A Quotes
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“All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.”
“All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required by a modern economy.”
“All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don't do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.”
“All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.”
“All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.”
“All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.”
“All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.”
“All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.”
“All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.”
“All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet.”
“All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.”
“All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.”
“All over this country you have progressive communities like Madison and Burlington, but we've got to go well, well, well outside of those communities. We've got to go to the rural areas. We've got to go where a lot of working people are voting Republican.”
“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”
“All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.”
“All over this world people are standing up for freedom.”
“All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the value of counterpoise to recognize and distinguish between similar and dissimilar concepts. How do we identify the importance of hope if we never felt despair? How do we appreciate the value of society and companionship until we experience solitude and loneliness? What would any relationship be unless draped with the boughs of thoughts and feelings, without the ongoing interaction between conscientious action and unreserved devotion, without endless empathy fused with boundless love? In the ring of time, without the verve supplied by both the real and the imaginary, life would be bland, insipid, and lackluster.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
“All pain comes from the distance between where you are now and where you want to be; from the distance between what you have and what you want; the difference between who you are now and who you wish to become. And all joy comes from the constant flow in the river of life: flowing with the reality of what is, right here and right now, and moving freely into wherever direction that river takes you. Control leads to pain because control assumes that one knows better than life itself.”
“All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.”
“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”
Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
“All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.”
“All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.”
“All pain is the result of resistance to the natural self.”
“All pain is the same.”
Source: The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations
“All pain is the same. Only the details are different.”
“All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism.”
Source: Detransition, Baby
“All pain triggers a reminder, deeper than thought, buzzing through blood and bone, that we are fragile and finite.”
Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
“All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.”
Source: Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ
“All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.”
Source: Poems
“All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.”
“All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.”
“All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.”
“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.”
“All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.”
Source: David Hockney
“All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.”
“All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression”
Source: Richard Diebenkorn: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., November 6 to December 31, 1964; the Jewish Museum, New York, January 13 to February 21, 1965; Pavilion Gallery, Newport Beach, California, March 14 to April 15, 1965
“All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.”
“All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.”
“All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author
“All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation
“All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.”
Source: Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].
“All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!”
“All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]”
“All paradises are there to be expelled from.”
Source: A Private Place
“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.”
“All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.”
“All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.”