A Quotes
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“All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.”
“All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.”
“all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.”
Source: The man in the brown suit
“All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.”
“All wonders begins with a woman.”
“All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.”
Source: Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui
“All words are borrowed. The beauty of writing is how they flow through us and arrange themselves as something new but familiar. We can be unique and belong at the same time. In moments of confusion, anger, and sadness, words lend comfort, letting us know that someone else has navigated the same tempestuous tides and survived.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.”
Source: We Others: New & Selected Stories
“All words are prejudices.”
“All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.”
“All words have to be coined by a wordsmith at some point in the mists of history. The wordsmith had an idea to get across and needed a sound to express it. In principle, any sound would have done - basic principle of linguistics is that the relation of a sound to a meaning is arbitrary - so the first coiner of a term from for a political affiliation, for instance, could have used glorg or schmendrick or mcgillicuddy. But people are poor at conjuring sounds out of the blue, and they probably wanted to ease their listeners understanding of the coinage rather than having to define it or illustrate it with examples. So they reached for a metaphor that reminded them of the idea and they hoped would evoke a similar idea in the minds of their listeners, such as band or bond for a political affiliation. The metaphorical hint allowed the listeners to cotton on to the meaning more quickly than if they had had to rely on context alone, giving the word an advantage in the Darwinian competition among neologisms […] The word spread and became endemic to the community, adding to the language’s stock of apparent metaphors. But then it came to be used often enough, and in enough contexts, the speakers kicked the ladder away, and today people think not a whit about the metaphorical referent. It persists as a semantic fossil, a curiosity to amuse etymologists and wordwatchers [stet], but with no more resonance in our minds than any other string of vowels and consonants.”
Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
Source: The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century
“All work and no pay makes a housewife.”
“All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.”
Source: Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers
“All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.”
Source: Our wildest dreams: women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good
“All work and no play is not good for the soul”
“All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.”
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.”
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
Source: Stanley Kubrick: Interviews
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.”
“All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.”
“All work and no play will make you sad and grey!”
“All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.”
“All work is an act of philosophy.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.”
Source: Works
“All work is easy work.”
“All work is empty save when there is love.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All work is the avoidance of harder work.”
“All work nourishes the soul of your creative imagination. And all work increases your understanding of your craft. Sometimes a work takes a flower, sometimes it merely enriches the soil. And sometimes the seed of an idea, long abandoned and even forgotten, emerges suddenly in a place where it was least expected. And sometimes the blooms that it produces are the most beautiful of al.”
Source: Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art
“All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.”
“All work that is worth anything is done in faith.”
Source: The Light Within Us
“All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.”
“All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon ourselves this pre-acceptance of the pain and torment, they will be visited upon us in an otherwise necessary individual and universal collapse. Anyone disassociated from his origin and his spiritually sensed task acts against origin. Anyone who acts against it has neither a today nor a tomorrow.”
“All workers want is a fair shake.”
“All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.”
“All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.”
Source: Collected stories and other writings
“All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.”
“All works of art involve collaboration; all works of criticism doubly so.”
Source: Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall
“All works of art should begin... at the end.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“All works of love are works of peace.”
“All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.”
“All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two.”
“All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.”
“All world believers of righteousness are required to pladge allegiance to Allah!”
“All world believers of righteousness are required to pledge allegiance to Allah!”
“All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.”