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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a29b232 | I had come to regard pride as the defining characteristic of a gentleman, when indeed I should think the word itself, gentleman, should impress upon me what aspect I ought to have settled on as the defining one. | C.E. Murphy | ||
| 88899e1 | except my eyes had fallen right off the vista and landed on a black 1967 Chevy Impala. It didn't belong up here in the woods any more than Petite might've, but it was a beautiful car. Gary parked a few spaces down from it and I got out to walk circles around it. Kansas license plates. I patted the Impala's hood and mumbled, "Long way from home, aren't you, baby?" before reluctantly turning away." | C.E. Murphy | ||
| 30c0ba1 | I was bad at relationships. I was bad at reading between lines, at figuring out what people really meant if they didn't actually say it, and at being charming or flirty or whatever it was, exactly, that women were supposed to do to attract men. | C.E. Murphy | ||
| e22f910 | I updrive a Bronco." "How environmentally irresponsible of you." | C.E. Murphy | ||
| bff55b8 | Disaster's good for the oligarchy. Ha," Billy said to my goggle-eyes. "Fair's fair. You pull out 'exsanguinate,' I pull out 'oligarchy.'" "I'm in awe. There's nothing sexier than a guy with a big vocabulary. Don't tell your wife I said that." | C.E. Murphy | ||
| a932e03 | Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, two contemporary theorists of U.S. empire, have also suggested that the root of contemporary U.S. imperial abuses "should be traced back to the very origins of the country, to black slavery and the genocidal wars against the Native Americans." | Mark Lewis Taylor | ||
| 8dd332d | The major religious fundamentalisms--Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu--certainly all demonstrate intense concern for and scrutiny of bodies, through dietary restrictions, corporeal rituals, sexual mandates and prohibitions, and even practices of corporeal mortification and abnegation. What primarily distinguishes fundamentalists from other religious practitioners, in fact, is the extreme importance they give to the body: what it does, w.. | body fundamentalism nationalism | Antonio Negri; Michael Hardt | |
| 7bbec39 | If you had no higher motive than the approval of your fellow mortal, it would do you little good. | Anne Brontë | ||
| bb96752 | The background looks like a lot of red cards. | Arsène Wenger | ||
| e00225b | If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from. | Arsène Wenger | ||
| 55f8ed7 | Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. | Anne Brontë | ||
| a3e732d | Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them. | Arsène Wenger | ||
| c6a4149 | Conta um velho conto japones que, certo dia, um aguerrido samurai desafiou um mestre de zen a explicar-lhe os conceitos de Ceu e Inferno. Mas o monge respondeu-lhe, trocista: "Nao passas de um estupido e eu nao posso perder tempo com gente da tua laia!" Ofendido na sua honra, o samurai encheu-se de raiva e, puxando da espada, gritou: "Podia matar-te pela tu impertinencia"."Isto", replicou calmamente o monge, "e o Inferno". Sobressaltado ao .. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 501dee0 | so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time. | Art Blakey | ||
| 29d4c92 | Las intuiciones creativas florecen mejor cuando las personas tienen objetivos claros y libertad tambien en el modo de alcanzarlos. Y, lo mas importante todavia, tienen suficiente tiempo libre para pensar. Ese es el entorno mas favorable para incubar la creatividad. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 4772e01 | The debris that buried Steve saved his life as the plane's fuselage exploded, | Daniel Goleman | ||
| df8931b | I like champagne—because it always tastes like my foot's asleep. | Art Buchwald | ||
| c2b2814 | Adios muneca, ha sido muy hermoso, pero eras un automata sin alma. | love umberto-eco | Umberto Eco | |
| 70a9db5 | Los libros no se han hecho para que creamos lo que dicen, sino para que los analicemos. Cuando cogemos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos que dice, sino que quiere decir, | Umberto Eco | ||
| 6ed1d3a | para no acabar haciendo el necio, prefiero no empezar haciendo el listo. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 31cdfab | Do not expect too much of the end of the world. --Stanislaw J. Lec, Aforyzmy. Fraszki, Krakow, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977, "Mysli nieuczesane" | Umberto Eco | ||
| 4e85d7e | Juan XXIII y Benigno Zaccagnini hacian simplemente lo que se esperaba de ellos, y no hay razon para que hubiera que felicitarlos por eso. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 233d623 | Nadie nos exige que sepamos, Adso. Hay que saber, eso es todo, aun a riesgo de equivocarse. | Umberto Eco | ||
| a9a08c1 | But then, apart from politicians and the pope, why does anyone else use Twitter? Perhaps to feel important. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 75d08bb | Huye, Adso, de los profetas y de los que estan dispuestos a morir por la verdad, porque suelen provocar tambien la muerte de muchos otros, a menudo antes que la propia, y a veces en lugar de la propia. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 98e42ea | Es un circulo diabolico en el que el contestatario potencia aquello que cree destruir. | Umberto Eco | ||
| dc3c14a | Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them. --Fragment of Turfa'n M7 | Umberto Eco | ||
| 5ec1ffa | I work for a publishing company. We deal with both lunatics and nonlunatics. After a while an editor can pick out the lunatics right away. If somebody brings up the Templars, he's almost always a lunatic. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 638a892 | The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water. | Art Buchwald | ||
| 78502ed | Ce ne sont pas les informations qui font le journal, mais le journal qui fait l'information. Et savoir rassembler quatre nouvelles differentes signifie en proposer au lecteur une cinquieme. | Umberto Eco | ||
| be1750b | Ve dep cua than the chi den lop da la het. Neu dan ong nhin thay duoc duoi lop da ay la gi, nhu voi con linh mieu xu Boeotia, ho se rung minh khi thay dan ba. Moi ve yeu kieu ay chi gom toan dom dai, mau me, the dich va mat. Nghi den nhung gi an trong lo mui, co hong va bung, con se thay toan thu nho ban. Neu con tom lom khi cham ngon tay vao dom dai hay phan, sao lai co the khao khat om cai bao dung thu phan do? | Umberto Eco | ||
| 616ed1b | It's true," Benno said, smiling for the first time, his face growing almost radiant. "We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay." | Umberto Eco | ||
| dacd0d3 | Os perdedores, assim como os autodidatas, sempre tem conhecimentos mais vastos que os vencedores, e quem quiser vencer devera saber uma unica coisa e nao perder tempo sabendo todas, o prazer da erudicao e reservado aos perdedores. Quanto mais coisas uma pessoa sabe, menos coisas deram certo para ela. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 9038785 | Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear. | fellows laugh love | Umberto Eco | |
| 9bfc156 | because one who knows not how to seek will never find. . . . | Umberto Eco | ||
| 7268342 | Se por acaso se espalhasse a ideia de que a poluicao no mundo compromete nao so as baleias mas tambem (desculpem o tecnicismo) os perus, acho que teriamos subitas conversoes ao ecologismo. | Umberto Eco | ||
| e054d8e | Superstition brings bad luck. --Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C., 1.3.8 | Umberto Eco | ||
| 5a50b67 | A questao e que os jornais nao sao feitos para divulgar, mas para encobrir as noticias. Ocorre o fato X, voce nao pode deixar de falar dele, mas cria problemas para gente demais, entao no mesmo numero voce poe umas manchetes de arrepiar o cabelo, mae degola os quatro filhos, a nossa poupanca talvez vire po, descoberta uma carta de insultos de Garibaldi a Nino Bixio e assim por diante, a sua noticia se afoga no grande mar da informacao. | Umberto Eco | ||
| f0c25c0 | You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 6ecc9d5 | traicion. Y es que siempre pasa lo mismo, cuando fracasas en algo, buscas siempre alguien a quien acusar de tu incapacidad. Pero que traicion, me decia, es que no sabeis como se combate, pues anda que hacer la revolucion... | Umberto Eco | ||
| fd42b97 | kaldi ki, onunla yok olup gitmeyeceksek bir kurmaca yaratmak niye? | Umberto Eco | ||
| 480d2cf | hay que valerse de la risa para desarmar la seriedad de los oponentes, y a la risa, en cambio, oponer la seriedad. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 6ac54c5 | In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that demonstrate the disaster of an aging world. | Umberto Eco | ||
| a8586cb | That was when I saw the Pendulum. | Umberto Eco |