A Quotes
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“Alis had found me a luxurious white velvet cloak for the brisk ride into the hills, and Tamlin had lifted me onto a moon-pale mare with wildflowers woven into her silver mane. If I had wanted to paint a picture of serene purity, it would have been the image I cast that morning, my hair braided above my head, a crown of white hawthorn blossoms upon it. I'd dabbed rouge onto my cheeks and lips- a slight hint of colour. Like the first blush of spring across a winter landscape.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Alis looked me over from head to toe. 'You think a bit of rope snapping in my face will keep me from breaking your bones?' My blood went cold. 'You think that will do anything against one of us?'
I might have kept apologising were it not for the sneer she gave me. I crossed my arms. 'It was a warning bell to give me time to run. Not a trap.'
She seemed poised to spit on me, but then her sharp brown eyes narrowed. 'You can outrun us, either, girl.'
'I know,' I said, my heart calming at last. 'But at least I wouldn't face my death unaware.'
Alis barked out a laugh. 'My master gave his word that you could live here- live, not die. We will obey.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Alis volat propriis-She flies with her own wings- The words every mother thinks when see watches her beautiful daughter leave home to go on her own adventures!”
“Alisha was now sitting in a shabby armchair with her face buried in a tissue. ‘It’s when someone is kind,’ she whispered, ‘You can keep going until someone is kind.”
Source: A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
“Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.”
“Alison continued squeezing the inflatable ball on the blood pressure monitor. I could sense the tension on her face as she carefully licked her lips, then glanced up at him with the subtle nuance of an American Idol judge at a hootenanny.”
Source: Fajitas From Heaven
“Alison drew the door closed, in a manner so quiet that she hoped it showed her complete respect for Colette's state of mind, so quiet that it offered condolences.”
Source: Beyond Black
“Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.”
“Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.”
“Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?”
Source: The Scot Beds His Wife
“Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine”
Source: A Moment to Remember: to Forgive, Divine
“Alistair Crowley used to define magic as anything in which you can exercise your will in the world through the use of your mind. So what's the magical way of opening or closing that door? Well, to will your body to stand up and close or open that door, that's magic. With the iPhone, it's like you put your intent into it, and it helps you exercise that intent in the world.”
“Alistair smiled. 'How long this war has been.'
'I'll say. One hardly remembers how we lived before. Lightly - not worrying much.'
'Do you suppose we shall ever live that way again?'
'Oh, who knows? Given sufficient champagne and ether.'
'Maybe if we stay drunk to the end of our days we shan't remember.”
Source: Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
“Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?”
“Alive is better than dead. Always.”
Source: Wolf Island
“Alive or dead," he told himself, "I am just so much manure. One hundred and sixty-five pounds of it, belong by right to the nearest field of corn. Take me out among the hills and lay me down there, a willing hostage from mankind, a tribute to the silent way, the august overlordship of the Vegetable Kingdom.”
Source: The Eater of Darkness
“Alive or dead,
let Hel hold what she has.”
Source: The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
“Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.”
Source: Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:
“Alive, sheltered, nourished—let your heart be grateful for the gift of this day, for each breath and every quiet moment.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Alive, this man was Manes, a common slave.
Dead, even great Darius is not his peer.”
“ALIVE
With every breath,
Every heartbeat,
Every moment -
I am growing,
I am learning,
I am living.”
Source: My World In Words/ A Collection Of Tales Vol. 1 Compilation
“Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.”
Source: The Hobbit
“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”
Source: The Collector
“Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.”
“Aliveness, he will teach, is a gift available to all by God's grace. It flows not from taking, but giving, not from fear but from faith, not from conflict but from reconciliation, not from domination but from service. It isn't found in the upper trappings of religion -rules and rituals, controversies and scruples, temples and traditions. No, it springs up from our innermost being like a fountain of living water. It intoxicates us lie the best wine ever and so turns life from disappointment into a banquet.”
“Aliveness is the daily choice to show up fully—in my life, in my own skin, in the present moment, and with my authentic voice. It’s a journey inward, paired with an awareness of my connection to everything around me.”
“Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.”
“Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.”
“Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with the spacing and the intensity of imagery on the form in a way which I could not. So that when we established our pottery, I was most unhappy with my decoration.”
“Alix looked at Nikola. With a slight movement of his head, he indicated the open doorway, and she got up and followed him outside. They faced each other, hunched against the wind, and he began quietly, ‘If anything should happen to me…’
She met his eyes and saw something different there. This was not his usual self-pitying ploy to engage her sympathy. He really meant this. Her first instinct was to reply, ‘Nothing will happen. You’ve been in dozens of battles and come out safely.’
‘This could be different,’ he said. ‘I just want you to know, if anything did happen, I have made Dragomir promise to look after you.’
She almost laughed. Dragomir had taken care of her ever since they were forced out of Uzice a year ago. Then she realised what it had cost Nikola to exact that promise. He had been jealous of Drago since they had met in the ruins of Belgrade and he refused to accept that there could be anything between them beyond the relationship of mistress and servant. This was a tacit acceptance that it was much more than that.”
Source: A Call to Home
“Alix’s stomach contracted. The Escort Battalion was normally held in reserve until the crucial moment in any battle, so she should have expected this; but the report from Prozor suggested this would be a more desperate and dangerous fight than any they had experienced. Nikola had proved himself a good commander, in spite of his disability, but his luck might run out at any time – and where Nikola went, Dragomir went too.”
Source: A Call to Home
“Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.”
“Alizeh was no longer smiling. Her heart was beating so hard she thought it might bruise. "What shall I say, then?"
"Your name. I want to hear it from your lips."
She took a breath. Released it slowly.
"My name," she said, "is Alizeh. I am Alizeh of Saam, the daughter of Siavosh and Kiana. Though you may know me better as the lost queen of Arya."
He stiffened at that, went silent.
Finally he moved, one hand capturing her face, his thumb grazing her cheek in a fleeting moment, there and gone again. His voice was a whisper when he said, "Do you wish to know my name, too, Your Majesty?"
"Kamran," she said softly, "I already know who you are."
She was unprepared when he kissed her, for the darkness had denied her a warning before their lips met, before he claimed her mouth with a need that stole from her an anguished sound, a faint cry that shocked her.”
Source: This Woven Kingdom
“Aliás não tenho prazer em falar com ninguém.”
Source: Orgulho e Preconceito
“Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night”
“Alkaid had never opened up to anyone like this, but Enki did not feel special, just tired.”
Source: Wandering Storm
“Alkohol, który we wczesnych fazach prowadzi do podwyższenia nastroju i wyzbycia się zahamowań, później wywołuje depresję i nieuzasadnioną agresję. Amfetamina może powodować przytłumienie afektu, a także złość. To samo dotyczy kokainy. Środki uspokajające i nasenne wzbudzają reakcje złości, ale mogą też wywoływać okresową depresję. Ponieważ te substancje powodują zmiany w neuroprzekaźnikach lub błonach komórkowych, ich jednoczesny wpływ na obie emocje każe wątpić w teorię o biologicznej odrębności tych emocji.”
“Alkohol ubija... znamo, o znamo,
Znamo da alkohol škodi,
No rakije, rakije, rakije amo,
Jer utjehe nema u vodi.”
“All "bad" presentations struggle to keep the audience interested. The audience squirms wishing they could escape. The audience has given the presenter an hour of their life, so they want that hour to be useful. It's disrespectful of a presenter to not show up rehearsed and prepared with information and insights that will improve the lives of the audience in some way. Presenting will do only one of two things for you: it will either diminish your credibility or yield results. Most bad presentations hurt the presenter's credibility.”
“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.”
“All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.”
“All -isms end up in schisms.”
“All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.”
“All 3 Dirty Affliction Novels are only .99 each until March, 31st on Amazon!”
“All 48 of my fights have been hard. None have been easy. All played a major key. It's the 'Mayweather Era.' I feel that every fighter is an artist and they all take pictures their own way. I'm just one of the very best artists.”
“All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.”
“All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.”
“All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last week she’d created a magical Thermos with googly eyes that levitated around the room, yelling, “Exterminate! Exterminate!” until it smacked me in the head.”
“All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.”