A Quotes
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“Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates
“Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.”
“Aiming to be a wise man is not an act of wisdom, because the act of wisdom is not about becoming something, but about penetrating the spirit and essence of everything, internalizing them, and becoming one with them!”
“Aiming to see darkness when I close my eyes.”
“Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.”
“Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw”
“Aimless life leads to depression”
“Aimlessly working towards progression will not get you far.”
“Aimlessness is a sign that one does not care about their big dreams. Avoid it.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Aimlessness isn’t purposelessness. Not to me. Aimlessness isn’t meaningless. Quite the contrary. Aimlessness isn’t absence from life, it is full-bodied presence in it. To wander aimlessly is to move through the world without the conceit that we actually know what is coming next. That is, to move through the world with grace.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.”
“Ain’ no Black people need no therapists, ’cause we don’ be havin’ those mental issues. OCD, ADD, PTSD, and all those other acronyms they be comin’ up with every day. I’m tellin’ you, the only acronyms Black folk need help with is the NYPD, FBI, CIA, KKK, and KFC, ’cause I know they be puttin’ shit in those twelve-piece bucket meals to make us addicted to them. All that saturated fat, sodium.”
Source: Black Buck
“Ain't Brody sweet?' Ivy whispered. 'He's got a heart of gold beneath all that rubble.”
Source: To Tame a Cowboy
“AIN'T GONNA BE A DRILL IF IT AIN'T DRILLIN'!”
“Ain't Good People (The Sonnet)
Ain't no good people we are,
If goodness means blindness.
Ain't no practical folks we are,
If practicality means selfishness.
Ain't no sane citizens we are,
If sanity means indifference.
Ain't no smart bunch we are,
If smartness brings arrogance.
Ain't no articulate minds we are,
If articulation means mindless accuracy.
Ain't no civilized society we are,
If civilization means hypocrisy.
We are the force capable of mastering a planet.
Let's live not as machines but conscience incarnate.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“Ain't Good People (The Sonnet)
Ain't no good people we,
If goodness means blindness.
Ain't no practical folks we,
If practicality means selfishness.
Ain't no sane citizens we,
If sanity means indifference.
Ain't no smart bunch we,
If smartness brings arrogance.
Ain't no articulate minds we,
If articulation means mindless accuracy.
Ain't no civilized society we,
If civilization means hypocrisy.
We are the force capable of mastering a planet.
Let's live not as machines but conscience incarnate.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“Ain't good to talk too much about infernal affairs if you can avoid it. Tends to make certain things stand up and pay attention.”
Source: Season Of The Witch
“Ain't got no single nation,
Ain't got no single culture.
Human am I, I belong to humans,
Come hell or come high water!”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Ain’t I your man?” he persisted.
“Yeah, Ellis, you’re my man.” Her lips quaked as she said it.”
“Ain't it funny how an old broken bottle
Looks just like a diamond ring.”
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind”
Source: Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Volume 2: Song Tab Edition
“Ain’t it queer that she’d take to stones, bugs, and butterflies, and save them. Now they are going to bring her the very thing she wants the worst. Lord, but this is a funny world when you get to studying! Looks like things didn’t all come by accident. Looks as if there was a plan back of it, and somebody driving that knows the road, and how to handle the lines. Anyhow, Elnora’s in the wagon, and when I get out in the night and the dark closes around me, and I see the stars, I don’t feel so cheap.”
Source: A Girl of the Limberlost
“Ain't My Fourth of July (The Sonnet)
Fourth of July comes and goes,
Yet slavery remains and thrives.
It kills in the name of supremacy,
It causes ruin in a pro-life guise.
Real advocates of life value life,
And place life above all belief.
Belief that values guns over person,
Is only pro-death and pro-disease.
Freedom involves accountability,
Without which we are just free animals.
Those who turn superstition into law,
Are no judge but a bunch of dumbbells.
This ain't my Fourth of July, for I actually value life.
Till all lives are deemed equal, I'll continue to strive.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Ain't no biography writing from the grave, so I am telling it now, with a wordious, Wow!
I AM #EntrePReneurISHing -its a book, brand, and beautiful entrepreneurship elevation stimulation momentum...amusement.”
“Ain't No Coward (Sonnet 1137)
Praying to be saved from danger,
Ain't no spineless coward I.
Let all the dangers hail my way,
Each crisis is like a trip to Hawaii.
Won't listen to no forbiddance,
Won't heed no foreboding.
None can sense the extent of my senses,
Night and day are my own making.
When all are eager for the sun to rise,
I grab the night and conjure up dawn.
Leave no corner of mindland unharvested,
Struggle isn't over till gloom turns to morn.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Ain't no decent woman ever had that many husbands to die from natural causes.”
Source: Chips of Red Paint
“Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.”
Source: Retribution Falls
“Ain't no divinity but humanity.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Ain't No Drama Like Bedroom Drama”
“Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.”
Source: Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
“Ain't no good people we,
If goodness means blindness.
Ain't no practical folks we,
If practicality means selfishness.
Ain't no sane citizens we,
If sanity means indifference.
Ain't no smart bunch we,
If smartness brings arrogance.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“Ain't no harm in doing no harm to your neighbours.”
“Ain't no light that can get through something solid. It sneaks through the broken places.”
Source: Shadows in the Mind's Eye
“Ain’t no problem holding on to grief - as long as you make room for other things too. Bubble - The Wire”
“Ain’t No Sinner (The Sonnet)
When we think ourselves weak,
We become weak.
When we think ourselves sinner,
We become sinner most meek.
Yes we are fundamentally cruel and divisionistic,
Yes the evil in us is stronger than our good.
That's because our ancestors survived through cruelty,
They didn't have much scope to practice their good.
But we ain’t our ancestors in our way of life,
We don’t have to watch out for predators in every bush.
Then why do we still behave like predators ourselves,
Why don’t we break this tribalistic tradition of ambush!
No more cruelty either on ourselves or on those around!
Embolden your backbone into a fountain of kinship unbound.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Ain’t no use in hate,” Josephine’s mother advises. “Whatever you trying to get away from, hate just binds you to it.”
“Ain’t nobody gonna separate from their
cold hard cash unless they have an unresolved problem, so if
you want to make money, you have to be incredibly clear
about what problem(s) you solve.”
Source: The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave Female Entrepreneur
“Ain't nobody got time for that!”
“Ain't nobody want to adopt me,' he says. 'I thought if I did good, they would let me get back with my brothers, but when they didnt' I said fuck it.”
Source: We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
“Ain't nothing going to eat you while Bubba's around." Caleb laughed. "They might toy with him for a bit but he won't let any past." Caleb to Nick.
"Is something wrong?" Nick to Bubba
"Nah... I just..." Bubba nervous.
"Please, God, Bubba, tell me you're not about to ask me out, are you?" Nick to Bubba.
Bubba made a rude sound at him. "Hell, nah. I'd date Mark first, provided he took a bath so I wouldn't have to fumigate my truck or store."
"But," Bubba continued, "now that you mention it... that is what I wanted to ask you about."
"Dating Mark? Really?" Nick to Bubba.
'Cause the kid with a brand-new license was such an expert on going out with others.”
Source: Inferno
“Ain't nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can't understand her. Love her. That's all you gotta do.”
Source: Into the Free
“Ain't nothing more natural than a girl on a pony.”
Source: Whiskey When We're Dry
“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.”
Source: Beyond Sandy Ridge
“Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—”
Source: These Colors Don't Run
“Ain’t nothing wrong with a little crew love!” True mocked her.”
“Ain't that a kick in a behind? We beat 'em fifteen years ago by bombing two of their cities to radioactive dust, but do they die? No! They hide in their holes until the dust settles, then come crawling back out armed with circuit boards and soldering irons instead of Nambu machine guns. By 1985, they'll own the world.”
“Ain't The Center (The Sonnet)
You are the Alpha,
You are Omega.
You are Altair,
You are the Vega.
You are the distance,
You are the contact.
You are the runner,
You are the racetrack.
You are the race,
You are the prize.
You are torchbearer,
You are the light.
You ain't the center of the universe.
For in reality, you are the universe.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Ain't there nothing sapiens can't do,
Ain't no mountain sapiens can't climb.
Ain't no darkness sapiens can't conquer,
Ain't no division sapiens can't undivide.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“ain't worried nobody drip, i drip the best.”
“Ain’t you scared?” she said. Granny cracked her knuckles. “No. But I hope it is.”
Source: Lords and Ladies