jei izeidziau jus, Jusu Sviesybe, vadinasi, nusipelnete kiekvieno priekaisto. | Indu Sundaresan | ||
| 56fc386 | Una vez lanzada una acusacion, por muy infundada que sea, la duda empieza a tenir la mente de quien la escucha. | Indu Sundaresan | ||
| 1a0de7c | Contrary to Stimson's highly influential but totally misleading account in Harper's in February 1947, "The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb"--written for Stimson by McGeorge Bundy177 while he was in the Society of Fellows, and a successful propaganda counter to the impact of John Hersey's New Yorker report "Hiroshima" in August 1946--there was no moral agonizing at all among Truman's civilian or military advisors about the prospect of using th.. | Daniel Ellsberg | ||
| 6f5cad0 | Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself. | John Hersey | ||
| b6adef6 | Dr. Y. Hiraiwa, professor of Hiroshima University of Literature and Science, and one of my church members, was buried by the bomb under the two storied house with his son, a student of Tokyo University. Both of them could not move an inch under tremendously heavy pressure. And the house already caught fire. His son said, 'Father, we can do nothing except make our mind up to consecrate our lives for the country. Let us give Banzai to our Emp.. | John Hersey | ||
| ef32201 | A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one street-car instead of the next that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would .. | John Hersey | ||
| 9fee61c | Let love start this day. Let love end this day. Let love transform the minutes in between. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 9fbe02c | Just be here, I thought to myself one night. Just be right where I am now, I vowed as I snuggled in close. Don't think about the dishes piled in the sink, or the messages in the inbox, or the trash needing to go curbside, or the ache in your hip in need of an ice pack. Just think about the precious girl in need of a little time with her mom. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 169b671 | I am going to do things a little differently today. Today the clock will not run my life. My heart will run my life. When there is love to be given, I will resist the impulse to decide if I have time, because I know there is always, always time for love. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 738124d | You are never too far gone to come back. You are never too tarnished to be made new. You are never too broken to be made whole. It's never too late to make changes. It's never too late to begin again. It's never too late to choose love. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| bfa100f | THE ULTIMATE HANDS FREE LIFE HABIT BUILDER If I Live to Be 100 If I live to be 100, it won't be because I tidied up the house before I left each day. It will be because of the glorious mess I made while I was living life. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 9db7d7f | The most life-changing experiences happen when I stop trying to control and simply let things unfold. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 60f2c18 | You have the power to pursue the passions of your heart without sacrificing your job or your daily responsibilities. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 8729834 | You can do anything, but you can't do everything, | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 7a5fe42 | Jesus certainly was not a "Bible believer," as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity that's used as a trade-marked product to sell religion. Jesus didn't take the Jewish scriptures at face value. In fundamentalist terms, Jesus was a rule-breaking relativist who wasn't even "saved," according to evangelical standards. Evangelicals insist that you have to believe very specific interpretations of .. | Frank Schaeffer | ||
| 542575f | We don't know when the first star exploded, or when the sun caught on fire. We don't know when the sun will stop burning and turn cold and dark, though we know it will. In between the fire and the cold, life beginning and ending, Laura, sometime after being born and before dying, plays a game and talks to a sister who has never existed, while Frank tells a little girl named Whitney a story about the life and death of a dog, a story that he .. | love-story noir serial-killer suspense | Barry Graham | |
| cc7bb2e | Men feared witches and burnt women. | Anthony Lewis | ||
| 872df28 | The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him. So I have a secret hope of someone, a God, who is wise and plans; but my hopes grow dim when I see the deeds of men and their destinies. For Fortune is ever veering, and the currents of life are shifting, shifting, wandering for ever. | Euripedes | ||
| 319317b | For talk is evil: It is light to raise up quite easily, but it is difficult to bear, and hard to put down. No talk is ever entirely gotten rid of, once many people talk it up: It too is some god." --HESIOD" | Stacy Schiff | ||
| 244e5a1 | It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep; be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless to spare the fag end. | Hesiod | ||
| 30837e8 | As to the age of Hesiod and Homer, I have conducted very careful researches into this matter, but I do not like to write on the subject, as I know the quarrelsome nature of those especially who constitute the modern school of epic criticism. | Pausanias | ||
| 763167d | From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely dances upon highest Helicon and move with vigorous feet. Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter the.. | Hesiod | ||
| 20acb45 | What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph, | Phillip Lopate | ||
| 6f72125 | For all their shared boundaries, the experiences of fiction and nonfiction are fundamentally different. In the traditional short story or novel, a fictive space is opened up that allows you the reader to disappear into the action, even to the point of forgetting you are reading. In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consist.. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| fa36d78 | I read them a poem by Phillip Lopate that someone once sent me, that goes: We who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting, as a group, to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift. Your analyst is in on it, plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband; and we have pledged to disap.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3464faa | I have also time on my hands to correct my opinions, and polish my periods; | Phillip Lopate | ||
| f1b6897 | but the one I cannot, and the other I will not do. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| cbff0e8 | A young person still thinks it is possible-there is time enough-to become all things: athlete and aesthete, soldier and pacifist, anchorite and debauchee. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| 6fc6315 | the creation tales of Genesis are edited and abbreviated versions of much more detailed Mesopotamian texts, which were in turn versions of an original Sumerian text. | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| ebd3550 | The biblical tale of Man's creation is, of course, the crux of the debate--at times bitter--between Creationists and Evolutionists and of the ongoing confrontation between them--at times in courts, always on school boards. As previously stated, both sides had better read the Bible again (and in its Hebrew original); | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| b955f9d | Life" is defined as the ability to absorb nutrients (of any kind) and to replicate, not just to exist." | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 26f9fbf | So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. --Gaston Bachelard | Esther Perel | ||
| 38459ee | Neutralizing each other's complexity affords us a kind of manageable otherness. | Esther Perel | ||
| 36f70c6 | She's beautiful, too, did I mention that? She lives the life I didn't live. I feel middle-age and middle-class around her. Nothing wrong with that, you'll say, but her adrenaline is contagious. She really hits a nerve in me, and she excites me. I've developed this amazing crush on her. You know how I've been talking about this feeling of deadness, my energy dropping, my body getting heavier? It's like when I settled down, I shut down. Well,.. | Esther Perel | ||
| a6de252 | In uncertainty lies the seed of wanting. | Esther Perel | ||
| 1f1c988 | Is jealousy an expression of love or a sign of insecurity? | Esther Perel | ||
| 5ba77db | I got rid of my motorcycle when Jimmy was born. I'm not allowed to die in a bike crash anymore. | Esther Perel | ||
| c85eaa8 | This litany of disenchantment notwithstanding, I believe there's an additional layer to our libidinal demise that has to do with our culture's deep ambivalence around sexuality. While we recognize the importance of sex, we nonetheless vacillate between extremes of excessive license and repressive tactics: "Don't do it till you're married." "Just do it when you feel like it." "It's no big deal." "It's a huge deal." "You need love." "What's l.. | Esther Perel | ||
| 400f8c7 | Given the transient nature of life, given its ceaseless flux, there is more than a hint of arrogance in the assumption that we can make our relationships permanent, and that security can actually be fixed. | Esther Perel | ||
| fc01bc6 | But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is th.. | religion-and-science science sex | Esther Perel | |
| 91306e5 | Sexual desire does not obey the laws that maintain peace and contentment between partners. Reason, understanding, compassion, and camaraderie are the handmaidens of a close, harmonious relationship. But sex often evokes unreasoning obsession rather than thoughtful judgment, and selfish desire rather than altruistic consideration. Aggression, objectification, and power all exist in the shadow of desire, components of passion that do not nece.. | Esther Perel |