A Quotes
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“All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from a wonder of nature to this sluggish canal on the wrong side of the tracks.”
Source: Old Glory, an American Voyage
“All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million shareholders in the United States, but let me tell you something: about 15 million of those people could save their dividends for 10 years and maybe buy a new suit. That's not what I call capitalism.”
“All this plastic is getting in the way of our animal duty. Which is, we've got to eat each other over and over to keep this carousel turning round.”
Source: Whalefall
“All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.”
“All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.”
“All this seeing.
All this relentless taking in.”
Source: Theories of Forgetting
“All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.”
“All this she saw in their eyes, and the sight filled her own with water warmer and much older than the rain.”
Source: Song Of Solomon
“All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.”
Source: The Leopard: Revised and with new material
“All this simply shows us that communalism and terrorism are nothing but opposite sides of the same coin. They keep feeding on each other in a vicious cycle, resulting in a society full of violence, hatred, sorrow and intolerance. Every communal act is used as a justification for mindless acts of terrorism . Similarly , each act of terrorism is used as a justification for such horrible atrocities like genocide and ethnic cleansing. And, it is always the innocent who get killed. This is the sad truth.”
Source: Indians in Pakistan
“All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!”
“All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we depend on this technology for more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives.”
“All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It was making it to college. That's about it.”
“All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.”
“All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost - and will never lose - a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.”
“All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.”
“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”
“All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.”
“All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that are notoriously negative towards women.”
Source: Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
“All this talk about "raising" awareness and reaching for a "higher" mind is not literal. It's just a metaphor to describe gaining an awareness of the frequency nature of reality. They might have called it uyr outer mind or inner being. It doesn't matter. It's not a direction in physical space.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.”
“All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.”
Source: Earth
“All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.”
Source: Planned Chaos
“All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles.”
“All this the bottle says, that I have quite
poured out.”
Source: Collected Poems
“All this. They have all this, and what do we get? Walls and tickets and concrete and stink. Rations and hopelessness and rage. I hate them,” she said, the malice in her words like the lingering taste of a bad kiss.”
Source: Otherborn
“All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's family in the eye and telling them to say their last goodbyes. That it meant staring down the permanence of death over and over again, until it stopped feeling like something to be prevented at all costs and instead became something to be occasionally embraced.”
Source: On Rotation
“All this time
I drank you like the cure when maybe
you were the poison.”
“All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the
universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so
close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I’d met Dante, I
had fallen in love with him. I just didn’t let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right.
And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars.”
“All this time, I had had access to more power than I had imagined, and I had missed it because I saw with men's eyes. I had forgotten the girls who scrubbed the floors and spun the yarn. I had forgotten the women who dyed the cloth and worked with henna.”
“All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.”
Source: A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...
“All this time I really thought
You was just the one.
I was just afraid of losing
Something I never even had.”
Source: Whispers from Within
“All this time I thought I was alone. But God was there. I felt I was wasting my time, but He was there ... You have no idea what that means to me. It’s just like Him to do something like this.”
Source: The Curious Case of Doctor Maundy
“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“All this time, I've been afraid of my ability, when instead I should have been regarding it as a treasured weapon.”
Source: The Gilded Ones
“All this time, I’ve been thinking about happy endings, how destiny is set and maybe this is all it. But then I am reminded that destiny can change; as often as the mountains rumble and sky splits into color, your happy ending could always be right around the corner.”
Source: Mending the Mind
“All this time I was choosing my kingdom over my heart, I was too blind to realize that you were my both.”
Source: Children of Virtue and Vengeance
“All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I as lost.”
“All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.”
Source: Hush, Hush
“All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.”
“All this time she'd been wondering how Gansey might die and it turned out she was going to strangle him.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“All this time she hadn't known that "blue" was actually seven distinct shades, each with its own names- azure, Prussian, cobalt, cerulean, sapphire, indigo, lapis. She pressed the waxy pencils on the paper, amazed by the emerging hues: the ornaments curving on the Armenian vase were lapis; the purplish contours of the Jerusalem mountains were shrouded by indigo evening clouds.”
Source: Jerusalem Maiden
“All this time, William doesn’t move from my side, his hand surely and confidently glued to my waist like it belongs there, one piece of a puzzle that matches the other, making the picture complete.”
Source: Lost & Found: Anabel & William #1
“All this time, you haven’t had time to mourn. But such a time is coming. Then, you must let the darkness wash over you so you can stand in the light again.”
Source: Realm of the Snow Queen
“All this time you’ve spoken to it, looked into your soul, and spied that darkness lurking and twisting through the fabric of all that you are. You fed it nothing but your hatred, your anger and guilt, shame, regret, and yes, your loneliness. It grew fat on all the things you wanted to be rid of. You did not suspect? Did the Tallis never consider the darkness within was looking back? Learning? And growing strong, ever stronger. Stupid, foolish girl. The Tallis never knew! Ignoring it all, stuffing all the bad and ugly things down, down, down doesn’t get rid of them. What you choose to feed your divine spark is what it turns into!”
Source: The Wrath of Silence
“All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.”
Source: Hana: A Delirium Short Story
“All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.”
Source: Remember Me?
“All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.”
Source: UnWholly
“All this time…ever since I sold my soul, I’ve been clinging to this idea that there is something pure and decent out there. That there was something to give me hope that even if I was a lost cause, at least there was something bright and good in the world. But there isn’t. If there was, Seth wouldn’t have fallen. Erik wouldn’t have died. Andrea Mortensen wouldn’t be dying.” -Georgina to Carter”
Source: Succubus Shadows