A Quotes
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“All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.”
Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk”
“All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.”
“All the serious problems in the world today could have been solved when they were simple problems.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“All the seriousness of his plans depends on a steady flow of blood to his brain through vulnerable network of capillaries.”
Source: The Course of Love
“All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.”
“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.”
Source: Novels, 1955-1962
“All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.”
“All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.”
Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel
“All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.”
“All the shows are immediately on the Internet, on Instagram, on Twitter, it's huge. Everything is live now, and for fashion, it's very important. It's not that it's good or bad, it's just like that and it's not going to change so we have to adapt to it.”
“All the shows we did pre-airdate, and I'd come out - "Rob Lowe!" - and it was [Offers bored applause.] After the show aired? I came out - "Rob Lowe!" - and the place was, like, bedlam. And then the next week, they wouldn't let anyone under the age of 20 into the audience. And I'm going, "So that's how it works! Okay!"”
“All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.”
Source: Attack Upon 'Christendom'
“All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive”
“All the sick are gonna be healed, the dead are gonna be raised and nations are gonna turn to God in a day.”
“All the signals that the Democratic Party is a party that tolerates snobbery and bigotry against, frankly, a lot of traditional Christians, a lot of white guys who work hard every day and who don't feel that they are on top of the world, those signals are clear and it's a turn off.”
“All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.”
“All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.”
“All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If 'Christ crucified' has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do - your preaching is of no use!”
Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times
“All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.”
“All the skills from DBT glom together, a mass of acronyms without any meaning. I pull out the DBT books and paw through the pages. Something has to help. Then I find these words: 'The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they currently being lived.”
“All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.”
“All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial world, become absorbed in the contemplation of the supreme. None can be regarded as really woken up from sleep till they have renounced all sensuous delights.”
“all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.”
“All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me”
“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“All the social ills that
law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to
learn and grow.”
Source: The End of All Evil
“ALL the SOLUTIONS are available, but the Technocratic Oligarchy is with-holding them to create these crises and serve the Fiat Cartels stranglehold.”
Source: Primer for Alien Contact
“All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.”
“All the songs are written from the perspective of a person, being me, who had trouble with some of the big questions in life, like, are we meant to be together with the same person for the rest of our lives? Or, is it frowned upon if a man goes through many women at all times? What is the meaning of love versus sex? It's just a lot of big questions, I guess, that are really difficult to answer. People see it very differently, but people sometimes suppress their lust. And it's not only sex. It could be lusting for anything that's supposedly very bad for you but can be good for you, too.”
“All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.”
“All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.”
“All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.”
“All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.”
“All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.”
“All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.”
“All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.”
“All the songwriters that I worked with said they'd like to work with me again. Such things serve as much inspiration for me. I regard myself a melody maker so it made me happy to be recognized for my work.”
“All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.”
“All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.”
Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954
“All the sounds, words, emotions and memories of previous experiences cannot prepare us enough for the encounters with the unexpected, challenging our values, preconceptions and beliefs. It is then that one is either rewarded for his faith or punished for the lack of it. The ultimate test, however, emerges in the form of what one desires the most hidden beneath the layer of what is simultaneously feared. No one knows the outcome of this invisible battle until its very end. It is when the heart is finally offered to that confrontation that one faces the last gate of his own mortal life, and in doing so, is led to either an immediate rebirth or a slow death.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.”
“All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.”
“All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.”
“All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.”
Source: Neuromancer
“All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.”
“All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.”
“All the stars all the galaxies are in the same spot night after night after night. And Planet Nine, when we see it, will slowly move across the sky.”