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There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

Douglas Preston

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

Douglas Preston

Tags: pendergast, philosophy, shakespeare

Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their searching hungry gazed returned to their own bodies....

Naomi Wolf

Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their searching hungry gazed returned to their own bodies....

Naomi Wolf

Tags: beauty, body image, cosmetic surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet industry, double standards, equality, fashion industry, feminism

The water changed to vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed a new, flowed anew.

Hermann Hesse

The water changed to vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed a new, flowed anew.

Hermann Hesse

The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide. I

Ben Aaronovitch

The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide. I

Ben Aaronovitch

The sharpening of the steel was less about the cutting edge of the blade than it was about the cutting edge of the soul and psyche; it was an ancient communion with every man who ever faced battle and...

Nelson DeMille

The sharpening of the steel was less about the cutting edge of the blade than it was about the cutting edge of the soul and psyche; it was an ancient communion with every man who ever faced battle and...

Nelson DeMille

The rose I gave you was an emblem of myheart,' said she; 'would you take it away andleave me here alone?' 'Would you give me your hand too, if I askedit?' 'Have I not said enough?

Anne Bronte

The rose I gave you was an emblem of myheart,' said she; 'would you take it away andleave me here alone?' 'Would you give me your hand too, if I askedit?' 'Have I not said enough?

Anne Bronte

Tags: engagement, gift, hand, heart, love, rose

The responsibility/fault fallacy allows people to pass off the responsibility for solving their problems to others. This ability to alleviate responsibility through blame gives people a temporary high...

Mark Manson

The responsibility/fault fallacy allows people to pass off the responsibility for solving their problems to others. This ability to alleviate responsibility through blame gives people a temporary high...

Mark Manson

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if w...

Jodi Picoult

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if w...

Jodi Picoult

Tags: inspirational, nurses

The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown...

W. Somerset Maugham

The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown...

W. Somerset Maugham

Tags: lake, life, meaning, razor s edge, ripple, river, stone, surface, water

The land has a memory. Every stream and river runs with a confession of sorts, history whispered over rocks, lifted in the beaks of birds at a stream, carried out to the sea. Buffalo thunder across pl...

Libba Bray

The land has a memory. Every stream and river runs with a confession of sorts, history whispered over rocks, lifted in the beaks of birds at a stream, carried out to the sea. Buffalo thunder across pl...

Libba Bray

Tags: lair of dreams, libba bray

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

William T. Vollmann

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

William T. Vollmann

Tags: darkness, form, writing

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Brian Herbert

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Brian Herbert

The Piri Reis map of 1513 features the western shores of Africa and the eastern shores of North and South America and is also controversially claimed to depict Ice Age Antarctica--as an extension of t...

Graham Hancock

The Piri Reis map of 1513 features the western shores of Africa and the eastern shores of North and South America and is also controversially claimed to depict Ice Age Antarctica--as an extension of t...

Graham Hancock

Tags: exploration, ice age, lost civilization, navigation, piri reis map, rising sea levels, underwater

That's sad, said Montag, quietly,(referring to The Hound) because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.

Ray Bradbury

That's sad, said Montag, quietly,(referring to The Hound) because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.

Ray Bradbury

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book.OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

John Green

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book.OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

John Green

Tags: augustus waters, gus, the fault in our stars

Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean ecological in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total...

Neil Postman

Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean ecological in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total...

Neil Postman

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

James Joyce

Tags: first lines, ireland, opening lines, shaving

StagesAs every flower fades and as all youthDeparts, so life at every stage,So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,Blooms in its day and may not last forever.Since life may summon us at every ageBe re...

Hermann Hesse

StagesAs every flower fades and as all youthDeparts, so life at every stage,So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,Blooms in its day and may not last forever.Since life may summon us at every ageBe re...

Hermann Hesse

Tags: game, glass, herman, hesse, stages, the

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been...

Christopher Hitchens

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: authoritarianism, death, dissent, doublethink, drinking the kool aid, graffiti, grief, indoctrination, irony, jokes

So. I see where you're going—bus number 27 to a crossroads near Delphi. Look, I did not want, at any point, on any level, to kill my own father and sleep with my own mother. It's true that I wanted to...

Julian Barnes

So. I see where you're going—bus number 27 to a crossroads near Delphi. Look, I did not want, at any point, on any level, to kill my own father and sleep with my own mother. It's true that I wanted to...

Julian Barnes

Tags: clever, humor, julian barnes, oedipal, oedipus, psychology, the only story
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