A Quotes
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“All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.”
“All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.”
“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”
“All of us learned how to walk by failing.”
“All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.”
“All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.”
“All of us lived life when sex was the farthest thing from our minds. Try to remember the careless freedom of play, basking in the beingness of others. As adults, responsibilities and obligations can often bind us to a daily grind. For some adults, then, sex might be one of the few interactions that restores their openness and sensory exploration of play. It’s not hard to see why sexual preoccupation might take over when people become locked out from experiencing fulfilling lives.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.”
“All of us long for a competent, uncorrupt, charismtatic leader. We will leap at the opportunity to support, to believe, to feel good.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“All of us lose every day in so many ways, there are no exceptions.
Losing does not reflect our values but how gracefully we handle failure does.”
Source: Quantraz
“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”
Source: The Lost Herondale
“All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!”
“All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.”
“All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.”
“All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.”
“All of us males need to look at ourselves with a clear eye and ask what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone.”
Source: The Descent of Man
“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”
Source: The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
“All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.”
“All of us, minus the part of us we wish to keep for ourselves, adds up to none of us. And that’s typically what we give God.”
“All of us, more or less, wear masks. Because without masks we can’t survive in this violent world. Beneath an evil-spirit mask lies the natural face of an angel, beneath an angel’s mask lies the face of an evil spirit. It’s impossible to have just one or the other. That’s who we are. And that’s Carnaval. Schumann was able to see the many faces of humanity—the masks and the real faces—because he himself was a deeply divided soul, a person who lived in the stifling gap in between the two.”
Source: First Person Singular: Stories
“All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.”
“All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.”
“All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth...to give life is to open (our) heart, and to care for life is to (give oneself) in tenderness and warmth for others, to have concern in my heart for others. Caring for life from the beginning to the end. What a simple thing, what a beautiful thing..So, go forth and don't be discouraged. Care for life. It's worth it.”
“All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.”
“All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.”
Source: The Informed Vision: Essays on Learning and Human Nature
“All of us must do something with the formative pain of our early years.”
“All of us must remember that in this world we have to do a lot of things we do not want to do and that the doing of these things makes better people of us.”
“All of us must stand guard at the door of our souls and spirits with the correct armor donned in preparation for battle.
Soldiers do not wait until threats are detected in the distance, shots are fired, or enemies are breaking down their doors to prepare for battle. No, soldiers are ready in advance! They are suited up for war- prepared from first light with others standing watch throughout the night! It is to be the same for those of us fighting in this battle for our eternal lives! Why do we so often insist on going out to face the enemy unprepared and ill equipped? Surely, we do not enjoy defeat- we do not wish to be knocked in the ditch of life, to backslide and fall away from our first love- our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ?”
Source: As You Rise: Scriptural Insights to Help You Get and Stay on The Narrow Way
“All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and to serve. There is not one strait and narrow path for the officers-the chosen-and another for the enlisted men. We are all to experience life "according to the flesh"; there is no other way, for it is the way to immortality and eternal life. Given the resplendent riches of the promised kingdom, why would anyone wish to walk another path than the one that leads us back to our gracious and merciful Father in Heaven?”
“All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.”
Source: The Ultimate Resource 2
“All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.”
“All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.”
“All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.”
“All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.”
“All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.”
“All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.”
“All of us need to invest our capital to achieve financial freedom, but most of us are not equipped with the soul and skills to have concentrated portfolios.”
“All of us need to make our voices heard on behalf of reason, knowledge, sanity and wisdom.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
“All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.”
“All of us need to take time with ourselves, to quietly reflect on who we are, and explore our connection to the infinite.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action
“All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.”
“All of us now are serving and will continue to serve as lifelong missionaries. We are missionaries every day in our families, in our schools, in our places of employment, and in our communities. Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.”
“All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.”
“All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.”
Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance
“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.”
Source: Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
“All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will.”
Source: You Have The Power To Create Love
“All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.”
“All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.”
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom #4: Sir Thursday
“All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there.”