A Quotes
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“All this fretting about the spirits. I'm trying to teach you about the mind. An infinite world that's been neglected by far too many explorers.”
Source: The Rise of Kyoshi
“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”
“All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes”
“All this good fortune, all this fierce joy ... it was wrong. Surely the universe could not allow this amount of happiness in one man, not without presenting a bill. Somewhere a big dark wave was cresting, and when it broke over his head it would wash everything away. Some days, he was sure he could hear its distant roar ...”
“All this got me wondering: Is that what forgiveness is? Is it forgetting and moving on? Is it doing whatever it takes to hear “I forgive you”? Is the word “sorry” ever enough?” (Violetta, Pg. 336)”
Source: Forgive Me Not
“All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?”
“All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.”
“All this had happened before, perhaps a million times, and because of this was doomed. There was no ordinary future any more, only this ecstatic tormented terrified present. The future had passed through the present like a sword. We were already, even eye to eye and lip to lip, deep in the horrors to come.”
Source: The Black Prince
“All this happened by chance, and it all happened in my head. But you broke my heart just like that. You’re a liar, you said you were single. You didn’t stop me from dreaming. Not once.
Our song is not your song. Our story is not your story.
I am writing this story alone, I am writing our song alone.”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.”
Source: Lord Jim
“All this happened, more or less.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.”
Source: Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death
“All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.”
“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a man whistling a tune, when out of nowhere, first a harmony joins, then another, and then suddenly he is taken up into a whirlwind of music, countless instruments playing soaring complexities that the man’s whistling is, indeed, a part of, but now he begins to see how small a part; the longer he listens, he realizes that his is not the melody and where he had thought he was whistling alone, the truth had always been the music playing, though never before that moment heard, and now what had been noise becomes symphony.”
“All this has been my fault.”
Source: General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous
“All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes.”
“All this has taught me the limits of my hatred.”
Source: In Memoriam
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”
Source: The wind in the willows
“All this health and safety talk is just killing me.”
Source: The world according to Clarkson
“All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless”
“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.”
Source: In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus
“All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.”
“All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,
I am the man . . . . I suffered . . . . I was there.”
Source: Song of Myself
“All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.”
“All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren't challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don't see the counterarguments.”
“All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.”
“All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“All this is duality. The “Gnani” [the enlightened one] is beyond duality and duality itself means the worldly life.”
Source: Spirituality in Speech
“All this is just an intent based imagination (kalpana). So then in imagination, there is no such thing as 'This is right' and 'This is wrong'.”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.”
“All this, is only momentary, is only a fragment in time that will never come again, for yesterday already belongs to the past and is ours no longer, and tomorrow is an unknown thing that may be hostile. This is our day, our moment, the sun belongs to us, and the wind, and the sea, and the men forward there singing on the deck. This day is forever a day to be held and cherished, because in it we shall have lived and loved, and nothing else matters but that in this world of our own making to which we have escaped.”
Source: Frenchman's creek
“All this is probably for nothing,' she [her mother] said once we'd hatched the plan. 'Most likely I'll flunk out anyway.' To prepare, she shadowed me during the last months of my senior year of high school, doing all the homework that I was assigned, honing her skills. She replicated my worksheets, wrote the same papers I had to write, read every one of the books. I graded her work, using my teacher's marks as a guide. I judged her a shaky student at best.
She went to college and earned straight As”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.”
“All this is what it means to regret.”
Source: A Hard And Heavy Thing
“All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer.”
“All this? It's a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne. Remember my words, Lara Jean. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever. (Stormy)”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.”
“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.”
Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels
“All this long I could only able to make my soul rich with kindness, love, patience, empathy, wisdom, care, honesty, and sincerity.”
“All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.”
“All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.”
Source: Dreams From My Father
“All this means is that in ten days when I look out to this spot, you won't be here. I don't know what I'll do then. At least you'll be elsewhere, where there are no memories.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.”
Source: Fishing the Sloe-Black River
“All this money can't buy me a time machine.”
“All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us.”
“All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.”
“All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings”
“All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had led and whose faces now stirred in his memory, it was his wife's response that came - as if in compensation for too little said before - when he wondered why his wandering had led him back to these old battlefields: in his sixty-ninth year he was establishing his survivor's status.”
Source: The Story of Lucy Gault