A Quotes
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“All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.”
Source: Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles
“All one’s feeling goes into practicing exercises, many of which are set to music. Therefore, somehow dancing with boyfriends doesn’t attract me.”
“All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.”
“All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less”
“All operations may fail and collapse if exists still the lack of equal rights, justice, respect, and love. Open that lack, to win the heart and mind since that prevails.”
“All opinions are not equal, as far as running a people is concerned.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.”
Source: The Essays
“All opportunities are in your future, but all the lessons are in your past. Learn the lessons, and you will see the more significant opportunities”
“All oppression creates a state of war.”
Source: The Second Sex
“All oppression starts with the experience of Lack. A lack of ideas, creativity, money, investors, health, friends, love, or kindness. Lack creates the emotional effect of Depression.”
“All or most of the prophets were socialists at heart.”
“All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?”
Source: The Other Wind: The Sixth Book of Earthsea
“All or nothing. In dreams as in life.”
Source: Empress of Fae
“All or nothing, this them "all or nothing" days”
“All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.”
Source: Grendel
“All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.”
“All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true. Darwin didn't know the mechanism of heredity, but you don't have to. You just need to know the fact of it.”
“All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.”
Source: Marketing for business growth
“All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea - the idea of community. They can be no more or less than the sum of the beliefs of the people drawn to them; of their character, judgements, acts and efforts.”
“All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear in one part without bringing about corresponding modifications in all the rest.”
“All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.”
“All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.”
Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose
“All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.”
“All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.”
“All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.”
“All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.”
Source: Politicians, Socialism, and Historians
“All other goods by fortune's hand are given,
A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.”
“All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.”
Source: Evidences of Revealed Religion
“All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.”
“All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature”
Source: Essays, Selected from Montaigne: With a Sketch of the Life of the Author
“All other knowledge is unreal except self-knowledge.”
“All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.”
“All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.”
“All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the placenta carry nourishment to children in the womb of their mothers; but it could not be so with our first parents. It cannot be believed that God gave them navels which would have been altogether useless.”
“All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.”
Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“All other passions build upon or flow from your passion for Jesus. A passion for souls grows out of a passion for Christ. A passion for missions builds upon a passion for Christ. The most crucial danger to a Christian, whatever his role, is to lack a passion of Christ. The most direct route to personal renewal and new effectiveness is a new all-consuming passion for Jesus. Lord, give us this passion, whatever the cost!”
“All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.”
“All other statements of intention, however fully documented, are suspect. The poet may change his mind or mood; he may have intended one thing and done another, and then rationalised what he did.”
Source: Anatomy of Criticism
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.”
Source: Great Expectations
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!”
Source: Great Expectations
“All other things being equal, a brand represented by a human being everybody knows, likes, and trusts, will beat a faceless corporation any day.”
“All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.”
“All other things being equal, greens break to the west.”
“All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.”
“All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.”
“All other trades are contained in that of war.
Is that why war endures?
No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.
That's your notion.
The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
Source: Overcoming Temptation and Sin