A Quotes
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“A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.”
Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX
“A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.”
“A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.”
Source: Works
“A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.”
“A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.”
“A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.”
Source: The day-book of John Stuart Blackie
“A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.”
“A fair lady I suppose,
you balanced his spiritual and material being.
He symbolized you as infinite love forever together
and the dark cloud and ravens sung a dirge
Oh! Annabel Lee.”
Source: Hannah Cherub: Hannah cherub
“A fair price ... is nothing to be trifled with." "A price, once paid, cannot be returned.”
Source: Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 05
“A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?”
“A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.”
Source: The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno
“A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin”
“A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.”
“A fair social contract is then taken to be an equilibrium in the game of life that calls for the use of strategies which, if used in the game of morals, would never leave a player with an incentive to exercise his right of appeal to the device of the original position. So a fair social contract is an equilibrium in the game of morals, but it must never be forgotten that it is also an equilibrium in the game of life; otherwise evolution will sweep it away. Indeed, the game of morals is nothing more than a coordination device for selecting one of the equilibria in the game of life.”
Source: Natural Justice
“A fair trial would have been no trial at all.”
“A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.”
“A faire death honours the whole life.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.”
“A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.”
“A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.”
Source: Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo
“A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you’ll learn all about when you’re older and don’t care anymore.”
Source: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While
“A fairy ring, it stated, is very much like a doorway, and in several cultures it is perfectly acceptable to knock. Though most American and American-antecedent ethnicities do not practice such summoning, some bargaining cultures did, or do, practice the art.
Alaine skimmed several photographs describing Sicilian stories of joining with fairies to battle witches and the Scottish worship of nature spirits, none of which seemed particularly relevant. She was growing frustrated at the author's apparent disregard for the separation between folktale and true practice when the chapter settled on a long description.
Recent research into English witch trials have revealed a connection between bargaining culture and some occult forms of practice in which fairies are ritualistically summoned. Though some equate the practice with the concept of a "witch's familiar"... Here Alaine began to skim again until the author found himself back on track. Interviewees from several small villages recall stories that those bold enough to enter a fairy ring could summon a fairy by placing a silver pin in the center of the ring, repeating an incantation such as "a pin to mark, a pin to bind, a pin to hail" (additional variants found in Appendix E), and circling the interior of ring three times. It remains, of course, impossible to test the veracity of such stories, but the consistency of the methodology across geographical regions is intriguing, down to the practice of carrying a small bunch or braid of mint into the ring.
Alaine shut the book on her finger, marking the spot. Impossible to rest, indeed. She opened the book again. It began a long ramble detailing various stories of summoning, but Alaine didn't need the repetition to know the method. A short footnote added that Mint appears to serve in the stories as both attractant and repellant for the fairy creatures, drawing them to the summoner but preventing from being taken unwilling into Fae, unlike tobacco and various types of sage, which are merely deterrents.”
Source: The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
“A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar”
“A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.”
“A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.”
Source: The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information
“A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.”
“A Faith Forward company’s higher purpose serves as its unchanging core. This core unifies individuals and teams around a common objective and provides clarity to inform decision-making on all levels.
Leadership, ownership, and governance are the primary influencers of culture. They directly contribute to the development and
advancement—or dismantling—of a firm’s core over time.”
“A Faith Forward leader’s personal commitment drives them to pursue a higher purpose in their business. It also drives them to perpetuate the purpose through the structures they create. These
structures include the values and culture they establish, leadership development and succession
planning practices they implement, organizational activities and rhythms they reinforce, and the guidance and guardrail policies they create.”
“A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.”
“A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.”
“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Source: Cosette
“A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.”
“A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.”
“A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!”
“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.”
“A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.”
“A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conquered death. Yet a faith that can look at the horror of the cross and still say ‘yes’ is one that says ‘no’ to the self in saying ‘yes’ to Christ.”
“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
“A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.”
“A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.”
“A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.”
“A faith that is not tested is never proved trustworthy.”
Source: 365 Days of Grace
“A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.”
“A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.”
“A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.”