A Quotes
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“all touch starting to sicken, as if the cells of my skin were individually nauseated”
Source: The Argonauts
“All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.”
“All toxic relationships feel like soulmate connections. A sign of toxic relationship is that you lose other people. You live to please just one person. You develop a new personality just for him/her. And that personality wants to be with him/her even after all the pain your soul goes through.”
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Source: Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.”
Source: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
“All tradition is merely the past.”
“All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.”
“All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.”
“All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.”
“All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.”
“All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.”
Source: The Mask of Apollo
“All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.”
“All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses”
“All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire. You must want to be different [and intend to be] before you can begin to change yourself. Then you must make your future dream a present fact. You do this by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled. By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable.”
“All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment you
attend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning”
“All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.”
“All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.”
“All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.”
“All trash were once something of value”
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd
“All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.”
Source: The Great Railway Bazaar
“All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.”
Source: Wild Places
“All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.”
Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things
“All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.”
Source: A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes
“All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.”
Source: The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey
“All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.”
“All trees and birds
sky and stars
bosoms and bangles
were seeing everything.”
“All trees are afraid of the storm, but no tree - unlike human beings - looks at the size of the storm and surrenders helplessly, it will fight the storm to its death!”
“All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”
“All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]
“All trials and tests we go through in life, do one or two things; either to make us bitter soul or better Individual. The determination that helps one be better, is making the right choices, and willingness to change.
The choice to stay a victim or become a victor, totally lies in your hands.
ACT LIKE YOU ALREADY WON-The Mindset of Successful People. (When Relationships Turn Sour-Turn Lemons Into Lemonade 17/pg185)”
Source: ACT LIKE YOU ALREADY WON: The Mindset of Successful People; Diminish Your Fears Now.
“All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer”
“All troubles come to an end when the ego dies”
Source: The Way to God as Taught by Sri Ramakrishna
“All true Alchemy concerns the transmutation of suffering through alignment with Divine Will.”
Source: The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
“All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God, though not always of the same kind; for that Love one while shining on the soul we call grace, which makes us acceptable to His Divine Majesty; when it strengthens us to do well, it is called Charity; but when it attains its fullest perfection, in which it not only leads us to do well, but to act carefully, diligently, and promptly, then it is called Devotion.”
“All true are not truthful.”
“All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video.”
“All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.”
Source: To the director and playwright
“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
“All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.”
Source: The Enchantress of Florence
“All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father.”
Source: True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort
“All true competitors in any field and walk of life take adversity and are strengthened from it. They develop a reputation of determination and toughness that wins more decisive moments in life than winning shots.
Bobby Blair was one tough player. Playing him was like going into a phone booth with an angry bobcat. His massive talent was only surpassed by his courage to hit the big shots under the most pressure. No one ever looked forward to playing him. It was going to be pain and suffering if you wanted to go the distance it took to beat him.”
“All true education is the drawing out from the student what is already there. Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember. All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.”
Source: Communion with God
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.”
Source: What's Wrong with the World
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“All true greatness runs as level a course, and is as unaspiring, as the plow in the furrow. It wears the homeliest dress and speaks the homeliest language”
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”