A Quotes
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“All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars. -- It will change --everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the Dec. 21, 2012 date as a rebirth, the start of the World of the Fifth Sun. It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator and the Earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy.”
“All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.”
Source: A Memory of Light
“All was still and quiet. It seemed as if a magician had placed an enchantment upon the earth and that everything in the world was bound in an eternal sleep and would remain frozen and unchanging forevermore underneath the watchful gaze of the twinkling stars.”
Source: Brisingr
“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.”
“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.”
“All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.”
Source: The Gathering Storm
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
Source: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
“All water is holy water.”
Source: Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays
“All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.”
“All we are asked to bear we can bear.”
“All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.”
“All we are asking for in this corrupt world full of hypocrisy and lies is some morality and a little bit of mercy and compassion.”
“All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.”
“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”
“All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.”
“All we are is dust in the wind, dude.”
“All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.”
Source: How to be Both
“All we are is in the soul.”
“All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.”
“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”
“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.”
Source: Anything But Typical
“All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.”
“All we ask is to be left alone' - To be allowed to go in peace to control our own destiny.”
“All we ask is to be let alone.”
“All we behold is miracle.”
Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems
“All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.”
“All we can do about this nightmare we live in is to create, if we are very lucky, a few islands of love and trust to sustain us and help us forget. But love dies while the lovers go on living, and Woolrich excels at making us watch while relationships corrode. He knew the horrors that both love and lovelessness can breed, yet he created very few irredeemably evil characters; for with whoever loves or needs love, Woolrich identifies, all of that person's dark side notwithstanding.
("Introduction")”
Source: Darkness At Dawn
“All we can do as women is make the best decisions for us. And that includes everything from how you look to how you dress to whether you choose to stay at home or work when you have kids. All those decisions are so personal, and we have to start with finding what brings us joy and what brings us our own individual confidence. And if we're feeling good with those choices, then it makes what everybody else has to say less important.”
“All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.”
Source: The Miniaturist
“All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.”
“All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.”
“All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.”
“All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.”
“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“All we can do is keep telling the stories, hoping that someone will ear. Hoping that in the noisy echoing nightmare of endlessly breaking news and celebrity gossip, other voices might be heard, speaking of the life of the mind and the soul's journey.”
“All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave ... while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.... Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay.”
“All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.”
“All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“All we can do is trust in the Force and hope that when the time comes, the future will judge our actions kindly.”
“All we can do is try not to fall.”
Source: The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)
“All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time”
“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.”
“All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.”
“All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.”
“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”
“All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.”
Source: The lightning thief
“All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.”
Source: Youth and Life
“All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.”
Source: Galatea 2.2: A Novel
“All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel