A Quotes
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“All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.”
Source: When elephants last in the dooryard bloomed: celebrations for almost any day in the year
“All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”
Source: On Liberty
“All silent, sitting, and human-liked people
Hold up your index fingers and look at them. If the Middle East were a crime scene, all of your fingerprints would be among the scenes.
Your fingerprints are badly hired and stolen by your governments
to kill children.
Hold up your index fingers
and remember them well.”
“All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.”
“All sin comes from dishonour, and all dishonour comes from sin.”
“All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.”
Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation
“All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God”
Source: On becoming a--real man
“All sin is conceived in the mind.”
Source: The Latter End
“All sin is equally wrong, but not all sin is equally bad.”
“All sin is rooted in the suspicion that God is not very good. Satan deceived Eve into believing that God was selfishly keeping the best things for Himself. And if that were true, He couldn't be trusted”
“All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.”
“All sin is ultimately irrational. Though people persuade themselves that they have good reasons for sinning, when examined in the cold light of truth on the last day, it will be seen in every case that sin ultimately just does not make sense." Wayne g”
“All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.”
“All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people”
“All singers now sound the same because all you have to do is whisper and sound pretty. No one ever belts. Don’t you wanna hear someone’s heart again?" she said. "All I hear is tongue and breath and cheek and throat. I want ugly again. Mistakes. Uvula.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“All singers were half mad. In songs the hero always saved the maiden from the monster's castle. But life was not a song... And there are no heroes here; only whores.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.”
“All single people are not really single
They all have untold stories behind the scene.”
“All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“All sins are attempts to fill voids." because we cannot stand the God-shaped hole inside or us and we try stuffing it full of all sorts of things, but only God may fill it.”
“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
“All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.”
“All sins are murder, even as all life is war. I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other’s lives. I follow sins beyond the moment of their acting; I find in all that the last consequence is death; and to my eyes, the pretty maid who thwarts her mother with such taking graces on a question of a ball, drips no less visibly with human gore than a murderer.”
Source: Markheim
“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.”
Source: This Business of Living
“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
“All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“All situations can be resolved peaceful. We should advocate for kindness instead of violence.”
“All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.”
“All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.”
“All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.”
“All skills are learnable.”
Source: Find Your Balance Point: Clarify Your Priorities, Simplify Your Life, and Achieve More
“All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.”
Source: Creative Coaching
“all skinny guys with beards are jerks”
“All slander, and most gossip, are cancerous to truth - not just because of the way they spread - but because of the uncontrollable growth they amass around a person's true character; and while this obvious parallel is perhaps known by most, very few care, as evidenced by their prevalence in everyday life.”
“All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.”
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
“All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.”
“All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.”
“All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.”
“All smiles for the camera are fake.”
“All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all.
The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed.
I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones.
The broken carrot noses.”
“All so-called "laws of God" express in reality the will of man.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.”
Source: A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments, now entituled The book of the thousand nights and a night
“All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.”
Source: Letters, Addressed to His Wife
“All social change begins with a conversation.”
“All social change comes from the passion of individuals.”
“All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.”
Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)
“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.”
Source: On Liberty and Utilitarianism
“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”