A Quotes
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“All languages are composed of dead metaphors as the soil of corpses, but English is perhaps uniquely full of metaphors of this sort, which are not dead but sleeping, and, while making a direct statement, colour it with an implied comparison.”
Source: Seven Types of Ambiguity
“All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.”
Source: The Physyology of Taste
“all large cities are alike at night.”
Source: Only One Year
“All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.”
“All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.”
“All lasting and successful marriages are the result of enduring friendship.”
“All lasting business is built on friendship.”
“All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.”
Source: Universal Laws of Success
“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.”
Source: Benchley--or else!
“All laughter leads to the same conclusion.”
“All law has its essence in causation.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.”
“All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.”
Source: Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
“All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.”
Source: Political Disquisitions: Or, An Inquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses. Illustrated By, and Established Upon Facts and Remarks, Extracted from a Variety of Authors, Ancient and Modern...
“All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.”
“All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.”
“All laws are simulations of reality.”
“All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.”
“All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate
them.”
“All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.”
“All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.”
“All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.”
“All leaders are permanent learners.”
“All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.”
Source: Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential
“All leaders must be good communicators. But let's be clear, communications is not the same as oratory. Let me give you an example. General George C. Marshall was an exemplary public servant and military officer. He helped mobilize our nation for the Second World War and helped lay the foundation for peace as Secretary of State. He communicated through words, but more loudly through his actions.”
“All leaders need three core communication techniques in their toolkit to support Signature Voice: framing, advocacy, and listening and engagement”
Source: Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence
“All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.”
“All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.”
“All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.”
“All learning is derived from things previously known.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.”
“All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.”
“All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.”
Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
“All leftists are constantly scared because they know that the victories they have are really not solid, their victories are the result of authoritarianism and bulliness. They're not the result of a majority of people agreeing with them. They know that a majority of this country is not for gay marriage. They know they've succeeded in bullying the country into it.”
“All legends have a base in fact.”
“All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.”
Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...
“All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.”
Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury
“All lessons worth learning are drenched in blood.”
-Dread Empress Triumphant, First and Only of Her Name”
“All letters of love are
Ridiculous.
They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not
Ridiculous.”
“All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.”
“All levels of ascension involve letting go of things that hold you back.”
“All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.”
“All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”
“All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
“All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.”
Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
“All lies, freckled vows, crying-weeping on your toes
Expected jelly beans gusto, got yourself a life imperfecto
Too good a gal, too arrogant a gal
Too independent, too in need of Chanel
Took a careless ride, leaped for a perilous dive
Now look who thrived, who gave you a vibe.
- Chicken In Chicken Out”
Source: Chicken In Chicken Out