Kindlehighlight Quotes

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show ...

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the co...

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate...

It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get som...

The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stan...

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about “let’s see” and “try.” If there’s...

Starting isn’t like that. Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events. You decide to...

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a proje...

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starti...

Call me Richard. That’s my real name. Call me that.

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying a...

that this is Russian-A flu, not the more dangerous Swine flu.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The secon...

Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way t...

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to oth...

Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I g...

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not parti...

Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are develop...

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.”“And you're still not sorry,” I reply...

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to set...

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though s...

Deep in the meadow, under the willowa bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your head, and clos...

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your ...

I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white ...

And when again it’s morning, they’ ll wash away. Here it’s safe, here it’s warm Here the daisies gua...

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all tho...

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encoura...

When you can do that, little Wren, when you can accept the wearing down and the eroding, then you ca...

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you...

In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinte...

he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentiet...

There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of bl...

We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worryin...

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it mi...

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter...

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look l...

You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how importa...

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connectic...

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to ...

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

so that it may grow fatter and

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were ...

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity...

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a ...

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal ...

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into ...

I wanted to kiss her, she was beautiful again to me. But I dared not risk it. It wasn't only that I ...

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are muc...

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. H...

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for...

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps ...

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise i...

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time expre...

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benef...

The current best estimate for the Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of ...

It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gra...

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a...

Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which make...

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anyth...

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The...

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and...

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see....

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown b...

Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other s...

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his sh...

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows ...

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my...

now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don’t want anything personal, let’s just do it, I do...

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Mark my words—you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life’s stre...

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the...

They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them...

Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought ...

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her t...

The Democrats, fearful of his grassroots campaign, blamed him for the election of George W. Bush, an...

I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible o...

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populis...

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society ...

It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t mat...

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Towa...

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is t...

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are ...

It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importa...

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Wh...