A Quotes
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“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
Source: Thoughts of Power
“All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.”
“All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.”
Source: A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ
“All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.”
“All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
“All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.”
“All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.”
Source: John Ploughman's Pictures
“All the preparation for this very moment is behind you. You've practiced and sprinted in hot and humid weather until you thought you were going to barf. You've worked on your touch, your through balls, your shots. You've psyched each other up. You are ready to win this game because you are the best-conditioned and most unselfish team out there. Let's go do what we can do! -Coach”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.”
“All the present bureaucracies of political governments, great religious organizations, and all big businesses find that physical success for all humanity would be devastating to the perpetuation of their ongoing activities. This is because all of them are founded on the premise of ameliorating individual cases while generally exploiting on behalf of their respective political, religious, or business organizations the condition of no-where-nearly-enough-life-support-for-all and its resultant great human suffering and discontent.”
Source: Critical Path
“All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.”
“all the pretty woman thought
the poems i wrote on love
were meant for them.
and i always felt badly
about having written them
just for the hell of it.
***
Bütün güzel kadınlar zannettiler ki
Aşk üzerine yazdığım her şiir
Kendileri için yazılmıştır.
Bense daima üzüntüsünü çektim
Onları iş olsun diye yazdığımı
Bilmenin.”
“All the priests needed was the knowledge of what is and should be. That, at least, was how they thought they would gain salvation, escape the suffering of this world into another – even a fictional one. The priests wrote and copied books. They were the guardians of both knowledge and the belief that the world would one day be wiser. They believed that through the constant cultivation of the soul, it would one day be free. But they also believed that without effort, without hope and faith, nothing good awaited them. So their days were divided between writing and transcribing and praying. In their prayers and dreams at night, they imagined the world they hoped to one day to live in. In their prayers, they begged for good to come, for the world to change for the better, to mature. The two priests had known each other for a long time, and although they believed in and prayed to different deities, they were good friends who sat together without saying anything. And yet when they said nothing, they talked so much. They secretly hoped that one day there would be no need for their writings and that the spirit, as well as the flesh, would be completely free. That both word and knowledge would not be chained in parchments, but would soar through space, constantly filling it with new things. Their thoughts are not spoken aloud, as it is forbidden. Such thoughts were punished cruelly, for millennia, and even he who awoke was unable to defend them. The most lucrative resource on this earth, the human body and mind, is completely free... Such heresy!”
Source: The Devil I Know Him
“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.”
“All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.”
“All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.”
Source: Quote Me Everyday
“All the problems and challenges make life interesting. It makes the living worthwhile. If everything follows a straight order, we lose our interest out of life.”
“All the problems everyone faces in the life is because they are trying to grab not to grasp the truth. If you try to grasp the truth, you will have the approach of Love towards the truth. For grasping the truth you need tremendous seeking."
- The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism, Jagadguru Mahasannidhanam Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam -”
“All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“All the problems of organized religion and newage spirituality could be solved with one little change in mindset - never declare as fact what works as metaphor, metaphor is mightier than magic.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.”
“All the problems of the world are caused by people who do not listen.”
“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.”
“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”
“All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.”
“All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic visions, reverie and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two principal problems.
First problem: To produce wealth.
Second problem: To share it.
The first problem contains the question of work.
The second contains the question of salary.
In the first problem the employment of forces is in question.
In the second, the distribution of enjoyment.
From the proper employment of forces results public power.
From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness.
By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must be understood.
From these two things combined, the public power without, individual happiness within, results social prosperity.
Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral element enters.
Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it.
The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The two problems must be combined and made but one.”
Source: Les Miserables Vol. IV, Book 11-15
“All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.”
“All the problems you have are simple. What’s complicated is getting you to see simplicity.”
“All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses. And nothing reminds me so much of the monthly parts of Notre-Dame de Paris, and of various books by Gérard de Nerval, that used to hang outside the grocer's door at Combray, than does, in its rectangular and flowery border, supported by recumbent river-gods, a 'personal share' in the Water Company.”
Source: In the shadow of young girls in flower
“All the products that are sold to us - those anti-aging products - are telling us that there's a due date.”
“All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated.”
“All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.”
“All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.”
Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
“All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?”
“All the proof of a pudding is in the eating.”
Source: Remains Concerning Britain
“All the propagandist like FIFA, ICC, Olympics are hypnotizing you to be radical patriotic in the name of sports.”
“All the prophets and messengers have preached, for thousands of years, about the so-called end of the world; instead, they only signified the beginning of a new era.”
“All the propositions of ontology are Temporal propositions. Their truths unveil structures and possibilities of being in the light of Temporality. All ontological propositions have the character of Temporal truth, veritas temporalis.”
Source: The Basic Problems of Phenomenology
“All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.”
Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1779-1821
“All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.”
“All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.”
“All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).”
“All the pundits and D.C. insiders thought I'd never be standing on the main stage. I am and I'm going to stay there.”
“All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.”
“All the questions we seek, we possess the answers to. Fear is our normal and typical blocker of all things wonderful within us.”
Source: Strange Dreams
“All the radiance of April in Italy lay gathered together at her feet. The sun poured in on her. The sea lay asleep in it, hardly stirring. Across the bay the lovely mountains, exquisitely different in colour, were asleep too in the light; and underneath her window, at the bottom of the flower-starred grass slope from which the wall of the castle rose up, was a great cypress, cutting through the delicate blues and violets and rose-colours of the mountains and the sea like a great black sword.
She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light. Lovely scents came up to the window and caressed her. A tiny breeze gently lifted her hair. Far out in the bay a cluster of almost motionless fishing boats hovered like a flock of white birds on the tranquil sea. How beautiful, how beautiful. Not to have died before this . . . to have been allowed to see, breathe, feel this .”
Source: The Enchanted April