A Quotes
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“All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.”
Source: Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…
“All gods have this problem, Hwi. In the perception of deeper needs, I must often ignore the immediate ones. Not addressing immediate needs is an offense to the young."
"Could you not reason with her and..."
"Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“All gods live in permanent darkness: they are created in ignorance and nurtured in fear. They are inseparable from the fear, for they are the fear.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“All Gods were immortal.”
“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“All Gods will burn when The Queen of Cinders rises from her throne of fire”
“All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.”
Source: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
“All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.”
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.”
“All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.”
“All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.”
“All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.”
“All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.”
“All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.”
“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
“All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.”
Source: Pete Townshend: Who I Am
“All good art is about something deeper than it admits.”
Source: The Great Movies
“All good art is abstract in its structure.”
“All good art is abstract.”
“All good art is an indiscretion.”
Source: Memoirs
“All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.”
“All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.”
“All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.”
“All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.”
“All good books are about everything, abbreviated.”
Source: Grasshopper Jungle
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”
“All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.”
“All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with the knowledge that aforementioned rules are there for a reason.
Of course, the actual message to the careful reader is: break rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?”
Source: Saga, Volume 3
“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.”
“All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.”
“All good dramas are rife with conflicts, and the conflicts have to be resolved. What I think is so great about a show that takes place in a hospital is that you have so many different people with different needs. Sometimes all those can be in conflict. The drama of Heartland also comes from the group of people waiting, and they are sometimes agonizingly waiting for a new organ for their body in order to survive. So the show is so much about survival, which creates a sense of urgency to get the organs. I think that sense of urgency is probably the most prominent dramatic quality to the show.”
“All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.”
“All good government must begin at home.”
Source: Speech in Season
“All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.”
Source: Speech in Season
“All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face.”
Source: Wink Poppy Midnight
“All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.”
“All good ideas are terrible...
Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.”
“All good ideas arrive by chance.”
“All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.”
“All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts, it is equally true that facts cannot be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.”
Source: The Positive Philosophy
“All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts; it is equally true that facts can not be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.”
“All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.”
Source: The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
“All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.”
“All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.”
Source: In Search Of England
“All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.”
“All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship”
Source: The English Pirate
“All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.”