A Quotes
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“All the mothers-in-law I have ever had were admirable. Yet the legend of the comic papers is profoundly true. It draws attention to the fact that it is much harder to be a nice mother-in-law than to be nice in any other conceivable relation of life. The caricatures have drawn the worst mother-in-law a monster, by way of expressing the fact that the best mother-in-law is a problem. The same is true of the perpetual jokes in comic papers about shrewish wives and henpecked husbands. It is all a frantic exaggeration, but it is an exaggeration of a truth; whereas all the modern mouthings about oppressed women are the exaggerations of a falsehood. If you read even the best of the intellectuals of to-day you will find them saying that in the mass of the democracy the woman is the chattel of her lord, like his bath or his bed. But if you read the comic literature of the democracy you will find that the lord hides under the bed to escape from the wrath of his chattel. This is not the fact, but it is much nearer the truth. Every man who is married knows quite well, not only that he does not regard his wife as a chattel, but that no man can conceivably ever have done so. The joke stands for an ultimate truth, and that is a subtle truth.”
Source: All Things Considered
“All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.”
“All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.”
“All the multi-talents I possess; are meaningless! They mean not a thing to this world, unless they make me a filthy rich man. -MillYentei⋆”
“All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.”
“All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.”
“All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.”
“All the musicians that I know want to act.”
“All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.”
“All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.”
“All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.”
Source: India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961
“All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!”
Source: Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches
“All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there's so many real reasons to hate others.”
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”
“All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he must needs have unto heaven, who was the Sonne of God. For holding no dependence on any preceding efficient but God; in the act of his production there may be conceived some connexion, and Adam to have been in a moment all Navel with his Maker. And although from his carnality and corporal existence, the conjunction seemeth no nearer than of causality and effect; yet in his immortall and diviner part he seemed to hold a nearer coherence, and an umbilicality even with God himself. And so indeed although the propriety of this part be found but in some animals, and many species there are which have no Navell at all; yet is there one link and common connexion, one general ligament, and necessary obligation of all whatever unto God. Whereby although they act themselves at distance, and seem to be at loose; yet doe they hold a continuity with their Maker. Which catenation or conserving union when ever his pleasure shall divide, let goe, or separate, they shall fall from their existence, essence, and operations; in brief, they must retire unto their primitive nothing, and shrink into that Chaos again.”
Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica
“All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.”
“All the negativity but never an utterance of motivation or good-will towards me but I love it. They don't realize their feeding my hunger, the more they try to put me down, the more the fire rages. Their misery is igniting the desire in me to prove them wrong. This is what they fail to realize: God is with me! God has led me to this, God has enlightened my mind. It's the Word of God through the Bible that shows me my right to my heritage.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“All the neighborhood dogs can see right through me. They know. They aren’t even barking. Out of pity, I suppose.
The Carlucci’s dog is the worst barker in the neighborhood, but not today. I walk up to his gate and give it a shake. No reaction. He sits on the porch staring at me, like I ain’t nothin’. I look around and find a stick. I throw it at him.
Down deep, I really didn’t intend to hit him, but the stick bounces off his rump.
I cringe and cover my mouth. “Sorry,” I say.
The old dog just walks to his back yard, disgusted with the whole mess.
“You don’t understand,” I yell after him. “I’m having a life crisis!”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.”
“All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they'll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won't be the same as what I grew up with.”
“All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.”
“All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.”
“All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.”
“All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking”
Source: Five American poets: Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky
“All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.”
“All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.”
Source: Joni Mitchell: Hits: Piano/Vocal/Chords
“All the nightmares will come true, whether you try or not, but for your dreams to come true, you have to do everything.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.”
“All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.”
“All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from an obsession, they themselves were, in turn, enriched by the absorption; they shewed him the palpable realisation of his fancies, and they interested his mind; they took shape and grew solid before his eyes, and at the same time they soothed his troubled heart.”
“All the offers in the mail are waiting for your failure, not thinking about your financial future! - The Credit Repair Book: The Credit Repair Company's Secret Weapon.”
Source: The Credit Repair Book: The Credit Repair Company's "Secret Weapon"
“All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.”
“All the old clichés about women need to be undone. Enough already. We're in the other position now. We are desirable older, we can date younger guys and it's not this big taboo. Men have been doing this for years.”
“All the old fellows stole our best ideas.”
“All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.”
“All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved.”
“All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended - don't apply in the world of social media. They don't apply in the world of reality TV.”
“All the old stories of fairies come back to me. Monsters that lurk under mountains. The tooth fairy that built herself a palace of children’s teeth. The wild fae that, with one look, can enslave their prey.”
Source: Rhapsodic
“All the old traditions tell us that there is more than one path to the great Goal.. . . The shortest and easiest pathway of all is the pathway of Love. It is the one pathway that is open to all, irrespective of what their personal conditions or circumstances may be. For every person, everywhere, true attainment awaits through the yoga of Love, for yoga means union and it is our union with God that makes the attainment possible.”
“All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.”
“All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.”
“All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.”
“All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?”
“All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.”
“All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.”
“All the other covenants show God’s love and transmit God’s love, but it is only in the marital covenant that the love is so real and powerful that it communicates life.”
“All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say, 'I'll see you in two weeks.' They never gave any kind of encouragement or information. They were very competitive with each other. They didn't want to teach an artist and then lose him to some other editor.”
“All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.”