A Quotes
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“All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.”
Source: The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law
“All faithful members of the Lord's Church are equally blessed by priesthood ordinances.”
“All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.”
Source: The Philosophy of Material Nature
“All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.”
“All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.”
“All fame is is being known by people you don’t know, and what’s so great about that?”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.”
“All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.”
Source: All Families are Psychotic
“All families function as a system in which one person's actions affect another and vice versa.”
Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated
“All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.”
Source: Prairie Christmas
“All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.”
“All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.”
“All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.”
“All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders.”
Source: The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice
“All fanaticism is repressed doubt.”
“All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“All fanmail is a bit of fun. We do get some nice letters and some fanatical mail too. There's one woman who thinks me and her are married and has asked when she can come home. That's a bit spooky.”
“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.”
“All fantasy tales bathe in the same myth pool and soak in its archetypes and tropes. It's how each author tosses the stock ingredients of the salad that renders their telling unique.”
“All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.”
Source: Tooth and Claw
“All Fascism did not die with Mussolini. Hitler is finished--but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains. It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than it is to kill the ideas which gave them birth and strength.”
“All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.”
“All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.”
“All fat women look the same; they all look 42.”
“All fates are ‘worse than death’.”
“All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.”
“All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.”
“All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.”
Source: The Adults
“All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily figure, caused perhaps (if not congenital) by some collision in a crowd; by neglect to take exercise, or by taking too much of it; or even by a sudden change of temperature, resulting in a shrinkage or expansion in some too susceptible part of the frame. Therefore, concluded that illustrious Philosopher, neither good conduct nor bad conduct is a fit subject, in any sober estimation, for either praise or blame. For why should you praise, for example, the integrity of a Square who faithfully defends the interests of his client, when you ought in reality rather to admire the exact precision of his right angles? Or again, why blame a lying, thievish Isosceles when you ought rather to deplore the incurable inequality of his sides?
Theoretically, this doctrine is unquestionable; but it has practical drawbacks. In dealing with an Isosceles, if a rascal pleads that he cannot help stealing because of his unevenness, you reply that for that very reason, because he cannot help being a nuisance to his neighbours, you, the Magistrate, cannot help sentencing him to be consumed - and there's an end of the matter. But in little domestic difficulties, where the penalty of consumption, or death, is out of the question, this theory of Configuration sometimes comes in awkwardly; and I must confess that occasionally when one of my own Hexagonal Grandsons pleads as an excuse for his disobedience that a sudden change of the temperature has been too much for his perimeter, and that I ought to lay the blame not on him but on his Configuration, which can only be strengthened by abundance of the choicest sweetmeats, I neither see my way logically to reject, nor practically to accept, his conclusions.
For my own part, I find it best to assume that a good sound scolding or castigation has some latent and strengthening influence on my Grandson's Configuration; though I own that I have no grounds for thinking so. At all events I am not alone in my way of extricating myself from this dilemma; for I find that many of the highest Circles, sitting as Judges in law courts, use praise and blame towards Regular and Irregular Figures; and in their homes I know by experience that, when scolding their children, they speak about "right" or "wrong" as vehemently and passionately as if they believed that these names represented real existences, and that a human Figure is really capable of choosing between them.”
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
“All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.”
“All fear does is waste time.”
“All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias.”
Source: Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
“All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.”
“All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.”
“All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.”
“All fear violence, all are afraid of death.”
“All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.”
Source: Mamet Plays: 3: Glengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; The Shawl; Speed-the-Plow
“All fears are rooted in our lack of predicting and knowing how future events will unfold.”
“All feedback is relevant, even if it's not true.”
Source: Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions
“All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.”
Source: The Price of Loyalty
“All feeling has an equivalent in action or is useless"
"Did you say that?"
Of course not," she says. "Virginia Woolf”
Source: This Raging Light
“All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.”
“All feelings are fleeting.”
“All feelings are pure at origin. The commentary of thoughts and words
pollutes them.”
“All feelings are pure that focus you and raise you up. Any thoughts that match up to your childhood are good. Everything that makes more of you is right.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought”
“All feelings of completeness are tragic.”
“All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.”