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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 500fa14 | Ya se que el mundo cambia, pero nunca en lo esencial. | cambio changes esencial mundo world | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| 24a6ca9 | Vous avez du poison au coeur, mademoiselle. | zafon | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| 8923a26 | The memories we bury under mountains of silence are the ones that never stop haunting us. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| ee2ca45 | As life advances and we have to give up the hopes, dreams, and desires of our youth, we acquire a growing sense of being a victim of the world and of other people. There is always someone else to blame for our misfortunes or failures, someone we wish to exclude. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| da1014e | Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children | Markus Zusak | ||
| e29475e | He who seeks one thing, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Must reap around him in whatever he sows A harvest of barren regret. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| e877df3 | Walter Kugler was on the ground, his blond hair peppered with dirt. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3cf9812 | White paint can be made of many things. It can come from chalk or zinc, barium or rice, or from little fossilized sea creatures in limestone graves. The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer even made some of his luminescent whites with a recipe that included alabaster and quartz--in lumps that took the light reflected into the painting and made it dance.3 | Victoria Finlay | ||
| 6ec45cc | The use of natural pigments is similarly embodied in the Orthodox teaching that humanity--like all Creation--was created pure but not perfect, and the purpose of being born is to reach your true potential. | Victoria Finlay | ||
| e1e9ae7 | No quiere amarme pero tampoco quiere perderme. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 7c03844 | When our eyes see the whole range of visible light together, they read it as "white." When some of the wavelengths are missing, they see it as "colored." | Victoria Finlay | ||
| 04240d2 | The sun beams down on Algiers -- but the inhabitants do not smile back. It is a surly city, harrowed by the stresses of over-population and under-employment; with the architecture of Cannes, but the atmosphere of Aberdeen. During the day the cafes are thronged with all-male, typically Arab society. At night the city, responsive to President Boumedienne's own personal brand of puritanism, closes down like wartime Toronto on a Sunday. | Alistair Horne | ||
| 73037db | Smith] blew a warning blast of his town horn, twisted the wheel and slewed the bus into the side of the street. His intentions were unmistakable and the motorcycle patrol's decision to elect for discretion in lieu of suicidal valour was as immediate as it was automatic. They frantically abandoned their machines and flung themselves for their lives up the steps of Zum Wilden Hirsch. | Alistair MacLean | ||
| bd58720 | The best way I've found of understanding this is to think not so much of something "being" a color but of it "doing" a color." | Victoria Finlay | ||
| aa2db9b | The altruistic gene doesn't help just any randomly chosen individual. In a sense, it helps copies of itself in a different individual. Generally speaking, full siblings share 50 percent of their genes, so if I can help more than two of my sisters, even at the expense of sacrificing myself, then, on average, such behavior will be favored by natural selection. Hence the famous quip by the evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane. When asked wh.. | Peter Turchin | ||
| a36d3bd | It takes at least 100 human generations for agricultural societies to develop into states, | Peter Turchin | ||
| 6cee6ac | We know that, over the past 10,000 years, larger polities consistently outcompeted smaller ones, with the result that 99.8 percent of people today live in countries with populations of one million or more. | Peter Turchin | ||
| 3aee5ae | Scratch a professor and you find a paranoiac, Barlow thought. But scratch a dean and you find a con artist. | Paul La Farge | ||
| a9d1648 | The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit, the destruction of helpless people who had never done anything wrong. | Paul La Farge | ||
| 574023b | Always, always, he was holding something. He held his students' attention when they drooped, sleepy with cheap beer, sunlight, tennis. He held a dictionary in his lap. He held the Culhua Mexica in his head, the way a politician holds his constituents: he knew the provincial governors, the secretaries, the tax collectors, the high priests, and he tried to keep track of what they all wanted, so that he could read between the lines of their le.. | history | Paul La Farge | |
| 75ddf09 | I don't miss my father, but without his shackles to strain against, the world is terrifying and vast. I have lost a kind of purpose, a reason to prove myself. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 9bd468b | The tree line was gone and hilltops blended with the black tapestry of night. It was country dark. He closed his eyes, feeling safe. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 70c994f | MY FATHER was a brilliant man, a true iconoclast, fiercely self-reliant, a dark genius, cruel, selfish, and eternally optimistic. Early in his sales career, a boss called him an "independent son of a bitch," which Dad took as the highest compliment he'd ever received. He wanted me to be the same way. Dad had no hobbies, no distractive activities. He didn't do household chores, wash the car," | Chris Offutt | ||
| a6fee20 | A system based on exchanging products inevitably channels wealth to a few, and no governmental change will ever be able to correct that. It isn't a defect of the system, it's intrinsic to the | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 55858d3 | Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 2a08d19 | Making food a commodity to be owned was one of the great innovations of our culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key--and putting it there is the cornerstone of our economy, for if the food wasn't under lock and key, who would work? | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 2cfa6da | What about Saint Francis?" "Saint Francis relied on the bounty of farmers, not the bounty of God. Even the most fundamental of the fundamentalists plug their ears when Jesus starts talking about birds of the air and lilies of the field. They know damn well he's just yarning, just making pretty speeches." "So you think this is what's at the root of your revolution. You wanted and still want to have your lives in your own hands." "Yes. Absolu.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 184b1cb | Only slaves love being powerful. HANS ERICH NOSSACK | Daniel Quinn | ||
| ce36f10 | What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it, written as well as you, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself--and thus make yourself indispensable. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 1492fef | WHAT you DO NOT KNOW YOURSELF, you CANNOT TEACH ANOTHER. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 8460653 | Would the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God have sent his only-begotten son to save those beetles and their household mites, Jared?" "No." "But the god of this place has as great a care for them as for any other creature in the world. This is why I knew you could benefit from seeing those beetles yesterday. Those beetles are a manifestation of the gods' unending abundance and a sign to be read by those who have eyes to read. I wanted you to see h.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 77b9a7f | I've said that if there are still people here in 200 years, they won't be living the way we do, because if people go on living the way we do, there will BE no people here in 200 years. I stand by every word of this. That's how people WON'T be living. But what about how they WILL be living? What I've said in the past is that I could no more say how people will be living in 200 years than Thomas Aquinas could have said how people would be liv.. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 57ae978 | So I looked. Silly as it sounds now, I looked. By comparison, going after the Grail would have made more sense. I won't talk about it, it's too embarrassing. I looked until I wised up. I stopped making a fool of myself, but something died inside of me - something that I'd always sort of liked and admired. In its place grew a scar - a tough spot but also a sore spot. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 26d7d99 | Diversity, not uniformity, is what works. | lifestyle systems | Daniel Quinn | |
| 3a7f9ce | The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 8857673 | Because the tribe is its members, the tribe is what its members want it to be--nothing more and nothing less. | organization systems | Daniel Quinn | |
| 46002d8 | Slavery became a huge, international business, and of course would remain one down to the present moment. It's estimated that at the midpoint of the fifth century every third or fourth person in Athens was a slave. When Carthage fell to Rome in 146 B.C.E., fifty thousand of the survivors were sold as slaves. In 132 B.C.E. some seventy thousand Roman slaves rebelled; when the revolt was put down, twenty thousand were crucified, but this was .. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| a48c8ca | To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that the blaze may go on. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 92ed2ab | My death is the life of another, and I will stand again in the windswept grasses and look through the eyes of the fox and take the air with the eagle and run in the track of the deer. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| b51120e | Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 44638bc | What I said in Ishmael stands: There is no One Right Way to live. What we find among Leaver peoples is that each has a way that works well for them. We may not like one particular way, we may think it atrocious and cruel, but it's their way, not ours, and the most murderous culture in human history is hardly in a position to set itself up as the moral policeman of the world. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| cdd9675 | I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to be scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 986247c | The tribal life wasn't something humans sat down and figured out. It was the gift of natural selection, a proven success--not perfection but hard to improve on. Hierarchalism, on the other hand, has proven to be not merely imperfect but ultimately catastrophic for the earth and for us. When the plane's going down and someone offers you a parachute, you don't demand to see the warranty. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 2f810ca | You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. BUCKMINSTER FULLER | Daniel Quinn |