A Quotes
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“All the women in this family are widowed quick. The men burn out on us like church candles and not long after we're married all that's left of them is a stain on the sheets that won't come off for all the scrubbing in the world.”
Source: Carcoma
“All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.”
“All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.”
“All the wonderful things in the world. All the ways life was better even if the world wasn't. This stutter-step of disaster after natural disaster was just a blip next to LED lights, driverless cars, a possible end to poverty through gene-edited crops.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.”
“All the wonders you seek are within yourself.”
“All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.”
“all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots.”
“All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.”
“All the words are not enough to get anything said.”
“All the words I refused to write, kept coming back to me. Haunting. And hunting. Until I was left with no blood.”
“All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.”
“All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.”
Source: How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version
“All the words of wisdom sound the same.”
“All the words that appear in the inner circle are attributes of God. To develop a relationship with Him we must know the implications of each for our lives. We need truth. His Word contains it. We need the ability to understand the truth. His Spirit will teach us. We need strength to cope with inner turmoil. His is omnipotent. We need a model to follow. Christ is God in human form. We need standards. He is righteous. We need acceptance. He is love. We need to know who is in charge. He is.”
Source: Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
“All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences.”
“All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the right order.”
“All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.”
“All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.”
“All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.”
“All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.”
“All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.”
“All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or between parents and children. Now that geneticists can look at genes, they can't find genes that account for more than 10 percent of the variation in any human trait.”
“all the work’s done low on the food chain. Everyone else just has meetings.”
Source: Dead Lions
“All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.”
“All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.”
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
“All the world by force of arms”
“All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.”
Source: Baby
“All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.”
“All the world is a stage and we are merely players.”
“All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!”
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
“All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.”
“All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.”
Source: A Hopkins Commentary: an Explanatory Commentary on the Main Poems, 1876-89
“All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.”
“All the world is happy when Santa Claus comes.”
Source: A story garden for little children
“All the world is in your shadow, Zahra.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”
“All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.”
“All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify”
“All the world is our next of kin, all towns are our hometown. There is no my country your country, all nations are our playground.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.”
“All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.”
Source: The Scarlet Plague
“All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.”
Source: The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes