A Quotes
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“All love stories are the same.”
“All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in which God shared communion with human life, thus preparing for that greater Eucharist when human life would commune with the Divine. Mary’s joy was to form Christ in her own body; her joy now is to form Christ in our souls. In this Mystery, we pray to become pregnant with the Christ spirit, giving Him new lips with which He may speak of His Father, new hands with which He may feed the poor, and a new heart with which He may love everyone, even enemies.”
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Source: Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion
“All love turns to ash and is reborn to death.”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.”
Source: The Princess Treasury
“All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.”
Source: The Supplementary Works of William Shakspeare [i.e. Shakespeare]: Comprising His Poems and Doubtful Plays : with Glossarial and Other Notes
“All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.”
Source: Selected poems
“All lovers are unique. Bad sex can be very thrilling for the heart.”
“All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by the two of them alone. ("The Dead Town")”
Source: Hans Cadzand's Vocation & Other Stories
“All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.”
“All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!”
“All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.”
“All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.”
Source: Some of the
“All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.”
“All Mad"
'He is mad as a hare, poor fellow,
And should be in chains,' you say,
I haven't a doubt of your statement,
But who isn't mad, I pray?
Why, the world is a great asylum,
And the people are all insane,
Gone daft with pleasure or folly,
Or crazed with passion and pain.
The infant who shrieks at a shadow,
The child with his Santa Claus faith,
The woman who worships Dame Fashion,
Each man with his notions of death,
The miser who hoards up his earnings,
The spendthrift who wastes them too soon,
The scholar grown blind in his delving,
The lover who stares at the moon.
The poet who thinks life a paean,
The cynic who thinks it a fraud,
The youth who goes seeking for pleasure,
The preacher who dares talk of God,
All priests with their creeds and their croaking,
All doubters who dare to deny,
The gay who find aught to wake laughter,
The sad who find aught worth a sigh,
Whoever is downcast or solemn,
Whoever is gleeful and gay,
Are only the dupes of delusions—
We are all of us—all of us mad.”
“All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'”
“All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.”
“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“All major cities in the world look best at night because night skilfully hides their ugly side!”
“All major philosophers are “right” to a greater or lesser extent. It’s not merely a matter of right and wrong but of improving thought and discoveries that lead to a clearer understanding of the world. Every major philosopher provided a bit of understanding that clarified the crucial problems, even for those who objected to the ideas of the same philosophers.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.”
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
“All make mistakes but the important thing then should be,
Learn from them and do not repeat them subsequently.
[230] - 4 (Thoughts)”
Source: Eddies of Life
“All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.”
“All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.”
Source: Memories of My Life
“All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.”
Source: Wonder Boys
“All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.”
Source: Timequake
“All mammals dream. All mammals share the same neural structures that are important in sleeping and dreaming. If a person loses the ability to dream, they will die. Entering into a restorative dream world, our cells replenish themselves. In our dreams, we can engage in playacting without undertaking actual risks. Dreaming is an aesthetic activity, a creative act of communing with oneself in code. Dreams allow for the rehearsal of our participation in nerve-racking scenarios, dreaming enables a person to simulate reality in order to better prepare for real-life threats. The Platonic dualism of physical courage and spiritual courage can tryout roles in our dreams. The dream world allows us to explore acrobatic thrills and confront our personal house of horrors. Ministering dreams allow lingering anxieties to take form of objects and images of other people, aiding us confront our fears playacted in nighttime theater with morning courage. Without lifelike dreams, we would encounter difficulties dealing with exterior reality. Dreams assisting human beings emotionally process latent suspicions, doubts, uncertainties, and unrequited desires.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them”
“All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.”
“All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!”
“All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.”
“All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.”
“All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.”
“All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.”
“All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
“All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace.”
Source: Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness
“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”
“All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action”
“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.”
“All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.”
“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
“All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another”
Source: The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life