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| 0aa3774 | Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience-- yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 650f331 | I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us. | imagination philosophy inspirational | John Guare | |
| 6d26e35 | When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 6accc51 | He came for me. I couldn't believe it. . Into a flying palace full of thousands of armed rakshasas in the middle of a magic jungle. . What was the God damn point of saving him only to watch him throw his life away? Kate for Curran | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0291923 | You're a prickly, stubborn, spirited woman." "Don't forget crude, rude, and vulgar." "Only when it suits you. You're sly when occasion calls for it, direct to the point of forgetting tact even exists, sarcastic, fierce, I did mention stubborn, didn't I?" "Yes," she said dryly. "You're also smart, kind, gentle, beautiful, and always cling to your personal integrity, even when it's in your best interests to abandon it." A little warm feeling .. | rose | Ilona Andrews | |
| 24c0cb5 | I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what's the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired and kill itself so it won't have to listen to you anymore? | goading hugh wards kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| d1aa285 | Jack didn't fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn't comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus' necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn't stop laughing and had to sit down. | jesus religion humor necromancer joke | Ilona Andrews | |
| a79bb4d | Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone." "Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay." Apparently I was supposed to sniff people to determine their competence. "How do you know?" He shrugged. "You just have to trust her." | derek kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 642d291 | Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant. | Miranda July | ||
| 48c2143 | Mind the dead man, my dear. | Rachel Caine | ||
| f3e47b2 | I'm insane, not forgetful. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 13004e9 | Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first part of that reassured her. The second part... not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actuall.. | funny humor myrnin ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 448034d | Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read. | David Sedaris | ||
| c1cc7dc | Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness? | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 8a53700 | The world is full of places to which I want to return | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| b7ea944 | The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d8f5a94 | If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0936a27 | There are people like Senhor Jose everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, clocks, sport shirts, autographs, stones, clay figurines, empty beverage cans, little angels, cacti, opera programmes, lighters, pens, owls, music boxes, bottles, bonsai trees, paintings, mugs, pipes, glass obelisks, ceramic ducks, old toys, carnival masks, .. | death hobbies collecting order | José Saramago | |
| 21e309a | A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. | wager | Jules Verne | |
| 48f2906 | One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin. | richard-bach | Richard Bach | |
| 334fbcb | How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble. | Richard Bach | ||
| 333cdd1 | There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. | Richard Bach | ||
| 91e15e7 | Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot R.. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 1393eea | Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 0dc4f77 | Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| ba40d76 | The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 1bdc5e5 | I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based on the fetishizing of human primates: Jesus in one case and Mohammed in the other. Neither of these figures can be called exactly historical but both have one thing in common even in their quasi-mythical dimension. Both of them were first encountered by the .. | myth christianity jesus religion marx moses einstein prophets freud christians muslims muhammad messiah theism atheism islam humans antisemitism jews | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 4aaced0 | As much as I cared about him, I wasn't a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend. | fate pain friends life-quotes best-friend-love best-friend-quotes friends-to-lovers friendship-and-love ignoring-issues in-love-with-best-friend in-love-with-my-friend mazing-quotes arguments awesome-quotes bandaids first-aid friend-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship j-m-richards real-friends real-friendship tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol quotes-about-life friendship-quotes so-true best-friends bitterness hurt friend longing | J.M. Richards | |
| de380d3 | Vamos al rincon oscuro, donde yo siempre te quiera, que no me importe la gente, ni el veneno que nos echa. | escapar prejuicio querer veneno | Federico García Lorca | |
| 73591f3 | I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; B.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 045c518 | There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. | drinking relationships liquor relief | Graham Greene | |
| 9e73ddc | Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter?" demanded Lady Buxted indignantly. "Your secretary?" "I employ him to read my letters," explained his lordship.(Alverstroke) "Not those written by your nearest and dearest!" "Oh, no, not !" he agreed." -- | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 45c6854 | Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodi.. | conservation fossil-fuels gasoline | Carl Sagan | |
| 4944141 | Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying. He didn't make a sound, but tears were running down his cheeks. I hadn't seen him cry in years, not even when Mom and Dad had been killed. (I remembered the funeral. I had sobbed in spite of myself; Soda had broken down and bawled like a baby; but Darry had only stood there, his fists in his pockets and that look on his face, the same helpless, pleading look that he was wearing now.) In.. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| a7304b0 | I'd rather have anybody's hate than their pity | pity | S.E. Hinton | |
| d595e8e | Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem | James Hillman | ||
| bc8d952 | time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| d5ca3cc | What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| b6a327e | The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 86b3066 | DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 84cb154 | If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| d201971 | To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all! | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 629f33b | The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d927ce6 | Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. | Oscar Wilde |