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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0fd6fd0 | Nothing is true but what is never said. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 6d576c7 | What will my happiness be like? What kind of happy woman will Antigone grow into? What base things will she have to do, day after day, in order to snatch her own little scrap of happiness? Tell me - who will she have to lie to? Smile at? Sell herself to? Who will she have to avert her eyes from, and leave to die? | Jean Anouilh | ||
| bb86351 | Amputee!... O soleil, si c'est vrai que je viens de toi, pourquoi m'as-tu faite amputee? Pourquoi m'as-tu faite une fille? Pourquoi ces seins, cette faiblesse, cette plaie ouverte au milieu de moi? N'aurait-il pas ete beau le garcon Medee? N'aurait-il pas ete fort? Le corps dur comme la pierre, fait pour prendre et partir apres, ferme, intact, entier, lui! Ah! il aurait pu venir, alors, Jason, avec ses grandes mains redoutables, il aurait p.. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 622a673 | Si nous ne nous conduisons pas tout a fait bien, c'est parce qu'il nous reste, a tous, une vague petite notion de devoir au fond de notre desordre qui fait que nous n'avons pas le courage de nous conduire tout a fait mal. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 2be80a4 | I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seemed a meditative winding, and what I was winding was like yarn on an oblong skein, softly enfolding a quiet center that was myself. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 39b108b | He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| d35216b | It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold herself to be so special that only one special person could she find satisfactory. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| e946bc0 | Al dia de hoy, al comprender la habilidad del mundo para presionarme hasta que haga lo que no hago, he madurado. Con que actitud desempeno mi papel, eso depende unicamente de mi. | life-lessons | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 0bda8d7 | Rousseau pensaba que era bueno estar solo a veces y que quiza nuestras naturalezas florecian con la maxima pureza en esas ocasiones. | meditation self-growth | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| fb9163d | Reading, he claims, would broaden my experience of the world. The ideas to be found in serious books would deepen my thinking about every choice I make. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 5f2a4c4 | Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays. | words | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| c17d2ab | The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, lets the texter/ former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can't live propless. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 08a5ef7 | She bops around really energetically but she's also still. Like she's moving her torso but her feet don't move, and then sometimes she'll take one step, and it feels like a thesis statement. Like it is a topic sentence about her butt. | Aimee Bender | ||
| bcaa650 | When she came back inside, she was gripping a yogurt cup someone had thrown near our side strip of garden. "Plastic doesn't cycle." She shrugged off her coat. "Right? We recycle it, but it can't do anything on its own, and all it can ever do is be itself again. It is the worst kind of reincarnation. Lame! That is so lame! And it's everywhere!" she cried, going to the bathroom to splash water on her face." | Aimee Bender | ||
| 46d63f3 | This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day. | Scott Adams | ||
| bc06363 | He had a good face to him, something chunky in his nose that I could get behind. | Aimee Bender | ||
| b784a88 | Your eyes shine," he said. "How do they do that?" "Blood," she said." -- | humor | Aimee Bender | |
| fec72db | Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it. | Scott Adams | ||
| 6c88228 | I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome. | Scott Adams | ||
| 2ae5885 | When she left the store, emboldened, receipt tucked into her purse, folded twice, Janet thought of all the chicken dishes she had not sent back even though they were either half-raw or not what she had ordered. Chicken Kiev instead of chicken Marsala, chicken with mushrooms instead of chicken a la king: her body was made up of the wrong chickens. | eating wrong-order | Aimee Bender | |
| 433c07a | Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out. | Scott Adams | ||
| 90eccfb | money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong. | Scott Adams | ||
| d372bfb | The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness through extreme selfishness. A normal person needs to treat others well in order to enjoy life. | Scott Adams | ||
| 425499a | take care of yourself first and use that success as leverage to get everything else you need. I'll | Scott Adams | ||
| 201cceb | The common worldview, shared by most humans, is that there is one objective reality, and we humans can understand that reality through a rigorous application of facts and reason. This view of the world imagines that some people have already achieved a fact-based type of enlightenment that is compatible with science and logic, and they are trying to help the rest of us see the world the "right" way. As far as I can tell, most people share th.. | Scott Adams | ||
| 6dc8ac7 | Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic series, explains his success this way: I succeeded as a cartoonist with negligible art talent, some basic writing skills, an ordinary sense of humor and a bit of experience in the business world. The "Dilbert" comic is a combination of all four skills. The world has plenty of better artists, smarter writers, funnier humorists and more experienced business people. The rare part is that each of th.. | Chris Guillebeau | ||
| 62b400b | Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term. | Scott Adams | ||
| af7844a | Inaccurate worldviews are the only kind there is. | Scott Adams | ||
| fda47f7 | Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them. | Scott Adams | ||
| 8510d18 | and thread, and even bandages, because he knew those at the clinic would not be sterile. The hospital was one of those communist-built structures of steel and glass, slapped up in the fifties, that could have been designed by a four-year-old. The workmanship was so shoddy that the cement abutments and window ledges were already crumbling. Probably not | Trevor Scott | ||
| 6f1ef09 | Every generation before us believed, like Snickers, that it had things figured out. We now know that every generation before us was wrong about a lot of it. Is it likely that you were born at the tipping point of history, in which humans know enough about reality to say we understand it? This is another case where humility is your friend. | Scott Adams | ||
| 8182f96 | I'm more of a sprinter than a marathoner when it comes to many aspects of life. For example, when I'm running. Over short distances--up to two yards--I can run faster than cheap panty hose on an itchy porcupine. But over long distances, I'm not so impressive. I try to compensate for my lack of long-distance endurance by having good form. I'm told that my running style is quite majestic. That's probably because I learned to run by watching n.. | running zebras | Scott Adams | |
| 8b0dd9b | I also find it helpful to remind myself that every human is a mess on the inside. It's easy to assume the good-looking and well-spoken person in front of you has it all together and is therefore your superior. The reality is that everyone is a basket case on the inside. Some people just hide it better. Find me a normal person and I'll show you someone you don't know that well. It helps to remind yourself that your own flaws aren't that bad .. | Scott Adams | ||
| 074c4bd | If eating a healthy diet feels unpleasant, you're doing it wrong. And you're wasting your limited stockpile of willpower. | Scott Adams | ||
| ee8dd53 | Adam," she panted. "I thought you wanted to see the lights." "Yeah, they're real nice. Wonder if I could make you come just by playing with your nipples? What do you think, princess?" | Kylie Scott | ||
| 09ca96a | The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, 'I'm not interested.' You should try it. Don't offer a reason why you aren't interested. No one can say why a thing holds interest for some and not for others. There's no argument against a lack of interest. | Scott Adams | ||
| b239f47 | I read a lot of travel books before I came here. Fantasised what it would be like. I read Scott's journal. Those last entries as they froze to death in that tent. 'Had we lived, I should have made a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.' I got totally caught up in the romance." "Scott was a self-aggrandising dick." | Adam Baker | ||
| 4ceb0a3 | You might be familiar with a television show that was called The Dog Whisperer. On the show, Cesar Millan, a dog-training expert, helped people get their seemingly insane dogs under control. Cesar's main trick involved training the humans to control their own emotional states, because dogs can pick up crazy vibes from their owners. | Scott Adams | ||
| a9f632d | Scripture is clear that without holiness no one will see the Lord (Heb. 12:14). In wanting to be "relevant" to those who are not in Christ, we may be displaying more of a life "in Adam" than we might think. This bodes ill for the art of persuasion in covenantal apologetics. If Christianity makes little difference in the way we walk and talk on a day-to-day basis, we should not think that there will be any obvious reason for others to want t.. | K. Scott Oliphint | ||
| 7b18a48 | Raflara dogru ilerledi Stoddart Lectures kitabin birinci cildi ile geri dondu. "Goruyor musunuz?" diye bagirdi muzaffer bir edayla, "Iste hakiki bir kitap. Ne kadar yanilmisim . Bu adam tam bir Belasco!1 Bu buyuk bir zafer. Ne zevkli ne guzel bir secim! Hem haddini bilip sayfalari da kesip azaltmamis. Daha ne istenir ki?" 1 David Belasco (1853 - 1931) Amerikali Oyun yazari. Devasa bir kutuphaneye sahipti." | literature | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 5857e01 | That," she said, "is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your window, or else the other cars wouldn't get the moon in their windows. But everyone gets the moon. It's not an option, to not have the moon in your window. You just see it. It's there." She bit her lip. The window in the office grew golden with .. | praying | Aimee Bender | |
| 450637a | With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and pointing or gesticulating usually works. | humor words | Aimee Bender | |
| 1d5c046 | It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point. | immortality mortality | Aimee Bender | |
| 8a8056b | But perhaps I might feel strange, and unlike myself. It wouldn't be comfortable, not to be acquainted with myself. | Georgette Heyer |