A Quotes
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“All that passion meant to her was servitude to inexplicable male madness, unshared by females, a painful and embarrassing process that led inevitably to the still more painful process of childbirth. That marriage should be like this was no surprise to her. Ellen had hinted before the wedding that marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude, and the whispered comments of other matrons since her widowhood had confirmed this. Scarlett was glad to be done with passion and marriage.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.”
Source: The Vision of Nietzsche
“All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes
“All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.”
“All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.”
“All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.”
“All that really matters is
to feel alive,
if only for a single moment –
to feel in Intense Sensation
that our existence is not an endless repetition
of sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.”
“All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and it's been a great thing. It will help, in the end, to ease the trauma of slavery and civil war. The war against slavery cost almost 800,000 American lives - that's how strongly they felt about it. And it's not going to go away in a century.”
“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.”
“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
“All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.”
“All that remains is for me to make a sad observation. Like so many other creatures that once embellished life and brought hope, house spirits have vanished and with them the souls of our houses have fled, never to return. Homes have sunk into anonymity; building rituals have almost entirely disappeared; prefabricated industrial materials have replaced the quest for attentive selection of materials that were wrought with love; the meaning of ornaments are no longer known and the moon, sun, stars and crosses have disappeared from our facades; radiators have replaced the hearth and stove; our corners have become little more than dust collectors; and there is no longer anything concealed beneath our thresholds. We have transformed into rootless wanderers with no fire or place to call our own. The individual no longer has any attachment to a house that has been passed down for generations. In loosing all of this, we have lost a piece of ourselves, one of our most solid anchors, and like dead leaves carried by the wind, we settle one day here, another day there, driven by the whims of our professions, but we no longer bring the embers from our hearths with us, and the surviving spirits weep in abandoned houses.”
Source: The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices
“All that remains is for me to thank you for supporting Comic Relief and to beg Muggles not to try Quidditch at home; it is, of course, an entirely fictional sport and nobody really plays it. May I also take this opportunity to wish Puddlemere United the best of luck next season.”
“All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.”
“All that remains is the faraway light, the lingering longing despite the melancholy, the wealth of joy that dulls the edge of pain, for the soul of dreams is filled with light, and in it, every despair has burned away.”
“All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.”
Source: Montauk
“All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last.”
Source: Outside In
“All that remains of me now is a rumour of beauty.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.”
Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein
“All that remains of the garden city in our own day are traffic-free enclaves, islands in a sea of traffic where the pedestrian leads a legally protected by languishing existence, comparable to that of the North American Indians on their reservations...In reality the modern urbanist regards the city as a gigantic centre of production, geared to the efficient transport of workers and goods, to the accommodation of people and the storage of wares, to industrial and commercial activity. The rest, that is to say creativity, life, is optional and comes under the heading of recreation and leisure activities.”
Source: The Situationists and the City: A Reader
“All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
“All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.”
“All that running and exercise can do for you is make you healthy.”
“All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.”
“All that’s left to do in life is to believe and march forward… For me, I shall move forward through that door I have spoken of.
It was there, and so was I. We both remained, unmoved, until now.
My legs are giving in, so I must walk, and that door that was there all along could now rest for long.”
“All that's needed now is a great novel that will capture the imagination of the public - move them, enrage them, thrill them, terrify them, scandalize them. A story that will seize them by the hand and lead them into the streets where they've never dared set foot, a tale that throws back the sheets from acts never shown and voices never heard. A tale that fearlessly points the finger at those who are to blame...”
“All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?”
Source: Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin
“All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.”
“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.”
Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
“All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.”
Source: 1769-1793
“All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.”
“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.”
“All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”
“All that shakes falles not.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would. That's what parents were for.”
Source: Beyond the Hidden Sky
“All that she wants
Is the truth
But all they give her
Is lies
The conspiracy
Will be uncovered
And all other conspiracies
Will be over
Because humans
Must learn
To be rewarded
For being moral
And
Not for being immoral”
Source: Rose: Future Heart
“All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.”
Source: The fall into time
“All that silence and absence of goings-on is the stillness of infinite motion.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“All that social justice warriors have succeeded at is losing popular support for left wing policies and politicians, and ultimately, sparking a major pushback on left wing values. The social justice warrior movement has had many serious and wide reaching implications for all of us. It's time for it to finish.”
Source: IDiots: How Identity Politics is Destroying the Left
“All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.”
“All that spirits desire, spirits attain.”
“All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world.”
Source: And the Dark Sacred Night
“All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.”
Source: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ...
“All that stood between us now were two words. Strange how so much power, so much peril and promise, resides in so tiny a thing. Two little words can carry weight enough to see empires rise and kingdoms fall. Two words can begin the end of everything. How many hearts have been made complete by words so small as I do? How many more have been shattered with a breath as tiny as It's over? Little sounds that reshape or unmake your entire world, like great spells of old to redraw the very lines by which you see yourself and all else about you. Two little words.
"Forgive me."
"Do it."
"I can't."
"You must.”
“All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.”
“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?”
“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?”