A Quotes
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“After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.
Humanity has understood nothing.
Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.
The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.”
“After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.”
“After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.”
“After wriggling over multiple keys, Anna shut the computer as if locking away an explosive device.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.”
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.”
“After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I feel myself pulled back to the same themes, sometimes even the same moments, and I'm not sure that I want that.”
“After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.”
“After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.”
“After writing several Nutbrown Hare stories, I thought: what might happen when a little hare begins to explore the space around him? (Think of rivers, mountains, fields and trees!) Will there be fun? Oh yes. Will there be trouble ahead? Could be. For you, here are some of the adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare.”
“After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have to feel, believe, and admit that I do not have conscious control over my selves. It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would be easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.”
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.”
“After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn't.”
“after years and years of nonsense dreams, he finally dreamed of reality, and she was the light that woke him up”
“After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself.”
Source: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
“After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.”
“After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.”
“After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale.”
“After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.”
“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable houses may never know.”
Source: Learning to Walk in the Dark
“After years of breaking Rules and settling for random hookups, she finally meets a cute guy and after one kiss she has an aha! moment. She realizes that she does want a healthy loving relationship, not just a lot of texting and sex.”
Source: Not Your Mother's Rules: The New Secrets for Dating
“After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.”
“After years of commuting, my entrepreneurial father had the foresight to remodel our overbuilt three-story house and convert part of the basement into his dental practice. To work from one’s home was a new concept. Giving up his NY office made financial sense. He saved money on gasoline and gained more free time without his former need to commute.”
Source: Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur
“After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999
“After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.”
“After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.”
“After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.”
Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”
Source: Boy's Life
“After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.”
“After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.”
“After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.”
“After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.”
“After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.”
Source: The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
“After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.”
Source: Down Under
“After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.”
“After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.”
“After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.”
“After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.”
“After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them.”
Source: Chicken Soup for the Single's Soul
“After years of selfish lovers, my preference for pleasuring as opposed to being pleasured had unsettled her at first but as brief fumbles had turned into stolen weekends, her confidence and trust in me had grown to the point where she was now totally relaxed and at ease with me. There was nothing, not a single thing I couldn’t do for or to her if I so wished it. We didn’t even have a safe word because we didn’t need one. We just knew.”
Source: The Adventures of Michael Bayswater.
“After years of serving as an IT auditor and consultant, I have extrapolated that many of the largest organizational formations needed effective leadership in generating consumer confidence regarding information systems management.”
“After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California”
“After years of struggling with how I looked, I'm pretty comfortable and proud of my body now.”
“After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from highly trained and reliable lay witnesses to indicate that there are unidentified machine-like objects under intelligent control operating in our atmosphere. Such evidence in some cases is supported by anomalous physical effects upon the witnesses, electrical devices, and the environment, as well as by instrumentation such as radar and Geiger counters.”
“After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.”
“After years of toil and grief
I turn and face forward
in my unexpected seat
on the train to Eden”
Source: Stranger to the Beautiful
“After years of touring, my voice has gotten a lot stronger. I used to just blow out after two or three shows, so I've definitely trained my voice, because I can now hit notes that I couldn't hit before.”
“After years of training [as astronaut], you have great confidence in the technology. When you get in your car, you probably feel safe too, even though thousands of people die in car crashes every year.”
“After years of unsuccessful CPAP treatment and a wide range of unpleasant side effects, I started BiPAP treatment.”