A Quotes
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“All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.”
“All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.”
“All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.”
“All the other religions I had ever read about dealt with the idea of God, and your relationship with God. Buddhism is the only religion that deals with man himself and the nature of the mind - how to deal with yourself and your condition, here and now, as opposed to having to deal with something outside yourself.”
“All the other stars keep to their courses, and go along just like trains on their rails, but comets can go absolutely anywhere; they pop up here and there wherever you least expect them."
"Like me," said Snufkin, laughing. "They must be sky-tramps!"
Moomintroll looked disapprovingly at him. "It's nothing to laugh at," he said. "It would be a terrible thing if a comet hit the earth.”
Source: Comet in Moominland
“All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!”
“All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.”
Source: Friends and fiddlers
“All the oxygen of the world was in them.
All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.”
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.”
“All the pains in this world are assumed pains. It is ‘wrong belief’! People have the illusion of pain. This illusion is being experienced. What was seen with the eyes is not being experienced. To have illusory experience means to spend the entire night ‘dying’ in the fear of ghosts. That is what it is.”
“All the painters who appear in our museums are
failures at painting; the only people ever talked
about are failures; the world is divided into two
categories of people: failures and those unknown.”
Source: Jésus-Christ rastaquouère
“All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.”
“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“All the particles of the World are in Love
and looking for Lovers.”
Source: Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi
“All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.”
“All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.”
Source: Their Morals and Ours: The Marxist View of Morality
“All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.”
“All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them and you just try not to let them drive. But you can't chuck them out either.”
“All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.”
“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”
“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”
“All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.”
“All the past is not worth one today.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel”
“All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!”
“All the paths of this universe are ready to be your fate! You see, you are very rich in the matter of having different fates! Use this blessing very well, choose a good fate for yourself!”
“All the peace, joy, love, and creativity that people could want are closer than we ever imagine. They are our very nature, merely veiled by what we think we know.”
“All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution to become part of the "well-regulated" militia, specifically to understand and perform well with the individual weapon currently issued to the regular establishment. . . . Thus one who has not qualified himself with the M-16 may not be considered to be a responsible citizen.”
“All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.”
“All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.”
“All the people I hung out with were musicians.”
“All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.”
“All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.”
“All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.”
“All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.”
“All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.”
“All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.”
“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.”
“All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.”
“All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored”
“All the people that criticised me should eat their words.”
“All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.”
“All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point.”
“All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.”
“All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.”
“All the people we have ever loved remain. They are our ghosts. They make us who we are now.
Everyone stays. And that's alright.
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If you have found the right thing, the old ghost will let you go – it will not haunt you.
This is the miracle: that everything is possible – despite everything.
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I have loved so many different people. Maybe that's why I feel so all over the place.
▪️It doesn't pass – it will never pass.
It has been real; it will always stay real.
But that doesn't mean that it has to haunt you.
You might believe that the old ghost had been the big picture, but he might solely have been the preparation for the bigger picture.
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Everything is possible because the universe is as vast and infinite as the human heart.
Let the world in. Fate wishes us well.
Who knows which worlds will reveal themselves to us.
Believe in wonders, and they will come to pass.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.”
Source: Carrera's Bride