A Quotes
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“Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.”
Source: Twelve steps and twelve traditions
“Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.”
Source: Why Time Begins on Opening Day
“Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.”
“Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.”
Source: Appreciative management and leadership: the power of positive thought and action in organizations
“Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."”
“Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.”
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much of what I'd thought was true had turned out to be an illusion. I saw people around me living by these illusions— that love and safety could be counted on, that life had meaning and the future could be controlled— and I did not feel that I could ever again share their suspended disbelief. I was swimming against a strong, cold current: I could see them there, playing on a sunny beach, but I couldn't rejoin them. Continuing the struggle seemed not only incredibly painful but, even worse, pointless.”
Source: After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
“Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.”
“Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.”
“Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.”
“Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.”
Source: Baptismal Instructions
“Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.”
“Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all”
“Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.”
“Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.”
“Almudena se volteo y lo miró con sus ojos epílogo”
Source: Música Para Los Buitres
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“Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.”
“Aloha Hawaii, adios La Palma.”
“Aloha Hawaii, goodbye snow.”
“Aloha is compassion, love, light, harmony, peace and joy, all rolled into one. Aloha is choosing love in every moment, showing up and being lovingly present no matter what it looks like on the inner or outer.
--Aloha is Compassion, Ken Ballard”
Source: Practice Aloha: Secrets to Living Life Hawaiian Style- Stories, Recipes and Lyrics from Hawai'i's Favorite Folks
“Aloha Mauna Kea, aloha sacred spirits.”
“Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree.”
Source: Lights Out: Book 2
“Aloha sacred mountain, aloha ancient Hawaiians.”
“Aloha sunny Hawaiian beach, aloha snowy Mauna Kea.”
“Alone a candle can only light a room, but in thousands they can even light a city.”
“Alone a star is powerless, but in large numbers they light up the universe.”
“Alone again, with the house quiet around her, she thought not of Joan in her hospital gown but of Henry, the IVs taped to the bruised crook of his arm, how he'd asked her to take care of Arlene and not give up on their daughter Margaret, demands that even now seemed unfair, if not impossible. What would she ask, and of whom--God? There was no one else left.”
Source: Evensong
“Alone, all alone in the world, sad and small like a nightingale serenading the infinite. How could a love so tender and sweet become the cross of my pain? No, no, I can't conceive I won't receive your precious lips again. My eyes are tired of weeping, my heart of beating. If perhaps some crystal moment before dawn or twilight you remember me, bring only a bouquet of tears to lay upon my thirsty grave.”
“Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.”
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Alone, alone, alone, alone…”
Source: In Limbo
“Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Alone . . . alone . . . It echoed in her mind as she sat there. Under the weight of the loneliness Han's voice seemed to fade, and Maz Kanata's as well, until there was nothing surrounding her but a silence as deep and profound as the distant reaches of space itself.”
Source: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“Alone also means available for someone outstanding.”
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.”
“Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.”
“Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense.”
“Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to avow them and half doubtful if they can after all be right. Put me back among my Friends and in half an hour - in ten minutes - these same views and standards become once more indisputable. The opinion of this little circle, while I am in it, outweighs that of a thousand outsiders: as Friendship strengthens, it will do this even when my Friends are far away. For we all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men "after our own heart." Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Alone and connected. Aloof and hopelessly entwined. Obi-Wan had only a moment before he was wrenched back into the physical world, but it was long enough to renew his hope.
"Obi-Wan," said Qui-Gon Jinn. He was sure the voice was stronger this time. "Let go.”
Source: Ahsoka
“Alone and night-neoned, I write read drink drug grieve and all America keeps teaching me
is that there are so many ways to die in America which, frankly, is qwhite confusing
because this country killed you a decade ago and I’m still writing reading drinking
drugging grieving binging binging blacking out in the cozy, claustrophobic home
I’ve made out of how very, very much I miss you and the sky keeps throwing
down consequences and corrections and histories and nations, I mean,
come on, who can blame me for not wanting to go back outside?”
Source: Alive at the End of the World
“Alone at home,
Washing dishes while thinking about her that
How beautiful it would’ve been if she was here.”
“Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don’t you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)”
“Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.”
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Alone, but safe and sound.”
Source: In Limbo
“alone but trying to survive alone.”
“Alone but without I, builds naturally a together which as a whole brings forth something extraordinary.”
“Alone can enjoy... but together we can celebrate!
Alone you may pray... but together we become a force
Alone you may plead the divine... but together we become The Source!
Let togetherness be optimised... get #Mickeymized!”
“Alone, [Chamcha] all at once remembered that he and Pamela had once disagreed, as they disagreed on everything, on a short-story they’d both read, whose theme was precisely the nature of the unforgivable. Title and author eluded him, but the story came back vividly. A man and a woman had been intimate friends (never lovers) for all their adult lives. On his twenty-first birthday (they were both poor at the time) she had given him, as a joke, the most horrible, cheap glass vase she could find, in colours a garish parody of Venetian gaiety. Twenty years later, when they were both successful and greying, she visited his home and quarrelled with him over his treatment of a mutual friend. In the course of the quarrel her eye fell upon the old vase, which he still kept in pride of place on his sitting-room mantelpiece, and, without pausing in her tirade, she swept it to the floor, crushing it beyond hope of repair. He never spoke to her again; when she died, half a century later, he refused to visit her deathbed or attend her funeral, even though messengers were sent to tell him that these were her dearest wishes. ‘Tell her,’ he said to the emissaries, 'that she never knew how much I valued what she broke.’ The emissaries argued, pleaded, raged. If she had not known how much meaning he had invested in the trifle, how could she in all fairness be blamed? And had she not made countless attempts, over the years, to apologize and atone? And she was dying, for heaven’s sake; could not this ancient, childish rift be healed at last? They had lost a lifetime’s friendship; could they not even say goodbye? 'No,’ said the unforgiving man. – 'Really because of the vase? Or are you concealing some other, darker matter?’ – 'It was the vase,’ he answered, 'the vase, and nothing but.’ Pamela thought the man petty and cruel, but Chamcha had even then appreciated the curious privacy, the inexplicable inwardness of the issue. 'Nobody can judge an internal injury,’ he had said, 'by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole.”
“Alone didn’t always mean lonely, but sometimes it did, and even then, she reveled in it. Lunches in the music room. Afternoons reading in the park. Loneliness was a kind of wanting, but it was also this incredible freedom. Not having to rely on anyone or have anyone rely on her. No one to disappoint or be disappointed by. Alone was good and comforting and dependable.”
Source: This Adventure Ends