A Quotes
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“All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"”
“All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.”
Source: Empire
“All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.”
Source: The Divine Milieu
“All the computers in the world are on a network. They’re linked by our cuffs. But I’m a computer. Jack’s a computer—Akilah—PA Young—all the cy-clones. We’re all computers.
You know the great thing about computers?
They can be hacked.”
Source: The Body Electric
“All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.”
“All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.”
“All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.”
“All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.”
“All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.”
“All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.”
“All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.”
“All the contagion of the south light on you,
You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen, and one infect another
Against the wind a mile!”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index
“All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.”
“All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.”
“All the cops were tied up trying to maintain control, but it was already lost.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."”
“All the corporate welfare, yeah, it goes from cash payments to debt, to regulations on the competitors, to restrictions on trade, to mandates. You name it, anything so that business doesn't have to do a better job of creating value for others - they can just get the system in their favor.”
“All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!”
“All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.”
“All the coverage of skateboarding sucks. They couldn't care less when it comes to how skateboarding is portrayed. All I can do is portray it the right way when it comes to me. So skateboarders can look at what I'm doing and say, "Yeah, the only person doing it the right way is him." That's why Street Dreams was so important in being 100% true to skate culture. That's why the Wild Grinders are important in showing the different styles of street skating. That's why I get involved in building the skate parks. All I can do is show skateboarding the right way.”
“All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.”
“All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.”
“All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe.”
“All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined”
“All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.”
“All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!”
“All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.”
“All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative.”
“All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.”
“All the crockery in China had been smashed – flung over the years in all the periodic convulsions for which China was famous. All the blood-stained carpets had been tossed away. All the ancestors’ portraits had been destroyed. All the bodies had been buried. It was a country of bare rooms and empty shelves, like this apartment”
Source: Kowloon Tong
“All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.”
“All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.”
“All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“All the Dachaus must remain standing.”
“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.”
“All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2
“All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.”
“All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.”
“All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.”
“All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".”
“All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.”
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
“All the data you have collected is of no use if you don’t know how to gain insights from it, how to make profitable decisions with the help of this, and how to put your data into action.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“All the days that go by only make me seem to be getting further and further away from the day I last saw Eddie, not nearer and nearer the day I shall see him again.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.”
“All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a misogynist. There is no box marked "other."”