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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 44a1798 | It was a nightmare I could never really define, to have so many people packed around me and not be able to communicate with any of them unless they felt like it. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 29ea20b | Have you ever loved anything?" Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother." | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 2e2c296 | Hope--you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it's not. It's the opposite. It's simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with ground fish bones, which you won't eat because you're going to give it away, and maybe you'll get a message through to your friend. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| b3d82e8 | God. Jesus. -Any other Lords' names you want to take in vain? -Yeah...Ganesh, damn it. -Who's Ganesh? -He's a Hindu god. He's the Remover of Obstacles. -Oh yeah? They got a god for that? We could use a Remover of Obstacles. Well, I don't care if you take a Hindu god's name in vain--just lay off Jesus. -Okay, Dad. I'll lay off Jesus. -What's this Remover of Obstacles look like? -I think he's an elephant. -Yeah? An elephant. Jesus Christ, can.. | Eireann Corrigan | ||
| c889268 | Meet me at the moon. | Claudia Carroll | ||
| 5e4ee41 | Proclaiming resurrection turns the world upside down (cf. Acts 17:1-9) and holds out to the poor and lowly the hope of being vindicated while posing a worrisome prospect to those who have already received their consolation in the present life (cf. Luke 6:24).322 | Ellen F. Davis | ||
| 9d60209 | I think this is simultaneously the most ridiculous and most serious conversation we've ever had," I said. "I don't like Jell-O and you wear stripes, and I think that is far more offensive, but I'll still marry you despite the stripes." I pushed myself off of the couch and went to bed. As I lay there, listening to Luke moving around the kitchen, I had to cover my mouth to keep from giggling. We just had a conversation about marriage using st.. | L.D. Davis | ||
| 0b3e2a5 | Knowledge counters fear. It always has. | Jim Butcher | ||
| edc8642 | Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. I | Jim Butcher | ||
| 439e2b6 | Magic came from life itself, from the interaction of nature and the elements, from the energy of all living beings, and especially of people. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e04da67 | Harry Dresden, Winter Knight, Targets Slain, No Barbecues, Waterslides, or Fireworks Displays. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 973f830 | It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their competitors (by any measure of "better" we might wish to adopt), and gradations here will translate into very real differences in human happiness." | Sam Harris | ||
| 75f18ad | Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now. | Sam Harris | ||
| 195ce4e | Over one million people died in the orgy of religious killing that attended the partitioning of India and Pakistan. The two countries have since fought three official wars, suffered a continuous bloodletting at their shared border, and are now poised to exterminate one another with nuclear weapons simply because they disagree about "facts" that are every bit as fanciful as the names of Santa's reindeer." | Sam Harris | ||
| 3391c8b | most of us spend our time seeking happiness and security without acknowledging the underlying purpose of our search. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now. Acknowledging that this is the structure of the game we are playing allows us to play it differently. How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 6b2a07e | Surely, if we could create the world anew, the practice of organizing our lives around untestable propositions found in ancient literature--to say nothing of killing and dying for them--would be impossible to justify. What stops us from finding it impossible now? | Sam Harris | ||
| ffbeaae | I can think of no right more fundamental than the right to peacefully steward the contents of one's own consciousness. The fact that we pointlessly ruin the lives of nonviolent drug users by incarcerating them, at enormous expense, constitutes one of the great moral failures of our time. (And the fact that we make room for them in our prisons by paroling murderers, rapists, and child molesters makes one wonder whether civilization isn't sim.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3f60cfb | A prison is perhaps the easiest place to see the power of bad incentives. And yet in many walks of life, we find otherwise normal men and women caught in the same trap and busily making the world much less good than it could be. Elected officials ignore long-term problems because they must pander to the short-term interests of voters. People working for insurance companies rely on technicalities to deny desperately ill patients the care the.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 25d7007 | The experience was not of love growing but of its being no longer obscured. | Sam Harris | ||
| 256839d | Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3b49b14 | We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain--and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running | Sam Harris | ||
| 0b4f827 | Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do. | Sam Harris | ||
| 5784543 | WHICH way should the balance swing? Assuming that we want to maintain a coherent ethical position on these matters, this appears to be a circumstance of forced choice: if we are willing to drop bombs, or even risk that pistol rounds might go astray, we should be willing to torture a certain class of criminal suspects and military prisoners; if we are unwilling to torture, we should be unwilling to wage modern war. | Sam Harris | ||
| 177e9d9 | Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks. | Sam Harris | ||
| 103ddef | See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics. | magic physics science | Jim Butcher | |
| 295ca6e | Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c974d6e | You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4c93252 | Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9d13dc2 | I glanced at Mac as though to appeal for help. Mac ignored me. Mac doesn't take sides. Mac is wise. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ab112f9 | There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. Magic | Jim Butcher | ||
| 928f7c9 | Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve | Jim Butcher | ||
| bca42fa | purple is my favorite color that isn't black, and | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5a8fdde | As a race, we're an enormous bunch of idiots. We're more than capable of ignoring facts if the conclusions they lead to make us too uncomfortable. Or afraid. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 672d7df | Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. | history ignorance | Jim Butcher | |
| b4e637c | There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. Rain | Jim Butcher | ||
| 642e361 | People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma--and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it. I felt fairly sure that the Almighty, whatever name tag He had on at the moment, could handle a few questions from people sincerely looking for answers. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 987771b | If I could publish actual interviews with vampires--" "Sheesh, Susan. You're reading too much off the bestseller list. In" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9df42ce | They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren't free." Titania" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4fcfcf2 | Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it. I | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9c57b80 | They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 94c6c1e | are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both." Tavi" | Jim Butcher | ||
| d2b1bfe | See, that's the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get it. They have good, even noble reasons for doing whatever it is they do. They don't want to misuse it, they don't want to abuse it, and they don't want to become vicious monsters. Good people, decent people, set out to take the high road, to pick up power without letting it change them or push them away from their ideals. But it ke.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7f6804e | Shiro died. There was nothing pretty about it. There was no dignity to it. He'd been brutalized and savagely murdered - and he'd allowed it to happen to him in my place. But when he died, there was a small, contended smile on his face. Maybe the smile of someone who had run his course without wavering from it. Someone who had served something greater than himself. Who had given up his life willingly, if not gladly. | faith life | Jim Butcher | |
| f859714 | Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." "Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" "It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels." -- | Jim Butcher |