A Quotes
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“All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.”
“All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.”
“All of the men have been very respectful of me. And that's what I want. They don't have to like you. But as long as they respect you, that's really important. When I speak, I'm listened to. And when I try to move the ball, I do.”
“All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.”
“All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.”
“ALL of the most enlightened Souls I've ever encountered have also endured the most time in the refiner's fire, having their dross driven from them through the most difficult of Life experiences, ALL experiences are gifts of the Creator, ESPECIALLY the difficult ones.”
“All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.”
“All of the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me. 5/30/2025”
“All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture.”
“All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.”
“All of the mysteries of existence lie in light, and light is mental and mathematical, not physical and scientific. That’s what the Lorentz transformations say unequivocally. Light has no mass, has zero extension, does not experience time, and travels at a speed unreachable by any physical object. That is the exact definition of mind right there. If you can’t understand this, stop pretending to be rational.”
Source: Take Them to the Morgue
“All of the myths of mankind are nothing but show business,' the other man said to me during our initial meeting. 'Everything that we supposedly live by and supposedly die by — whether it's religious scriptures or makeshift slogans — all of it is show business. The rise and fall of empires — show business. Science, philosophy, all of the disciplines under the sun, and even the sun itself, as well as all those other clumps of matter wobbling about in the blackness up there —' he said to me, pointing out the window beside the coffee-shop booth in which we sat, 'show business, show business, show business.' 'And what about dreams?' I asked, thinking I might have hit upon an exception to his dogmatic view, or at least one that he would accept as such. 'You mean the dreams of the sort we are having at this moment or the ones we have when we're fortunate enough to sleep?”
Source: Teatro Grottesco
“All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.”
Source: Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row
“All of the normal standards of human decency still apply in the workplace. We should be respectful and kind to each other and we should be honest and authentic as well.”
“all of the oceans
& galaxies
did not
conspire together to
create me
just so i could
reproduce for
you.
-Startling Fact #1”
Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.”
“All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.”
“All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.”
Source: How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“All of the people look like me. Of course there are variations, different eye and face shapes, but there is more dark hair than I've ever seen in my entire lifetime. It hits me: I'm not a novelty here. I am not a sore thumb. What a privilege it is to blend in.”
Source: Tokyo Ever After
“All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.”
Source: Mid-American Chants
“All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and tempo were conceivable. Then they hushed and ate barbecue.”
“All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.”
“All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.”
“All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.”
Source: What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace
“All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane, and there are thousands of dimensional planes.”
“All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!”
“All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have a body which is similar to our present physical body, but so much more glorious and wonderful and supernatural. We will be able to eat, drink, be merry and have fun without ever suffering pain or sickness or weariness or death.”
“All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.”
“All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice meditation with their eyes closed.”
Source: Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel
“All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.”
“All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.”
“All of the promises of God, since the time of Christ, have been waiting to be inherited by someone who has FAITH.”
“All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.”
“All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.”
Source: Small Wonder
“All of the prophets and prophetesses of the world have given one message, and the essence of that message is a call to remembrance, a call to remember that we are not here for ourselves. That we are here to serve, and remember, and glorify the one being.”
“All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.”
“All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.”
“All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.”
“All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.”
“All of the rest of it was still black, lightlessly black, black as if light were an unconvincing myth…
- Hellhound”
Source: Fire
“All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff.”
Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
“All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.”
“All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.”
Source: You Are That
“All of the secrets the vampires held dear have been exposed, and the humans can now fight back as equals in a way, which is scary.”
“All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary.”
“All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.”
“All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.”
“All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.”
“All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.”
“All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.”