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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b52ab88 | Peacock said that we all have different-size territories and I would argue that one of the more important things that he and Abbey offer is that they make us uncomfortable with the size of the plots we have settled on. They push us, and inspire us to move beyond our comfortable cells. "It depends on how you are yarded," wrote Thoreau. In an age of cell phones and computers and little contact with the elemental earth, most of us are yarded p.. | David Gessner | ||
| bdf0358 | A daughter at home resting up from her husband--who is apparently a head of some sort, one of the Berkeley Street People, a People's Park maker, a drop-out and a cop-out whose aim is to remake the world closer to the heart's desire. I know him, I have seen him a hundred times--his mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes. He brings his dog to classes, or did when he was attending classes. He eats organically grown vegetables and .. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 929423b | Accident, they say, favors the prepared mind. Opportunity knocks only for those who are ready at the door. If we believe the novels we read, upward mobility is always ambitious, hungry, and aggressive, or at the very least, discontented. The George Willards are forever yearning away from the spiritual starvation of Winesburg toward some vague larger life. But that is not always the way it is. Some of us didn't know enough to be discontented.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| a488eb7 | Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character. | Aiden Wilson Tozer | ||
| 0a51104 | Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. | Aiden Wilson Tozer | ||
| 48fecb4 | DeVoto shared with Stegner an ability to see the big picture. But he shared plenty with Abbey, too: a tendency toward overstatement, a willingness to bloody noses, a love of tweaking the overly proper and accepted. Stegner once called DeVoto the "Lone Ranger," and one can easily imagine DeVoto standing alone in the 1940s and '50s, keeping a mob of vigilantes (politicians, developers, ranchers, oil men) at bay as they clamored on about takin.. | David Gessner | ||
| 163da49 | Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed. . . . We need wilderness preserved--as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds--because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. --WALLACE STEGNER | Kevin Fedarko | ||
| c8d9b28 | I don't care how they speculate, or what their answers are. We live as we can, we do what we must, and not everything goes by either Freudian or Victorian patterns. What I am sure of is that friendship--not love, friendship--is as possible between women as between men, and that in either case it is often stronger for not having to cross sexual picket lines. Sexuality and mistrust often go together, and both are incompatible with amicitia. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| d382ff3 | There are several dubious assumptions about the early West. One is that it was the home of intractable self-reliance amounting to anarchy, whereas in fact large parts of it were owned by Eastern and foreign capital and run by iron-fisted bosses. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| f654d5c | girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard, | Wallace Stegner | ||
| c766523 | It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones...Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow's fall | environmental-history great-plains | Wallace Stegner | |
| faa9318 | within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. -- | Wallace Stegner | ||
| bf74295 | Is it compulsory to be one of the immortals? We're all decent godless people, Hallie. Let's not be too hard on each other if we don't set the world afire. There's already been enough of that. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| a900509 | If you have never seen a fracking boomtown, it can be hard to picture. You drive into a town that at first seems like any town, until you slowly notice that on this particular Main Street there are far too many hotels. Then you start to see the oversized white trucks, the hundreds of Rams and Rangers and Silveradaos that prowl the crowded streets, most displaying Texas and Wyoming and Oklahoma plates (even when you are nowhere near these pl.. | David Gessner | ||
| 4f49dc5 | What if we had born Bushmen in the Kalahari? What if our parents had been undernourished villagers in Uttar Pradesh, and we faced the problem of commanding the attention of the world on a diet of five hundred calories a day, and in Urdu? What good is an ace if the other cards in your hand are dogs from every town | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 1912620 | The sound of anything coming at you--a train, say, or the future --has a higher pitch than the sound of the same thing going away. If you have perfect pitch and a head for mathematics you can compute the speed of the object by the interval between its arriving and departing sounds. I have neither perfect pitch nor a head for mathematics, and anyway who wants to compute the speed of history? Like all falling bodies, it constantly accelerates.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 94a8be2 | But ever since I was old enough to be cynical I have been visiting national parks, and they are a cure for cynicism, an exhilarating rest from the competitive avarice we call the American Way.... Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst. --Wallace Stegner, 1983 | Eric Blehm | ||
| 4f59ec6 | When you want something bad enough, you make the time--regardless of your other obligations. The truth is most people just don't want it bad enough. Then they protect their ego with the excuse of time. Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses. It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true. | Jason Fried | ||
| 8a024ba | When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." | Aiden Wilson Tozer | ||
| e91d91f | In the long pull we pray only as well as we live. | Aiden Wilson Tozer | ||
| 980f5b4 | God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. | Aiden Wilson Tozer | ||
| d2e808e | What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us. | Aiden Wilson Tozer | ||
| 32058f8 | To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. | Aiden Wilson Tozer | ||
| 1a86462 | Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage. | Aikido | ||
| 6b7a82c | Weakness always has a thousand means and cowardice is all that keeps us from listing them. | Aimé Césaire | ||
| 6251ea2 | Fame is a food that dead men eat,--I have no stomach for such meat. | Henry Austin Dobson | ||
| 9b24574 | People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility. | Aisha | ||
| c3d01dd | Narrated Aisha: The Prophet said, All drinks that produce intoxication are Haram. | Aisha | ||
| f307043 | Whoever innovates something in this matter of ours that is not part of it, will have it rejected. | Aisha | ||
| 73b3c9d | Throughout your life you will meet thousands of people, but every once in a while, you feel instant chemistry with a person and connect immediately. It is like meeting an old friend or returning home again. Your relationship enjoys easy compatibility and commonality. Not only can you sometimes finish each other's sentences, but regardless of how much time may pass, you can reunite and start up wherever you left off. | body-language-quotes communication-skills kindred-spirits mindset-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-chemistry relationship-quotes soul-mates | Susan C. Young | |
| 52ea2d5 | A positive attitude will elevate your energy and invigorate your tasks. | build-confidence communication-skills mindset-quotes motivational-speaker preparation-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| 8e2331d | It is just unbelievable how we tend to reward incompetence and punish competence. | Aisha Yesufu | ||
| 2ce4ca0 | There will be no fucking sunsets in the pages that follow. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 918ae34 | 1989 played out a little differently in China, of course. When thousands of students converged upon Tiananmen Square in Beijing to demand a little democracy--Hey hey, hey ho, Maosim has got to go--they were greeted with a decidedly old school response. Deng Xiaoping, the chain-smoking gnome with the twinkling eyes who then ruled China, simply reached for his totalitarian rulebook, flipped toward the index--Democracy protesters, suitable res.. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 895666f | the thunder and bombast of what passes for news programming today--Motto: All terror, all the time | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 29a4450 | the television news paused for a commercial--Coming up next: Are we all going to die Tomorrow? | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 498d957 | remembering that human beings cannot produce 20,000 unique sounds, even if you were to include belching and hawking great globs of phlegm (which I think counts in Chinese), the linguistic powers that be--whoever they are--threw in tones, possibly to ensure that no foreigner over the ages of thirty would have any chance whatsoever of understanding that Chinese language. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| a2b9209 | There is one faction that believes George Bush is a simpleton with the brain capacity of plankton, and that is why we are in the mess we're in. Then there's another faction that believes George Bush is not only smarter than plankton, but that he is a diabolical mastermind, possibly even the spawn of Satan himself, and that is why we are in the mess we're in. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 87df2d0 | I too was very busy. Thinking. I had decided to write a novel. It would be a big book, Tolstoyan in scale, Joycean in its ambition, Shakespearean in its lyricism. Twenty years hence, the book would be the subject of graduate seminars and doctoral dissertations. The book would join the Canon of Literature. Students would speak reverentially of the text, my text, in hushed, wondrous tones. Magazine profiles would begin with The reclusive lite.. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 6ed22e4 | I treated the wound with antibiotic cream and let it close before doing any serious snorkeling--and incidentally, I do very much like the phrase serious snorkeling. If I could somehow figure out a way to incorporate the sentence I'm a serious snorkeler, bitchezz without it seeming like a gratuitous aside, I would. And I guess I just did. It's magic, really. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 287b8a9 | Seriously. There were three of them, all roughly in their thirties, and they spent their time traveling the world, putting together documentaries about the earth's wonders. The on-screen talent, I learned, did indeed write his own scripts, and came off as the Boss Man for the trio. He was the one with all the responsibilities--deciding on shots, dealing with the Home Office, periodically having to shave, etc. The camera guy did all the heav.. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| a41e2f6 | I had read the book 1421--The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course, | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 59da96c | Technically speaking, there are people in Nebraska. live been there. l met both of them. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 08896e2 | In Kiribati, the unimane and unaine (old women) are considered the guardians of the culture, a state of affairs that sets it apart from the United States, where the final arbiter for all things cultural is the adolescent male, which explains the otherwise inexplicable popularity of the World Wrestling Federation, gangsta rap, and Pamela Anderson. | J. Maarten Troost |