A Quotes
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“All is fish that comth to net.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).
“All is flux”
Source: The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature with an Introduction Historical and Critical
“All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!”
“All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The Right to work," or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!”
“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
“All is foreseen but the choice is given.”
“All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.”
“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.”
Source: The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
“All is gloom. The grave is at the door. And now, when weighed down by the pains and aches of old age, when the head inclines to the feet, when the beginning and ending of human existence meet, and helpless infancy and painful old age combine together—at this time, this most needful time, the time for the exercise of that tenderness and affection which children only can exercise toward a declining parent—my poor old grandmother, the devoted mother of twelve children, is left all alone, in yonder little hut, before a few dim embers”
Source: My Bondage and My Freedom
“All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.”
Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export
“All is going well so far. There are some remarks here and there and there are some complaints here and there but we expect to resolve those questions or complaints Sunday and the next day.”
“All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?”
Source: Ender's Game
“All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end.”
“All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.”
“All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.”
“All is in the land and the land reflects in all.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“All is indeed a Blessing
IF you can just see beyond the veils; for it is ‘all’ an illusion and a test, and one of the greatest Divine Mysteries of this life cycle.”
This IS my constant prayer, my mantra, my affirmation, reverberation, reiteration and my ever-living reality.”
“All is knowable. When his mind said no, his heart said what if…”
Source: The Astronomer's Obsession
“All is known in the sacredness of silence.”
“All is laughter and dust. And all is nothing,
since out of unreason comes all that is.”
“All is life is a question of the given time You get to discover the true”
“All is loss that comes between us and Christ.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.”
“All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.”
Source: Winslow Homer
“All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt.”
“All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.”
Source: Watercolor techniques and methods: the twenty basic lessons adapted from The winning ways of watercolor for easy student and studio use
“All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.”
Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
“All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.”
“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“All is not gold that glisters.”
Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed
“All is not gold that glitters,
Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters”
Source: She Stoops to Conquer
“All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.”
“All is not golde that outward shewith bright.”
Source: A Search for Money: Or, The Lamentable Complaint for the Loss of the Wandering Knight, Monsieur L'Argent
“All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.”
“All is not lost
in this wilderness world
we sometimes are
sometimes we spiral through black
lost in night
cloaked in dark dreams of cold concrete
and yet
together
the way can be found
one foot
one step
one star
one breath
and then another.
All is not lost
all is not lost
I am waiting for you
brother.”
Source: The Final Year
“All is not lost, of course. There is still time if we judge teachers, students, and parents, hold them accountable on the same scale, if we truly test teachers, students, and parents, if we make everyone responsible for quality, if we insure that by the end of its sixth year every child in every country can live in libraries to learn almost by osmosis, then our drug, street-gang, rape, and murder scores will suffer themselves near zero. But the Fire Chief, in mid-novel, says it all, predicting the one-minute TV commercial with three images per second and no respite from the bombardment. Listen to him, know what he says, then go sit with your child, open a book, and turn the page.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.”
“All is One (Nature, God)”
“All is one and one is all.”
“All is one, one is all.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“All is One. Solitude is a choice (and so is loneliness).”
“All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
“All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.”
“All is possible for those who dare to die!”
Source: The waverly novels
“All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“All is race - there is no other truth.”
Source: Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1860-1864
“All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.”
“All is safe where all can read," is a quotation from Thomas Jefferson showing his belief in the importance of everyone knowing how to and being able/allowed to read. I would like to take it one step further.
I would say, "All is BETTER when all can read." No matter what you like to read, the ability to read it, understand it, and enjoy it, truly enriches your life.”
“All is still within the quiet branches that reach up into the azure blue sky.”