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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 6368581 | A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6ef8bc7 | Now - here is my secret: | Douglas Coupland | ||
| add1b5c | The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a .. | united-states | Howard Zinn | |
| 5e28c69 | Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 45ad6da | What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss. | John Berger | ||
| 4519392 | We're all assholes," Lo tells Garrison. "But one day, you'll meet an asshole that pushes you to be a better person. Those are the ones that stick with you." | Krista Ritchie Becca Ritchie | ||
| ada88d4 | But we're in Earth-616, love. We're going to have our happy ending. It just may take us awhile to get there. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| abad28a | The rest of us, not chosen for enlightenment, left on the outside of Earth, at the mercy of a Gravity we have only begun to learn how to detect and measure, must go on blundering inside our front-brain faith in Kute Korrespondences, hoping that for each psi-synthetic taken from Earth's soul there is a molecule, secular, more or less ordinary and named, over here - kicking endlessly among the plastic trivia, finding in each Deeper Significan.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 85dec4a | It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. | imagination theory | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| dab19c3 | Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silently through the woods, the two of them alone together., their feet almost noiseless on the rusty carpet of pine needles. They walked without speaking, without touching, and yet they were as close as it is possible for two human beings to be. They climbed up through the woods, coming out into the brilliant sunlight at the top of the hill. A fe.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4136464 | There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2ab9b00 | Nine-year-old Laila rose from bed, as she did most mornings, hungry for the sight of her friend Tariq. This morning, however, she knew there would be no Tariq sighting. - How long will you be gone? - She'd asked when Tariq had told her that his parents were taking him south, to the city of Ghazni, to visit his paternal uncle. - Thirteen days - Thirteen days? - It's not so long. You're making a face, Laila. - I am not. - You're not going to .. | tariq | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 674f0db | We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole aim of our lives. | Alcoholics Anonymous World Services | ||
| aeff4d0 | When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I. | love parting-ways separation | E.M. Forster | |
| 8306222 | But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 5453209 | She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time--the twilight of the double vision in which so many elderly people are involved. If this world is not to our taste, well, at all events, there is Heaven, Hell, Annihilation--one or other of those large things, that huge scenic background of stars, fires, blue or black air. All heroic endeavour, and all that is known as art, assume.. | E. M. Forster | ||
| 0c72e24 | My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 392724a | Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel -- Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. | pig wig | J.K. Rowling | |
| c9c01c3 | He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life. | relationships | J.K. Rowling |