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Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.
I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can.
It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.
I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.
she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.
What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.
Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.
He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.
Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.
Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.
It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.
What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.
His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.
I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.
If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.
I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.
Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.
People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.
To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
A beautiful road does not create enough reason to make a journey on that road, because the road to Hell is often a beautiful road as well!
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!
Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live!
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!
What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?
When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!
A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.
In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others!
On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.
She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are