A Quotes
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“All emotions are only meant to remain with us for a short time. They are simply like little messengers to help us understand the meaning of different experiences we may go through.
And even the difficult emotions are there to help us understand life and ourselves better”
Source: We all feel sometimes
“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.”
“All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.”
“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation.”
Source: Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals And Unconditional Love
“All emotions give us valuable information, and trying to simply clear away problematic emotions equates to denying the wisdom of our emotional body.”
“All emotions stem from beliefs. You can't feel something without believing something to be true first.”
“All emotions,
Whether of gods or men, all loves and passions,
Are of two kinds; they are either inform'd by wisdom,
To reason obedient, - or they are unconducted,
Flames of the burning life.”
Source: Demeter: A Mask
“All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.”
“All empire is no more than power in trust.”
“All empires are created of blood and fire.”
“All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.”
“All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.”
“All empires fall, eventually.”
“But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.[”]”
Source: Lexicon
“All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.”
“All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.”
“All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.”
“All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to revolt against these teets, it would only result in the corporation throwing the person out, and replacing that person with another who would act according to the rules. Form determines content: Corporations are machines.”
“All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.”
“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”
Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
“All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.”
Source: The Museum of Cheats: Stories
“All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“All endings are inexorably tied to new beginnings. That's the
nature of the journey. It continues to unfold. It builds on
itself. It can't help itself from doing that. Cherish the moments,
all of them. You have seen and felt much in life so far. But still,
the best is yet to come.”
“All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.”
Source: Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, Creatures of Forever
“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“All energy flows are positive or negative depending on our ability to control them, or the control, and type of control, that they may have over us.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.”
“All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.”
“All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality TV. Reality TV would be to leave a camera on in front of someone's house. Just leave it on. Then whenever the person comes or goes walking the dog or getting groceries, that's what it would be like. Any time you make an edit, you've lost reality TV. You're either compressing time or extending. That's a term that's been overused and overexposed. I think it's fantasy movies that take the fantasy of movies even further.”
“All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.”
“all entrepreneurs are businessmen, but not all businessmen are entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs bring new ideas to life, while businessmen often optimize and grow existing ones.”
“All envy is proportionate to desire.”
Source: The Rambler
“All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson...
“All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.”
“All equal in the desolation of death.”
Source: Eva Luna
“All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.”
“All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.”
“All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.”
“All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.”
“All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.”
“All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin - it is very difficult, it is almost impossible to be original about sin. For millions of years people have committed everything that can be committed. To be thrown in hell for your sins. Now this is too much! you can throw a man into hell for five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. If a man has lived for seventy years you can throw him there for seventy years.and that is if you only believe in one life. It is good that they believe in one life.”
“All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.”
Source: Money: A Popular Exposition in Rough Notes
“All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.”
“All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.”
“All essential oils have some kind of antibacterial properties, so they can be incorporated into your home-cleaning routine.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“All'essere lontani fisicamente dal luogo di partenza, si aggiunge un'altra lontananza, più intima, la lontananza da se stessi. Vivendo all'estero ci abituiamo a osservarci da fuori, ed è un cambio di prospettiva che intensifica la nostra vita interiore.”
Source: Buongiorno mezzanotte, torno a casa
“All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.”
Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds