A Quotes
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“All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take action. Don't just talk about it. Don't just read and think about it. Do it.”
Source: No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget
“All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.”
“All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.”
“All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.”
“All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.”
“All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.”
“All talking is good, negative and positive. Stabbing is bad; talking is good.”
“All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole. The black agenda - from Frederick Douglas to A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr, Fannie Lou Hammer to Ella Baker - has always been tied to race talk inseparable from expanding possibilities of democracy, expanding empowerment of everyday people.”
“all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.”
“All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“All targets feed on your desires. Because without wanting anything, then you will have no target in mind.”
“All tastes are expressions of belief.”
“All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.”
“All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.”
“All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?”
“All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.”
“All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.”
“All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.”
Source: The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition
“All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.”
Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings
“All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”
“All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.”
“All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.”
“All technologically-enhanced realities are, de facto, XR. It can be a digital overlay placed over what we can see and experience in the physical world (a simple Snapchat filter, for example), VR roller coasters, or Pokémon GO. Whenever we're not (only) dealing with the physical world, we're in the metaverse.”
“All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent”
“All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.”
Source: Respect for Acting
“All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.”
“All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.”
“All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.”
“All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.”
“All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.”
Source: Flying Visits
“All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.”
“All television is children's television.”
“All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?”
“All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.”
“All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour.”
“All terror is local now. Some noise on the pavement very near, the stammer of casual rounds from a passing car, someone who carries off your child. Ancient fears revived, they will steal my child, they will come into my house when I’m asleep and cut out my heart because they have a dialogue with Satan.”
Source: Underworld
“All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.”
Source: Prisms
“All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments: no, it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much as the point of departure, as the element in which arguments have their life.”
Source: On Certainty
“All texts are, always, to various degrees, contradictory, multifarious, polysemic. This is not license for epistemological anarchy, according to which anything, any reading, always goes. But it is to acknowledge that no next, whatever its author's (or reader's) intent, can have a simple, singular meaning. Every text will generate something like a tangle of meanings and connotations, more or less concentrated around a core, more or less protean or stable, according to political, social and linguistic context. As one playful formulation has it, rather than being straightforwardly 'about' something in particular, every text is inevitably surrounded by a 'vibrating aboutness cluster'. The context, content and range of that cluster must be accounted for as part of an analysis. Some writers in some situations may strain against rhetorical shenanigans, for example striving for the specificity of logical notation: the cluster of reasonable meanings of such texts may well thus be less diffuse than for those which, say, revel in pun and performance. But a text with one 'true' meaning is a chimera. Analysis is not closure, but an attempt to discern reasonable meaning(s) close to the core of that cluster, and to contest those that range too far from it.”
“All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.”
“All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.”
“All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.”
“All that a child needs is a great love.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“All that a child needs is great love.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.”
“All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.'”
“All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.”
“All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”
“All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.”