A Quotes
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“All the training was necessary for my personal development.”
“All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.”
“All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.”
“All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.”
“All the trees of the world appeared to be rushing towards Aslan. But as they drew nearer they looked less like trees, and when the whole crowd, bowing and curtsying and waving thin long arms to Aslan, were all around Lucy, she saw that it was a crowd of human shapes. Pale birch-girls were tossing their heads, willow-women pushed back their hair from their brooding faces to gaze on Aslan, the queenly beeches stood still and adored him, shaggy oak-men, lean and melancholy elms, shock-headed hollies (dark themselves, but their wives all bright with berries) and gay rowans, all bowed and rose again, shouting, "Aslan, Aslan!" in their various husky or creaking or wave-like voices.”
Source: Prince Caspian
“All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.”
“All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.”
“All the trinkets like money, glitter, and gold/ won't make you immortal/ the young die so do the old.”
“All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.”
“All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.”
“All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.”
“All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.”
“All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.”
“All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity”
“All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.”
“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“All the truth is held in stories, you know?”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.”
“All the turbulences opens up the next level of your strength.”
“All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!”
“All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along the courses of wayback creeks; scarlet - and - green sky - streaking parrot - fires with parrot shrieks echo - shattering the shoulders of the hills; and desert - sunset - rage Rage for my mind, be clamant, do not cease you are my holiest habitat of peace.”
“All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”
Source: Pensees
“All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.”
Source: Collected Poems
“All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we know about Shakespeare of Stratford that such a man would have had the experience to imagine such things - well, this denies the very thing that separates Shakespeare from almost every other writer in the world: an imagination that is untouchable and nonstop.”
“All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.”
“All the universe has got a sex-like quality about it. It is seminal and productive at the same time. The seeds of words produce ideas. The seeds of ideas produce goodness knows what. The whole blessed thing is male and female at one and the same time. In fact, the whole thing is pure sex. We’ve taken one aspect of it and called it sex, or made it self-conscious and called it Sex. But that was our own fault, wasn’t it?
– Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna”
Source: Mister God, This is Anna
“All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.”
“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.”
Source: The Complete Poems 1927-1979
“All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.”
Source: One Art: Letters
“All the untold words of this world could change this world if they were told, because words always have the potential to change the people they touch, and the world changes when people change!”
“All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.”
“All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that utopianism altogether, even if it was naïve and ill-informed and sometimes silly. Rather I want us to ask about the obstacles that are preventing the good stuff from coming to fruition. Let's investigate and think about creating something worthwhile instead of assuming that there is an inevitable track of increased centralization, consolidation, and commercialization that we can't do anything about.”
“All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.”
“All the values turn upside down with the years, and what was considered a privilege in the Special Purpose Camp of the twenties—to wear government-issue clothing—would become an annoyance in the Special Camp of the forties: there the privilege would be not to wear government-issue clothing, but to wear at least something of one's own, even just a cap. The reason here was not economic only but was a cry of the whole epoch: one decade saw as its ideal how to join in the common lot, and the other how to get away from it.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
“All the variety of species of life created be,
By combination of three basic material energy;
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These Guna modus operandi of material energy,
They are called tamo, rajo and sattva clearly;
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Tamo-guna associated with inertia, ignorance be,
The rajo-guna associated with passion, activity;
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Sattva-guna associated with goodness, harmony,
And all three of them associated with thinking truly.
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Source: Goals of Life
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.”
Source: The nineteen letters of Ben Uziel: being a spiritual presentation of the principles of Judaism
“All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.”
“all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.”
“All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.”
“All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.”
Source: Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition
“All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.”
“All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.”
“All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.”
Source: Claude Bernard and the internal environment: a memorial symposium
“All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.”
“All the waiting is for God to work out his plan for our good.”
“All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.”
“All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London