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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chines...

Anthony Bourdain

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chines...

Anthony Bourdain

Tags: chinese, china, holistic

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will, he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPo...

Walter Isaacson

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will, he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPo...

Walter Isaacson

Tags: innovation, cannibalism

No one is ever the villain of their own story.

Cassandra Clare

No one is ever the villain of their own story.

Cassandra Clare

Tags: emma carstairs, malcom fade

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: government, modern society, corruption, law, ethics, modernity, courts, lawyers, modern life, governement

Maximus, she whispered, all moonlight and strength. I love you. Never forget that.

Elizabeth Hoyt

Maximus, she whispered, all moonlight and strength. I love you. Never forget that.

Elizabeth Hoyt

Tags: elizabeth hoyt, duke of midnight

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

Elizabeth Wein

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

Elizabeth Wein

Tags: romance, silence, stars, certainty, smoking, julie, elizabeth wein, ellen mcewen, the pearl thief

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

J.K. Rowling

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

J.K. Rowling

Tags: stupidity, harry potter, ron weasley, draco malfoy, neville longbottom

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the...

Philippa Gregory

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the...

Philippa Gregory

Tags: fiction, historical fiction, henry viii, katherine

I’M LOSING FAITH IN MY FAVORITE COUNTRYThroughout my life, the United States has been my favorite country, save and except for Canada, where I was born, raised, educated, and still live for six months...

Stephen Douglass

I’M LOSING FAITH IN MY FAVORITE COUNTRYThroughout my life, the United States has been my favorite country, save and except for Canada, where I was born, raised, educated, and still live for six months...

Stephen Douglass

Tags: frustration, frugality, saving

Intelligence is a great scholar,virtue is an extraordinary saint,love is a remarkable sage;together they are alters of integrity.Awareness is a great scholar,compassion is an extraordinary saint,prude...

Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence is a great scholar,virtue is an extraordinary saint,love is a remarkable sage;together they are alters of integrity.Awareness is a great scholar,compassion is an extraordinary saint,prude...

Matshona Dhliwayo

Tags: enlightenment, guru, wise, sage, matshona dhliwayo, philosopher quotations, african philosopher, african philosophy, solomonology

Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.

Jim Butcher

Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.

Jim Butcher

Tags: buffy the vampire slayer

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first t...

Douglas Adams

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first t...

Douglas Adams

Tags: hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, h2g2

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke,...

Terry Eagleton

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke,...

Terry Eagleton

Tags: failure, meaning, language, consciousness, psychoanalysis, unconscious, discourse, lacan, freudian slips, parapraxis

If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I'd use the time to see what I could spot.

Diana Gabaldon

If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I'd use the time to see what I could spot.

Diana Gabaldon

Tags: outlander, diana gabaldon, jamie fraser

I'm proud of you, Bliss, he said.Michael's sword released the souls that were trapped in your blood. You freed them. You freed me.But now I'm never going to see you again, am I? she asked.Dylan smiled...

Melissa de la Cruz

I'm proud of you, Bliss, he said.Michael's sword released the souls that were trapped in your blood. You freed them. You freed me.But now I'm never going to see you again, am I? she asked.Dylan smiled...

Melissa de la Cruz

Tags: dylan, bliss

I wasn't grateful. You want to talk cranky, coitus interruptus takes me well beyond cranky. My engorged labia felt like they were pressing on my brain—what there was of my brain—and if I didn't get to...

Robin McKinley

I wasn't grateful. You want to talk cranky, coitus interruptus takes me well beyond cranky. My engorged labia felt like they were pressing on my brain—what there was of my brain—and if I didn't get to...

Robin McKinley

Tags: cunt

I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.

Beth Revis

I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.

Beth Revis

Tags: elder, shades of earth, beth revis

I can guarantee it, Jenks said as their eyes met. The second that you see her, you will fall in love. You will do anything for her, anything at all, and she will know it and love you back. That’s all...

Kim Harrison

I can guarantee it, Jenks said as their eyes met. The second that you see her, you will fall in love. You will do anything for her, anything at all, and she will know it and love you back. That’s all...

Kim Harrison

Tags: parental love, jenks, jenks from the hollows novels, million dollar baby

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent o...

Marian Deegan

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent o...

Marian Deegan

Tags: present, realistic, pragmatic, relevance, matter more, tension, realistic expectations, high aspirations

His name is Julian Janus Marquet, but I’m going to call him Jory.Both Chris and Paul heard my thin whisper. I was so tired, so sleepy.Why would you call him Jory? asked Paul, but it wasn’t me who had...

V.C. Andrews

His name is Julian Janus Marquet, but I’m going to call him Jory.Both Chris and Paul heard my thin whisper. I was so tired, so sleepy.Why would you call him Jory? asked Paul, but it wasn’t me who had...

V.C. Andrews

Tags: paul, chris
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