A Quotes
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“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
Source: Maxims
“Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.”
“Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.”
“Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.”
“Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.”
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students
“Almost any age is better than twenty-two.”
“Almost any applicable discovery has a potential for evil as well as for good.”
“Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.”
Source: Selected essays
“Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.”
Source: Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium
“Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hope that, could you? But for the time being there was no doubt that it was pleasant to get away from it. And books could take her away.”
Source: Sleep It Off Lady: Stories
“Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.”
“Almost any decision is better than no decision -- just keep moving.”
“Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”
“Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.”
Source: Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions
“Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?”
“Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.”
Source: Practical Ethics
“Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.”
“Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.”
Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
“Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.”
“Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.”
“Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made”
“Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.”
“Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.”
“Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly solvable, because you have a bunch of brains sitting in a room.”
“Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a table”
Source: Scientific Advertising Origins
“Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.”
Source: 2061: Odyssey Three
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
“Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person is comic to his lover. The novel is a comic form. Language is a comic form, and makes jokes in its sleep. God, if He existed, would laugh at His creation. Yet it is also the case that life is horrible, without metaphysical sense, wrecked by chance, pain and the close prospect of death. Out of this is born irony, our dangerous and necessary tool.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Almost any tasking man at Lockless would have traded his life for mine. But there was a weight of being so close to them, the weight that Thena had tried to warn me about, but something more, the crushing weight of seeing how the Quality truly lived, in all their luxury, and how much they really took from us.”
Source: The Water Dancer
“Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink”
“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
Source: Not That it Matters
“Almost anyone can see the golden light in an enlightened master's aura when the master meditates, unless, of course, the person is blocked up psychically.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.”
“Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, watching the young Swiss at play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you’re OK.”
Source: String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
“Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.”
“Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.”
Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
“Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.”
“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”
“Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.”
“Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.”
“Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.”
Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“Almost anything in the way of sexual relations is now regarded as correct as long as both parties consent to it... it is thought that sex is right with anyone you love in the sense of a "romantic" involvement. And on the other hand sex without romantic feelings is thought to be wrong even if the sexual partners are married. Often the "romantic love" in question turns out, upon examination, to be nothing more than precisely that fantasized lusting that Jesus called "adultery in the heart." One is not in love but in lust, which glorifies itself as something deeper in order to have its way.It is almost inconceivable today that the rightness or wrongness of sexual intercourse would have nothing whatsoever to do with what now passes for romantic love. Yet that is the biblical view generally: the rightness of sex is tied instead to a solemn and public covenant for life between two individuals, and sexual arousal and delight is a response to the gift of a uniquely personal intimacy with the whole person that each partners has conferred in enduring faithfulness upon the other.Intimacy is the mutual mingling of souls who are taking each other into themselves to ever increasing depths. The truly erotic is the mingling of souls. Because we are free beings, intimacy cannot be passive or forced. And because we are extremely finite, it must be exclusive... The profound misunderstandings of the erotic that prevail today actually represent the inability of humanity in its current Western edition to give itself to others and receive them in abiding faithfulness. Personal relationship has been emptied out to the point where intimacy is impossible. Quite naturally, then, we say, "Why not?" when contemplating adultery. If there is nothing there to be broken, why worry about breaking it?One of the most telling things about contemporary human beings is that they cannot find a reason for not committing adultery... We now keep hammering the sex button in the hope that a little intimacy might finally dribble out. In vain. For intimacy comes only within the framework of an individualized faithfulness within the kingdom of God.- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy”
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth
“Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.”
“Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”
“Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.”
Source: The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater