A Quotes
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“A different word usually came to my mind when I thought of Yeva, though it did sound a lot like “witch.”
“A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.”
Source: Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender
“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”
Source: Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949
“A Different World was run by black women, Debbie Allen and Yvette Lee Bowser. Lead writer Susie Fales-Hill was a hero of mine, because she was 28 when she was running one of the top shows on television. Going to work every day and seeing black women in charge made that normal to me.”
“A differenza che nelle grandi difficoltà della vita, nelle piccole cose, nei momenti che passano in un lampo, risplende quella luce misteriosa che si vede quando si realizza un sogno.”
Source: Il coperchio del mare
“A differenza di tante altre province in Italia e in Europa, Bergamo è sopravvissuta alla deindustrializzazione degli anni Ottanta e Novanta. Morti i giganti industriali, una nuiva generazione di imprese li ha sostituiti. Sono quelle che gli studiosi di economia chiamano le , un fenomeno tipico del . Si tratta di aziende di medie dimensioni con qualche centinaio di dipendenti, abbastanza grandi da poter far ricerca e sviluppo, in grado di competere sui mercati internazionali con prodotti di alta qualità, ma sufficientemente piccole per potersi adattare ai cambiamenti del mercato e mutare a seconda dei tempi, come aziende più grandi e lente farebbero fatica a fare. La Val Seriana, la grande valle larga e dritta a est di Bergamo che ospita cittadine come Alzano Lombardo e Nembro, è divenuta il cuore del quarto capitalismo bergamasco e ospita aziende come il gruppo Radici, che produce resine e polimeri, oppure la Italgen, che produce energie rinnovabili e ha installato impianti solari ed eolici in Tunisia, Marocco e Turchia. Ma anche la tortuosa e selvaggia Val Brembana non è da meno. A San Pellegrino si imbottiglia un'acqua minerale famosa in tutto il mondo, mentre in una diramazione laterale, la Val Brembilla, c'è la più alta concentrazione di imprese per abitanti di tutto il paese. E' con queste imprese che il grande aeroporto di questa piccola città produce le migliori sinergie.”
Source: Bergamo e la marea
“A differenza di tante altre province in Italia e in Europa, Bergamo è sopravvissuta alla deindustrializzazione degli anni Ottanta e Novanta. Morti i giganti industriali, una nuova generazione di imprese li ha sostituiti. Sono quelle che gli studiosi di economia chiamano le multinazionali tascabili, un fenomeno tipico del quarto capitalismo italiano. Si tratta di aziende di medie dimensioni con qualche centinaio di dipendenti, abbastanza grandi da poter far ricerca e sviluppo, in grado di competere sui mercati internazionali con prodotti di alta qualità, ma sufficientemente piccole per potersi adattare ai cambiamenti del mercato e mutare a seconda dei tempi, come aziende più grandi e lente farebbero fatica a fare. La Val Seriana, la grande valle larga e dritta a est di Bergamo che ospita cittadine come Alzano Lombardo e Nembro, è divenuta il cuore del quarto capitalismo bergamasco e ospita aziende come il gruppo Radici, che produce resine e polimeri, oppure la Italgen, che produce energie rinnovabili e ha installato impianti solari ed eolici in Tunisia, Marocco e Turchia. Ma anche la tortuosa e selvaggia Val Brembana non è da meno. A San Pellegrino si imbottiglia un'acqua minerale famosa in tutto il mondo, mentre in una diramazione laterale, la Val Brembilla, c'è la più alta concentrazione di imprese per abitanti di tutto il paese. E' con queste imprese che il grande aeroporto di questa piccola città produce le migliori sinergie.”
Source: Bergamo e la marea
“A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.”
“A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.”
“A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.”
“A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.”
“A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.
There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.”
“A difficult life is not less worth living than a gentle one.”
“A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.”
“A difficult process is needed to reach your never before destiny.”
“A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.”
“A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody”
“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”
“A difficulty for every solution.”
“A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.”
“A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.”
“A diffident smile flickered on her lips.”
Source: Shantaram
“A difusão da leitura torna as alianças mais fluidas, tanto as familiares e as comunitárias, como as políticas e religiosas. E muitas das resistências à difusão da leitura parecem provir, na realidade, do medo desse desprendimento.”
“A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.”
“A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.”
“A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.”
“A digital CIO has to be a digital visionary, a transformational leader; an empathetic communicator; a good facilitator, a great listener, and an excellent digital game changer.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.”
“A digital frontier to reshape the human condition.”
“A digital personal brand is a set of posts, stories, and online activities connected by search engine algorithms.”
Source: Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age
“A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.”
Source: You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto
“A digital wall of masks stared back at him. His finger rolled the mouse in a slow downward scroll.
"Okay, you bastard. Where are you?”
Source: Lure of Obsession
“A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow”
“A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
[A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]”
“A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.”
Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“A dim sun shines faintly through the clouds. I gaze up at the mountain I must climb, then lower my eyes to look at my trembling legs. My legs are fragile but my spirit remains undaunted. Step by step, I will traverse upward. I will be there.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“A dimension is a measure of something wrongly used as the property or feature of something, but space itself is not, in its essence, what we think it is. We imagine space, conceptually and linguistically, as something solid and conditionally emptiness if this emptiness is within something tangible as matter. In this way, all we measure is the measure of a shape that we see in the way we see it, not how it is. We can also measure distances between the shapes. This is how we form our idea of space. Even if there was no absolute vacuum, what gives space or dimensions to anything we measure or see as space in the “material universe” is this void or nothingness. We experience and measure all the physical qualities of reality, but they are only “coordinates” or informational, immaterial skeletons of Reality appearing in the forms we experience as “physical.” We measure this very void for, without it, space or our idea of space is impossible.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“A dimensão económica da obra de arte, na qual avulta o seu estatuto enquanto mercadoria, implica um processo análogo a qualquer outro produto, a saber, uma cadeia que implica a produção, a distribuição e o consumo.”
Source: O Valor da Arte
“A diminished self-image causes us to slouch, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, to be indecisive. On the other hand, a healthy self-image causes us to carry ourselves well, to speak confidently and to portray dignity.”
Source: I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
“A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.”
“A dimple on the chin, the devil within.”
“A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.”
Source: The Mouse on the Mile
“A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.”
“A Dingbat Lover (The Sonnet)
Better be a dingbat in love,
Than play ping-pong with hearts.
Better be bonkers in sacrifice,
Than an arrogant smartypants.
Better give all without reserve,
Than be selfish and just take.
Better be wiped out in service,
Than take greed to your grave.
Better look idiot and learn,
Than be proud and stagnant.
Better be trusting and cheated,
Than a cynic scraping love's remnant.
There is no guarantee in life and love.
If you want guarantee open a liquor shop.”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“A dingily bilious sun was seeping through a tent of black clouds. Passersby, spitefully elbowing elbows, were rushing along the pavement. People thronging the doorways of shops tried to pummel their way through and stuck fast, their faces flushed with spite and fury, their teeth bared.”
Source: Autobiography of a Corpse
“A dingy emblem on the door depicted a little boy peeing into a pot. The rest of the bar was equally drab and tasteless. Dim bulbs behind red-tasseled lamp shades barely illuminated each of a dozen maroon vinyl booths, which marched along one wall toward the murky front windows. Chipped Formica tables anchored the booths in place. Opposite the row of booths was a long, scarred wooden bar with uncomfortable-looking stools. Behind the bar, sitting on glass shelves in front of a cloudy mirror, were endless rows of bottles, each looking as forlorn as the folks for whom they waited.
He caught the strong odors of liquor and tobacco smoke, and the weaker scents of cleaning chemicals and vomit. In one of the booths , two heads bobbed with the movement of mug-clenching fists. A scrawny bartender with droopy eyelids picked his teeth with a swizzle stick and chatted quietly with a woman seated at the bar. Otherwise the bar was empty.”
Source: Germ: If You Breathe, It Will Find You