A Quotes
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“All in all it's a pretty great day for major league sports. At long last they've decided that gay people are fit to be included in their elite club-one that's already allowed in adulterers, wife-swappers, gamblers, cheaters, rapists, racists and slaughterers of man. Those who've abused spouses, drugs, alcohol, family members and animals. Congratulations, gay athletes. Are you sure you want to hang out with these people?”
“All in all, my dearest: art was a teething problem.”
Source: Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Aspiring to Become One
“All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
“All in all, the lunch date was fine. Like an opened can of soda in its second hour. If you were thirsty, you might take a sip or two, but I carried more hopes walking in to the restaurant than I did walking out.”
Source: Pickup In Aisle Twelve
“All in all, the public health issue concerns do not seem to be a first-order argument against cash at present”
Source: The Curse of Cash
“All in all. You have been. Redeemer. Pain Steeler. My best friend. Please hold my hand.”
Source: Faking Normal
“All in all you're just another brick in the wall”
“All in all, death is something like marriage.”
“All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.”
“All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.”
“All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.”
“All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.”
“All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.”
Source: A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991
“All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.”
“All in all, I'd say,
the world is strangling.”
“All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.”
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.”
Source: ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.”
“All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.”
“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.”
“All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.”
“All in all, the internet is a force for good, providing young entrepreneurs with access to an incredible wealth of information, has changed the way we see the world and is also a great source of innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities.”
“All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers”
“All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.”
“All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.”
“All in all, we might think we like choice, but the question of which choices count and which do not is very, very tricky.”
Source: The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits
“All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.”
“All in Good Time. The ancient Buddhist saying shares, “When the student is ready, the master will appear.” When the timing is right, lessons are learned and miracles can happen. However, when the timing is “out of sync,” even the best of intentions can be met with resistance.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.”
“All in green went my love riding”
“All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.”
Source: Collected Poems
“All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.”
“All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“All in the golden city are like me. There is no envy among them. They all love one another, and are glad because they see how much I love them, everyone.”
“All in the immediate vicinity of the ship, is the blackness of eternal night, and a chaos of foamless water; but, about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky, and looking like the walls of the universe.”
Source: MS. Found in a Bottle
“All in The Mind (The Sonnet)
Mind makes it dark,
Mind makes it bright.
Mind makes us weak,
Mind gives us might.
Mind makes us blind,
Mind gives us sight.
Mind makes us scared,
Mind gives us flight.
Mind makes us greedy,
Mind instills charity.
Mind raises the walls,
Mind wills all unity.
Mind is servant, mind is master.
Once truly aware, mind is hatebuster.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“All in their lifetime carve their own soul's statue.”
Source: Lyric poems. Sylvia; or, the last shepherd. Miscellaneous. Airs from Alpland
“All in your thoughts is how you create, prophecy of your future in the present is to stimulate and manipulate what's to come at a later date. Give attention as I put this food for thought on a line and hook like it's spiritual bait.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“All inanimate objects, things, and living bodies in this universe go through the cycle of inception, maintenance, and dissolution.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.”
“All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ( "Camera obscura of the mind" )”
“All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken stream of Aristotelian shock.”
Source: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste, Vol. 23
“All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish.
[Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]”
“All Indians must dance, everywhere keep on dancing.”
“All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.”
“All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.”
Source: Killosophy
“All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.”
“All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.”