A Quotes
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“All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.”
“All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with a deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.”
“All moments are hard because I am constantly reminded that he is
gone. What do you say in the face of such a brutal reality?
Say, I'm so-o-o sorry, and then touch me.”
“All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.”
“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they're going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy--all at once. After all, we're not superwomen.”
“All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
“All money comes from the worth of time”
“All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.”
“All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.”
“All money is a matter of belief.”
“All money is essentially merchandize.”
“All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.”
“All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.”
“All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.”
Source: Do it; scenarios of the revolution
“All Mongol women are born to the horse and the bow.”
“All monsters have their fits of depression.”
“All moods have a cause. If you change the root cause, then your mood will follow suit. Furthermore, mood is a choice. It may not be a completely free choice, but you can choose which mood you spend the most time in.”
“All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.”
“All moral judgment is ultimately about the direction toward better or worse, never an absolute truth or fact.”
Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are
“All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.”
“All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.”
Source: Soteriology, eschatology
“All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.”
“All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it.”
Source: Moral and Political Philosophy
“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“All morning it has been raining.
In the language of the garden, this is happiness.”
“All morning Sirine winds the bread dough in and out of itself, spins cabbage leaves, fat and silky, around rice and currants. She puts new ingredients in a salad, a frill of nuts, fresh herbs, dried fruit. Um-Nadia samples her salad, which tastes of ocean and beach grass, and she seems startled. "It's so good," she murmurs.
Sirine hums and stirs. She sifts through bags of wild rice. While Victor rushes around, assembling the usual plates of hummus and tabbouleh, she makes a mustard out of crushed grapes, a cake with lashings of cinnamon and pepper.”
Source: Crescent
“All morning the
Morning has been blackening,
A flower left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.
They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark water.”
Source: Ariel
“All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.”
“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”
Source: Joyful Christian
“All mother witches blew in from Egypt and other ancient African air.”
Source: Cake in the Blackbird Stew
“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.”
“All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.”
Source: Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann
“All mothers are slightly insane.”
“All mothers are working mothers.”
“All mothers breed dead children.”
Source: Where Pain Thrives
“All mothers go through the exact same things.”
“All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.”
“All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.”
“All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.”
Source: World of wonders
“All motion consists of two components. One component serves inwardness (internalisation) and the other outwardness (dispersion). Both preconditions for motion regulate the eternal flow of metamorphosis (panta Rhei).”
Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
“All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral.”
“All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.”
Source: The Law of the Higher Potential
“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still”
Source: Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
“All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.”
“All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.”
Source: The Last Werewolf