A Quotes
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“A desobediência civil não aceita passivamente o ato injusto, pois jamais coopera com ele. O seguidor da desobediência civil acredita que a violência dá origem a muito mais problemas do que de fato ela vem resolver. Basta parar e olhar: se o salário da maioria da população se mantém abaixo do preço das mercadorias, eis aí uma situação de violência. Como a mentira, a violência precisa de outra violência, para conservar a situação que criou. Daí, se reprimem os movimentos pelos aumentos de salários, se proíbem as liberdades de reunião e de expressão de ideias, se censura tudo o que diz respeito à aplicação da violência, se acaba em geral partindo para a agressão física dos homens. O ato violentador caminha em direção a outros atos violentadores.”
Source: O que é desobediência civil
“A despairing arse will never produce a happy fart.”
Source: Where Do Demons Live?: Everything You Want to Know About Magic
“A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.”
Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political
“A despeito de todas as aparências, os únicos relojoeiros da natureza são as forças cegas da física, ainda que atuem de um modo muito especial. Um verdadeiro relojoeiro tem antevisão: ele projeta suas molas e engrenagens e planeja suas conexões imaginando o resultado final com um propósito em mente. A seleção natural, o processo cego, inconsciente e automático que Darwin descobriu e que agora sabemos ser a explicação para a existência e para a forma aparentemente premeditada de todos os seres vivos, não tem nenhum propósito em mente”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”
“A desperate man does what he has to to.”
She lifted a brow. “I make you that desperate?”
“I guess it will take another date – or two – for you to find that out.”
Source: Wolf Unleashed
“A desperate person can be more dangerous than the worst villain. You never know what they might do in their desperation, while a villain is always a villain.”
Source: Sovereign
“A desperate plea to the Trinity
is not something you can just
apologize for in the morning
-Drunk Dialing the Divine”
Source: Drunk Dialing the Divine
“A desperate soul needs a good and inspiring music”
“A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way”
“A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.”
“A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot...”
Source: One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count
“A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with no heart.”
“a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues. In my youth I once read a French detective tale where the clues were actually in italics; but that is not McFate’s way — even if one does learn to recognize certain obscure indications.”
Source: Lolita
“A destiny was something that happened to you, that fell upon you like rain no matter how desperately you try to hide from it. But if you walked toward it with your head held high, then it wasn't your fate - it was simply your future.”
Source: Majesty
“A destra, l'edificio della fabbrica sembrava un mausoleo al mondo che era stato.”
Source: La follia del mondo
“A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.”
“A destructive or creative state of psychological madness must trace itself to a source. By finding the source of their misery, a person might be able to corral the crazy desire prematurely to terminate their existence. An old saying suggests that self-hatred is the central cause of all self-destructive actions. Self-hate might consist of anger that we harbor towards other people who maltreated us. Repressed anger and pent-up hostility that we retain against other people that has no viable direct escape hatch can reflect and turn inward against ourselves. Perhaps we regret that we allowed other people to demean us, or rue that we lacked a protective level of self-esteem to begin with.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.”
“A detective in love with a breathtakingly beautiful stripper, who also is a major criminal: “Among her coterie of supplicants was Joe Fucci, a senior detective on the Laughlin force. Joe regarded himself as handsome, and he was. If he went without shaving for three days, a John Deere was required to cut through the growth. No electric razor created by man stood a chance in that tangle of growth.”
Source: Pack's Posse
“A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.”
Source: Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories
“A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.”
“A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.”
“A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi”
“A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.”
“A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting.”
“A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.”
“A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason”
Source: Midnight Marriage
“A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.”
Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A determined person turns every mistake into a lesson and every challenge into progress.”
“A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.”
“A determined spirit can never be broken.”
“A determined struggle always has the chance of victory.”
Source: We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope
“A determined walk creates a fascinating wind both for the walker and for those who watch it!”
“A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.”
“A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm twice as good as you do.' To which the Southerner replied: 'Hell, son, I don't farm half as good as I know how now.”
Source: Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South
“A detour that holds itself out as the road from which it deviated is a path to regret.”
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.”
“A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.”
“A developed country consists on acreative minds and loyal people, a failed country consists on ignorants and traitors.”
“A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment”
“A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
“A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.”
“A developed nation is also an expensive nation.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.”
Source: Rants
“A development deal is an in-between record deal. It's like, a guy saying that he wants to date you but not be your boyfriend. You know, they don't wanna sign you to an actual record deal or put an album out on you. They wanna watch your progress for a year.”
“A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.”
“a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.”