A Quotes
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“After all, we're just stars trying to make sense of the asterisms we're embodying.”
Source: polaroids: a poetry micro-chapbook
“After all we shared? You throw a dagger at my face?'
'All we shared? It was a handful of minutes and a few kisses,' I said, and the truth of that struck me with startling clarity. That was all we'd shared. Gods, I was so... sheltered. Because in my limited experience, it had become... so much more to me. The wake-up call that it was only a few kisses was utterly brutal.
'It was more than a few kisses.' His voice dropped low. 'If you've forgotten, I'm more than willing to remind you.'
Tiny coils of tension formed in my stomach. Part of me wanted to be reminded of what I surely had not forgotten. Thank the gods, the smarter, logical part of me won out. 'There was nothing worth remembering.'
'Now you insult me after throwing a dagger at my face? You've wounded my tender feelings.'
'Tender feelings?' I snorted. 'Don't be overdramatic.'
'Hard not to be when you threw a dagger at my head and then cut my neck,' he shot back, his grip on me surprisingly gentle compared to the hardness of his tone.
'I knew you'd move out of the way.'
'Did you? Is that why you tried to slice open my throat?' His golden eyes burned from beneath heavy, thick lashes.
'I nicked your skin,' I corrected. 'Because you had a hold of me and wouldn't let go. Obviously, you haven't learnt anything from it.'
'I've actually learned a lot, Princess. That's why your hands and your dagger aren't getting anywhere near my neck.' His thumb slid over the inside of my wrist as a reminder, and my fingers spasmed around the handle of my weapon. 'But if you let go of the dagger, there's a whole lot of me I'll let your hands get close to.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.”
“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any whim or passion and follow it to the farthest reaches of our natures. We wanted to live – to die – to burst into flame – to be transformed into angels or explosions. Only the mundane offended us, as if we secretly feared it was our destiny . By late afternoon our muscles ached, our eyelids grew heavy with obscure desires. And so we dreamed and did nothing, for what was there to do, played ping-pong and went to the beach, loafed in backyards, slept late into the morning – and always we craved adventures so extreme we could never imagine them. In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”
Source: Dangerous Laughter
“After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy. This is why Buddhism can so easily turn into the very opposite of universal compassion: the advocacy of a ruthless military attitude, which is what the fate of Zen Buddhism aptly demonstrates.”
“After all, what does the stock market sell us if not the unfounded hope of a rosy future?”
Source: 1Q84
“After all, what is a dollar but paper? A bullet can save your life. Bullets make weapons more significant, and that makes you more significant.
A man's life - what is that worth? Another man exists only to the degree that he stands in your way. Life doesn't mean much, but it's better to take it from the enemy before he has time to deliver a blow.”
Source: The Emperor
“After all, what is a liver? My father, for example, died of cancer of the liver and was never sick a day in his life up till the moment it killed him. Never felt a twinge of pain. In a way, that was too bad, since I hated my father. Lust for my mother, you know.”
Source: Catch-22
“After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.”
Source: Men and Friendship
“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.”
Source: Grooks 1
“After all, what is crazier: one person owning the same amount of money as the combined economies of twenty-three countries, or suggesting that if we shared, there would be enough for everyone?”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body.”
Source: The Education Decree
“After all, what is money apart from what it can buy?”
Source: The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
“After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like ‘good’, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well—better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good’, what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still" (51).”
Source: 1984
“After all, what was school for, but to strain your eyes in order to decipher what a doctor had said, which was a question you should especially ask if the prescriptions were from an optometrist that questioned the legitimacy of his teachings.”
Source: The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats
“After all, what was the point of showing trepidation? It would merely be another proof that, although Eleanor had traveled across war-torn Europe as the duchess's companion, she hadn't acquired the verve and confidence that characterized Madeline's every move. This wasn't from lack of trials; the two women had faced trials aplenty. It was because- Eleanor sighed as she allowed the butler to take her cloak- Eleanor was born timid. She never remembered a time when her father's shouting hadn't paralyzed her with fright, or when her stepmother's narrow-eyed glare hadn't had the power to turn her into a bowl of quivering blancmange. Which is why Eleanor cultivated a serene facade- she might be a coward, but she saw no reason to announce the fact.”
Source: One Kiss From You
“After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created – and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground – for I regret that I have made them’ (Genesis 6:7). The Bible thinks it is perfectly all right to destroy all animals as punishment for the crimes of Homo sapiens, as if the existence of giraffes, pelicans and ladybirds has lost all purpose if humans misbehave. The Bible could not imagine a scenario in which God repents having created Homo sapiens, wipes this sinful ape off the face of the earth, and then spends eternity enjoying the antics of ostriches, kangaroos and panda bears.”
Source: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“After all when writing your story, only you should yield your pen, no one else! Don't let any one else but yourself control your own narrative!”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“After all, when you look at the faces of a class of graduating seniors, you realize that each student has only one thing that no one else has.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living.
But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
Your particular life. Your entire life.
Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer.
Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.
Not just your bank account, but your soul.”
Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home.”
Source: Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
“After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness”
“After all, who is ever threatened by a Librarian?
(Except for that one librarian who hunted a seven-year old Danny across state and provincial borders, endlessly, tirelessly over the span of three years to try murder him for accidentally moving away, with the library’s copy of “The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Dream” book. But that’s a story for another time. Where were we?)”
Source: Dysfunction
“After all, who wants to die slowly when you can die fast?
Me.
I don't want to die fast. I don't want to die at all.”
“After all, why bring somebody pain when it's so easy to bring joy instead?”
Source: Lydie
“After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.”
“After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.”
“After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead.”
Source: The Gospel of Loki
“After all, you can't force a friendship.”
Source: The Summer Before
“After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground.”
Source: The Boys, Volume 9: The Big Ride
“After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it?”
“After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.”
“After all you've put me through, you would think I despise you, but in the end I want to thank you because you made me that much stronger.”
“After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.”
“After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.”
“After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.”
Source: History of My Life
“After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.”
“After all, a crisis doesn't make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.”
Source: Looking Up When Life Gets You Down
“After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.”
“After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.”
“After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.”
“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”
Source: Prayers for Sale
“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.”
Source: Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male
“After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.”
“After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”
“After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.”