A Quotes
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“All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.”
Source: The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance
“All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?”
Source: The Quest for Cosmic Justice
“All keyes hang not on one girdle.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“All kidding aside, just be careful around this guy, okay, Gin? A slick smile can hide a lot of sins.” He paused. “Trust me. I know all about that.” “Of course you do. You’ve broken far more hearts than I’ve ever cut into.”
Source: The Spider
“All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.”
“All kids are different, even when they come from you and theoretically have the same culture. Some of my kids had been more outgoing and had an easy time at school. Others were more shy and needed more support. As a parent you are very aware of these differences and are not treating them all the same, given who they are as people.”
“All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.”
“All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't”
“All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'”
“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and someone who believes in them”
“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.”
“All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.”
“All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.”
“All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.”
“All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?”
“All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.”
“All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.”
“ALL kinds of criminals, except infidels, meet death with reasonable serenity. As a rule, there is nothing in the death of a pirate to cast any discredit on his profession. The murderer upon the scaffold, with a priest on either side, smilingly exhorts the multitude to meet him in heaven. The man who has succeeded in making his home a hell, meets death without a quiver, provided he has never expressed any doubt as to the divinity of Christ, or the eternal "procession" of the Holy Ghost. The king who has waged cruel and useless war, who has filled countries with widows and fatherless children, with the maimed and diseased, and who has succeeded in offering to the Moloch of ambition the best and bravest of his subjects, dies like a saint.
All the believing kings are in heaven—all the doubting philosophers in perdition. All the persecutors sleep in peace, and the ashes of those who burned their brothers, sleep in consecrated ground. Libraries could hardly contain the names of the Christian wretches who have filled the world with violence and death in defence of book and creed, and yet they all died the death of the righteous, and no priest, no minister, describes the agony and fear, the remorse and horror with which their guilty souls were filled in the last moments of their lives.
These men had never doubted—they had never thought—they accepted the creed as they did the fashion of their clothes. They were not infidels, they could not be—they had been baptized, they had not denied the divinity of Christ, they had partaken of the "last supper." They respected priests, they admitted that Christ had two natures and the same number of wills; they admitted that the Holy Ghost had "proceeded," and that, according to the multiplication table of heaven, once one is three, and three times one is one, and these things put pillows beneath their heads and covered them with the drapery of peace.
They admitted that while kings and priests did nothing worse than to make their fellows wretched, that so long as they only butchered and burnt the innocent and helpless, God would maintain the strictest neutrality; but when some honest man, some great and tender soul, expressed a doubt as to the truth of the Scriptures, or prayed to the wrong God, or to the right one by the wrong name, then the real God leaped like a wounded tiger upon his victim, and from his quivering flesh tore his wretched soul.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures
“All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.”
“All kinds of indications will come from above and whatever you do must be referred to the Above.”
“All kinds of music comes out that I'm not prepared for. Some of it is good, some of it rubbish, but I kind of accept it all. That's the nature of stream-of-consciousness. You can't always come up with your most lucid material in the heat of the moment. I take that risk when I play live. I open up my mind, however fertile a creative springboard it is that evening.”
“All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.”
Source: Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel
“All kinds of people have completed thru-hikes. One man hiked it in his eighties. Another did it on crutches. A blind man named Bill Irwin hiked the trail with a seeing-eye dog, falling down an estimated 5,000 times in the process. Probably the most famous, certainly the most written about, of all thru-hikers was Emma "Grandma" Gatewood, who successfully hiked the trail twice in her late sixties despite being eccentric, poorly equipped, and a danger to herself. (She was forever getting lost.)”
Source: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.”
“All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.”
“All kinds of things are happening to me. Some I chose, some I didn't. I don't know how to tell one from the other anymore. What I mean is, it feels like everything's been decided in advance - that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.”
“All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are”
“All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8
“All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”
Source: Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books
“All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”
Source: Selected poems
“All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“All knights must bleed, Jaime," Ser Arthur Dayne had said, when he saw. "Blood is the seal of our devotion." With dawn he tapped him on the shoulder; the pale blade was so sharp that even that light touch cut through Jaime's tunic, so he bled anew. He never felt it. A boy knelt; a knight rose. The Young Lion, not the Kingslayer.
But that was long ago, and the boy was dead.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.”
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition
“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
“All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.”
Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“All know the way, but few actually walk it.”
“All knowing is conscious, all understanding subconscious.”
“All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.”
Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation
“All knowledge and all wisdom comes from the unity of the Divine with the essence of life’s breath.
Meditate upon your breath both the—in and the out—and the deepest of peace will be with you.”
“All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.”
“All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.”
“All knowledge begins with an expression of curiosity pertaining to the unknown or unknowable. Expressions of uncertainty and a doubtful nature lead a person to useful discoveries.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections
“All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.”
“All knowledge hurts.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“All knowledge initiates with inquiry. A living philosophy and a profound appreciation for our mortal lives arise from awe. We must each discover what fosters the flowering of our humanity and single-mindedly dedicate ourselves to achieving our purpose.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest.”
Source: The Education Decree