A Quotes
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“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"
The husband, unlike the "manager" or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.”
Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
“A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.”
“A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.”
“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A farmer is always going to be rich next year.”
“A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.”
Source: Jasmine
“A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.”
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth
“A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”
“A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.”
“A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".”
“A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.”
Source: The Voice of the People
“A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.”
Source: Hunting Sketches: Trollope's Works
“A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.”
“A farmhouse was blazing away right before us. It took an incredibly long time to burn to the ground. One could almost see the history of that house going up in flames along with its roof and pillars.”
Source: Early Light
“A fart in the face is love.”
“A fart is just your arse applauding.”
“A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.”
“A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.”
“A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.”
Source: Meditations on Hunting
“A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to it. For those familiar with the details, there is much new information about the Iran side, its ideas, strategies, disputes, and aims. U.S. experts will have some key questions but will learn much from this extraordinary book.”
“A fascist government is the most coward government in the world and a fascist leader is the most coward person in the world! He knows very well that on the day he lost his power he will be replaced by the people he has unfairly sent to jail and to the cemeteries! With this great fear, he becomes more and more demonic, more and more bestial!”
“A fascist regime could imprison, despoil, and even kill its inhabitants at will and without limitation. All else pales before that radical transformation in the relation of citizens to public power.
It follows almost as an anticlimax that fascist regimes contained no mechanisms by which citizens could choose representatives or otherwise influence policy. Parliaments lost power, elections were replaced by yesno plebiscites and ceremonies of affirmation, and leaders were given almost unlimited dictatorial powers. Fascists claimed that the division and decline of their communities had been caused by electoral politics and especially by the Left’s preparations for class warfare and proletarian dictatorship. Communities so afflicted, the fascists taught, could not be unified by the play of naturally harmonious human interests, as the liberals had believed. They had to be unified by state action, using persuasion and organization if possible, using force if necessary. The job required what the French sociologist Émile Durkheim called “mechanical solidarity” rather than “organic solidarity.” Fascist regimes thus contained multiple agencies for shaping and molding the citizenry into an integrated community of disciplined, hardened fighters. The fascist state was particularly attentive to the formation of youth, jealously attempting to retain a monopoly of this function (a matter that brought fascist regimes and the Catholic Church into frequent conflict).”
Source: The Anatomy of Fascism
“A fashion faux pas is what happens when you're not confident with yourself.”
“A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.”
“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”
“A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.”
“A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion”
“A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.”
“A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.”
Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.”
Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings
“A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?”
“A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.”
“A fast but skillful driver, Peter guided his Jaguar onto the M6 Highway, then accelerated to a dizzying speed. Thank goodness she'd seen something of the scenery on her way to Scotland, Toni reflected, as the landscape passed in a blur of greens and blues and tans. She managed to stay alert until they passed York, at which point her eyelids refused to stay open. She felt her body sinking lower and lower into the leather upholstery until finally she could fight the drowsiness no longer.”
Source: Home to the Highlands
“A fast car can make women 'like' a man; and a man 'like' women … fast.”
“A fast food job, for most people, should be an entry level position. If you see no path for advancement beyond that, it's time to take a real fast look at your human capital and learn a skill that will make you more money.”
“A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.”
“A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“A fast note about Ice-T's autobiography: There's a section where he tells a story about hanging out with Flavor Flav that involves going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari. I suspect the phrase "going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari" is the most accurate description of Flavor Flav anyone will ever come up with.”
Source: The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
“A fast ship is only as fast as its captain,” Han countered.”
Source: Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel
“A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.”
Source: Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse
“A fast way to get a clear understanding of yourself and others is through personality a profile assessment. Many companies and hiring managers administer these tests to ensure that personalities are well matched to positions. They also help build dream teams to optimize the combinations of strengths and complementary qualities among their people.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.”
“A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.”
“A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.”
Source: The Doctor, Etc
“A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
[A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]”
“A fat kitchin, a lean Will.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.”
“A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.”
Source: The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell
“A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.”
“a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
And five nose running brats in love with Batman”
Source: The Happy Birthday of Death