A Quotes
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“All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.”
Source: World of Warcraft: War Crimes
“All nihilists have wrestled with God. One more proof of his kinship with nothingness. After you have trampled everything underfoot, his is the last bastion of nothingness left.”
Source: Tears and Saints
“All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.”
Source: Short Century
“All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene”
Source: (420 p.)
“All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.”
“All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.”
“All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.”
Source: Joel on Software
“All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential idea or story to an audience that knows very little about it, and that requires translation. To do this successfully, the writer must filter the idea through the prism of his eye, and his mind, and his writing style.”
“All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.”
“All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.”
“All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.”
Source: Friday
“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”
“All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.”
“All North Koreans know the risk of all their actions. Yeonmi Park grew up in North Korea and says watching outside videos changed her perspective of the world. She says, as a child, all she learned from watching state-run media was love for the Kim regime and North Korea.”
“All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.”
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
“all nothing's only our hugest home;
the most who die, the more we live”
Source: Selected poems
“All notions of order are a myth, only order of the universe is chaos. Expand your sight and you'll realize, there is order in every chaos.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“All notions of probable innocence aside, he seemed more at ease again, though somewhat more alert than before. Rudolf looked at her, more serious now.
“A lot of men who kill have got a reason for what they do. Some are forced into it or have a threat hanging over their heads, natural inclinations they can’t ignore or a festering hatred caused by someone or something.”
Cassia wondered about hatred and that fire of anger that smouldered inside of her, wanting to see the Nemorans slaughtered for what they did to her sisters. She didn’t just want justice, she wanted vengeance. Yet, she felt that went beyond hatred into hurt and the desire to protect others from their violence.”
Source: Fire and Gold
“All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.”
“All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.”
“All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.”
“All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?”
“All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.”
“All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.”
Source: Conversations with Ralph Ellison
“All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.”
“All novels are experimental.”
Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess
“All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.”
“All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”
Source: Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
“All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.”
“All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.”
“All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.”
Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.”
“All nuts sit on their butts - do you?”
“All, O all the calamities of all the Hellenes
are set loose on this battleground in Thasos.”
“All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.”
Source: Bible commentary - Gospel of Matthew
“All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.”
“All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All objects exist in a moment of time.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way.”
“All objects lose by too familiar a view.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream”
Source: Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey
“All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!”
“All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.”
Source: The Tent
“All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.”
Source: The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright
“All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.”
Source: Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.”
“All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.”
“All'occorrenza sì. Ma so leggere e scrivere, anche se questo è vietato a un servo come me."
"Oh sì, fai bene, giusta disubbidienza, felix culpa. Un libro va letto, non soltanto fatto, o tenuto sotto l'ascella. Un libro che nessuno legge, non serve, non comanda. Se no, che libro è?"
"Dite voi, maestro, un libro che cos'è," dice Vera de Tori, con grazia. E tutti gli altri d'accordo, compresi i tedeschi sempre attenti.
"Cosa per dire cose, questo è un libro, se lo sappiamo far parlare. Se no, sta zitto. Il libro parla solo se tu vuoi, quando e quanto ti garba e quanto sai e puoi. Un libro è l'amico più discreto. Non si consuma un libro, se lo leggi. Anzi, più lo leggi e più cresce. E tu con lui. Non è come col pane e col formaggio, quello che mangi tu io non lo mangio, e finito è finito, come il nostro di ieri, e va bene così, buon appetito. Un libro è meglio. Se lo leggono in molti cresce molto, finch'è letto non smette mai di dire quello che ha da dire, a chi lo legge, che sia letto in silenzio tutto solo, o a molti a voce alta in compagnia. Vale sempre di più dei soldi che lo paghi, un libro. Nemmeno del cane Dolceacqua ti potresti comprare anche le feste, non lo scodinzolio. Di un libro invece sì. Toccano il cielo con un dito, i libri, anche se non sono né Bibbia né Corano, verbo divino che dura in eterno. E parlano tra loro, i libri, di tutto, pure di se stessi. Tramite chi li legge. Grazie a chi li scrive. E anche a Paulinu che li fa.”
Source: Sulla faccia della terra