A Quotes
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“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love. Life is but illusion, till it's an instrument of love.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.”
“All time is limited. All time is passing. As humanity builds straight walls on bending, bowing cliffs and along the lines of rolling hills, that time pases even faster, offended until it flees into the future, where straight lines sage, where angles bend and break and fall apart, where the softness, freed from its geometrical bindings, can finally run free. This, then, is the punishmen for those harsh lines, for those unforgiving angles: that humanity's time should run fast and hot and short (...)”
Source: In the Shadow of Spindrift House
“All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.”
Source: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
“All time is unreedemable.”
“All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God”
“All time spent reading is time well-spent.”
“All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.”
“All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.”
Source: Tales from Earthsea
“All times are connected. Treasure each moment.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“All times are dangerous times.”
“All times are determined by God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.”
“All times are sacred and must be kept Holy”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“All times are sacred; good times or bad times.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“All times are treasure-able.”
“all to no end save beauty
the eternal--
So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
“All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.”
“All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“All together, dear brothers and sisters, workers and government employees, workers by brain and by hand, rich and poor, Africans and Europeans, Catholics and Protestants, Kimbanguists and Kitawalists, let us unite and create a great nation.”
Source: Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961
“All together, someone would always be missing and I could feel the pull of that longing in my chest, in the pit of my stomach.”
Source: And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir – A Poignant and Inspiring Coming-of-Age Story About Mothers and Daughters
“All together, these powers and abilities combine to face an enemy that depends on you believing that it cannot be defeated. But we know that it can. Every person in this crowd is dedicated to stories about overcoming impossible odds and telling people that, in the depths of despair, there is always hope. And no matter what you are facing, when you face it together, you are unstoppable.”
“All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.”
“All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.”
“All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.”
Source: Capital in the Twenty First Century
“All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.”
“All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.”
“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.”
“All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.”
“All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.”
“All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'”
“All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.”
“All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naïve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women.”
Source: The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”
“All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.”
“All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.”
“All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress”
“All too often, a man gets into debt mainly, or even only, to get inside a woman or women.”
“All too often architects make a decision that is the correct decision at the time but becomes a bad decision over time because of changing conditions like dynamic equilibrium. For example, architects design a system as a desktop application, yet the industry herds them toward a web application as users’ habits change. The original decision wasn’t incorrect, but the ecosystem shifted in unexpected ways.”
Source: Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.”
“All too often ego can lead us to wanting for things to be right by us and for us, over making those things right overall for everyone.”
“All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.”
“All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.”
“All too often missed opportunities are in plain sight.”
“All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.”
Source: Meaning Success
“All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.”
“All too often, our prayer clashes with another prayer of ours, or some of our prayers, and/or another person’s or other people’s prayer or prayers.”
“All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful. . . .”