A Quotes
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“All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.”
Source: Airman
“All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.”
“All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.”
“All we can offer where we love is this:
to loose each other; for to hold each other
comes easy to us and requires no learning.”
“All we can really do is nothing but be aware. In fact, we are nothing but awareness.”
“All we can really do is to take the revolution a meal at a time. Be the first woman in the office to take a biscuit from the communal tin; be the person brave enough to take the last one, too. In the company of people you feel comfortable with and safe around, eat your heart out. Practise ordering greedily on dates. Be the only person at the table to get a dessert. When it arrives, don't share it. Try out speaking your mind when you're alone -- talk to yourself in the mirror, saying things like 'I would like you to go down on me, and I want the last slice of the strudel.' No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too.”
Source: Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
“All we can really say is that things happen and when they do we filter them through what’s already happening inside ourselves – whether we’re aware of that or not - and then either move towards the truth about things or away from it.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.”
“All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.”
Source: Barbara Johnson
“All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict.”
“All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.”
“All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.”
“All we did was show Harpocrates how much you've changed... Have you completely made up for all the bad things you've done? No. But you keep adding to the 'good things' column. That's all any of us can do.”
Source: The Tyrant’s Tomb
“All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.”
“All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.”
Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
“All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.”
“All we do between earthquakes and plastic surgery is surf with Mickey Mouse.”
Source: SUS: Short Unpredictable Stories
“All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!”
“All we do in psychodrama - the psychodrama of contacts, of psychological tests, of interfacing - is acrobatically simulate and dramatize the absence of the other. Not only is otherness absent everywhere in this artificial dramaturgy, but the subject has also quietly become indifferent to his own subjectivity, to his own alienation, just as the modern political animal has become indifferent to his own political opinions. This subject becomes transparent, spectral (to borrow Marc Guillaume's word) - and hence interactive. For in interactivity the subject is the other to no one. Inasmuch as he is indifferent to himself, it is as though he had been reified alive - but without his double, without his shadow, without his other. Having paid this price, the subject becomes a candidate for all possible combinations, all possible connections.
The interactive being is therefore born not through a new form of exchange but through the disappearance of the social, the disappearance of otherness.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'”
“All we do is disguise our weak politics behind a powerful bureaucracy and disguise our powerful bureaucracy behind weak political decision making.”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron.”
“All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.”
Source: Women
“All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!”
“All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.”
Source: Escape Everything!
“All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.”
Source: My Life for the Poor
“All we endured throughout the year was - but an integral part of our life’s learning & evolution.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas
“All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.”
“All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.”
“All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope.”
“All we ever want to be is,
Understood.”
“All we get is time and choices. Be wise with both. Time is finite, but the impact of your choices can be infinite, the choices you make can alter everything. Time passes, but choices define the legacy you leave behind. Just remember that time and chance happens to every man.”
“All we got is the family unbroke.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.”
“All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley.”
“All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.”
Source: Dreamland
“All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.”
“All we have in love are two unprotected hearts in an open field. And that’s why our hearts bleed so much when we get hurt.”
Source: Love, Life, and Logic
“All we have in our possession is today; yesterday is gone and tomorrow has yet to arrive.”
“All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.”
“All we have is life. It is the only thing that is ours.”
Source: Avenging Son
“All we have is now. And our promise to make it better.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?”
“All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.”
“All we have is the story we tell.”
“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!”
Source: Beautiful Ruins
“all we have left are broken memories
of drunken nights,
where I told you I loved you
and you lied and said you loved me too.”
Source: #ghostmode: extended edition
“All we have, nature gave to us.
All we have lost, greed took from us.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere”