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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 23b512a | The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same. | wisdom | Anonymous | |
| 354573c | Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it. | tuesdays-with-morrie | Mitch Albom | |
| cd1fb75 | The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 75db61a | If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 239a6f6 | WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It year.. | henry-v scene-iii | William Shakespeare | |
| 3c6d301 | Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up. | Joseph Heller | ||
| a5c0341 | Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion--often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation--that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter. | hippies | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| c69d6ab | We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth | truth | Ray Bradbury | |
| a8f1508 | One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shore and said, "We need a voice to call across the water, to warn ships; I'll make one. I'll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever was; I'll make a voice that is like an empty bed beside you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like trees in autumn with no leaves. A sound like the birds flying .. | fog loneliness sadness | Ray Bradbury | |
| e545c22 | Instead of God for my two strong legs that are able to run and jump and climb, I whined about my "thunder thighs" and "thick" ankles. Instead of rejoicing that I have two capable arms that can lift and carry and balance my body, I complained about the flab that hung beneath them. I have been totally and unbelievably ungrateful for everything. Like a completely spoiled brat, I took my healthy body for granted. I criticized it and despised .. | melody-carlson perspective thankfulness | Melody Carlson | |
| d708ea6 | In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . | ben dystopia king life man network richard richards running stephen survival | Stephen King | |
| b3666a9 | Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy. | life | Orhan Pamuk | |
| c7d31f2 | The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 0342b45 | He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. | love | Orson Scott Card | |
| 5bccfb5 | There exists indeed an opposition to it [ ] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the . In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sounded in all their pulpits, and the first alarm denounced is against the particular creed of Doctr. Cooper; and as impudently denounced as if they really knew what it is. [ ] | creed dread duperies fatal-harbinger opposition presbyterian priests pulpit religious-sects science science-vs-religion university-of-virginia william-and-mary witches | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 84b6a89 | By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?" Because I looked for it." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 2a38563 | How you've always felt?" "I've loved you my entire life," he said, eyes locked on mine. "And I would love you for the rest of my life if you'd let me, Syd." | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 2db1b00 | Surprise widened his eyes as he stepped back. "Caving in so easily?" "Caving in?" I laughed without feeling. "I just want you out of my face." Daemon chuckled deeply. "Keep telling yourself that, Kitten." "Keep using your ego steroids." | jennifer-l-armentrout katy-and-daemon katy-swartz lux onyx | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| add74ba | And that was the thing about truths and secrets. Sometimes the truth didn't need to be known. The lie was healthier than the truth and, while some secrets could set people free, other secrets could destroy them. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1ab2524 | Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 666c9c3 | Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1215ea0 | I call it Andskoti, the Adversary. It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes in the Nine Worlds--Wi-Fi with no lag, a politician's sincerity, a printer that prints, healthy deep-fried food, and an interesting grammar lecture! | Rick Riordan | ||
| 90cc426 | Percy was eating a huge stack of blue pancakes (what was his deal with blue food?) while Annabeth chided him for pouring on too much syrup. "You're drowning them!" she complained. "Hey, I'm a Poseidon kid," he said. "I can't drown. And neither can my pancakes." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7303d93 | 8:58 We go to McDonald's. The woman in front of me in line spends more than five seconds contemplating her order. This infuriates me, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?? MC-SEABASS?? IT'S THE GODDAMN MCDONALDS'S MENU, IT'S BEEN THE SAME FOR TEN YEARS! IT'S ALL MCSHIT!JUST ORDER!" | insult mcdonalds | Tucker Max | |
| d7856a7 | Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become that path himself. "I began in absolute chaos and darkness, in a bog or swamp of ideas and emotions and experiences. Even now I do not consider.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 2d207b9 | Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6d16e3c | You can forget who you are if you're alone too much. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8bc85a6 | Screw what Mom and Dad think. Screw the rest of the town. Screw perfection. This girl is mine. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 2354b77 | It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where. | inner-self japan psychology | James Clavell | |
| a372307 | Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b0b8d69 | You build a wall to keep something unwanted out ... or to hold something precious in. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| eca476b | I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself. | romantic | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 484d77d | My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise. | dawn-treader reepicheep voyage-of-the-dawn-treader | C.S. Lewis | |
| 4d73ae9 | When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be -- or so it feels-- welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside.. | god grief loss religion | C.S. Lewis | |
| 5e16dd6 | I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all. | Ken Kesey | ||
| a111bb0 | Tell me something, old friend: why are you fighting?" What other reason could there be?" Colonel Gerineldo Marquez answered. "For the great Liberal party." You're lucky because you know why," he answered. "As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride." That's bad," Colonel Gerineldo Marquez said. Colonel Aureliano Buendia was amused at his alarm. "Naturally," he said. "But in any case, it's .. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 32fdde9 | I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down." | humor justice | Tamora Pierce | |
| 1728566 | Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| bac52c7 | Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may le.. | satan | Arthur Koestler | |
| 930b861 | How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift.. | imperfection love perfection | Thomas Hardy | |
| 3a7e72e | Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"..." | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | ||
| f765a29 | WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It ye.. | henry-v scene-iii | William Shakespeare | |
| 53aa323 | Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This .. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 6692860 | We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. | Cassandra Clare |