A Quotes
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“All sorts of people are doing all sorts of things all over the world. They all are right as per their own definition of right and wrong.”
“All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today.”
“All sorts of situations exist where one tells lies in order to reach an acceptable truth, and our conversation continued thus until we agreed on the mutually acceptable sum of ten thousand dollars, which, if being only half what I asked for, was twice their original offer. After the representative wrote a new check, I signed the documents and we traded farewell pleasantries that were worth as little as the trading cards of unknown baseball players.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.”
“All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it.
We are all migrants through time.”
Source: Exit West
“All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.”
“All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.”
“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
“All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.”
“All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.”
“All souls can find the truth within.”
“All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.”
“All souls have a body.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.”
“All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came.”
Source: Soul & Spirit: Fully Understand Yourself and Your Life
“All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.”
Source: In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
“All soup is soul food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.”
“All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.”
“All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.”
“All Soviet people loved to criticize the authorities, but were afraid of the all-powerful KGB (which, in army towns, was referred to as osobisty, "special agents"). The main worry was telephone tapping. It was clearly not credible that the KGB could have sufficient staff to eavesdrop on the conversations in every apartment. Nevertheless, when friends came to visit my father and, after a few vodkas in the kitchen, started berating the authorities, my mother would put the telephone under a cushion. It seemed odd, and when I asked why she was doing it, she brushed the question aside by saying there was no knowing what might get said and who might hear it. I found that extraordinary. Here were grown-ups talking about completely ordinary matters, like the impossibility of finding Bulgarian ketchup in the shops and having to get in the queue for meat at five o'clock in the morning. I could not see what there was to be afraid of. All schoolboys had been to the stores and had noticed the long queues, and knew that the most used word in the Soviet lexicon was "shortage." That meant there must be people not allowing you to say what was obviously true. Moreover, they were apparently employing other people to listen in to the phone in your home to the extent that we needed to use a cushion to protect ourselves. What an irony that my first memory of the use of that cushion dates to 1984.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.”
“All space is negative space once the subject is gone.”
Source: The Museum of Human History
“All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!
("The Jelly-Fish")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
“All space is space in which to create.”
Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
“All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.”
“All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.”
“All special assistants to the president are typically political appointees of the first year of the new president.”
“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.”
“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”
“All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.”
Source: Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism
“All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.”
“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
Source: Prometheus Unbound
“All spirits or souls are holy. Self-realization is releasing that holiness that has not been explored. To realize the truth that was already there, but you were just too blind to see it.”
“All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.”
Source: The works ...
“All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void.”
“All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned. The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study.”
“All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms”
“All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish.”
Source: Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise
“All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.”
“All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.”
“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and by giving that need as a burden in our intuitive spirit. Only an intuitive burden can constitute our call to pray.”
Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons
“All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, "Thou art my hiding-place.”
Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons
“All spiritual techniques seek to awaken fallen man from the dream in which he lives : he dreams continuously of individual state of being, and of the many forms through which the external world presents itself to him; he builds for himself a paradise of illusions, so as to forget the absence of God. To recover the vision of the spiritual world, the soul of man must "die" to this dream, this ceaseless flow of images which fallen man regards as normal, everyday state of his consciousness.”
Source: Science and Civilization in Islam
“All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.”
“All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.”