A Quotes
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“All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.”
“All humans share a deep desire to be treated as something of value. Everyone wants to be seen, heard, listened to, and treated fairly.”
Source: Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure
“All humans should have these things in common, and that is the right to be loved, heard and respected.”
“All humans will stand as one, and till they do, I won't sit still.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“ALL humans—you and me—are made up of two components: an animal nature and a divine nature. We don’t say the lion is bad when it kills the gazelle to eat it. That’s because it is an animal. Bad things happen, though, when we humans act in accordance with our animal nature. Not only does it block access to the divine, it causes us to devour others.”
“All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.”
“All humor is rooted in pain.”
“All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?”
“All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.”
Source: The Rosciad ... The eighth edition. With large additions. To which is added, The Smithfield Rosciad
“All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.”
“All hurt is a consequence of focusing on what's dead.”
“All hurt is brain hurt.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.”
“All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.”
“All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.”
“All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.”
Source: Clapton: The Autobiography
“All I am fighting for everyday is to make up for the time I had lost. Use your time wisely.”
“All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.”
“All I am I owe to my mother.”
“All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.”
“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
“All I am is smoke and mirrors.”
“All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.”
“All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world.”
“All I am is what I'm going after.”
“All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.”
“All I am saying is: hold on to your faith, hold on to God, because nothing is impossible. We, the young adults of this world, are the ambassadors of a great tomorrow – of a bright future. - Where I Have Been”
Source: No Greater Love Than This
“All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it or not. All I am saying is that the world needs you to do this, because there is a real shortage of people willing to kneel wherever they are and recognize the holiness holding its sometimes bony, often tender, always life-giving hand above their heads. That we are able to bless one another at all is evidence that we have been blessed, whether we can remember when or not. That we are willing to bless one another is miracle enough to stagger the very stars.”
“All I am saying is that when you really, really like someone, when you feel like they’re the only person you want to see at the end of a long day, when you’ve really gotten to know them and you feel like they’ve gotten to know you, ask them. When you’re no longer interested in pursuing other relationships and other people, or when you’re ready to focus your attention on one person, or when you feel like you can’t stop smiling because this person sparked something within you, ask.”
“All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“All I ask for is you believe in me”
“All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.”
Source: The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin
“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.”
“All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.”
“All I ask is for people to trust me.”
“All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.”
Source: The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America
“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
“All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem
“All I ask is that they remember Christ came unto the poor as a child of the poor. God is among them, on their side, and they needn’t be afraid of men like Renouf, Montefault, or Cavendish.”
Source: Saplings of Sherwood
“All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.”
“All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.”
“All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.”
Source: On Writing
“All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest.”
“All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.”
“All I ask is that you tip your waiters and waitresses. We have to turn this situation around.”
“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.”
“All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.”
“All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.”
“All I ask of all my friends is that they understand this is truly a devastating neurological illness and not just about being a bit tired because its way and above beyond that.
One day ME will be unravelled by the many researchers working tirelessly around the world I hope it's in my lifetime!”
Source: Severe ME : Notes for Carers
“All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd