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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8912284 | I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. | realism | Jim Butcher | |
| 627cc28 | Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don't screw it up by looking like you're as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image. | harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 430da91 | Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different." "Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?" | harry-dresden karrin-murphy thomas-raith | Jim Butcher | |
| fc89a5e | Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you. | scared | Jim Butcher | |
| a6827cf | The most powerful magic of all is choice. | inspirational motivational | Sara Raasch | |
| c562499 | Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life. | inspirational learn-people les-brown motivational | Les Brown | |
| c815e71 | Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate. | action choice compassion inspirational life motivational participate seize-the-day success today | Steve Maraboli | |
| 02016af | The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. | change-the-world dreams inspirational people | Hugh MacLeod | |
| 7e6164b | As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn't feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such. | inspirational motivational peace philosophy spiritual wisdom zen | Forrest Curran | |
| a3e5a7b | Even in the far future | inspirational korean kpop music-lyrics | BTS | |
| 8761cf4 | Coming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! | comics inspirational marvel marvel-comics spiderman stan-lee | Stan Lee | |
| b797a39 | Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself. | fight inspirational laurell-k-hamilton patience | Laurell K Hamilton | |
| 6b7c687 | The past is a place of learning, not a place of living. | experience inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-quotes living | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 652509d | Survivors can't always choose their methods. | inspirational survivors | Patricia Briggs | |
| 3d98197 | Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect. | be-yourself belonging courage-to-be-imperfect inspirational love | Brené Brown | |
| 7c57961 | OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR? | noise | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0c75fbb | He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a480bd7 | People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of our pleasure responses- than do people genetically disinclined to alcoholism. Alcohol will slightly raise the endorphin level of people without the genetic basis for alcoholism; it will dramatically raise the endorphin level of people with that genetic basis. Specialists spend a lot of time formulating .. | depression disease | Andrew Solomon | |
| ce40924 | Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| cff5ace | Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 247da6b | Blah, blah, blah. Demon boy, I can't speak that language. Furthermore, I don't want to pollute my brain by learning it. So it's time for you to learn mine. First lesson-I'm Say-been. I'm oft described as byoo-tee-full and mah-jest'ick. | Kresley Cole | ||
| c6cec63 | Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. | drama green literature nature poetry writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| 170bb41 | anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. | libraries virginia-woolf | Virginia Woolf | |
| 16a2527 | to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d73de0e | Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c990c73 | The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. | love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 5cabfe9 | Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-dr.. | Richard Wright | ||
| 473b16d | But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch w.. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 3cc05a5 | The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be s.. | secrecy two-sides-to-the-story vice-versa | Gregory Maguire | |
| 116bf3c | Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses.... | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e246e99 | Biting her lip to stop her chin from quivering, Alexandra raised her eyes to his. "I think," she whispered, trying to smile, "I shall wear the ruby on Queen's Race day, so that when I tie my ribbon on your sleeve--" With a groan, Jordan pulled her into his arms. "Now that you've said all those other things," she whispered when he finally lifted his lips from hers several minutes later, "do you think you could possibly say 'I love you'? I'.. | jordan judith-mcnaught something-wonderful | Judith McNaught | |
| e989bab | All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e533062 | Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 4ab01fe | You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like. | time | Katherine Paterson | |
| 5f948fc | Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 6b6d44d | Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker's productivity worth that amount--and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be .. | jobs minimum-wage | Thomas Sowell | |
| 49f2e83 | And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 35b574d | I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts. | Yann Martel | ||
| 225c56b | I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. | Yann Martel | ||
| ab51d4a | Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it? | jealousy | J.K. Rowling | |
| ec11402 | I just wish I'd asked you sooner. We could've had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . . | ginny-weasley regret | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3815c34 | If a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But that doesn't mean they don't love you. If they do lie, it's because they care. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ad29fec | If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d59ec0b | I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting. | Nicholas Sparks |