A Quotes
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“After all meat is meat. I don't understand why so many people are bithing about it. It's very healthy and contains lots of vitamins”
“After all, more lies remain undiscovered than are revealed, harmless little lies absorbed into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from the truth.”
Source: The Liar
“After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80]”
Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
“After all my childhood years of watching him silently and revering him unquestionably, I took my twenties to spin out against him__not to refute him, but to scream out I was equal to him, a person who was just as funny, just as smart, and just as worthy of talking to.”
Source: Irishman Dies from Stubbornness: Unbelievable Truths Behind the Life That Launched the Viral Obituary of Christopher Clifford Connors
“After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.”
“After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.”
“After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.”
“After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.”
“After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.”
Source: Selected Letters
“After all nendartaltsi went instinct and humans survive. Humans were going randomly, Nendartaltsi were clever...”
“After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.”
“After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.”
Source: The Reapers
“After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“After all, nothing really adds up in the Wake. Because the form of everything changes so rapidly, it does not seem like the monetary world where the value of objects relies on a measure of constancy or predictability. Circulation of something whose form should be recognizable and authenticated (such as a coin or a note) seems impossible in the Wake. The economics of Finnegans Wake might boil down to something simple and silly, where Joyce passes off his own book as a fake, when, in fact, it’s real, a fake of a fake. Nonetheless, the economic issue remains a relatively unmined area in the Wake.”
Source: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals
“After all of this is over and Tuck and Becca leave for their wedding night at the hotel, I don't want to be the sister of the bride or the maid of honor or anything else with responsibilities attached to it. I want to forget about everything and just have fun. Be. Feel. Live in the moment. And God, it's been so long since I've had sex." She stopped and looked up at his face. "Did I scare you yet?"
Scared, no. Speechless, yes, but only because all the blood in his body had rushed to his penis. Logan shook his head. "Nope, I'm definitely not scared. You, uh, have any candidates in mind for this night of reckless abandon?”
Source: Two Times as Hot
“After all of this you're still 'Rayhan the Chivalrous', full of hope and optimism?”
Source: Chivalry's Code
“After all, one of the great things about books is that they don’t disappear after the first year of their publication—barring floods and thieves, they can loiter forever on your shelves, waiting to be picked up and rediscovered, manic publicity cycle be damned. They can be revisited, loaned out, traded, forgotten and found. They can have strange, long lives.”
“After all, our most valuable asset is our ability to protect ourselves, our rights, and our future in an increasingly data-driven world.”
“After all, pain, exile, or confinement are sometimes accepted when dictated by good sense or by the doctor. In the eyes of the rebel, what is missing from the misery of the world, as well as from its moments of happiness, is some principle by which they can be explained. The insurrection against evil is, above all, a demand for unity. The rebel obstinately confronts a world condemned to death and the impenetrable obscurity of the human condition with his demand for life and absolute clarity. He is seeking, without knowing it, a moral philosophy or a religion. Rebellion, even though it is blind, is a form of asceticism. Therefore, if the rebel blasphemes, it is in the hope of finding a new god.”
Source: The Rebel
“After all, passion is an undying urge or quest to achieve, which does not allow you to rest until you reach your destination.”
“After all, Paul Robeson said, ‘Artists are the radical voice of civilization.’ Each and every one of you in this room, with your gifts and your power and your skills, could perhaps change the way in which our global humanity mistrusts itself. Perhaps we as artists and as visionaries, for what’s better in the human heart and the human soul, could influence citizens everywhere in the world to see the better side of who and what we are as a species.”
“After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.”
Source: Murder in Mesopotamia
“After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.”
“After all, poor people are only as good as their last service to the masters of the system, and it is based on that last service that they get to have one more paycheck for just one more month of uncertainty.”
“After all, problems identified can be eliminated.”
Source: Year 4: Serpens Sub Rosa
“After all relationships had sell-by dates. Sometimes, the ones with the most passion were the ones to burn out faster. Others had a sweet and long-winding coil which burned with slow amicability. At times, it was true, people rekindled a dying ember with a new flame. But they hardly ever noticed the rekindling had come after some time of estrangement - whether physical or emotional. Because people needed newness to make a thing last indefinitely. To make it really last. And because Jan didn't like letting people go, she knew to look for the signs of love's waning. So she could tell how to ease it down slowly into its grave and keep her lovers as friends. Because she really believed people were meant to cross paths. People were meant to stay in your life. There was a reason for all encounters. And relationships had to be cosseted, no matter their shelf life. But they had to be allowed to change shape and form. It had to be given space to grow into something different.”
Source: Consequence
“After all she’d overcome, boiling her choices down to Fate made her success feel unearned. Like he somehow had a hand in all her hardest decisions and her biggest triumphs.”
Source: Foxglove
“After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.”
Source: Nausea
“After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks.”
Source: The Perfect Affair
“After all, she never promised me anything, never gave me any reason to think I was more than what I was to her- just a friend, maybe not even a close friend.”
Source: SPIRALS
“After all, she understood people so well, as well as Fredrick understood his library.”
Source: Emmeline
“After all, she was pretty sure she wasn't married to Dan in this life. She checked her hand and was relieved to see a totally naked ring finger.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“After all, shifting business models is about customers”
Source: Business Model Shifts: Six Ways to Create New Value For Customers
“After all, simply saying “We’re all on the spectrum” is a cognitive roadblock. It’s absolutely efficient, in an energy consumptive way. We see this method used all the time when people use thought-terminating clichés to end a problem-solving process and settle their thinking: It is what it is. Don’t rock the boat. That’s not how we do things here. It’s above your pay grade. Let’s agree to disagree. YOLO.”
Source: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other.”
Source: Tender Is the Flesh
“After all, suicide is contagious.”
Source: The Program
“After all that carryin' on just gettin' him out and keepin' him alive he wanted to crawl back in my womb and well...I ain't got the room no more even if he could do it. There wasn't space for him in my womb (71).”
Source: Sula
“After all that had happened, his words should have lost their power to hurt her, yet somehow they had not.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel”
“After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.”
Source: Lucky Man: A Memoir
“After all, that is what the merely casual onlooker always sees — the outward appearance, the non-functional, the surfaces of things. No one who is really involved in the landscape ever sees the landscape.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.”
“After all, that's what life is. Pain.”
Source: Emperor of Thorns
“After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you'd never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.”
Source: Inkdeath
“After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.”
“After all, the accumulated millions with a miser add up to zero, and likewise, the moolah with a spendthrift comes to naught in the end. So, money has no value of its own, in spite of the awe in which man holds it. As for the power of wealth, it's only in the mind of the haves and the have-nots alike.”
Source: Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life
“After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.”
“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. There are other advantages, more difficult to speak of, things which ancient sources only hint at and which I myself only understood after the fact.”
Source: The Secret History
“After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.”