A Quotes
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“All the great things in your mind and heart. If you do not find them there, you will not find them anywhere else.”
“All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.”
Source: The Life of Jesus
“All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.”
“All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.”
“All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.”
“All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.”
“All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
“All the great writers and poets had/have one thing in common: heartbreak!”
“All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.”
“All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.”
Source: The Logic of Interdisciplinarity: The Monist-series
“All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania... is as priceless as genius.”
“All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.”
“All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater room.”
“All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.”
“All the habits of Man are evil. And above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.”
“All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)”
“All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.”
“All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.”
Source: Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved
“All the happiness in this world cannot rejoice the truly broken heart. Only the person who broke the heart at the first place can.”
“All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.”
“All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.”
“All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.”
“All the happiness you ever find lies in you.”
“All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.”
“All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.”
“All the hardest, coldest, people you will ever meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living,”
“All the Hardships. All the Mistakes. All the Rejections. All the Pain. All the times you Questioned why. All of these things have given Birth to the Wisdom and Strength that will Help you Shine your Light on the World, Even in the darkest of Hours.”
“All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?”
“All the haters are just jealous, so they're trying to bring me down. I'm young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I'm a role model – I'm the American dream!”
“All the hatin just fuels to my fire.”
“All the heart wants is expanding friendship. It is not the kind of friendship that is a social satisfaction and can even lead to dependency and attachment. Rather, it is the friendship of other conscious hearts, who are in that state of remembrance and in that state of coherence and resonance. That's what lifts and heals us. That‘s why Sufis have their dergahs and communities. Sufism is not arranged as an individual tutorial. It‘s not a path for hermits. There may be periods when one benefits from solitude. However, there‘s transformation in friendship. The transformation results from knowing one another and accepting the truth that everything is purposeful. Whoever walks through the door of the Sufi dergah has been invited. We‘re all friends of the Friend. Community is part of the mechanism of transformation. Because Western society is so individualistic, we find ways of avoiding relationship and seek transformation that will occur at our own convenience or according to our own preferences. Sometimes people reach the stage where they say, „I might be better off alone. I think I‘m getting enough of this spiritual stuff that I could do it myself.“ They give up the friction of relationship and the challenge of it, and retreat into their own world. It‘s not usually a healthy sign. However, everyone is free. On this Path, no one is coerced. It‘s not a cult. There‘s no group pressure. If somebody walks away from a Sufi circle, nobody chases after them, except perhaps out of friendship. Sufis don‘t interfere with anybody‘s will. We all have free will. We are happy to find friends who share a common yearning. We are helped and healed by that yearning. We are healed by each other. (p. 27)”
Source: In the House of Remembering: The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching
“All the hearts would not reflect the ray like a sun on your heart, because there is a heart which it is black.”
“All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”
Source: the bell jar
“All the heat should come my way”
“All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?”
Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin
“All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.”
“All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.”
“All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...”
“All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?”
“All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.”
Source: My Pillow Book
“All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.”
“All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.”
Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays
“All the hills and vales along
Earth is bursting into song,
And the singers are the chaps
Who are going to die perhaps.”
Source: The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
“All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.”
“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.”
Source: The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction
“All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.”