A Quotes
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“All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire that a character has and then you follow that. The other part is that every scene raises an expectation in the reader's mind - that's part of its job is to make you look in and be curious.”
“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.”
“All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.”
“All strategy depends on competition.”
“All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.”
“All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.”
“All strength we give away comes over us again, experienced and altered. Thus it is in prayer. And what is there, truly done, that is not prayer?”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“All stress begins with a negative thought. One thought that went unchecked, and then more thoughts came and more, until stress manifested. The effect is stress, but the cause was negative thinking, and it all began with one little negative thought.
No matter what you might have manifested, you can change it ....with one small positive thought and then another.”
Source: The Secret
“All stress begins with one negative thought.”
Source: How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.
“All stress comes from resisting what is.”
“All stress inhibits true and effective learning.”
“All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.”
Source: Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer
“All strife passes in time.”
“All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.”
“All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.”
“All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”
Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series
“All students can learn.”
“All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.”
Source: The Rainmaker
“All students may not remember the teachings of their teachers, but they all remember the teachers.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.”
“All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.”
“All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other’s views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct.”
Source: An Essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“All students want to do is lecture their professors!”
Source: Ghost Talker
“All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.”
“All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.”
“All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.”
“All styles are good except the tiresome kind.”
“All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.”
Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths
“All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison.”
“All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life.”
Source: Poems
“All suburban housing developments look alike, and besides, every Yankee who ever crossed the Potomac except Ulysses S. Grant got lost as soon as he reached the Virginia side.”
Source: The Shanghai Factor
“All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.”
“all success cloaks a surrender”
“All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.”
Source: A Message to Garcia
“All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity.”
“All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.”
“All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.”
“All success is quite temporary if you don't work hard enough to maintain where you are. Talent can get you somewhere but character keeps you there. You have to build character along the way and know when and know how to take the victories from situations even though they might seem grim.”
“All success is the stringing together of single steps that become a journey and ultimately lead to a destination. Often that destination is not what you thought it would be in the beginning. But if your steps are taken with purpose, passion, perseverance, and good intentions, then you can be assured that you will arrive in a meaningful place.”
“All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.”
“All successful digital personal brands started with one follower.”
Source: Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age
“All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.”
Source: The Christian Science Journal
“All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.”
“All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.”
“All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.”
Source: Six Attitudes for Winners
“All successful people have the same amount of time that you have each day.”