A Quotes
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“All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.”
Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.”
Source: Every Frenchman Has One
“All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.”
“All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.”
“All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing.”
Source: Christian Love and It's Fruit
“All the fun is in how you say a thing.”
Source: A Boy's Will and North of Boston
“All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.”
“All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream”
Source: Momo
“All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The blade lodges in the pack. Both straps on my shoulders now, I make for the trees. Somehow I knew the girl will not pursue me. That she'll be drawn back into the Cornucopia before all the good stuff is gone. A grin crosses my face. Thanks for the knife, I think.”
“All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...”
“All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.”
“All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.”
Source: Komarr
“All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.”
“All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“All the gentlemen accorded her the courtesy of standing when she entered the chamber. One second of recognition, then her gender would be completely forgotten when the discussions began.
~ From The Earl, the Vow, and the Plain Jane by Cheryl Bolen”
“All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting
“All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.”
“All the girls and women looked pretty much the same, so did all the boys and men. I couldn't find myself among the girls. I had never seen any adult woman who looked like I thought I would when I grew up. There were no women on television like the small woman reflected in this mirror, none on the streets. I knew. I was always searching.”
Source: Stone Butch Blues
“All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take.”
“All the girls in the industry are really all about making different the norm. Everyone really wants that to stop being a movement and start being normal. It shouldn't be a movement when someone casts a bunch of black girls, or a girl who isn't the typical size, or someone with freckles. It should be an everyday thing.”
“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
“All the girls look good in college; I mean they're young, they're ready, they're single, they just wanna have fun.”
“All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything.
Everyone was so full of crap.”
Source: Paranoid Park
“All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.”
“All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.”
“All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.”
“All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.”
Source: Philobiblon
“All the gods are dead except the god of war.”
Source: SOUL ON ICE
“all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction”
Source: The Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy bundle: fantasy adventure magic series The Singer of All Songs; The Waterless Sea; The Tenth Power
“All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?”
“All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.”
“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”
Source: Laws
“All the golden guineas had gone now and we only had the little I earned as a model. With this we had to pay for food, light and heat, and laundry and of course rent. Sometimes we were several weeks behind and the landlady would ask us for money each time we went in or out of the house. I would hear her talking about us to the other people who lived on the floor below and felt dreadfully ashamed.
Charles did not mind. He just said she was a silly old bitch. As soon as Charles started to paint he forgot about the cold and money worries. That is how artists should be, but I was only a commercial artist, so I went on worrying.”
Source: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
“All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.”
Source: How to Have a Lifestyle
“All the good are friends of one another.”
“All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.”
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?”
“All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.”
Source: On Liberty
“All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.”
“All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.”
Source: Killosophy
“All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.”
“All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at # camp”
“All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.”
“All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.
from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education”
Source: Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
“All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot.”
“All the good times evaporated like naphtha, the moment some air of misconceptions touched it.”
“All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.”