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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da6bdde | Unidentified hole, please shut it and inspect yourself. Continue to talk and you will be ignored. | star-wars | Kevin Hearne | |
| 22675e7 | The goddess of fire lit him up like a stump, just as she had promised, and I wondered why people who believed in the next life were so anxious to start living it instead of enjoying the one they had. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ad50972 | The current popular image of Zeus as a cheerful, avuncular type perplexes me. I know it comes from a silly kids' movie, but I'm not sure they could have gotten it more wrong. Zeus was never avuncular. He killed his father, raped his sister, and then married her, calculating that sanctified incest was marginally better than the unsanctified kind. After that he conducted a series of what are generously called "affairs" with mortal women, thou.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 481ee89 | I have noticed over many centuries of relationships that a corollary to love is worry. They sort of come together as a matched set, and it's nigh impossible to ditch one without the other. I don't mean worry in the sense of a constant hand-wringing or an outward show of anxiety but a silent panic, always there but flaring up on occasion until one chokes and cannot see through a sudden veil of tears, panic that what you cherish most will be .. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e985ee4 | Why content ourselves with meager fish when we can eat our own animals, the God asked. I can not eat my own ass, though I thought it should be obvious to him. He carries me where so ever I wish. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| abf1c9a | I don't remember the whole thing, because it was very long, but Atticus recited it for me once, and there was a line that went like this: "Cry ham hock and let slip the hogs of war!" I know you might not agree, but for me that was the best thing Shakespeare ever wrote." You mean, "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" from Julius Caesar? "No, I don't think that's it. There was ham in there; I'm sure he was talking about ham. They were goi.. | shakespeare humour granuaile iron-druid kevin-hearne oberon | Kevin Hearne | |
| fb0eb44 | That's using religion to cudgel people into conformity, and it grinds my gears. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 06dd150 | People do that--cling to their past because it's the only thing they consider safe. Trying something new or just accepting it turns their livers into jelly. But that's a load of bollocks. Ye take the new and appreciate it if it's good, like whiskey or poutine or girlfriends who bite, or ye dismiss it as shite if it's bad, like cell phones and cars, and move on. O | Kevin Hearne | ||
| da0c130 | I've never run this far before," he said at one point. "Or this fast for so long. It's better than sticking your head out a car window, that's for sure." My theory is that Oberon might be a master of Tao. He always sees what we filter out. The wind and the grass and something in the sky, sun or moon, shining on our backs as we run: They are gifts that humans toss away like socks on Christmas morning, because we see them every day and don't .. | dogs nature beauty philosophy inspirational taoism new granuile hunted kevin-hearne old oberon | Kevin Hearne | |
| ad1e46f | I wonder if they have a fancy law or name for the principle that Humans Ruin Everything for Profit. Maybe that's just capitalism | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7176db6 | I will tell you, even though you are young and unprepared: Men. are. Shit. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| bdb5e72 | The witch obviously wanted my help with something, and I could only assume that she wanted a new body to inhabit. But I didn't have any of those currently in stock, and bodies were one of the few things you couldn't buy (yet) on Amazon. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6d8d71d | he says as he drops it by me side again. I can't help but chuckle at that. "Ye know how to train humans already, don't ye?" " | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a91eaa8 | Sensei?" she asked. "Yes?" "Why are you always leaving about halfway through a workout to give Oberon a snack?" "What? Well, he's a good dog." "Granted, but he's a good dog all the time, and the only times you interrupt what you're doing to give him a snack are during workouts." "I reward him sometimes for using big words. And sometimes I reward him for shutting up." Now would be a good time to shut up. " | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 2d31f2f | An owl hoots in the night, spooky as five hells and a jar of creamy peanut butter--that shite's unnatural. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5e592e5 | An ignoranus," Manannan explains, "is someone who's both stupid and an arsehole." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7253ee4 | Now, ye know right well I'm in favor of solving problems through stomping on nuts, but the first rule to follow--the one ye didn't remember--is not to stomp on your own. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4ad9f22 | It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 2863448 | Heroines did not pick their own battles--the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| e5dccef | Chang believed that learning was dangerous and best suited for private contemplation, not something to put in the service of the highest bidder- as the Institute did, in thrall to the patronage of men with blind dreams of empire. Society was not bettered by such men of "vision" - though, if Chang was honest, was it bettered by anyone?" | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| cd54c0f | When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe. | understanding fear beliefs unknown | Gordon Dahlquist | |
| 286c26c | But sometimes they're just oblivious, and their obliviousness brings out the worst in me. I remember once talking to one about the principle of 'one person, one vote' -- the Supreme Court's doctrine that forces states to ensure the weight one person's vote is equal to the weight of everyone else's. He had done work early in his career to push that principle along, and considered it, as he told me, 'among the most important values now writte.. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 799d1e4 | A broader view of platform governance uses insights borrowed from the practices of nation-states as modeled by constitutional law scholar Lawrence Lessig. In Lessig's formulation, systems of control involve four main sets of tools: laws, norms, architecture, and markets.20 A familiar example can be used to clarify these four kinds of tools. Suppose leaders of a particular ecosystem want to reduce the harmful effects of smoking. Laws could b.. | Geoffrey G. Parker | ||
| 4ce6649 | But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy--one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives--is not the reality of our democracy anymore. We've settled into what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy," where change of almost any kind, whether from the Right or the Left, is practically always stopped." | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 1aa8701 | As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law." | Steven Johnson | ||
| 3ffb2fd | comes you close | George Harris | ||
| b17ddad | I]f you know what life is worth / You would look for yours on earth."266" | Dean MacNeil | ||
| d7c8170 | As to the Dutch, he despised them. For that | Russell Shorto | ||
| 757e864 | Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but to the quest for a northern passage to Asia, who, weaned from infancy on the legends of his predecessors, probably couldn't help but be obsessed by it. | hudson-river-expedition new-york-city | Russell Shorto | |
| 7c01b4d | devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be of such a kind as to enable us there from to deduce rules in medicine of greater certainty than those in present use. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 4fb6397 | You know what I've often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that." Her hand was still on his cheek, her arm" | Russell Shorto | ||
| aaf23cf | You know what I've often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that. | Russell Shorto | ||
| d3dab2b | No," he answered. If Stanton figured he was teaching the slave a lesson, Venture knew that by staying locked up he was depriving Stanton of his labor. He would stay in chains. "Well then, I will send you to the West Indies or banish you," Stanton replied, "for I am resolved not to keep you." Conditions in a Caribbean plantation meant a virtual death sentence. Venture was ready for this. "I crossed the waters to come here," he shot back, "an.. | Russell Shorto | ||
| a443c12 | In Craig Blomberg's survey of the Mosaic laws of gleaning, releasing, tithing, and the Jubilee, he concludes that the Biblical attitude toward wealth and possessions does not fit into any of the normal categories of democratic capitalism, or of traditional monarchial feudalism, or of state socialism. The rules for the use of land in the Biblical laws challenge all major contemporary economic models. They "suggest a sharp critique of 1) the .. | Timothy Keller | ||
| e1a6efb | You would rather die than be a governess? It's not prostitution, for heaven's sake!" Charlotte gaped, and Emily, pale and stricken as she was, stifled a giggle. "I shudder to think where you learned of such things," Charlotte said, standing. "The Bible," Anne snapped. "Allow me to recommend it to you." Good" | Lena Coakley | ||
| ee8e9e2 | But Arthur dislikes me to talk to him, and is visibly annoyed by his commonest acts of politeness; not that my husband has any unworthy suspicions of me--or of his friend either, as I believe--but he dislikes me to have any pleasure but in himself, any shadow of homage or kindness but such as he chooses to vouchsafe: he knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear tha.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| a076963 | A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself. | envy frankness | Anne Brontë | |
| 6d7c811 | There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.' 'Then | Anne Brontë | ||
| a122afa | Whenever I visit my mother I feel I am turning into Emily Bronte, my lonely life around me like a moor, my ungainly body stumping over the mud flats with a look of transformation | Anne Carson | ||
| c97dabe | But was there any harm in wishing that, among the many thousands whose souls would certainly be required of them before the year was over, this wretched mortal might be one? I thought not; and therefore I wished with all my heart that it might please Heaven to remove him to a better world, or if that might not be, still, to take him out of this... | i-hate-you i-wish-you-were-dead | Anne Brontë | |
| 6750466 | When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear... | Anne Brontë | ||
| 43ca9b7 | Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. | Anne Brontë | ||
| d7e40bc | if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense | Anne Brontë | ||
| e1e7420 | No man can deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him," I replied: "it cost more to redeem their souls--it cost the blood of an incarnate God, perfect and sinless in Himself, to redeem us from the bondage of the evil one:--let Him plead for you." | Anne Brontë |