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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 94f6c2c | The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 9a324ff | You don't understand,' she said. In her lap, the loose hands had ground together: between the fair brows a single line showed, of anger and disgust and a kind of futile perplexity. 'You don't understand: how can you? You were born into a household, with parents and wealth; you knew your friends and your enemies; you knew your position in life; whom you were fighting for: whom you were against. I am alone. Every man is my enemy. | marthe | Dorothy Dunnett | |
| 0fbc289 | and had | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 495b803 | His chest heaved, and he coughed. "You have coughed before," his mother said. "It is a sign of weakness. Control it." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 79af36e | Alec Guthrie's voice, serene from the shadows, said, "You are not going to Russia. You are not going. All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 59166b7 | Alec Guthrie's voice, serene from the shadows, said, 'You are not going to Russia. You are not going. All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a40f61a | man had blandly abstained. He had been right: it would have lost him money. But not in Scotland, | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| a27cd07 | and rising extremely unlike Phoebus with the dawn to prepare the schoolhouse. | Peter Straub | ||
| 7cb3a88 | Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by. | Peter Straub | ||
| 18fa395 | long (Stanley Coren, The Intelligence of Dogs: A Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companions, 1994). Interestingly, despite careful qualifications | Jean Donaldson | ||
| 201b702 | From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do. | Stanley Coren | ||
| 687ab3a | The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 43db9ef | There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| e78f2c2 | No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. -- HELEN KELLER | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 026cfad | How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, author Michael J. Gelb | Jon Acuff | ||
| b72e39b | As playwright Wilson Mizner observed, "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 9199595 | releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison in which you're both the inmate and the jailer. | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| e4802ab | If you are mindful that old age has wisdom for its food you will so exert yourself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenance. -- LEONARDO DA VINCI | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| 1a26650 | The Brain Sync: Improve Your Mind as You Age | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| dfbe4a4 | Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are." - Michael J. Gelb" | Venu Bhagavan Villa | ||
| f8ecd60 | Whether it's just a pesky little annoying behavior you'd like to tweak or a major problem that has you at the end of your rope, you must shift your thinking in order to look at the possible true cause, as well as determine whether its truly a behavior or a behavior that needs a better alternative. | cat-behavior cats feline-behavior | Pam Johnson-Bennett | |
| e9a5326 | We ask so much of our cats. We leave them alone all day with nothing to do, thrust unwanted companions on them, lay down ever-changing rules and force them to adjust their schedules to coincide with our more convenient ones. We don't walk them and then insist they a litter box that often falls way below their standard of cleanliness. We're positive that the motivation behind their furniture scratching is willful destruction, because there's.. | Pam Johnson-Bennett | ||
| 1a08392 | There is no part of me that is not of the gods! | Aleister Crowley | ||
| a216a74 | Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| d72cacd | Intolerance is evidence of impotence. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 00cca59 | Come, Come, Come, Aiwaz! Come, thou Devil Our Lord! | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 272ae9b | I sing for God, our Devil, our Lord, Aiwaz. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| a41abd0 | In one form or another, it was one of the first implements created by ancient people to give voice to the mysteries that words cannot encompass, but that they had a need to express. Only the drum was older. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 4d1b7ae | The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations, but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. "They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore." | Charles de Lint | ||
| d4a9ca2 | That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you." Charles de Lint (B. 1951) WRITER AND CELTIC FOLK MUSICIAN" | Rhonda Byrne | ||
| 4521ee5 | Our Lord the Devil's their Word, the Word Thelema, spoken of me The Beast. | Aleister Crowley | ||
| 0930b2d | I believe in loyalty. | Alejandro Fernández | ||
| df67f09 | There are no happy endings," Cerin told her. "There are no real endings ever--happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories, which are just a part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others' stories--perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years--and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on." | Charles de Lint | ||
| a74e9f0 | He's this Goth dude, can control people." "Goth, like a Visigoth German Viking of the middle ages, or a Neil Gaiman-looking, Robert Smith, make-up-and-moonbeams Cure fan?" "What's a Neil Gaiman?" "You're an idiot." | Charles de Lint | ||
| 5f1e5da | Bi kashtesko merel i yag, his Uncle Nonka would have said. Without wood the fire would die. Dwelling on sorrow and prikaza merely made them grow. | Charles de Lint | ||
| d9a7885 | in subsequent work where I explored the dark, I used the pseudonym Samuel M. Key. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 07836f6 | With every light another color. --Romany description of themselves | Charles de Lint | ||
| a871486 | I've always wondered about the other religions. The Christian god is supposed to have created the world in seven days." "Their world--not ours." -- | Charles de Lint | ||
| 93825f9 | You'd be okay with somebody eating you?" She shrugs. "If I'm stupid enough to get caught, sure. Everybody's got to eat." "I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that idea." "Nobody goes looking for it. But life isn't ours to keep. We only get to hold it for a little bit and then we've got to pass it on." | Charles de Lint | ||
| 43e8ab8 | telling me how the saguaro hold the spirits of the Kikimi who have lived a good life. He waited expectantly until I asked the question he was waiting for: What happens to those who live a bad life? They come back as people, he told me. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 0c9a37f | She should have gotten a dog instead of having a kid. Dogs are easy to train and they like being led around on a leash. | Charles de Lint | ||
| b11f220 | Everything can talk," the old woman replied. "The trick is, not everybody knows how to listen." | Charles de Lint | ||
| f2f8b60 | Nothing strikes me as truly weird," Jilly told him. "There's only stuff I haven't figured out yet." | Charles de Lint | ||
| eabd7b5 | Life and death are only different positions on the wheel. | Charles de Lint |