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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b162fbf | The Antisocial Personality [This type of personality] cannot feel any sense of remorse or shame. They approve only of destructive actions. They appear quite rational. They can be very convincing. --L. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 2d62004 | But at the core of psychopathy is a lack of moral restraint. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 1481a54 | which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges." "So" | Jon Ronson | ||
| ad661f5 | As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don't act like Blofeld--monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about boring, impenetrable people. ...If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring. | Jon Ronson | ||
| e16d28f | The biggest lie," he said, "is, The Internet is about you." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 13b459a | Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers. | Jon Ronson | ||
| a4d7b95 | The world in which Alex is a leading voice -- a loose collection of internet conspiracy theorists and nationalists and some racists -- suddenly had a name: the "alt-right movement." -- | Jon Ronson | ||
| 1a7404b | I put a video out," Alex said, "a message to Trump. And then two days later he lays out the case. It's like sending up the Bat Signal." Was this true? It seemed unlikely, but when I got home I discovered that journalists had indeed spotted several occasions where Alex had said something on his show and Trump had said the same thing -- right down to the peculiar phrasing -- soon after." | Jon Ronson | ||
| eac2e92 | I'd been beguiled by the new technology -- a toddler crawling toward a gun. | Jon Ronson | ||
| a57a0e8 | According to Google's own research into our "eye movements," 53 percent of us don't go beyond the first two search results, and 89 percent don't look down past the first page." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 4ec83dc | That's what I Am a Strange Loop is about," said Deborah. "It's about how we spend our lives self-referencing, over and over, in a kind of strange loop." | Jon Ronson | ||
| ec6ebe0 | It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy. "I" | Jon Ronson | ||
| 2480f62 | complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder. | Jon Ronson | ||
| a224a45 | This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 03e70aa | Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 6c6989c | And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| d3db1cd | Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy--only free. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| ff59f6a | Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| a7fcbba | He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always about; the Grail was a phantom and the journey was inward, into their hearts and souls. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| d3df5f0 | Your website shows only one booking in that time period." "Really? I need to update that. So, that's the price." "You drive a hard bargain, Mr. MacCormick." "Captain." "Captain." He glanced around. "Let's get a table." "Why?" "There are some other details you need to know." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| a6a4c92 | She asked me, "Was your divorce nasty?" "Not at all. The marriage was nasty." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 346d440 | Never have sex with a woman who has more problems than you do. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 053bbd0 | The American dream was not supposed to look like this, and when men went off the war, too often other men came in the night to the bedroom at the back of the long, narrow trailers. In fact, I had lived there and had gone off to war, and someone took of my place in the bed and took of my young wife. But that was few wars ago, and so much has happened since , that the only lingering bitterness left is that the bastard also took my dog. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| c049c4f | anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. And if your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 5cf78b6 | Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| c6d1752 | But that's all hindsight. That evening, my mind was cloudy, and my good judgment was influenced by my need to prove something. It goes to show you, you shouldn't stay out too late during the week. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| d89b2b6 | The Cubans say that sex is the only thing that Castro hasn't rationed. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| eb6745a | talented wisecracker.... | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 6e2d4f2 | The good news was that the streets were litter-free, maybe because no one had anything to throw away. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| d0d096f | Amicitia sine fraude--to friendship without deceit. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 8e5a3ed | Fate whispered to the warrior, "You cannot withstand the coming storm." And the warrior whispered back, "I am the storm." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 6018db3 | ATTF) represented in this novel is based on the actual Joint Terrorism Task Force, though I have taken some literary license where necessary. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is an organization of dedicated, professional, and hardworking men and women who are in the front line in the war | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 95a73fb | and some other shit, and the wife--can't remember her name--would cry a lot. The kids were young. Three of them. They were okay, but they always talked about the big house they had in Cuba. And servants. So I guess they all felt like they got fucked." He smiled. "Hey, I was born fucked in New Jersey." There were two kinds of history: the kind you read about, and the kind you lived through--or were actually part of. For Jack, the Cuban Revol.. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 99e8115 | And they looked like poor fishermen. But this was Cuba, where everyone had a second job. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 993f38c | It's a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 8868d0e | The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination and that the people we meet along the way will be the traveling companions of our memories forever. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| b2ffbe2 | Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. All roads lead to Rome. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 377ff55 | the city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 5c0d4e8 | Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. ALBERT EINSTEIN | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 955c76a | too, making jokes about how old everything was at Yale, how the bathrooms | Catherine Coulter | ||
| beef770 | She'd learned nearly every job and did each well, but her favorite was greeting the first early truck from the distribution center in Richmond that delivered the big rolling metal OTR package containers. She liked the predawn, enjoyed watching the sky get lighter and lighter as she wheeled the OTRs in from the dock inside the post office and unloaded them into the route hampers. She knew all the contract drivers from the private service the.. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 85061de | Por vezes, aqueles que inicialmente parecem ser os nossos piores inimigos acabam por se tornar os nossos maiores amigos. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 84d6373 | O sentimento de culpa e algo de terrivel que nos aflige em todos os momentos em que estamos acordados e nos persegue durante os sonhos. | sonhos | Catherine Anderson | |
| dd3c117 | A vida passa enquanto estas a decidir o que has de fazer | Catherine Anderson |