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“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”

“It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West – but it is mine, and I am asking unashamedly to be allowed to continue worshipping the miracle of the planet, and the worship of a natural system not yet touched, never touched by the machines of man. A place with the residue of God – the scent, feel, sight, taste, and sound of God – forever fresh upon it”

Men Feels Kind May Lasts Sound Natural Church Forever Mines Planets Taste Worship Percent Machines Sight Miracle Asking West Core Touched Scent

Book:The book of Yaak

Source: The book of Yaak

“Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.”

World Want Acting Aspect Roots Excited Core Filmmaking

Author:Nicolas Cage

“An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.”

Together Lying Night Hate Realizing Silence Wife Wind Bed Conversation Cat Phones Core Awake Emptiness Retiring Every Night Good Night Nudge Astounded Against Love

Author:Nikki Gemmell

“At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.”

Mind Self Energy Skills Benefits Seeking Core Motive Serving Altruism Fog Kate Sly Self Serving

Book:Magic Strikes

Source: Magic Strikes

“Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite.”

“I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”

Thinking Knows Darkness Solitude Core Fascinating Conception Hollow

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.”

America President Moral Standing Core Lowest Moralism

Book:A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

Source: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

“I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn’t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.”

May Littles Enemy Knowing Defeat Core Instance Cunning Dormant

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“As her eyes scanned his face, he feared that she saw everything, right down t the core of him. Where his obsession with her was the strongest. -Butch and Marissa”

Eye Faces Saws Core Obsession Strongest Her Eyes

Author:J.R. Ward

“still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?”

Ifs Feels Mind Stills Black Blue Bones Core Hated Pills

Author:John Green

“Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.”

People Faces Father Taught Breaths Core Compassionate Dependence Unhealthy

Author:Brennan Manning

“To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.”

Needs Feels Humans Mean Feelings Life Is Shame Bounds Core Human Life Ashamed Grounded

Book:Healing the Shame that Binds You

Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You

“The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.”

Stars Powerful Aspect Shame Core Righteous Wretched Pathetic Neurotic Paradoxical Scapegoat

Book:Healing the Shame that Binds You

Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You

“She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.”

Results Core

Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”

Ifs Way Persons Sometimes Essentials Sick Obvious Core Subtle Denied

Book:Toward a Psychology of Being

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

“Mr. Green Sweater looks normal, but his wingman looks hard-core bad boy,” said Vee. “Emits a certain don’t-mess-with-me signal. Tell me he doesn’t look like Dracula’s spawn. Tell me I’m imagining things.”

Looks Said Hard Certain Boys Normal Green Core Mess Signals Sweaters Bad Boy Spawn Hard Core Mess With Me Imagining Things Wingman Don't Mess With Me

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale

“Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core”

Giving Sometimes Order Who You Are Core

Book:Cecelia Ahern 2-Book Gift Collection: The Gift, Thanks for the Memories

Source: Cecelia Ahern 2-Book Gift Collection: The Gift, Thanks for the Memories

“What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.”

Remember Moving Lying Careers Truth Is Fundamentals Strategy Glasses Core Pursue Deception Our Relationship Variation Detectives Cracked Fragmented Endgame Concealment

Author:Tana French

“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”

Darkness Core Hollow

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.”

Heart Night Water Core Arise Lakes Deep Heart

Author:William Butler Yeats

“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.”

World Years Reason Body Earth Universe Stars Years Ago Connected Billions Core Ingredients Atoms Galaxy Living Things Molecules Stardust

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people and when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland, you're confronted with the archetypal origin of the term, and you shouldn't be surprised if your core body temperature drops a few degrees.”

People Ifs Giving Body Term Degrees Core Vampire Temperature Icy Glare Iceland Body Temperature

Author:Kevin Hearne

“And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.”

Thinking Way Feels Years Firsts Stills Moments Age Remember Realizing My Own Morning Five Changed Wake Up Core My Own Life

Author:Douglas Coupland

“If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.”

Ifs Sea Rocks Rain Fruit Core Desert Flames Lakes Bees Ballads Lanterns

Book:The Lady of the Sorrows

Source: The Lady of the Sorrows

“Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.”

Way Existence Roots Stronger Ancient Breathe Core Keep Going Ache Resisting Grappling

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it’s so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?”

Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You

“yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.”

Desire Belief Perfect Core Yearning

Author:David Levithan

“I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.”

Journey Moon Expected Core Invisible Gravity

Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.”

Littles Book Use Lying Reading House Car Missing Bed Twenties Tables Glasses Edges Core Kitchen Apples Bags Bathroom Stairs Sock Forks Kitchen Table Bookmarks Reading Glasses

Author:Kami Garcia

“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]”

Firsts Said Universe Father Perfect Roots Core Fatherhood Perfect Relationship Almost Perfect

Author:C. S. Lewis

“There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it.”

World Way Mean Has Beens Perfection Wake Up Track Core Snow Tire Spoiled Footsteps Sexually

Book:Good For You

Source: Good For You

“He took one of my hands in his, and I brought the other to his face, wondering how his eyes could look like chipped ice and still warm me to my core.”

Looks Stills Hands Eye Faces Wonder Warm Core Ice His Eyes

Author:Tammara Webber

“I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-”

Matter Earth Gold Core Interiors

Book:Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”

“Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.”

Ifs Firsts May Sometimes Hard Willing Sweet Taste Fruit Endure Core Bitter Pushing Something Sweet

Book:Winter's Child

Source: Winter's Child

“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”

Ifs Believe Winning Force I Believe One Thing Core Knees Fake

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.”

Persons Long Answers Situation Crazy Communication Goes On Letters Details Core Convince Length Describing Being Crazy Bewildered I Am Crazy

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”

World Dies Causes Existence Core Ripple

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Nowadays I'm really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody's like "I can reverse the polarity of your ions!" Like in one big flash everybody's Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don't understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have implants. Well, I sound like a very old man, and a cranky one, but it's true.”

Knows Men Wells Looks I Can Bigs Guy Girl Stuff Sound Written Missing Strange Wall Doctors Sticks Core Storytelling Sand Old Man Flash Reverse Implants Cranky Polarity Super Power Ions

Author:Joss Whedon

“Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.”

People Thinking Needs Sometimes Magic Needed Capable Core Have Faith Currency Dose Erode Hearty

Author:Kris Carr

“That’s hard core, Gin,” Finn replied. “Very hard core. Kind of kinky too.” A grim smile tightened my lips. “That’s me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.”

Kind Ends Hard Lips Core Bitter Grim Gin Kinky Hard Core Gin Blanco

Book:Venom: An Elemental Assassin Book

Source: Venom: An Elemental Assassin Book

“To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”

Darkness Silent Oneself Core Invisible Vocal Being Alone Wedges Solemnity

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.”

Matter Smart Core Fragile

Author:Mitch Albom

“I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.”

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.”

Together Values Lost Term Moral Core Empires Tubes Roman Empire Roman Civilization

Author:Benjamin Carson

“It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?”

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