A Quotes
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“All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.”
“All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.”
“All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.”
“All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.”
“All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds.”
“All of our demons grow restless eventually.”
Source: Chymist
“All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge which may then be distorted by particular interests and judgements, although this is certainly possible; it is also that without particular interests we would have no knowledge at all, because we would not see the point of bothering to get to know anything. Interests are constitutive of our knowledge, not merely prejudices which imperil it. The claim that knowledge should be 'value-free' is itself a value-judgement.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“All of our dreams can come true...”
“All of our earthly concerns are quite transient compared to the sky.”
Source: Notes on a Nervous Planet
“All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.”
“All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.”
“All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.”
Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
“All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.”
“All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.”
“All of our health is basically genetics.”
“All of our heartfelt lies
Are not enough this time”
“All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.”
“All of our human life is full of pain
and there is no rest from toil”
“All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others”
“All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.”
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose
“All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.”
“All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.”
“All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.”
Source: Carrion Comfort
“All of our lives we are searching. When all of our lives we need only to look within.”
“All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.”
“All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which will be taken away by the time of death, or even perhaps before. You may be very much attached to money but you can go bankrupt tomorrow. You may be very much attached to your power and position, your presidency, your prime ministership, but they are like soap bubbles. Today they are here, tomorrow not even a trace will be left.”
“All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.”
“All of our natural intuitions tell us that Jesus is with us, on our side, present and helping, when life is going well. This text says the opposite... It is in our weakness that Jesus sympathizes with us.”
“All of our natural intuitions tell us that Jesus is with us, on our side, present and helping, when life is going well. This text says the opposite. It is in "our weaknesses" that Jesus sympathizes with us. The word for "sympathize" here is a compound word formed from the prefix meaning "with" joined with the verb to suffer. "Sympathize" here is not cool and detached pity. It is a depth of felt solidarity such as is echoed in our own lives most closely only as parents to children. Indeed, it is deeper even than that. In our pain, Jesus is pained; in our suffering, he feels the suffering as his own even though it isn't--not that his invincible divinity is threatened, but in the sense that his heart is feelingly drawn into our distress. His human nature engages our troubles comprehensively. His is a love that cannot be held back when he sees his people in pain.”
Source: Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.”
“All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.”
“All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.”
“All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.”
“All of our potentials for good are unlimited.”
Source: No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
“All of our presidents come into office looking so vigorous ... They grow grayer and grayer, and by the time they leave, they’re as white as the building they live in ... I have one big advantage: I’ve been coloring my hair for years. So you’re not going to see me turn white in the White House.”
“All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments.”
“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”
Source: Pensées
“All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.”
Source: Picture This: A Novel
“All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.”
“All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.”
“All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.”
“All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone.”
“All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.”
“All of our testimony from psychiatrists and children themselves show that it's very upsetting, that it has a bad moral effect, and that it is directly responsible for a substantial amount of juvenile delinquency and child crime." In fact, both the expert testimony and the documentary evidence submitted at the hearings varied significantly in their judgments, and the committee spoke with no children; it had set a policy of precluding the testimony of minors.
The writer of the program, A. J. Fenady, had not seen a transcript of the hearings before preparing Coates's questions and "basically threw the guy some softballs," he said, because "[Kefauver] wanted to use this soapbox to run for president" in the 1956 election. "The comic-book scare was the big thing he had going for him," Fenady recalled, "and he knew how to use it.”
Source: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
“All of our theology must eventually become biography.”
“All of our thoughts – ideas – are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All of our thoughts, words, and deeds flow from a chain of 'cause and effect'.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
“All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.”
“All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.”