#kindlehighlight

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#men

You keep out of my bed,” said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#kindlehighlight #wisdom #intelligence

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#art

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#life

designer can inject the most artistic flair. The word “ampersand” didn’t come into being until the nineteenth century. At that time & was customarily taught as the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet and pronounced “and.” When schoolchildren recited their ABCs, they concluded with the words “and, per se [i.e., by itself ], ‘and.’” This eventually became corrupted to “ampersand.” The symbol is a favorite of law and ↗

— Ben Yagoda

#design

One of these people was a girl who exemplified everything I could ever come up with to want. We grew very close very quickly and revealed dreams and compared fears and mocked gently and occasionally told lies, but nothing bad. The sex, I’m sorry, Dad, but the sex was unlike anything I believed might someplace exist. I remember lying with her in bed and touching her thigh and thinking, My God. This is the reason I grew hands in the first place. ↗

— Kyle Beachy

#dreams

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#life

Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics. ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#motivational

Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude.” Behavioral scientists use this term to describe the choices, and perceived choices, a person has. In a sense, it’s another way of describing autonomy—and lawyers are glum and cranky because they don’t have much of it. ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#motivational