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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4abbbbc | It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started. | lying | Kim Edwards | |
| 35c5537 | The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. | method order utility wittgenstein | Umberto Eco | |
| f15d12d | Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life. | Steve Martin | ||
| 4ea984b | I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 0b47230 | It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that? | Chris Gardner | ||
| dae158d | The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. | inspirational | Jodi Picoult | |
| 87e3781 | The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e78366b | You can miss a person you've never known. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a596e75 | The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. | prayer wish | Jodi Picoult | |
| 2853b0e | Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 20e7102 | You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner .. | gay-rights love relationships tolerance | Jodi Picoult | |
| 628662f | I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire ag.. | fiery-cross outlander | Diana Gabaldon | |
| d2aeb4a | Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. | James Joyce | ||
| ca0dd1a | Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo | James Joyce | ||
| 433493c | An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. | Roald Dahl | ||
| b897eed | Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me? | Roald Dahl | ||
| 31bac2e | El corazon tiene mas cuartos que un hotel de putas | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e9d7397 | It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a6ed690 | What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 74f7cd8 | I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7f64bcb | It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1b265c1 | Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ea874a9 | I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 994d9ad | salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. | religion | Tom Robbins | |
| 00db0fc | Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 670c7e3 | But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. | conformity declaration-of-independence hope individuality non-conformity resolves self-assurance | Howard Zinn | |
| d63bfdd | Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.) | sandry snappishness tris | Tamora Pierce | |
| be75e1b | But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you. | change inspirational | Michael Pollan | |
| 93b9f2e | Brother, I'm not depressed and haven't lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter - this is what life is, herein lies its task. | life | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 750705b | an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5041efc | God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face. | spiritual-growth | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| ca40a5f | In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| eafc625 | A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'... | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| f9abf6b | As long as one suffers one lives. | suffering | Graham Greene | |
| 212a195 | From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. | Graham Greene | ||
| 5160ca5 | If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything. | faith god | Peter Kreeft | |
| 5b21d23 | We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. | Carl Sagan | ||
| d532f2b | If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition. | god religion | Carl Sagan | |
| 228bdfe | Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose garden. My words echo thus, in your mind | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 40b86dc | I think about how there are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. I don't mean the usual faint impression: he was cute, she was nice, they made me laugh, I wish I'd known her better, I remember the time she threw up in class. And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart., the first person who crowned you best fr.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 716548d | The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 0f76fa2 | every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong. | Terri Blackstock | ||
| da591a5 | When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. | democracy violence | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 3539ccc | A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'. | Robert A. Heinlein |