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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0c724d6 | His existence is not a question of argument but of apprehension. Either you apprehend God, or you do not. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 91b7f8e | I can tell you only that beauty cannot be expressed or explained in a theory or an idea, that it moves by its own law, that it is God's way of comforting His broken children. | god | Mark Helprin | |
| d4a4aa0 | They come down here for their own benefit. It's as clear as day that they love it. The great irony and perfect joke is that the wretches on the bottom of the barrel get these self-serving scum as champions. Some champions! They feed off the poor--first materially, and then in spirit. But they deserve each other in a way, because vice and stupidity were made to go together. "I know that, you see, because I was poor. But I rose like a rocket,.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| f3b3797 | I've had a profession for a number of years, and it has mastered me. A profession is like a great snake that wraps itself around you. Once you are enwrapped, you are in a slow fight for the rest of your life, and the lightness of youth leaves you. You don't have time, for example, to think about the city even as you are walking through it. | work | Mark Helprin | |
| cad8310 | Your materialism will make you suffer terribly not only at the end but also on the way. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 8a6a617 | Civilians seldom understand that soldiers, once impressed into war, will forever take it for the ordinary state of the world, with all else illusion. The former soldier assumes that when time weakens the dream of civilian life and its supports pull away, he will revert to the one state that will always hold his heart. He dreams of war and remembers it in quiet times when he might otherwise devote himself to different things, and he is ruine.. | war | Mark Helprin | |
| 8dab78e | There are times for sleep, for inactivity, dreaming, indiscipline, even lethargy. You'll know when you deserve these times. They come after you've been broken. I'm speaking of a helpless, tranquil state before the great excitement of dawn. | Mark Helprin | ||
| d37513a | I grin, placing my hand back on my mug. A piece of stray blonde hair falls from my ponytail and tickles my bare shoulder. "I hereby declare this the first official Naked Sunday." -- | Cassie Mae | ||
| feba0db | My phone rings on my bare thigh as I scroll through my recorded Ellens, and I hit pause to glance at the number. Ah... case in point. My sister has sent me a birthday message along with a picture of a guy who knows her husband's co-worker's aunt, and she just knows we are meant to be! She's ready to set me up with him for this weekend. | Cassie Mae | ||
| 22be179 | I'm nervous because that's what happens when you really want something. When it would destroy you if you couldn't get it, or if you lost it. I'm | Cassie Mae | ||
| 4709491 | Hmm," she hums after a moment. "What?" "Just thinking...We both want you to get this role." "No sh*t." "And arguing obviously isn't helping us out." I snort. "But that's what we do." | Cassie Mae | ||
| 23e19e4 | Every Wolverine fan knows who that is. | Cassie Mae | ||
| fc765e5 | I suddenly have a million kisses I have to give her. | Cassie Mae | ||
| 2d58dbe | Yeah, I don't want to get to the point when I don't need you. | Cassie Mae | ||
| f048857 | What would you have said"-her eyes drift to the floor-"if the cameras weren't there?" And I mean every single word that comes out of my mouth. "That you're scaring the hell out of me." | Cassie Mae | ||
| cdf6d89 | He's totally caught me, and I'm never letting him toss me back. | new-adult | Cassie Mae | |
| bef8fe4 | Two squeezes mean I love you." His fingers snaked down my body, leaving chills in their wake. He grasped my hand and pumped it twice." | Cassie Mae | ||
| 7dc15c5 | My back slams against the oven door, and I cover my face and cry. I cry so hard I can't breathe. | Cassie Mae | ||
| 59bd685 | My mistake was in forgetting that good beings can disagree. They can evaluate all of the evidence and study it from every angle and still reach opposite conclusions. And each side can believe with pure hearts that only their view is right. "When that happens, it's easy to lose sight of something far more important" | Troy Denning | ||
| 0da02e2 | Alema said, 'Are you mad?' Ship thought it probably was, since it was beginning to take liking to her, but that was beside the point. The Emperor-to-Be was trying to break free; all they needed to do was open a hole for him. 'Us and what fleet?' Ship suggested. | inferno insanity legacy-of-the-force ship star-wars | Troy Denning | |
| c593064 | Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 83cd93c | Bugun, cildirdiktan, sevdikten, yanip yikilip yeniden dogrulduktan, sonunda benim icin yurunebilecek, tekliginde sasirtacak denli oteki yollara benzeyen tek yolu bulduktan, erincin tasirici garipliginde Yehuda'yi anladiktan sonra her sey kolay geliyor. Bundan sonra gucluge rastlamayacagimdan degil, askin tuketilmez gucunu bildigim icin kolay geliyor. | bilge-karasu troya-da-ölüm-vardı | Bilge Karasu | |
| a31e994 | Ben: 'Just...finish it.' Caedus: ' it? Ben, we're just getting started.' --Ben Skywalker and Darth Caedus | darth-caedus inferno legacy-of-the-force starwars | Troy Denning | |
| 0481907 | Humans were strange that way, believing they could hoard what they loved like gold and keep it safely hidden away in their vaults. | Troy Denning | ||
| ae846bf | that the facts often concealed the truth. | Troy Denning | ||
| b354e10 | Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 5f231d8 | That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 933f492 | One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| f7e0d27 | There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 3ee0349 | Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 2b90ac6 | An oak is no respecter of persons. | Aldo Leopold | ||
| 04f9f77 | We form the future by being caretakers of our past. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 9a92b74 | Good work is a stay against despair. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| b247e03 | Our National Parks] are more than scenery, they are portals and thresholds of wonder, an open door that swings back and forth from our past to our future. | wonder | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| f267d8a | Forty years later, in 1995, Terry Tempest Williams, working with the Utah writer Stephen Trimble, put together Testimony: Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness, an anthology of the work of twenty writers whose purpose was to help preserve 1.9 million acres of land in southern Utah. Just as with This Is Dinosaur, the book was distributed to every member of Congress. It was part of the effort that led to the creation of the Grand Stairca.. | David Gessner | ||
| 061d333 | To see the yellow fritillaries burst forth after the deep snows of winter and know that the bears are soon to follow is to be attentive to wild nature's seasonal fugue of infinite composition and succession. The great gray owl sitting on a snag near Sawmill Ponds is not simply a bird but a heightened intelligence with golden eyes behind a mask of feathers. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| a211071 | I care about my brother. I care about wilderness. To care is to lament. My brother is a wilderness, unknowable. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| aa44b1d | Our species is committing suicide- that is a choice -and in the process, we are causing others pain. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 250c6b9 | Today, everyone thinks we need to stay positive and hopeful and not be completely honest about what we are seeing, what we know to be true. Whether we're talking about climate change or what's occurring on the streets in Ferguson, we are so afraid of offending people...and then, we only talk to our own constituencies and its' the same rhetoric over and over again until the words become bloodless. (p. 325) | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| f8ede1a | What is it about the relationship of a mother that can heal or hurt us? Her womb is the first landscape we inhabit. It is here we learn to respond - to move, to listen, to be nourished and grow. In her body we grow to be human as our tails disappear and our gills turn to lungs. Our maternal environment is perfectly safe - dark, warm, and wet. It is a residency inside the Feminine. When we outgrow our mother's body, our cramps become her ow.. | death evolution mother motherhood pregnancy | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| fe48c68 | Evidently, selling off America's public lands is not only good for democracy, but good for the economy. It will pay the bills for building more roads and make up for the losses in the decline of timber sales. It will also help pay for the war in Iraq, a war predicted on lies. The outcry is faint. The streets are empty. We are comfortable here in the United States of America. We the people seem to be asleep, numb, and dead to the liberties b.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 0463058 | In this era where the war on terror is used as an excuse to exploit and plunder, and sell off our public lands, in this new world where the World Bank and World Trade Organization honor corporate rule over local enterprises, and where environmental issues are being usurped in the favor of more jobs and a robust economy, Where is the place for wilderness? | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 0f668ba | Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 6e38539 | I fear silence because it leads me to myself, a self I may not wish to confront. It asks that I listen. And in listening, I am taken to an unknown place. Silence leaves me alone in a place of feeling. It is not necessarily a place of comfort. | Terry Tempest Williams |