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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c68efbd | In New Orleans they have mastered the art of the motionless. In | Joan Didion | ||
| 6b74027 | Someday it all comes. | Joan Didion | ||
| 99250da | The thing that hovers over every secret is betrayal. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5afa914 | In Coffeeville, Miss., at 6 p.m., there was a golden light and a child swinging in it, swinging from a big tree, over a big lawn, back and forth in front of a big airy house. To be a white middle-class child in a small southern town must be on certain levels the most golden way for a child to live in the United States. | Joan Didion | ||
| a235faa | To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable home movie that documents one's failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for each screening. | Joan Didion | ||
| 3d557bf | Why make this call and not just say what you wanted? His eyes. His blue eyes. His blue imperfect eyes. | Joan Didion | ||
| 6496dee | apocalyptic notions," she once said, thinking of earthquakes, floods, and fires. "However, mixed up with this tolerance for notions in which the world is going to end dramatically is the belief that the world can't help but get better and better. It's really hard for me to believe that everything doesn't improve, because thinking like that was just so much part of being in California." More deeply, the paradoxes in her writing suggest her r.. | Tracy Daugherty | ||
| e89a21e | A certe latitudini c'e un arco di tempo che precede e segue il solstizio d'estate, poche settimane appena, in cui il crepuscolo diventa lungo e azzurro. [...] Passi davanti a una vetrina, t'incammini verso Central Park e ti trovi a nuotare nell'azzurro: la luce e azzurra, e nel giro di un'ora questo azzurro s'infittisce, diventa piu intenso proprio mentre si oscura e sbiadisce, infine si avvicina all'azzurro delle vetrate in una giornata li.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 00dd201 | it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built "The Breakers" he damned himself." | wealth | Joan Didion | |
| 17d6d49 | The world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination. It's all a ghost, and in antiquity was so recognized as a ghost, the whole blessed world we live in. It's run by ghosts. We see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is.. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| a4cbb34 | The sewer system is a form of welfare state. It's a government funnel to the sea. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e83dd77 | If you are receiving this transmission, you are the resistance. | Alex Jones | ||
| 9806e17 | What causes human beings to inflict upon themselves these stupid little scissor snips of unhappy remembrance? | William Styron | ||
| 8b01a0f | Resistance is victory! | Alex Jones | ||
| 060c1c6 | For me the real healers were seclusion and time. | William Styron | ||
| 2e1859a | But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the morals to make someone else look inferior and that way look better themselves. It doesn't matter what the moral code is -- religious morals, political morals, racist morals, capitalist morals, feminist morals, hippie morals -- they're all the sam.. | philosophy psychology zen | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 4506a79 | look--it was gone real fast. Then he | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 39a2938 | She had not planned to weep--it was the last thing from her mind, a display of mawkish weakness--but she could not help it. | William Styron | ||
| 8579856 | Get your shirt off... it's pervert time! | Alex Jones | ||
| 40e4c61 | Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 19978f6 | thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious. | Sean Patrick | ||
| c015d94 | Without succumbing to political nightmares, we might ponder whether the bleak, socially estranged future facing poor kids in America today could have unanticipated political consequences tomorrow. So quite apart from the danger that the opportunity gap poses to American prosperity, it also undermines our democracy and perhaps even our political stability. | prescient | Robert D. Putnam | |
| 2270e80 | In the quarter century between 1979 and 2005, average after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) grew by $900 a year for the bottom fifth of American households, by $8,700 a year for the middle fifth, and by $745,000 a year for the top 1 percent of households. | society | Robert D. Putnam | |
| 7c88f1d | Five decades later, it's clear that the problem isn't about race--it is nearly universal. The works of Charles Murray, Robert Putnam, and J. D. Vance show that these tragic developments are not unique to any geographic or ethnic community. The share of white births occurring outside marriage is now roughly three in ten, which is higher than the "emergency" black rate in the 1960s. And although the teen pregnancy rate is down, the Urban Inst.. | Ben Sasse | ||
| 33e10ba | Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives and lift up our own souls. Work, properly understood, is the sacred practice of offering up our talents for the service of others. | Ben Sasse | ||
| beffc88 | Travel to experience the difference between "need" and "want," | Ben Sasse | ||
| 3fd4773 | We would never have been crazy enough, insulated enough, bubble-wrapped enough, to think that it was impossible to sleep without it--especially at seventy-two degrees. | Ben Sasse | ||
| b11e3d6 | When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| f76f644 | Pearl S. Buck, author and humanitarian, summed up the lived experience of the sensitive person beautifully: "A touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death." | Vanessa Lapointe | ||
| f64163b | Examples of such remarkable transformations abound throughout history. Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 04a19c2 | Word slowly spread among Manhattan's elite that a man of incomparable genius was digging ditches to survive. Sensing an opportunity, a band of wealthy investors eventually approached Tesla to develop an improved system of arc lighting. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 43efcf8 | It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision | Sean Patrick | ||
| a513ed5 | studies | Sean Patrick | ||
| 2379bde | It was less than thirty minutes before her cell phone chimed. She glanced at the phone and saw it was Luke. She let him go to voice mail. Next was Sean, then Patrick and finally Colin. She smiled to herself; it was nice having all five boys in the United States. She let them all leave messages. She would entertain herself later by listening to them. Really, she thought with amusement, how did they think she got to be this old without knowin.. | Robyn Carr | ||
| 5e245a7 | Well, a tremendous amount of research has been done into the scientific correlation between IQ and real-life success, and a very different picture has emerged. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 0c5bcd3 | Another year passed, much as the first did. | time | V.C. Andrews | |
| 82f41d3 | While his lab was under construction, Tesla studied the phenomenon of lightning, and made what he considered his most important discovery to date. He found that the earth was "literally alive with electrical vibrations," and that the entire planet can be "thrown into vibration like a tuning fork." Tesla was absolutely certain that this phenomenon could be used to transmit unlimited electrical power and telecommunication signals anywhere in .. | Sean Patrick | ||
| b547b16 | This immediately involves us in a bigger picture question, too--one that's deeply penetrating and personal: why do we desire to heighten our genius and pursue the path of greatness? We | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5ab8923 | there are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers--there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don't. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 2c30111 | Andrew Carnegie is thirteen years old and changing spools of thread in a cotton mill twelve hours per day, six days per week. Two years later, he gets a job as a telegraph messenger for $2.50 per week, | Sean Patrick | ||
| 50e8bf9 | Morgan retaliated with a strategy that would become one of his hallmarks. He spread rumors to Wall Street that Westinghouse's company was financially unstable, which dissuaded investors from giving Westinghouse the capital that he needed to expand the production and installation of his alternating current generators. Morgan then began an attack through stock manipulation, and moved to gain control of The Westinghouse Corporation, and thus T.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5148e63 | Statistical data shows us that you have to be at least seventy-two inches tall to be allowed on the ride, and each inch you push over that is probably better for you. There comes a point, however, when height just doesn't matter much anymore. Just because someone is seven feet tall doesn't mean he's a better player than | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5b73e18 | the opportunities presented to one are just as important to success as one's own inherent talents and willingness to put in thousands of hours of work. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 71596c6 | nightmares of earthquakes, and | Jean M. Auel |