A Quotes
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“All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.”
“All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!”
“All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.”
Source: The Water Babies
“All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.”
“All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.”
“All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.”
“All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“All the captain's wives belonged to the literate, well-traveled ranks of the new upper-middle class. Family records say as little about them as such records generally say about women, but one of them - probably Sarah's great-grandmother Mary Furber - left an unsigned diary that the Jewett sisters discovered in the old house when they were well into middle age. Set in Exeter in 1782, it shows us a young woman much like one of Jane Austen's Bennett sisters (the younger, flighty ones), engaged in a ceaseless and rather cold-blooded appraisal of the marriage market. Young men are ruthlessly sorted into two categories, "Somebodies" and "Nobodies.”
Source: Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World And Her Work
“All the carbon copies, the stuff that the industry puts together, it's not selling if you pay attention and look at the charts. The stuff that they put together, these hits that just go out, it doesn't sell. It doesn't have a core fan base of fans that dedicatedly watch their life. It's just a song, another song, another hit song, a one-hit wonder. It doesn't sell. It doesn't last.”
“all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.”
“All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.”
“All the changes occurring in the world are taking place as a part of a system. The actions, thoughts and behavior controlled by the human 'Self' play a significant role in bringing such changes.
The scientific study of the dynamic relationship between 'Self' and the universe can help plan the scientific steps to enrich the 'Self.' The execution of these steps can gift the human race a beautiful future. Only the healthy 'Self' has the power to create a healthy environment.”
“All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.”
“All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.”
“All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are”
“All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.”
“All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.”
Source: Observations
“All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.”
“All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.”
“All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.”
Source: I Go A-fishing
“All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.”
“All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.”
“All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.”
“All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.”
“All the children loved Ezhilarasi’s stall, and they visited her every day. They cherished the woven ball the most since it lasted even after the coconut leaves had dried.”
Source: The Postwoman and Other Stories
“All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.”
“All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.”
Source: The Nine Tailors
“All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.”
“All the choices we made have led to our evolution. We would not be who we are without being who we once were.”
“All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.”
“All the choices we make in the face of fear impact our healing. We can make choices that move us forward with hope. Our choice of who and what to trust brings hope along the way. And finding that hope pushes us to survive, even thrive, instead of solely being afraid.”
Source: Embrace Life, Embrace Hope: Cultivating Wholeness and Resilience through the Unexpected
“All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.”
“All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.”
“All the circumstances are natural whilst the tranquility is our own [the Self's]!”
Source: Aptavani-6
“All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.”
“All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.”
“All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.”
“All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.”
“All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.”
“All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.”
“All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!”
“All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?”
“all the coffee beans are cage-free and organically raised according to an individualized Montessori education plan before getting dumped into the roaster.”
Source: Lullaby
“All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!”
“All the collaborations that I've done that I'm really proud of with a lot of incredible Canadian artists and beyond, that's when art comes together and becomes something really special.”
“All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colors. Theon did not know whether he ought to find that ominous or reassuring. Even the sky was grey.
The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“All the colours in the rainbow don't compare,
With one look in your impossible eyes,
And I walked into the trap with my eyes wide shut,
But I never knew what it would be like.
All the plans were made,
In the wooded glade,
Where your body was split wide open,
And I count to ten,
As the race begins,
Round your hairpin bends.
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Without you to hold me.
I can't count the times I forgot my lines,
And you pretended that you didn't know,
Let me take you through each stage of the male
mistake,
And we'll adopt our natural roles.
And I need you more,
Than you need to be needed,
So I sign my will one stab at a time,
And I count to ten,
As the race begins,
Round your hairpin bends.
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Without you to hold me.
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Sometimes I feel I'll float away,
Without you to hold me.
Away, away, away, away ".”
Source: Suede -- The Chord Songbook: Lyric Songbook, Octavo-Size Book
“All the colours of the universe can be seen in the happiness of love.”