Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running."

― Richard Adams, Watership Down, R.I.P.

[astrangerhere]

“I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situation and then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions”

“Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.”

― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

[kennyc]

"One side fits all"

[AlexBell]

'The want of an innocent occupation may be reason enough why one should write, but some better reason or a plausible apology should be rendered for inflicting the writing upon the public; for if the public, ... is not obliged to read, there is a small public of kind friends who feel a moral obligation to perform that duty.'


Catharine Maria Sedgwick
From the preface to Married or Single?, 1857, her last novel.

[BenG]

Sometimes the situation in which our options are most narrowed is the one which ends up most widening our horizons.

― Mark O'Connell, Bad Bookshops: An Appreciation, on The Millions website

[kennyc]

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
- Benjamin Disraeli

[kennyc]

"Everything distracted me, but most of all myself."
- Patti Smith

Happy Birthday Patti!

[BenG]

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BenG

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Ha! Love it.....and we wouldn't have to keep adding those leap-seconds to the clock!

[bfisher]

‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by bfisher

‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

[kennyc]

"As we embark on the great journey of 2017 let us all remember that we are each fortunate in our own respective and special ways and let us each reach out and help those who are less fortunate."
- Kenny A. Chaffin

[Ricky D'Angelo]

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

[Nyssa]

“You put a spell on the dog,” I said as we left the house.
“Just a small one,” said Nightingale.
“So magic is real,” I said. “Which makes you a … what?”
“A wizard.”
“Like Harry Potter?”
Nightingale sighed. “No,” he said. “Not like Harry Potter.”
“In what way?”
“I’m not a fictional character,” said Nightingale.

~ Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch