A Quotes
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“A drink this good deserves one's best posture.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.”
Source: The Gathering
“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“A driver’s license is an uneducated man’s diploma.”
“A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.”
“A drone is often preferred for missions that are too "dull, dirty, or dangerous" for manned aircraft.”
PROLOGUE
The graffiti was in Spanish, neon colors highlighting the varicose cracks in the wall. It smelled of urine and pot. The front door was metal with four bolt locks and the windows were frosted glass, embedded with chicken wire. They swung out and up like big fake eye-lashes held up with a notched adjustment bar.
This was a factory building on the near west side of Cleveland in an industrial area on the Cuyahoga River known in Ohio as The Flats.
First a sweatshop garment factory, then a warehouse for imported cheeses then a crack den for teenage potheads. It was now headquarters for Magic Slim, the only pimp in Cleveland with his own film studio and training facility.
Her name was Cosita, she was eighteen looking like fourteen. One of nine children from El Chorillo. a dangerous poverty stricken barrio on the outskirts of Panama City. Her brother, Javier, had been snatched from the streets six months ago, he was thirteen and beautiful.
Cosita had a high school education but earned here degree on the streets of Panama.
Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, had recruited Cosita at seventeen. She was smart, street savvy, motivated and very pretty. Just what Interpol was looking for.
Cosita would become a Drone!”
“A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot.”
“A drooping twist of his mouth had replaced the slightly mischievous smile. One could discern in his eyes, an uncertainty, a vacancy, a slowly creeping sense of certain death. Our words of reassurance were hollow and devoid of confidence: he ignored them. His bouts of sobbing became more frequent, but he didn't leap back to normality as he did earlier: he withdrew into a flat sullenness. It was as if he was bereft of all emotions, and there was nothing to express. There was just that waiting for death.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.”
“A drop of darkness above me hung,within me ruined Rome,within me demolished Rome, where those lands my dream would well travel,
before that I want to die without blame,so let me see ten thousand moons to Dream.”
“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45
“A drop of hope can create an ocean, but a bucket of faith can create an entire world.”
“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
“A drop of love sometimes brings an ocean of tears.”
Source: The Matchmaker's Gift
“A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.”
Source: Stay
“A drop of PURE LOVE contains an ocean of transformative power”
“A drop of PURE LOVE contains an ocean of transformative power... never underestimate the ripple effect”
“A drop of rain knows not where it lands after it is born from the cloud. It will then either remain in place till it evaporates, or it will try to make its way to the sea. Humans are the same. When they are born, they know not where they will land. However, they can either remain in place and die while accomplishing nothing, or they can find their true destiny.”
“A drop of the bloodred liquid of the blusher mushroom , which causes potentially lethal paralysis. A petal of deathsweet, which can cause a sleep that lasts a hundred years. A sliver of wraithberry, which makes the blood race and induces a kind of wildness before stopping the heart. And a seed of everapple- faerie fruit- which muddles the minds of mortals.”
Source: The Wicked King
“A Drop of the Ocean is still the Ocean.”
“A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.”
“A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.”
“A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring.”
“A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.”
Source: The Unseen Friend
“A drop that knows itself, knows the Ocean. (p. 80)”
Source: In the House of Remembering: The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching
“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“A drowning man will clutch at a straw.”
“A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.”
Source: Black Box
“A drug called suramin was already on the market for the treatment of the sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse fly in Africa and was known to bind to purine receptors on cells found throughout the body. Dr. Naviaux used it on both autistic and nonautistic mice when they were six months old.IV The mice were then tested on how well they interacted with mice they had never before met, and on whether they preferred sameness when put through mazes, as many autistic humans do.
Suramin levels in the blood declined naturally, dropping by half for every week that passed after the initial dose. When five weeks had passed, the mice were put through the tests one final time. Throughout the study, a few mice were sacrificed from both the control and the experimental groups so the biochemistry of their neurons could be analyzed.
Dr. Naviaux and his colleagues reported in Translation Psychiatry in 2014 that while some brain cells, called Purkinje cells, that would normally be found in healthy brains did not suddenly reemerge in these autistic mice, suramin ended the cellular defensive lockdown. Moreover, the team discovered major behavioral changes in these animals.”
“A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.”
“A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.”
“A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”
“A drum in the hand of the right warrior can call the people to peace.”
“A drum was gifted to you before you were born: the beat of your mother’s heart.”
“A drummer is usually like the backbone.”
“A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.”
“A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.”
“A drunk [once] said to me, "Drugs and alcohol are not our problem, reality is our problem; drugs and alcohol are our solution to that problem." [...]
Aren't we all, in one way or another, trying to find a solution to the problem of reality? If I get this job, this girl, this guy, these shoes. If I pass this exam, eat this pizza, drink this booze, go on this holiday. [...] Isn't there always some kind of condition to contentment? Isn't it always placed in the future, wrapped up in some object, either physical or ideological?”
Source: Revolution
“A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.”
“A Drunkard accuses a Drunkard...
A sot became extremely drunk - his legs
And head sank listless, weighed by wine's thick dregs.
A sober neighbour put him in a sack
And took him homewards hoisted on his back.
Another drunk went stumbling by the first,
Who woke and stuck his head outside and cursed.
"Hey, you, you lousy dipsomaniac,"
He yelled as he was borne off in the sack,
"If you'd had fewer drinks, just two or three,
You would be walking now as well as me.”
“A drunkard cannot plead his case.”
“A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em,
To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.”
Source: The Revenger's Tragedy
“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.”
“A drunkard is a dead man
And all dead men are drunk.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.”
“A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics