A Quotes
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“A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.”
Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
“A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."”
“A família de Bernardo Sanches tinha adquirido um estado aristocrático, o que quer dizer que estacionara no cumprimento de determinada herança de hábitos, frases, opiniões que, uma vez desprendidas da personalidade que os fizera originais, restavam agora somente como snobismos e ocas imitações.”
“A família talvez seja nossa primeira prisão. Muito do que somos hoje tem a ver com criações desestruturadas, inconsequentes ou castradoras. Ela é muitas vezes responsável pelas nossas inseguranças, nosso vazio, nossa falta de amor. E você sabia que até as famílias foram criadas para servir ao capital? Antigamente vivíamos em comunidades, em tribos. Casais se uniam por amor. As crianças eram criadas pela comunidade. Não havia casamento ou família.
A família surgiu para dar conta da propriedade particular de pessoas poderosas que conseguiam acumular posses, riqueza, e queriam que ela ficasse somente com seus descendentes. O casamento surgiu, as famílias se institucionalizaram e os homens passaram a ser os donos de tudo - inclusive de suas mulheres.”
Source: Como salvar o futuro: Ações para o presente
“A fan can be able to say what he wants, do what he wants - he pays his money.”
“A fan can only go as far as you let them. I've seen crazy things like girls having me autograph their body and then they go get it tattooed. I guess that's too far, but it's cool with me.”
“A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.”
“A fan is a fan is a friend no matter what current he/she/it operates on, AC or DC. Thanks for being one of mine.”
“A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season.”
“A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.”
“A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.”
“A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.”
“A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'”
“A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.”
“A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.”
“A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.”
“A fanatic is a deeply religious man with no love in his heart”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.”
“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”
Source: Harvest of Stars
“A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.”
“A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.”
Source: Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.”
“A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.”
“A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.”
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.”
“A fantabulous night to make romance.”
“A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.”
“A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to look at the wall in an attempt to avoid it. But if you keep focusing on what you fear, that's exactly where you'll end up. Professional racers know that we unconsciously steer in the direction of our focus, so with their lives on the line, they turn their focus away from the wall and towards the open track.”
“A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.”
“A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.”
“A fantastic positive ATTITUDE makes a great day! SMILE!”
“A fantastic Riot Boy, Trash the Senses..
-Thurston Moore”
Source: Happy Ending
“A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the progenitors. Dangerously sharp, and genuinely fun-and very, very, very smart. I want more books like this. I want more books from the mind of Mr. Markham!”
“A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.”
“A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.”
“A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.”
“A fantasy so fragile that all I taste is air when we kiss.”
“A far cry now that she is in Tajrish. This is District One. The posh end of town. Snuggled deep in between the streets of this bustling roundabout are where the rich live. She looks up, a huge billboard with a blue-eyed model sits there with a phone in his hand. Some brand she’s never heard of. She has never quite understood the infatuation Iranians have with celebrities and colored eyes. To her, it seems like any Iranian with green or blue eyes makes their way either on the big screen or on a billboard. The old traditional concept of Persian beauty, black eyes with a unibrow now replaced with Hollywood-inspired looks. The Leo DiCaprios, Brad Pitts of this world. Still a cheap knock-off of them as well.”
Source: Tajrish
“A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.”
“A faraway-father is distant from his children; not necessarily in geography, but socially—either by choice or by force. Our country has many fathers who are figuratively-forced far and away from their families. Legal force brings to bear disparate dads through such innovations as no-fault divorce, legal precedence, and post-divorce incrimination. I am one of these parents—portrayed or profiled as 'perpetrator'.”
Source: A Father and Future Felon
“A faraway look—I have heard suicidologist Thomas Joiner refer to it as “the thousand-yard stare”—is a warning sign for imminent suicide, and one often missed.”
Source: A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
“A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.”
“A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.”
“A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it’s my rebirth in darkness.”
“A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.”
“A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.”
“A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.”
“A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.”