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i see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on December 14, 2009

Noam Chomsky:

… (We must) overcome the marginalization and atomization of the public so that they can become “participants,” not mere “spectators of action,”…

Richard Nelson Bolles

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on December 10, 2009

The Internet is just a new way to avoid rejection.

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miles and miles

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on November 22, 2009

Werner Herzog:

I try to understand the ocean beneath the thin layer of ice that is civilization. There’s miles and miles of deep ocean, of darkness and barbarism. And I know the ice can break easily.

emptiness is something

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on November 21, 2009

Stephen King:

When the narrator of “The Fling” finally faces up to the fact that he has no love or comfort to give his father, he says of himself, “I was all smooth surface with nothing inside except emptiness.”

once upon a time

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on October 20, 2009

Philip Pullman:

…”Thou shalt not” might reach the head, but it takes “Once upon a time” to reach the heart.

one of the greatest threats we face

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on October 17, 2009

Hillary Clinton:

One of the greatest threats we face is from people who believe they are absolutely, certainly right about everything.

no one knows what lies behind the masquerades

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on October 12, 2009

Oscar Wilde:

Man is least himself when he talks in his own persona.  Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.

men are scary

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on October 6, 2009

Michael Chabon:

This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit, one whose source and object of greatest intensity is yourself.

with things of interest

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on October 6, 2009

Alfred Brendel:

One should live and hopefully fill one’s existence with things of interest. But why one lives is a question that is unanswerable.

they would be killed immediately

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on October 4, 2009

Gore Vidal:

Don’t ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren’t any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I’m never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

Elbert Hubbard

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 30, 2009

Little minds are interested in the extra-ordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Grey’s Anatomy S6E1

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 27, 2009

In medical school we have a hundred classes that teaches us how to fight off death and not one lesson in how to go on living.

what we measure

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 25, 2009

Joseph Stiglitz:

What we measure affects what we do. If we have the wrong metrics, we will strive for the wrong things.

and the bridge is love

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 20, 2009

Newsweek:

In a speech after the 9/11 attacks, Tony Blair made an inspired citation of the book’s closing peroration on love, and how it endures through cruelty and death. “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead,” it concludes, “and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”

find things beautiful

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 19, 2009

Vincent van Gogh:

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

exposed and vulnerable

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 19, 2009

Kay Redfield Jamison (via TP):

The exuberant move above the horizon, exposed and vulnerable.

what if

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 11, 2009

Tony Hsieh asks:

What if you could go straight to the happiness?

read and weep

Posted in Quotations, readandweep by isaiahlim on September 3, 2009

Eric Hoffer (via NYT):

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

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Mad Men S3E3

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 1, 2009

I’m Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana.

you must watch your universe

Posted in Quotations by isaiahlim on September 1, 2009

Paul Bowles:

This certainly is no time for anyone to pretend to be happy, or to put his unhappiness away in the dark. You must watch your universe as it cracks above your head.