A Quotes
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“All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.”
“All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.”
“All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.”
“All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land.”
“All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.”
“All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!”
“All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.”
Source: Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
“All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.”
Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.”
“All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy, that which today is considered true, may tomorrow be proved to be false. No one can guarantee a philosophy's validity. Because of this, any intellectual way of seeing whatever is always partial and relative. The fact is that there is no truth to seek or to confirm logically; rather what one needs to do is to discover just how much the mind continually limits itself in a condition of dualism.
Dualism is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political or social conviction may condition us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we are no longer satisfied by a merely intellectual knowledge, and until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.”
Source: Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
“All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.”
“All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in dozens of places.”
“All the physical comes from the mental.”
“All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.”
“All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.”
Source: Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“All the pieces of the puzzle were in play—money, different forms of currency, taxes, fees, debt, slavery, news, media, conditioning, programming, politicians, political parties, political issues, secret societies, religions, all the isms, et cetera. They were collectively upheld for one single reason—control. Money was the most effective means for control.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“All the pink roses were in bloom, and their scent was heavy in the air, tinged with the ever-present scent of seaweed that had been soaking in the sun. She remembered her father had hated the smell---overcooked salad, he'd called it--- but she thought it smelled wonderful. It smells like summer.”
Source: The Spellshop
“All the pins stuck in my head from the wig. I would set off a metal detector. And you know when your head gets really itchy? So when the wig gets put on at like 5:30, 6 A.M., and you can't take it off until 7 P.M. - I won't miss all the pins scratching against my scalp.”
“All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go.”
Source: Trust Your Eyes
“All the places we were in were transformed, they were enhanced with the most fantastic atmospheres, irrespective of their actual appearance, her flat, my bedsit, the small cafes we went to, the streets where we walked.”
Source: Min kamp 5
“All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes.”
“All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.”
Source: Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty: Three Plays
“All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.”
“All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare
“All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made.”
“All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
“All the poetry is going from Nature,' he cried, 'her lakes and marshes are drained, her seas banked up, her forests cut down. Everywhere we see the vulgarity of desolation spreading.”
Source: Collected Short Stories
“All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.”
“All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.”
“All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.”
“All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .”
Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography
“All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.”
“All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.”
“All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.”
“All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?”
“All the positions you learn in yoga are done in order to learn how to not take positions in life. You like this person. You don’t like that one. Life must be seen freshly. Everything is a possibility. When I see you, I look at you freshly. What are you, at this moment? We must get rid of all our positions. That is a great weight gone.”
Source: Prana
“All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.”
“All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.”
Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“All the potholes in the roads need to be filled. You should fill them with my homemade chicken noodle soup.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“All the power
in the
Cosmos
Exists
Inside You
Seek it not elsewhere.”
“All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.”
“All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.”
“All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.”
Source: The Science of Mind Collection
“All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.”
“All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.”
“All the powers in the universe are already ours.”
Source: Thoughts of Power