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| c50b7f7 | There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us; and if we dream at s.. | sleep | Charles Dickens | |
| 57f811d | Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason | life | Charles Dickens | |
| 9192322 | in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . | diseased mind perverse perverted reverse seclusion solitary | Charles Dickens | |
| 4a48cfe | She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. | eyes great-expectations pretty | Charles Dickens | |
| 58fcc98 | Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 0de0a08 | Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. | facts | Charles Dickens | |
| e71bf4d | We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart. | Charles Dickens | ||
| f69517a | Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse. | racing | Jane Smiley | |
| ad8dd4c | Law is the ultimate science. | Frank Herbert | ||
| adce73e | Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations." | power tyranny | Frank Herbert | |
| 92e3099 | The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. | death-and-dying goodbyes life | Raymond Chandler | |
| eaebc00 | You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 2648c81 | Bubble-gum angels swooped from top margins, or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs. Maidens with golden hair dripped sea-blue tears into the books spine. Grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered species list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, Candyland ladde.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b0de502 | Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| a09b5c0 | Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourse.. | Truman Capote | ||
| 18a9771 | Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material--much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft--and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they've stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among.. | ideas innocencevation inspiration reading self-improvement | Steven Johnson | |
| f85fe9a | She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her. | Edith Wharton | ||
| ab95d33 | In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9efbf93 | I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she.'" "What did she say?" "She hit me on the head with the rock again," Ford responded curtly. "I think i can confirm that was my daughter." "Sweet kid." "You have to get to know her," said Arthur. "She eases up, does she?" "No, but you get a better sense of when to .. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 45843e2 | What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day. | science | Douglas Adams | |
| f5806e4 | Do not spoil the wonder with haste! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7f76e1f | I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e03b936 | Over the field rang his clear voice calling: 'Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3144652 | Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling's father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it. | Herman Melville | ||
| a5e9663 | Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe. | brokenness despair isolation loneliness society | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 88ecacd | I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 0d87952 | Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. | David Allen | ||
| 4205e72 | I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| a36082f | A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another. | Anne Rice | ||
| 3142740 | I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water. | Anne Rice | ||
| c56a2e2 | Okay, I'm dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from...from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary) (Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.) Oh, like I'm any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8a5a992 | Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.' This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 93092b9 | I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was so dark and there was no one coming to help, whimpering because my mother was back in the crushed car, not moving, and my father was lying here in the dirt, not answering me, not holding me, not comforting me, not helping my mother get out of the car, and there was blood, so much blood, and .. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| b57c943 | He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders. "I know I left you once." She opened her mouth, wanting to say it didn't matter, it was forgotten. But it wasn't. "I know I hurt you." Again, she wanted to argue. But she couldn't. "I know I said I won't leave you again, but I also know that's not enough, and that the only way you're going to trust that I won't leave is if I don't". He slid the .. | karl | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 4fe505b | I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on. | maya-delaney open-mindedness | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 77884a3 | Oh my God. You're a witch-hunter. I'm a witch. Hate to break it to you Daniel, but if you're a witch-hunter? You're doing it wrong." He gave me a sidelong smile. "Maybe it's not that kind of hunting." "Then you're definitely doing it wrong." | maya the-gathering | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 1bb5945 | Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying. | Albert Camus | ||
| 846c05b | Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. | the-myth-of-sisyphus thinking thought | Albert Camus | |
| ad1e02b | Because when I thought of him, of his voice, his hypnotic eyes, the magnetic force of his personality, I wanted nothing more than to be with him right now. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8c4d151 | I know Okay, Sorry. I am. Look, I'm human. It's hard to be fair sometimes. We don't always feel the right thing, do the right thing | stephenie-meyer the-host wanda | Stephenie Meyer | |
| b1b92d0 | We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many people, in the abstract, would...let's say Paige....how many people would she sacrifice to keep Andy alive? The answer wouldn't make any sense if you were looking at the whole of humanity as equals. | jeb parasites the-individual | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 0ef8db7 | Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 746590a | Mostly I dream about being with you forever. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e886262 | Immediately when you arrive in Sahara, for the first or the tenth time, you notice the stillness. An incredible, absolute silence prevails outside the towns; and within, even in busy places like the markets, there is a hushed quality in the air, as if the quiet were a conscious force which, resenting the intrusion of sound, minimizes and disperses sound straightaway. Then there is the sky, compared to which all other skies seem fainthearted.. | Paul Bowles |