A Quotes
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“After all these recent events in Russia - "Crimea is ours!," Donbas, all that - I realized I could get back into the business of forecasting. Until now, I didn't feel up to it. I actually was wrong about one thing: I predicted that Putin would be forced to leave soon, but he's still there. Generally, once again - this time not in seventy years but in a very short time - the President and the Duma have reached the stage of such idiocy that they are constantly taking actions which are not simply pointless but harmful, to Russia itself.”
“After all these weeks, after all of this, I feel that I am finally going to pieces, and I find, stunningly, that as I turn about in the street, I am praying, a habit of my childhood, when I would try to cover my bets with a God in whom I knew I did not much believe.
And now, dear God, I think, dear God in whom I do not believe, I pray you to stop this, for I am deathly frightened. Dear God, I smell my fear, with an oder as distinct as ozone on the air after a lightening flash. I feel fear so palpable it has a color, an oozing fiery red, and I feel it pitifully in my bones, which ache. My pain is so extreme that I can barely move down this hot avenue, and for a moment cannot, as my backbone bows with fear, as if a smelted rod, red-hot and livid, had been laid there. Dear God, dear God, I am in agony and fear, and whatever I may have done to make you bring this down upon me, release me, please, I pray, release me. Release me. Dear God in whom I do not believe, dear God, let me go free.”
Source: Presumed Innocent
“After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
“After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse.
All I need is to write.
Because,'Poetry forgives.”
Source: The Papery Onions
“After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.”
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
Source: The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
“After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.”
“After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.”
“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
“After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.”
“After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.”
Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve
“After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream”
Source: An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections
“After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.”
“After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.”
“After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.”
“After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.”
“After all, they have as much right to live there as we have.”
Source: That Was My Home: Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs
“After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.”
“After all this brouhaha Washington, Donald Trump lands in Florida" If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing." Trump says there will eventually be a border wall and there won't be amnesty for DREAMers. But they're going to allowed to stay. People say, "W-w-well, wait a minute, now. If you're letting 'em stay, how is that not amnesty?" Well, they're not gonna be made automatic citizens.”
“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...”
Source: Lonesome Traveler
“After all this time?"
"Always...”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“After all this time?”
“Always,” said Snape.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“After all this time and all this, quote, "experience," how is she [Hillary Clinton] not better at this [military]?”
“After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.”
Source: The Infernals
“After all this time I finally found him, but I'm too late.”
Source: You've Reached Sam
“After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.”
“after all this time searching, i finally found what i was looking for; me.”
“After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories of what was lost are also reminders of what was held.”
Source: The Light Pirate
“After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.”
“After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow.”
“After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.”
“After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'”
“After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.”
“After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.”
“After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.”
“After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.”
“After all those years of roaming, they'd found home.”
Source: The Glass Castle
“After all, though our yesterdays may be different, we all share the same tomorrow.”
Source: Superman Smashes the Klan #1
“After all, tomorrow will be prettier than today. It all depends on your choices and actions, and if you are ready to make it.”
“After all, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another human-being is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love.”
Source: King Solomon's Journey
“After all, vampires know better than anyone how important it is to protect their hearts.
And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“After all, wanting to be understood is a basic need — an affirmation of the humanity you share with everyone around you. The risk is fearsome: in making your real work you hand the audience the power to deny the understanding you seek; you hand them the power to say, “you’re not like us; you’re weird; you’re crazy.” And admittedly, there’s always a chance they may be right — your work may provide clear evidence that you are different, that you are alone. After all, artists themselves rarely serve as role models of normalcy....
Just how unintelligible your art — or you — appear to others may be something you don’t really want to confront, at least not all that quickly. What is sometimes needed is simply an insulating period, a gap of pure time between the making of your art, and the time when you share it with outsiders. Andrew Wyeth pursued his Helga series privately for years, working at his own pace, away from the spotlight of criticism and suggestion that would otherwise have accompanied the release of each new piece in the series. Such respites also, perhaps, allow the finished work time to find its rightful place in the artist’s heart and mind — in short, a chance to be understood better by the maker. Then when the time comes for others to judge the work, their reaction (whatever it may be) is less threatening.”
Source: Art and Fear
“After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theater and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.”
Source: Pimp: The Story of My Life
“After all, we are the masters of our own happiness. For happiness ceases to exist when we rely on someone else for it.”
Source: Athanasia: A Gothic Short Story
“After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.”
“After all, we do seem attached to sin and there are so many people busy making sin unattractive. It is good to find someone who takes the other road.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories
“After all we gonna find that pleny of the books which, we have put on our shelfs are useless and helpless... but still when we were younger at a day and age... and we thought this books are going to help us!”
“After all we have few friends, if we don't show that we care about them, we will reach 0 friends...”