A Quotes
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“All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine.”
Source: Doubletake: A Cal Leandros Novel
“All of his life he had dreamed of being a hero, but it wasn’t until this moment that he realized how much weight that kind of glory carried.”
Source: Lost Prince of Nevaharday
“All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.”
Source: Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
“All of history, a great wheel, turning inexorably. Just as seasons come and go, just as the moon moves endlessly through her cycle, so does time. The same wars are fought, the same plagues descend, the same folk, good or evil, rise to power. Humanity is trapped on that wheel, doomed endlessly to repeat the mistakes we have we have already made. Unless someone comes to change it.”
Source: Assassin's Quest
“All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.”
“All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction.”
Source: The Passenger
“All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and his Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.... When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.”
“All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.”
“All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.”
“All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We've always had good times and bad, and we've had ways of managing the bad times. We have ways of insulating ourselves, making ourselves less sensitive for the bad times by having things like grain stores, for example. Pretty much every civilization that's lasted for any reasonable length of time has some food management principles behind it. But what's been happening over the past thirty years is it's failed - the insurance policy.”
“All of human language is an abstraction, and as such, it can never accurately capture truth. Abstracted truth isn’t truth.”
“All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.”
“All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.”
“All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.”
Source: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Source: Pensées
“All of Iraq's oil fields are under U.S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners.”
“All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.”
Source: These Broken Stars
“All of it, including my mind, my body, and the fractured remnants of my soul. You're the victor and these are your spoils...”
“All of it is because
Of how badly you lied to me
I thought it was just you and me
Or at the very least a tiny epigram”
Source: Rome: Poems
“All of it is God, and there is nothing else.”
“All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.”
“all of it tangled up
together… his heart. her heart.
his curious fingertips… her
dangerously soft skin.”
“All of it was like that-similar but subtly changed, nostalgic but sad with the knowledge of loss. The past was lost-and he knew then that you can never go back. Nothing is the same, for reality can exist at one time only and in one place only. Then it dies and you have lost it and you must go on to find it at another time and in another place.”
“All of it was there but nothing had substance. It was as if they were all shadows, as if her leaving had taken the life out of the living things and left them shadows. he himself was a shadow.he felt no weight in his step, ,no sound to his voice, no solidity to his gestures. he forgot time. he felt the ache of a pain whose depth he could not fathom no whose end anticipate”
Source: Salt
“All of it would be shattered, too. Because their life would be part of the lie that this country repeated to live with itself - that fairness would prevail; that he laws protected everyone equally; that this land wasn't stolen from Native peoples; that this wealth wasn't built by industrious white men, "our" founders; that hardworking immigrants proved this was a meritocracy; that history should only be told from one point of view, that of those who won and still have power. So the city raged. Immolation was always a statement.”
Source: The Last Story of Mina Lee
“All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.”
“All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.”
“All of Kazia's fantasies are unrealistic, of course. Intimacy is for other people. Kazia would never trust anyone enough to get that close.”
Source: Prince of Agony
“All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.”
“All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.”
“All of life, and life's experiences, can be directly perceived by the awakened as a sacred gift from Divine Source...”
Source: Angelic Tales of The Universe. Tale 1. The Ancient Woman, The Secret Cave
“All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.”
“All of life comes the way of pain. Birth, death, war. Even the food we eat cost someone a day’s toil. I suppose God gives us the greatest treasures to compensate for the suffering.”
Source: Rescuing Rose
“All of Life Her Grand Design
(Sonnet 2840-2841)
Silence sold as golden virtue,
names erased in toxic ink -
told to walk behind the man,
never question, never think.
We're more than borrowed titles,
more than shadows wearing rings -
we are roots of all survival,
we are breath in everything.
They built a world on domination,
called tradition, called it fate,
but every empire of oppression
meets its end at woman's wake.
Why must love erase her surname,
why must birth deny her throne -
she is the one who forms existence,
yet there's nothing she can call her own!
Every child that walks this planet,
carries more than just one name -
every mother is a cosmos,
creation brews in her sacred flame.
They said she came from a man's rib,
but truth runs deeper than toxic lies,
the world itself is carved from woman,
all of life is her grand design.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.”
Source: We: Introduction by Will Self
“All of life is a constant education.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
“All of life is a foreign country.”
“All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.”
“All of life is a symphony of successive losses. You lose your youth, your parents, your loves, your friends, your comforts, your health, and finally your life. To deny loss is to lose it all anyway and to lose, in addition, your self-possession and peace of mind.”
Source: Nemesis
“All of life is a wager”
“All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.”
“All of life is an amphitheater where we each serve as an appreciative member of the audience until the sublime play ends with our death. The chapters and verses in our life story reflect what we value – how appreciative we are for our time to work, play, laugh, cry, and create.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance.”
“All of life is Capital stewarded by God. And he allows us to steward some of it according to his purposes. And the more we model him in our stewardship, the more he seems to allow us to steward.”
“All of life is constantly in motion. Desire keeps us moving. Desire inspires us to be brave, to dream, to create. Desire is our divine connection with the creative force of the universe.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“All of life is dependent upon other life, and the closer we consider what constitutes living, the harder life becomes to define.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”
“All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.”
“All of life is her grand design.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth