A Quotes
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“After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.”
“After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.”
Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies
“After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.”
“After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.”
“After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.”
“After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.”
“After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.”
“After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.”
“After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.”
Source: My Discovery of America
“After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.”
Source: A Bend in the River
“After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”
Source: The Remains of the Day
“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.”
“After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?”
“After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.”
“After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.”
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.”
Source: The Return
“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
“After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”
Source: Crome Yellow
“After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?”
Source: The House of the Scorpion
“After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”
“After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.”
“After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.”
“After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?”
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”
Source: Little Children: A Novel
“After all, what was more important, in the end, than love?”
Source: The Host
“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.”
“After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
“After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.”
Source: Poems
“After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.”
“After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.”
“After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.”
Source: When We Were Orphans
“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”
Source: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
“After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.”
“After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.”
Source: Wonderful, Wonderful Times
“After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.”
“After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?”
“After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?”
“After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?”
“After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.”
Source: Works
“After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.”
“After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.”
“After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.”
“After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.”
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”
Source: The Bride Wore Black Leather
“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery