A Quotes
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“Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact”
“Alan Varela made a name for himself as a successful civil engineer. Born in Punta Arenas, Chile, he traveled to America and began his college career at Boston University.”
“Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.”
“Alan Watts was the first male to give me goosebumps. I got him from the first minute I listened to him, like he was the remaining missing piece in my own jigsaw puzzle. And I always come back to him. And no matter how much I listen to him, he always gives me goosebumps.”
“Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.”
Source: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness
“Alan Webb is the best thing to happen in this event, but professionals and collegiates don't want to lose to high school guys. I don't want to lose to no one.”
“Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.”
“Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
“Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!”
Source: KIDNAPPED (StoneHenge Classics)
“Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.”
“Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?" Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.”
“Alangkah besarnya kekuasaan pengaruh kebangsawanan pikiran dan budi, sehingga perubahan yang amat besar dalam kehidupan manusia yang sangat banyak dapat diwujudkan dalam waktu beberapa jam saja olehnya.”
Source: Surat-Surat Kartini: Renungan Tentang dan Untuk Bangsanya
“Alangkah senangnya apabila kita mempunyai uang banyak; kita dapat membuat orang lain bahagia sekali.”
Source: Surat-Surat Kartini: Renungan Tentang dan Untuk Bangsanya
“Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee.”
Source: Rising for Autumn
“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
“Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.”
“Alannah’s eyes darted between her open drawer and the bulge in Brendan’s pocket. When her gaze met his, she glared.
‘This is not what it looks like,’ he proclaimed.”
Source: Undeniably Wrong
“Alaric felt Talasyn take a shaky gasp of breath against him, and he hunched further down, further into her, stirred by an instinctive protectiveness that was all he had to give for now. He was rattled by how close she’d come to getting killed—by her former countrymen, no less. He could barely comprehend that she had saved his life, that she had killed a former comrade in order to do so.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“Alaric grabbed her elbow, despair surging from him in waves, and pulled her to him. She let out an indignant squeak as she found herself sprawled on top of his bare chest, her nose inches from his. She held still, careful not to disturb the bandages, and his hand darted from her elbow to her lower back, exposed by the cut of her blue dress, his warm fingers trailing static charges along the base of her spine. She hadn’t realized that she was so sensitive there.
“Don’t go,” he murmured hoarsely, fitfully, a man caught in a fever-dream. “I won’t bring up the rebels again. I won’t breathe another word. Just—don’t leave me, Tala.” The name he had first called her on their wedding night sent a mess of starlit recollections swirling through her at the same time that it caught in his throat, along with what he said next. “Please.”
Talasyn stared into the hollow desolation in Alaric’s gray eyes, the utter defeat. She knew this loneliness. She understood it in the marrow of her bones. “I was going to clean up, that’s all,” she whispered. “I’m not leaving. It’s just—the bucket and—”
“Forget the bucket,” he told her, a hint of his usual imperiousness breaking through the valerian fog. “Stay here.”
“All right.” Not her wittiest moment, but it was difficult to think when she was pressed up against his solid body, his hand on the small of her back. “I’ll stay.”
He looked like he didn’t believe her, and it pierced her heart.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“Alaric now at this moment of supreme crisis, coming down to the rough shore and seeing the howling waves, raised his hand to heaven and called out that the Gulf of Corinth should freeze!
It froze!
And the Goths, shattering the last scrim of Roman interceptors, abandoned their horses and crossed the ice on foot!”
Source: The Fall of Rome
“Alaric’s fingers tightened in her hair, a gentle tugging that lifted her head from the crook of his neck. She blinked down at his pale, anguished features, her pulse quickening as it was caught in the stormy undertow lurking in the haze-ridden depths of his dark eyes. “Be kind to me, wife,” he said.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“Alaric’s large fingers clamped around her wrist, dragging her back down. “No one else can see.” She hesitated, unconvinced and worried sick. He added, his tone uneven and his grip on her tightening, “Don’t, Talasyn.”
His thumb brushed across the inside of her wrist in fretful strokes, and her free hand moved as though of its own accord, wrapping around his, squeezing in reassurance as she asked, "Do you have any bandages, then? I can-"
"Leave it," Alaric told her through clenched teeth. "I'll take care of myself."
“You’re in no condition—”
“I can manage—”
"No, you can’t!”
He gave a start at her raised tone, his powerful body twitching as though it longed to curl in on itself in a protective ball. Thoroughly chastened, she cradled his cheek, the walls that she had so carefully built around herself in his presence crashing down. “Alaric,” she pleaded, “let me help you.” “You shouldn’t even be here.” Despite his rough, strained words, he leaned into her touch with a quiet desperation that made up her mind for her. “I am, anyway,” she retorted. “You’re not getting rid of me that easily.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“Alaric’s lips gave a reluctant twitch. “What you did,” he repeated, overcome by the sense of vague affection that he only ever felt around her, “that was more than anyone else ever …”
She bit her lip, her features crumpling with a pained sorrow that went far too deep for what she knew of his situation. Then she placed her hand over his, where it lay on the strips of woven rattan between them. He was struck dumb by the gentleness of the gesture, by how each touch of her slim fingers burned right through the leather of his gauntlets.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“Alaric said at the time that the man, whom we both knew, had been "possessed by the beast." Hearing these words from Alaric, a man of God, I assumed he meant THE beast, the Devil, and I said so. Alaric, however, quickly brought me to order on my misunderstanding.
It is too easy, he told me, with that simplicity of speech I so admired in him, to blame all our human griefs and ills on Lucifer. In doing so, he said, we can evade responsibility for our own actions, whereas the fault, in truth, is attributable to a lesser, more human beast that alternates constantly between lying dormant or raging savagely within each of us, male and female. The degree to which each of us subjugates our personal beast dictates the goodness, or the greatness, we achieve in this life.”
Source: The Singing Sword
“Alaric.” Talasyn caught his arm. He looked back at her blankly. “The rebel with the crossbow—why didn’t you kill him?” His gray eyes lingered on her hand on his sleeve, then drifted to her face. “Because you told me not to.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“Alarm bells should be going off in your ahead as soon as you start living for the weekend as the sole source of reprieve and relaxation.”
“Alarm clocks are the bane of humanity. Sleep inertia, the decline in motor dexterity, subjective feeling of grogginess, and impaired state of awareness and mental performance is normal after awakening from even a light sleep. Scientific studies reveal that abruptly awakening from a deep sleep amplifies the severity and duration of sleep inertia.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.”
Source: Mercy Blade: A Jane Yellowrock Novel
“Alarmed by the sorrow dragging at her feet
And conscious of the high things not yet won,
Ever she nurses in her sleepless breast
An inward urge that takes from her rest and peace.
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Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Alarmed, Odin announced, “This thing says Mazda on it!”
The group took a close look at the decal on the back of the car. Thor brought his war hammer over his head, “What is it? Can I smash it?”
Odin put his hand up, “No, wait. I don't think that this is a god. Look, there are others named Mazda, too. I think these are used to transport people.”
Source: Operation Cosmic Teapot
“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.”
“Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.”
“Alas, alas! we poor mortals are often little better than wood-ashes — there is small sign of the sap, and the leafy freshness, and the bursting buds that were once there; but wherever we see wood-ashes, we know that all that early fullness of life must have been. I, at least, hardly ever look at a bent old man, or a wizened old woman, but I see also, with my mind’s eye, that Past of which they are the shrunken remnant, and the unfinished romance of rosy cheeks and bright eyes seems sometimes of feeble interest and significance, compared with that drama of hope and love which has long ago reached its catastrophe, and left the poor soul, like a dim and dusty stage, with all its sweet garden-scenes and fair perspectives overturned and thrust out of sight.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“Alas! Alas!
When in the skies there are no limits
only the forceful perseverance of the mind stripping through clouds
and creating the ever so beautiful shades of abundant success.”
Source: Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living
“Alas! An ill fate is on me this day, and all that I do goes amiss!”
“Alas!
Dreaming souls,
only with time,
learn,
they cannot settle
for less.”
Source: DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?
“Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.”
Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel
“Alas! For she was pitted against a foe beyond the strength of her mind or body. And those who will take a weapon to such an enemy must be sterner than steel, if the very shock shall not destroy them. It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, in bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.”
“Alas for the folly of these days!' said Legolas. 'Here all are enemies of the one Enemy, and yet I must walk blind, while the sun is merry in the woodland under leaves of gold!'
'Folly it may seem,' said Haldir. 'Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him. Yet so little faith and trust do we find now in the world beyond Lothlórien, unless maybe in Rivendell, that we dare not by our own trust endanger our land. We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!”
Source: Prose and verse
“Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.”
“Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Alas, higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited
“Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!”
“Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.”
Source: Antigone
“Alas! how terrible it is to know,
Where no good comes of knowing!”
Source: Oedipus Rex
“Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my arms to them in my despair, accusing, cursing, and despising myself. I told them that I had done all this, I alone, that I had brought them corruption, contagion, and lies!”
Source: A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: plus Sonnets from the Porte-Cochere by S. H. Bass