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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 368ae08 | There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| 74e659b | The rich are always afraid. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 7a5b80a | One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. | experience learning life-experience | Frank Herbert | |
| 1cbf789 | Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. | kynes | Frank Herbert | |
| 8d177cc | I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 33599a7 | I like bars just after they open for the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny and the barkeep is giving himself that last look in the mirror to see if his tie is straight and his hair is smooth. I like the neat bottles on the bar back and the lovely shining glasses and the anticipation. I like to watch the man mix the first one of the evening and put it down on a crisp mat and put the little folded na.. | drinking | Raymond Chandler | |
| e4250d3 | Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight | Ted Dekker | ||
| 5635556 | In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 21ce803 | Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 23e973f | Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f1d4b66 | The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a381037 | That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9113639 | It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 48a0616 | As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that. | Anne Rice | ||
| f37e8b6 | While I respect suicidal tendencies on most days, you'd do well to remember who you're addressing and, more to the point, what I can do to you. No one says you have to go back to Tartarus in one piece. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6911462 | Like black, do you? (Cassandra) It serves its purpose. It's hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 60974a3 | Yes, Soteria. I have. I assure you, my life has never been an easy one and you should be grateful every day you live that you can't imagine what kind of childhood I had. (Acheron) I'm sorry, Ash. I didn't know. (Tory) It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present, and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the ice.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 19b3a5c | Honey, you need to get laid. (Selena) Why don't you speak a little louder, Lanie? I don't think the guys in Canada were able to hear you. (Grace) Oh, I don't know. They're probably headed south even as we speak. (Waiter) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2b93470 | As I recall, I was still dressed when I fell asleep." "Just making sure you were comfortable." "And making yourself equally comfortable, I see." | comfortable elena | Kelley Armstrong | |
| e846253 | I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5d6ec6b | Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. 'I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful. | wanda | Stephenie Meyer | |
| a13d3c7 | I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it's much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that's probably just because it's you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| bafe3f6 | There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| edb029d | The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. | tears | Samuel Beckett | |
| bae6b21 | Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back. | Richard Adams | ||
| c5322ce | When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 41558d6 | What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 24a1693 | I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 21659c3 | I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2cc03d4 | We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget. | death life mary-roach science | Mary Roach | |
| 959e803 | I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| c25bf1e | Employers are like horses -- they require management. | horses management | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 1c3c6e6 | You shouldn't love me. I don't deserve you. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 63c875e | Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| f357838 | There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d6b8f43 | LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. | empowerment equality freedom happiness husbands independence marriage matrimony men self-determination singles | William Shakespeare | |
| c061067 | A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5ac8393 | One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. | Henry James | ||
| b83f615 | Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. | suffering | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 4f722d9 | What a funny watch!' she remarked. 'It tells the day of the month, and doesn't tell what o'clock it is!' 'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?' 'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's because it stays the same year for such a long time together.' 'Which is just the case with MINE,' said the Hatter. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| d13d9a8 | You're gonna fall now,' I heard Angel say in a normal voice. I swung my head to see gravely watching an Eraser who looked confused, paralyzed. Angel shifted her gaze to the water below. Fear entered the Eraser's eyes, and his wings folded. He dropped like a rock. You're getting scary, you know that?'I said to Angel, not really kidding. I mean, making an Eraser drop right out of the sky - jeez. | James Patterson | ||
| 7200938 | Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now listen-" Mary-Lynnette kicked him in the shins. She knew it was inapporopriate, she knew it was uncalled-for, but she couldn't stop herself. She just to. "Oh, for God's sake," Ash said, hopping backward. "Are you ?" | daughters-of-darkness mary-lynnette soulmates | L.J. Smith | |
| 049084d | Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| aafdaed | With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has .. | darwinism eugenics natural-selection planned-parenthood population-control social-darwinism sterilisation sterilization survival-of-the-fittest | Charles Darwin |