A Quotes
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“All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.”
“All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.”
Source: Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl
“All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.”
“All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.”
“All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.”
Source: The Woman's Bible
“All the men on my staff can type.”
“All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.”
“All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.”
Source: In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival
“All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”
“All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.”
“All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness. There are many pathways for the mind; there are no paths for the Heart, for the Heart is infinite and fills everything.”
“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
Source: History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards
“All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.”
“All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing stronger than nature. With nature in front of us we can do everything well.”
“All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.”
“All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.”
“All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.”
“All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have; indeed all their administrations are worse than in vain — they are a solemn mockery in the sight of God.”
“All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.”
“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.”
“All the money I have, I got it legally.”
“All the money in the world can’t get you what power can. Without power, all the money in the world is like being great-looking and having sex alone,” Ryan said.
“But isn’t that more fun sometimes?” Nour smiled.”
Source: Head Lion
“All the money in the world can’t get you what power can. Without power, all the money in the world is like being great-looking and having sex alone,” Ryan said.
“But isn’t that more fun sometimes?” She smiled”
Source: Head Lion
“All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.”
“All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.”
Source: Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice
“All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.”
“All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.”
“All the money is not evil. But lack of it, that's the square root of all evil in human affairs.”
“All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.”
Source: Don't Waste Your Life
“All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.”
“All the money you made will never buy back your soul.”
“All the money you make today was earned in the past and is paid from the past.”
“All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.”
“All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.”
“All the months are crude experiments,
out of which the perfect September is made.”
Source: A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909
“All the months of calm dispassionate analysis give way to a few minutes of emotion, an outburst of hope and horror as the inert beast comes alive for the first time, shakes itself and its new-found tail of fire, and starts slowly-so slowly-to move. For the first few seconds it is purely a spectacle, for with the eyes alone involved, one can see but not succumb. But when the great crackling Mach 1 roar arrives, and the very ground under you shakes, then you are there, you are part of it, and you laugh or cry or yell or whisper”
“All the more a cheesy musical seems fake, so it requires a level of honesty to be injected or an acknowledgement of that which is fake and fun about musicals, and it isn't necessarily escapist. Like there are great musicals like Once, which feel very almost like a mumblecore musical. I love Once. It's great.”
“All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.”
Source: The master architect: conversations with Frank Lloyd Wright
“All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.”
“All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems.”
“All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.”
“All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties—leaning against a hope—a hope that first had bowed, and then had broke as soon as he really tried its weight. There was not a sign of Sylvia’s liking for him to be gathered from the most careful recollection of the past evening. It was of no use thinking there was. It was better to give it up altogether and at once. But what if he could not? What if the thought of her was bound up with his life; and that once torn out by his own free will, the very roots of his heart must come also?”
Source: Sylvia's Lovers
“All the mortal things I had been revering in my life, everything that I was looking up to in awe suddenly came down to eye level in front of me and all the mortal things I had looked down upon and patronized in my life, suddenly rose up to eye level. Now, the world was flat and I was looking it in the eye.”
Source: Greenlights
“All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.”
“All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche
“All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.”
“All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.”
“All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.”