A Quotes
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“All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.”
Source: Within this Present
“All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”
Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game
“All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.”
“All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.”
Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon
“All battles are won before they start.”
“All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.”
“All bayonets are bad.”
“All bear the burden of hypocrisy to some degree. How well do you minimize yours for the sake of fairness and consistency in thought and action?”
“All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.”
“All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.”
Source: Persons and Places
“All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.”
“All beautiful distractions, ignites from you.”
“All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.”
“All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.”
“All beautiful things must end. Otherwise they are not beautiful.”
“All beautiful things of life.”
“All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.”
Source: End Of The World Blues
“All beauty calls you to me, and you seem,
Past twice a thousand miles of shifting sea,
To reach me. You are as the wind I breathe
Here on the ship's sun-smitten topmost deck,
With only light between the heavens and me.
I feel your spirit and I close my eyes,
Knowing the bright hair blowing in the sun,
The eager whisper and the searching eyes.
Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face
Nor touch me. Only stand and watch awhile
The blue unbroken circle of sea.
Look far away and let me ease my heart
Of words that beat in it with broken wing.
Look far away, and if I say too much,
Forget that I am speaking. Only watch,
How like a gull that sparking sinks to rest,
The foam-crest drifts along a happy wave
Toward the bright verge, the boundary of the world.
I am so weak a thing, praise me for this,
That in some strange way I was strong enough
To keep my love unuttered and to stand
Altho' I longed to kneel to you that night
You looked at me with ever-calling eyes.
Was I not calm? And if you guessed my love
You thought it something delicate and free,
Soft as the sound of fir-trees in the wind,
Fleeting as phosphorescent stars in foam.
Yet in my heart there was a beating storm
Bending my thoughts before it, and I strove
To say too little lest I say too much,
And from my eyes to drive love’s happy shame.
Yet when I heard your name the first far time
It seemed like other names to me, and I
Was all unconscious, as a dreaming river
That nears at last its long predestined sea;
And when you spoke to me, I did not know
That to my life’s high altar came its priest.
But now I know between my God and me
You stand forever, nearer God than I,
And in your hands with faith and utter joy
I would that I could lay my woman’s soul.
Oh, my love
To whom I cannot come with any gift
Of body or of soul, I pass and go.
But sometimes when you hear blown back to you
My wistful, far-off singing touched with tears,
Know that I sang for you alone to hear,
And that I wondered if the wind would bring
To him who tuned my heart its distant song.
So might a woman who in loneliness
Had borne a child, dreaming of days to come,
Wonder if it would please its father’s eyes.
But long before I ever heard your name,
Always the undertone’s unchanging note
In all my singing had prefigured you,
Foretold you as a spark foretells a flame.
Yet I was free as an untethered cloud
In the great space between the sky and sea,
And might have blown before the wind of joy
Like a bright banner woven by the sun.
I did not know the longing in the night–
You who have waked me cannot give me sleep.
All things in all the world can rest, but I,
Even the smooth brief respite of a wave
When it gives up its broken crown of foam,
Even that little rest I may not have.
And yet all quiet loves of friends, all joy
In all the piercing beauty of the world
I would give up– go blind forevermore,
Rather than have God blot from out my soul
Remembrance of your voice that said my name.
For us no starlight stilled the April fields,
No birds awoke in darking trees for us,
Yet where we walked the city’s street that night
Felt in our feet the singing fire of spring,
And in our path we left a trail of light
Soft as the phosphorescence of the sea
When night submerges in the vessel’s wake
A heaven of unborn evanescent stars.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
“All beauty contains darkness.”
Source: Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love
“All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell.”
Source: The Resistance
“All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”
Source: James and the children: a consideration of Henry James's The turn of the screw
“All beauty is in the long run only fineness of truth, or what we call expression, the finer accommodation of speech to that vision within.”
Source: Appreciations, With an Essay on Style
“All beauty is sad. [...] For it fades.”
“All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.”
“All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.”
“All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.”
“All beauty, resonance, integrity,
Exist by deprivation or logic
Of strange position.”
Source: Selected poems
“All became the same, indistinguishable: mediocrely skilled, lovers of the same things, and dreamers of the same desire. No one would have suffered from another’s talent, endured detestable individualities, or been endangered by embarrassing diversities. While no one would have been happier anymore, nobody would have had to question their beliefs.
(From: Hyperuranium)”
Source: Incredible Stories at the Bus Stop: A Flash Fiction Collection on Human Experience
“All because I fell in love with a madman.”
Source: Strength
“All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal”
“All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.”
“All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.”
Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“All began in the name of Civilisation, Christianity, Commerce and then Colonisation.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.”
“All beginnings are hard.”
“All beginnings are involuntary.”
“All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.”
“All beginnings are very troublesome things.”
Source: Traits and Trials of Early Life
“All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.”
Source: Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes in Administrative Organization
“All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.”
“All beings are born to delusion... overcome by the dualities which arise from wish and hate....But those men of virtuous deedsin whom sin has come to an end, freed from the delusion of dualities, worship Me steadfast in their vows.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
“All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.”
“All beings are encompassed within one all-encompassing great energy: So I understood from the coolness of this morning's passing breeze.”
“All beings are flowers blossoming In a blossoming universe.”
“All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.”
“All beings are vast multidimensional masters. They may be exploring divinity or limitation, but they are masters nonetheless. Then it becomes ok to simply allow them their process.”
“All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.”
“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”
Source: The Jewel