A Quotes
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“All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.”
“All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.”
“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
“All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.”
“All the waters in the world are joined.”
Source: All the Murmuring Bones
“All the way back from when I was a little kid, I would let myself have a good cry and then say to myself, “Okay, suck it up and keep it moving.” That approach worked for me for a long time. I couldn’t know how this only meant I stored the trauma in my body—stashed it in my mind and heart to lie in wait. Keep it moving, I said. So I moved.”
Source: Matriarch: A Memoir
“All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.”
“All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.”
“All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland”
“All the way to heaven is heaven.’ It is not just about the happy ending, but making every step along the way matter. It is a good way to live a life, do you think?”
Source: All the Way to Heaven
“All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.”
“All the way up the house the windows were open; light came diagonally from window to window through corner rooms. Two storeys up, she could have heard a curtain rustle, but the mansion piled itself up in silence over the Montmorencys' voices.”
Source: The Last September
“All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“All the way, Zoe kept her chin up and pretended she wasn’t mortified, but his sour expression stayed with her. She wasn’t good at making American friends. She changed her language, conduct, and clothing, but it didn’t seem to matter. Whether she wore modest Middle-Eastern clothing or cute Western fashions, everyone knew she didn’t belong.”
“All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.”
“All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.”
“All the wealth of the world can’t repay the debt of a breath.”
“All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“All the while, an intensely personal real-time documentary was being shot, with the help of seventy-five CBS cameras, about a man, private by nature but famous by deed, trying to reclaim a lost life while starting a new one, and doing so with millions of people watching.”
Source: The Second Life of Tiger Woods
“All the while, fighting for the self-respect and independence of her tribe, she was unaware of the chains of Patriarchy that bound her too. She had no place of her own. She was a nobody without the identity of a man, first her father and now her husband. She was as insignificant as the women she wanted to fight for. Life was a loop within the boundaries society drew around women.”
Source: Rishta Tera Mera
“All the while, I keep one ye on Eibhlín Dubh and one on my daughter in her car seat. She grows in that rear-view mirror. Soon, her eyes are open as I turn towards home. Soon, her gurgles can almost be translated into words. Soon, she is tugging at the straps in which I have bound her. Soon, she is smiling back at me. This is how years pass in that mirror: soon, too soon.”
Source: A Ghost in the Throat
“All the while, my mind reeled with what had happened.
I have a hickey. I let Adrian Ivashkov give me a hickey.”
Source: The Indigo Spell
“All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight.”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“All the while, that seemingly sympathetic sun was growing a little fiercer, smiling a little broader. Sometimes the land didn't have to get you. You got yourself.”
Source: Rustkiller
“All the while they were talking the half-remembered rhyme kept running through Winston’s head. Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St. Martin’s! It was curious, but when you said it to yourself you had the illusion of actually hearing bells, the bells of a lost London that still existed somewhere or other, disguised and forgotten. From one ghostly steeple after another he seemed to hear them pealing forth. Yet so far as he could remember he had never in real life heard church bells ringing.”
Source: 1984
“All the while, when Nazneen turned to her prayers and tried to empty her mind and accept each new thing with grace or indifference, Chanu worked his own method. He was looking for the same essential thing. But he thought he could grab it from the outside and hold it against his chest like a shield...
Where Nazneen turned in, he turned out; where she strove to accept, he was determined to struggle; where she attempted to dull her mind and numb her thoughts, he argued loud; while she wanted to look neither to the past nor to the future, he lived exclusively in both. They took different paths but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.”
Source: Brick Lane
“All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.”
“All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.”
“All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.”
“All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.”
Source: The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God
“All the wild sweetness of the flower
Tangled against the wall.
It was that magic, silent hour....
The branches grew so tall
They twined themselves into a bower.
The sun shown ... and the fall
Of yellow blossom on the grass!
You feel that golden rain?
Both of you could not hold, alas,
(both of you tried, in vain)
A memory, stranger. So I pass....
It will not come again.”
Source: The Katherine Mansfield notebooks
“All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.”
Source: Later Poems
“All the windows of my heart I open to the day.”
Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier
“All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.”
“All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.”
“All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.”
“All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.”
Source: Five plays
“All the wishes and desires of my heart knew her name.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in."”
“All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.”
Source: The Women's Room
“All the women in my family are extremely strong.”
“All the women in my family were superb cooks.”
“All the women in my family were very creative.”
“All the women in my life have really made my life what it is, and I feel so fortunate, so whole because of them.”
“All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.”
“All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the women’s souls, Alex decided, tiny souls trotting behind them on a leash.”
Source: The Guest
“All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.”
“All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.”