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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e0b3d84 | Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally | Dan Brown | ||
| 6bfb4ff | I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 2363ce8 | What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong. | Michael Lewis | ||
| dc48e5b | tsh`r lmr'h bld`m wlmsndh dh Sdq lrjl msh`rh , wysh`r lrjl blr`y@ wlhtmm dh wfqth lmr'@ fkrh | John Gray | ||
| 34cdf6e | Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. This is faith, not science. We do not speak of a time when whales or gorillas will be masters of their destinies. Why then humans? | John Gray | ||
| f579416 | The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all. | Jack London | ||
| 08c6caa | It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 1d4393e | He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 27625fe | You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. | risk motivation submission | Charles Dickens | |
| a3ddc59 | A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out." | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 5cc937b | He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 1775558 | Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckies.. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 5e6dca1 | Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 61e6b5b | I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 8c2b8aa | The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. | Dan Millman | ||
| 2fc4d1f | Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness. | light inspirational-quotes darkness life-lessons wisdom inspirational mama-chia | Dan Millman | |
| 46bae57 | It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water." -- | puns water | Douglas Adams | |
| c9fea9b | A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwe; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 67e8e3c | Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 9c9668b | In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. | Herman Melville | ||
| dbbecff | Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I ac.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 58fb955 | For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught--nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience! | Herman Melville | ||
| 23dad4e | We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe | arts creativity | Ray Bradbury | |
| 5f15eb8 | I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand. | death change life maturing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 0087b75 | Sandwich outdoors isn't a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7068314 | Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassion.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6db3bfb | As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8f174c7 | There is no shame in impulse. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0851dc3 | You love me," I breathe. He lets out a short laugh. "You're such a fucking girl." "Say it again." He smiles, a full blown one that tingles my body all over. "I fucking love you, sweetheart." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| fc4d0ac | I want you for eternity, not for a brief finish line. There's no one after you. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 9c11e65 | I think he loved us equally, but differently. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7356d99 | The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 01f386a | All women are princesses , it is our right. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 1e9eec5 | There is much that is immortal in this medieval lady. The dragons have gone, and so have the knights, but still she lingers in our midst. She reigned in many an early Victorian castle, and was Queen of much early Victorian song. It is sweet to protect her in the intervals of business, sweet to pay her honour when she has cooked our dinner well. But alas! the creature grows degenerate. In her heart also there are springing up strange desires.. | E. M. Forster | ||
| 3138749 | The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| a755955 | I wish that in order to secure his party's nomination, a presidential candidate would be required to point at the sky and name all the stars; have the periodic table of the elements memorized; rattle off the kings and queens of Spain; define the significance of the Gatling gun; joke around in Latin; interpret the symbolism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting; explain photosynthesis to a six-year-old; recite Emily Dickenson; bake a perfect.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| a0f1950 | In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. | amy cahill | Gordon Korman | |
| 6050d3b | for everything has a trace of the divine in it. | Yann Martel | ||
| 2e2cff2 | People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhe.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4934f81 | I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings. | voldemort teachers | J.K. Rowling | |
| 64c1aa4 | The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness... | pain harry-potter life wisdom j-k-rowling negativity hard-times | Brandi L. Bates | |
| 35b50b2 | I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e8ba27c | No es bueno dejarse arrastrar por los suenos y olvidarse de vivir, recuerdalo. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7395283 | Sirius -- it's me . . . it's Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn't . . ." Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. "There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them," said Black." | J.K. Rowling |