Ruby Dixon
- What we should and shouldn't do (from When She Belongs)
You should stay back." I don't like that she's going to be in danger. "You shouldn't have ripped your arm off and beat someone with it, but we'll talk about what we should and shouldn't do later," she tells me in a prim voice. "For now, we need to go kill another alien.
Christopher Hitchens
- False Security
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay because you're in the safely moral majority.
Mechadense
Exploratory engineering is the exclusively usage of well established knowledge in a fail-safe wasteful way to gain rough but reliable knowledge about the lower bounds of what is in principle doable. It allows one to probe the timeless potential of technology (in some high dimensional landscape of performance parameters).
Jen23
- easy peasy
Nothing today will matter in the long run, unless of course you are making major life changing decisions today, then maybe. If not then chalk it up to being Friday and have a great weekend.
Anonymous
- Hurt
Sometimes it's best not to let intrusive thoughts win. I could have slapped you. I could have said really ugly words. But I realize that those intrusive thoughts are much like a hurt animal. They are so hurt and scared that they use the only way they know to defend themselves: aggression. Never let those thoughts win, because you will always regret it afterwards.
The Bible - ESV
- 1John 4:7-8
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Uncle Iroh
- Iroh's Speech to Zuko
Is it your own destiny, or is it a destiny someone else has tried to force on you? I'm begging you, Prince Zuko! It's time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions: Who are you, and what do you want?
Dipper Pines
- Goodbye Gravity Falls
If you've ever taken a road trip through the Pacific Northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called Gravity Falls. It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it. Some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods, waiting.
Taylor Swift
- Come Back... Be Here
This is falling in love in the cruelest way. This is falling for you and you are worlds away. In New York, be here... but you're in London, and I break down 'cause it's not fair that you're not around.
Hart of Dixie - Wade Kinsella
- "If It Makes You Happy"
Sometimes I think you are just the saddest person in the world. You're always looking over your shoulder wondering what life should be, instead of taking it for what it is. You're not honest about what makes you happy... Clearly, something about every one of those choices makes you happy. The problem is, they don't match up with the picture you have in your head about what your life should be... You wanna be happy, Doc? Change your picture. Or change your life. Good night.
gustavo
The ancient Greeks were an interesting bunch of people. They ranged from the democratic and sea-faring Athenians to the militaristic Spartans and the great conquerors of Macedonia. They managed to colonize many parts of the Mediterranean, including what is now modern day Italy and Turkey. One interesting thing about the Greeks is that they never drank pure wine. It was considered barbaric to do so. They instead diluted their wine, two parts water to one part wine.
lonelycrier2.0
- The Walking Dead Video Game
So, I just played this game. It was the most heartbreaking thing I've ever played or watched. I got super attached to this game. Lee, my favorite character, started his journey in the apocalypse in handcuffs, and ended it in handcuffs. I'm currently playing season 2, and it better not be as sad as season 1. Ah, poor Clementine.
Harry Styles
- As It Was
Go home, get ahead, light-speed Internet, I don't want to talk about the way that it was. Leave America, two kids follow her, I don't want to talk about who's doing it first. Hey!
Harry Styles
- As It Was
Answer the phone. Harry you're no good alone. Why are you sitting at home on the floor? What kind of pills are you on. Ringing the bell and nobody's coming to help. Your daddy lives with himself, he just wants to know that you're well. In this world, it's just us, you know it's not the same as it was.
Harry Styles
- As It Was
Holding me back, gravity's holding me back. I want you to hold out the palm of your hand. Why don't we leave it at that? Nothing to say and everything gets in the way. Seems you cannot be replaced and I'm the one who will stay. In this world, it's just us, you know it's not the same as it was.
Mary Balogh
- There is an end to suffering (Someone to Cherish)
Sometimes what seem to be the worst things that happen in our lives turn out actually to be the best. He had shared something painful from his own life, she guessed, in order to distract her from her own. Or to remind her that everyone suffers in the course of a lifetime. No one is immune. And perhaps to remind her that there is an end to suffering.
Metal Gear Rising
- It Has to be This Way
Standing here, I realize you were just like me trying to make history. But who's to judge the right from wrong. When our guard is down I think we'll both agree, that violence breeds violence. But in the end, it has to be this way. I've carved my own path, you've followed your wrath, but maybe we're both the same. The world has turned, and so many have burned, but nobody is to blame. Yet staring across this barren wasted land, I feel new life could be born beneath the blood stained sand.
Terence McKenna
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
hannahg
- Vienna - Billy Joel
Too bad, but it's the life you lead. You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
Summer Sanders
Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.
