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“Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.”
“Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.”
Source: Changeless
“Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.”
“Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?”
“Alexier found that a dose of humility did wonders to one’s ability to grasp new ideas and, after all, it had been this very ability that made him the researcher he was today.”
“Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would be an accomplishment. But this is a book that is truly riveting, a narrative that gallops. Lizzy Borden eat your heart out. Here’s a real crime of passion. Or was it? I dare you to pick this one up and try, just try to put it down.”
“Alexis, come with me to Fiji,” Jason whispered, holding her body close to his, sounding just as breathless as she was.
“I would love to go with you, Jason,” Alexis whispered, her smile stretching bigger with each word that registered in Jason’s eyes.
“Really?” Jason asked, sounding like an excited kid with a smile to match.
“Yes,” Alexis laughed.
Jason flipped her onto her back so she was lying under him on the bed and kissed her fervently, grinding himself into her with his excitement. He planted kisses on every inch of her he could reach, her cheeks, her chin, nose, mouth, ears, and neck. He was everywhere, blurring himself into her with each soft placement of his lips.
“You have made me the absolute happiest man in the world tonight, Alexis. You have no idea how many times I have wanted to ask you today, or how anxious I was to hear your answer. The idea of having to say goodbye to you in two days was killing me. I can’t imagine not being with you, babe,” Jason whispered into her ear as his lips and teeth grazed her lobe.
Alexis had closed her eyes at Jason’s touch, but they popped open when he reminded her how soon she and her friends would have been leaving. “Was it really only two more days?” Alexis asked.
“Not anymore, babe,” Jason said, holding both sides of her face and kissing her adoringly.”
Source: The Shoreline
“Alexis de Tocqueville admired the laws that formally established America's democratic order, but he argued that voluntary organizations were the real source of the nation's robust civic life. John Dewey claimed that social connection is predicated on "the vitality and depth of close and direct intercourse and attachment." "Democracy begins at home," he famously wrote, "and its home is the neighborly community.”
Source: Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
“Alexis de Tocqueville warned that as the economy and government of America got bigger, citizens could become smaller: less practiced in the forms of everyday power, more dependent on vast distant social machines, more isolated and atomized--and therefore more susceptible to despotism.
He warned that if the "habits of the heart" fed by civic clubs and active self-government evaporated, citizens would regress to pure egoism. They would stop thinking about things greater than their immediate circle. Public life would disappear. And that would only accelerate their own disempowerment.
This is painfully close to a description of the United States since Trump and Europe since Brexit. And the only way to reverse this vicious cycle of retreat and atrophy is to reverse it: to find a sense of purpose that is greater than the self, and to exercise power with others and for others in democratic life.”
Source: You're More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen
“Alexis grabbed his arm. "Tom Jones? Wow, I totally love Tom Jones. He's like quintessential Vegas—over the top and indecent fun. Let me just go grab a pair of underwear to throw at him and we'll be all set."
Over his undead body. If anyone was getting her underwear tossed in his face, it was going to be him.
"I don't think so, Ball Buster. You're not giving your panties to an old man."
"Oh, and you're so young, Garlic?"
"Garlic?" What the hell was that?
"Yep. Now we have pet names for each other, isn't that adorable? You're Garlic and I'm Ball Buster. Now everyone will believe we're a real couple.”
“Alfazon Me Wo Dam Kahan Jo Bayan kare Shakhsiyat Hamari, Rubaru Hona hai to Aghosh Me Aana Hoga, Yun Dekhne Bhar Se Nasha Nahi Hota Jaan Lo Shaaqi, Hum Ek Zaam Hain, Hamen Honthon se lagana Hoga…!!!!!! Hamari Aah se Paani me bhi Angare Dahak Jate hain, Hum se Mil Kar Murdon ke bhi Dil Dhadak Jate Hain….. Gustakhi Mat Karna Hum se Dil Lagane ki Shaaqi, Hamari Nazron se Takra ke May ke Payale Chatakh Jate Hain !!!!!!!!”
“Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.”
“Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing a part like a gay man for quite a long time. Until it turned out that I indeed got married to Tonks. I changed my whole performance after that. Just saw it as a phase he went through.”
“Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain”
Source: Salt
“Alfred Adler, desarrolló la teoría del complejo de inferioridad.
Según Adler, los niños que sufren una percepción de desarraigo a resultas de haber padecido una infancia mala, plena de burlas, sufrimientos, rechazos, tienden a buscar “sobre compensaciones” que pueden ser en la forma de determinados logros exagerados. Aquí también ves que las humillaciones, las líneas vergonzosas de la propia biografía, pueden modificar la propia posición en el Mapa de la Autoestima, llevando a que se necesiten, de manera más urgente, determinadas hazañas.
La “hazaña escudo” es lo mismo que la sobre-compensación de Adler, pero a futuro.
Si la compensación, es una hazaña que se busca para que duela menos la anti-hazaña que ya tenemos, que ya sufrimos, la hazaña escudo, en cambio, es un paragolpes que preparamos por un miedo enfermizo que tenemos a la posible llegada de una anti-hazaña. Es un paragolpes. Es como una anestesia de baja calidad para que, si llega la anti-hazaña, duela menos.
Como desarrollaremos en este capítulo, las hazañas escudo están detrás de certezas como pesimismo, hipocondría, delirios de persecución, y de comportamientos como auto-boicot, agresividad paranoide, etc.”
Source: EL M.A.S. Y EL M.A.P.: una teoría psicológica
“Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."”
“Alfred found learning dead, and he restored it. Education neglected, and he revived it. The laws powerless, and he gave them force. The Church debased, and he raised it. The land ravaged by a fearful enemy, from which he delivered it. Alfred's name will live as long as mankind shall respect the past.”
“Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.”
“Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.”
“Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.”
“Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.”
“Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.”
Source: Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam
“Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.”
“Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.”
“Alfred ought never to be confused with King Arthur, equally memorable but probably non-existent and therefore perhaps less important historically (unless he did exist).”
Source: 1066 and all that: A memorable history of England
“Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.”
“Alfred Schnittke was an important contemporary composer, and he lived in Germany, but no one here has heard of him. Everyone has heard of Mozart, and many believe that he can still be found in that little house in Salzburg, which is why people stand there in line. I think that our music and our art belong to our era. If the public doesn't show up, it must be stupid.”
“Alfred, when it happened with Mother and Father, how did you help me?
Master Bruce, with all due respect, each night you leave this perfectly lovely house and go leaping off buildings dressed as a giant bat. Do you really think I helped you?”
Source: Batman, Vol. 1: I Am Gotham
“Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.”
“Alfredo Di Stefano changed the history of this club and he changed the history of football. He has left us, but his legend will live forever.”
“Alfredo Di Stefano is Real Madrid. His alliance with this club changed the destiny of this institution. Alfredo was the best in every sense of the word, for how he revolutionised football and for the values he had. Now it is our duty to tell those who never him saw him play that he changed everything. Madrid was his home and his life and we will give him the homage he deserves. He came here to stay and his presence in Madrid is eternal. Alfredo Di Stefano, Real Madrid’s honorary president, Real Madrid will never forget you.”
“Alfredo di Stéfano is maybe the greatest player I have ever seen. I watched him in a match when Manchester United played against Real in the semi-final of the European Cup in Madrid the year before the accident. In those days, there was no substitutes' bench; if you weren't playing, you were in the stand. I felt like I was looking down on what looked like a Subbuteo table—I was that high up—but I couldn't take my eyes off this midfield player and I thought, Who on earth is that?
He ran the whole show and had the ball almost all the time. I used to dream of that, and I used to hate it when anyone else got it. They beat us 3-1 and he dictated the whole game. I'd never seen anything like it before—someone who influenced the entire match. Everything went through him. The goalkeeper gave it to him, the full backs were giving it to him, the midfield players were linking up with him and the forwards were looking for him.
And there was Gento playing alongside and Di Stefano just timed his passes perfectly for him. Gento ran so fast you couldn't get him offside. And I was just sitting there, watching, thinking it was the best thing I had ever seen.
But I had been forewarned a bit by Matt Busby, the manager at the time, because he had been across and seen them play a match in Nice before the semi—in those days it wasn't easy to do that—and, when he came back, we asked him what they were like, but he didn't want to tell us. And I understood why he didn't when I saw them. I think he knew that, if he had said they were the best players he'd ever seen, it would have been all over for us before we'd started.
And this was when Di Stefano was thirty. What must he have been like in his youth?”
“Alfredo was the first Galactico. In fact, he was worth any three of them put together.”
“Alfvén dismissed in his address religion as a 'myth'...”
Source: Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology
“Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.”
“Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then Kisten —until I had pinned him in an elevator in a foolish moment of vampire-induced passion. It's hard to be scared of someone after you've French-kissed him.”
Source: Every Which Way But Dead
“Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Algebra applies to the clouds.”
Source: Saint Denis
“Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.”
“ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.”
Source: A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other. To which is Added an Appendix Concerning the General Properties of Geometrical Lines
“Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.”
“Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.”
“Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words;
geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.”
“Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.”
“Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.”
Source: Aims of Education
“Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.”
“Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.”
“Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.”
Source: Tamar
“Algebra-Read pages 7-14. Do the odd numbered problems. From what I've seen, they're all pretty odd.”
Source: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
“Algebra-Readpages 7-14. Do the odd numbered problems. From what I've seen, they're all pretty odd.”
Source: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie