A Quotes
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“All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.”
“All I've undergone I will keep on.”
“All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.”
Source: The Secret Agent
“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.”
Source: The Essential Nietzsche
“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.”
“All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.”
“All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.”
Source: The Stones of Florence
“All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.”
“All ideas grow out of other ideas”
“All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].”
“All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.”
Source: You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities
“All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.”
“All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.”
“All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity.”
Source: Essays, moral, political, and literary
“All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.”
“All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.”
“All images and meaningful glimpses do but teach you deeper things, I thought again, as I had in the Temple, when I had settled for the consolation of a basalt statue.”
Source: Pandora
“All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.”
“All immigrants are dreamers, I suppose, and nearly everyone in Hong Kong is an immigrant one way or another.”
Source: Diamond Hill
“All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.”
“All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.”
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.”
“All Imperial officers should be prepared to sacrifice their lives to do their duty.”
Source: Lost Stars
“All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.”
“All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.”
“All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.”
“All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.”
Source: Eda LeShan on Living your life: based on the CBS Radio Network series
“All important things are hard.”
“All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.”
“All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.”
Source: Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia ... A new edition, with engravings
“All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.”
“All improvement happens project by project and in no other way.”
“All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.”
“All improvement is self-improvement.”
“All improvements, transformations, achievements, liberations; everything you want to change about yourself and your life; everything you want to make happen and any obstacle you want to overcome, any crisis you must survive -- the prerequisite is being able to allow yourself to feel whatever it is you feel and not pretend to feel something you don't.
So the first thing you need to do if you want to truly improve your life, or just survive the worst it has to throw your way, is to go now and stand before your bathroom mirror.
And wipe that fucking smile off your face.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“All’improvviso i loro sensi si fecero più attenti. Man mano che si addentravano nel quartiere, un formicolio sinistro li pizzicò alla base della nuca. Un presagio di morte, la puzza di marcio,l’olezzo del mondo infernale.”
“All'improvviso mi sembra che una delle differenze tra la gioventù è la vecchiaia potrebbe essere questa: da giovani, ci inventiamo un futuro diverso per noi stessi; da vecchi, un passato diverso per gli altri.
da "Il senso di una fine”
“ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“All in a moment Hurlow forgot the beauty of the sounds and smelt fear. He smelt it as an animal smells it, the breath cold in his nostrils. He had read about Pan, a dead god who might safely be patronized while poring over a book in a London lodging, but here and at this hour a god not to be scorned. ("Furze Hollow")”
“All in all, a boy with more than the average share of problems, probably destined to end up no different than his father, or in jail, or in some other kind of trouble. The first time a cop crossed him, or a bookie demanded his money, or he was bounced from a job, would be the beginning of the end. There were kids like him in gutters and jail cells all around the country.”
“All in all, even some kinds of unexpected and ridiculous disappointments couldn’t diminish the astonishment of being in this place with its spectacular nature.”
Source: MALDIVES... THE PARADISE
“All in all, French armies wrought much suffering in Europe, but they also radically changed the lay of the land.
In much of Europe, gone were feudal relations; the power of
the guilds; the absolutist control of monarchs and princes;
the grip of the clergy on economic, social, and political
power; and the foundation of ancien régime, which treated
different people unequally based on their birth status.
These changes created the type of inclusive economic
institutions that would then allow industrialization to take
root in these places. By the middle of the nineteenth
century, industrialization was rapidly under way in almost all
the places that the French controlled, whereas places such
as Austria-Hungary and Russia, which the French did not
conquer, or Poland and Spain, where French hold was
temporary and limited, were still largely stagnant.”
“All in all, he thought it was a bad idea to get involved with the woman investigating his ex's possible suicide with intent to haunt.”
Source: Small Town Tales: Volume 1
“All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *”
Source: Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook
“All in all is all we are.”
“All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.”
“All in all, it was as if a clean wind from the blue mountains had blown through this army, sweeping away weariness and doubt and restoring the spirit with which the men had first started out; restoring, for the last time in this war—perhaps for the last time anywhere—that strange, magical light which rested once upon the landscape of a young and totally unsophisticated country, whose perfect embodiment the army was. In a way, this army was fighting against reality, just as was Lee’s army. The dream which possessed the land before 1861 was passing away in blood and fire. One age was ending and another was being born, with agony of dissolution and agony of birth terribly mingled; and in the Army of the Potomac—in its background, its coming together, its memories of the American life which it imagined it was fighting to preserve—there was the final expression of an era which is still part of our heritage but which is no longer a part of any living memories.”
Source: Mr. Lincoln's Army
“All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.”
Source: Chuck Berry: The Autobiography