A Quotes
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“All deserts are born of human coldness.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“All design is the process of making experiences.”
“All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.”
“All desirable qualities are, in essence, spiritual ideas. Beauty, purity, love, kindness, warmth, joy, humour, creativity, talent, power, intelligence, protection, and forthrightness are expressions of God manifest in the world. We appreciate every lovely quality that comes to us through the life of another but, ultimately, God is the source of all good, not another person. Our connection with others is primarily based on letting the inner spiritual beauty spring forth into life in the many and varied ways it will choose to do so. Our happiness, peace, safety, and individual development is protected and we find that all things will work together for good.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.”
“All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“All desire to laugh fled. How exactly did Strike think that it would cheer Robin up, to know that his girlfriend was thinking of buying a ludicrously expensive flat? Or was he about to announce (Robin's fragile mood began to collapse in on itself) that he and Elin were moving in together? Like a film flickering rapidly before her eyes she saw the upstairs flat empty, Strike living in luxury, herself in a tiny box room on the edge of London, whispering into her mobile so that her vegan landlady did not hear her.”
Source: Career of Evil
“All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.”
“All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up.”
Source: Greenlights
“All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.”
“All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.”
Source: My Remarkable Uncle
“All dictators must understand that all the nightmares they have created for innocent people will one day come back for the dictator himself!”
“All differences in this world are of degree not of kind because oneness is the secret of everything”
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
Source: Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”
Source: The Simple Way
“All difficulties are easy when they are known.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“All digital or virtual currencies apart from cryptocurrency are centralized, with the control vested in the central bank and other government agencies.”
Source: Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits
“All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here.”
“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
“All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.”
“All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.”
“All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.”
“All directors on all sets behave slightly differently depending on what the scene is. For example, if you are doing a love scene, which is intimate then the director is likely to be intimate. If you are doing a scene where everyone is mucking around and laughing then the director is likely to start with that. If you are playing a scene which us incredibly heavy and everyone getting killed then there are probably not many laughs on the set.”
“All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.”
“All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.”
“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, `This is the only area where I let down.` Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.”
“All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built upon the idea of accidental changes that resulted in complex living systems. I was unable to comprehend how the notion that an infinite number of random accidents systematically happened to produce living species, and kept improving these beings, is justified.”
Source: Clinging to a Myth: The Story Behind Evolution
“All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.”
“All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit; rather, every discourse is, in some sense, religious. The playing field has been leveled. Theology is most persistently postmodern when it rejects a lingering correlational false humility and instead speaks unapologetically from the the primacy of Christian revelation and the church's confessional language.”
Source: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
“All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir
“All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.”
Source: Culture Is Our Business
“All discrimination - whatever form it takes - is evil and that the world can go to pieces because of it.”
“All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.”
Source: The Mysterious Universe
“All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.”
Source: A fanfare for Prometheus
“All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.”
“All disease begins in the gut.”
“All disease, disorder and addictions stem from the yearning to reunite with one’s soul.”
“All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.”
Source: The Game of Life and How to Play It
“All disease, she {Mary Baker Eddy}, asserted in her 1876 first edition of 'Science and Health,' the bible of her new faith, was a fiction of the soul. Neither disease nor matter existed. Both were creations of the soul which symbolized the universal mind, of Jesus Christ, at work.”
Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
“All disease starts in the gut.”
“All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.”
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
“All diseases and disorders have some spiritual connection and serve as stepping stones for us to listen to and learn from.”
“All diseases begin in the gut.”
“All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.”
“All diseases run into one, old age.”