A Quotes
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“Americanul cultivat nu-i recunoaște cinematografiei naționale dreptul de a se numi artistică. Mai mult, îți va spune că filmul american este o epidemie morală, la fel de periculoasă ca scarlatina sau ciuma. Toate realizările culturii americane - școlile, universitățile, literatura, teatrul - sunt asurzite, lovite mortal de cinematografie. Un băiat drăguț și deștept care învață bine la școală și termină strălucit o universitate se poate transforma într-un idiot după câțiva ani de frecventare temeinică a cinematografelor.”
“Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.”
“Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.”
“Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.”
“Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.”
“America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables – by parents and families.”
“America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.”
“America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.”
“America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.”
“Amerika schendt ook mensenrechten. De wreedheden in de Iraakse Abu Graib-gevangenis zijn een goed voorbeeld. Maar in de VS kan je dat zeggen zonder gestraft te worden. Er wordt voordurend een open, eerlijk en hard debat gevoerd. Dat is typisch voor de Westerse cultuur: debat. Zelftwijfel om jezelf te verbeteren. Streven naar de waarheid, en, terwijl er verschillende interpretaties bestaan, interpretaties rangschikken volgens feitelijke toetsing.”
“Amerikanische Schriftsteller neigen eher dazu, die Sprache zu zerstückeln, als unsere britischen Vettern (doch ich behaupte entschieden, dass das englische Englisch wesentlich blutärmer als das amerikanische Englisch ist – viele englische Schriftsteller haben den unglücklichen Hang zu schwafeln; sie schwafeln in einem grammatikalisch einwandfreien Englisch, aber Schwafeln bleibt Schwafeln,”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Ames clucked his tongue, “You know, not all of us are so evil minded. You’ve just met the wrong ones.”
He meant guys. “You’re all the same.” I should know.
“Not all of us,” he said too soft but I heard. “But judgment before proven can eat one up with anger. Sometimes you just have to take a chance. Trust someone.”
Source: Denial
“Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace.”
“Ameţeală. Ameţeala e senzaţia cea mai chinuitoare. Nici o durere nu-i atât de cumplită. Ameţeala. Lumea se învârte, se desface, te desfaci şi tu, eşti rupt în bucăţi.”
Source: Jurnalul fericirii
“Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.”
“Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.”
“Ami leaned into his side and inhaled the fresh scent of man. “Uh, no. Sometimes my biological clock threatens to explode like a ticking bomb, that’s all. Rachel is so lucky. Nat is a doll. Doug adores them. Don’t mind me, I’m just wishing my laundry pile was filled with boxer shorts and Cinderella T-shirts. I’ll get over it.”
“Why do you have to get over it,” Marcus asked gently. “Sounds like a nice dream to me.”
...a few pages later
Things were looking up. If he could just convince her his boxer shorts belonged in her laundry basket, he’d be right on board with her six-month plan”
Source: Lumberjack in Love
“Ami sniffed, then cooed at the baby. “You are the mostest beautiful, aren’t you? So precious, my darling. Where’s Ash? Ash, I need to have another baby.”
Ash, still wrestling Astar the bear cub while Stella clung to his back, her arms wrapped around his neck, throttling him as she chattered merrily, called back. “Right this minute? Because I’ll need to get undressed.”
Source: The Fate of the Tala
“Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.”
“Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.”
“Amiability shines by its own light.”
“Amiable weaknesses of human nature.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Amiamo i mondi di fantasia perché il mondo in cui viviamo non ci soddisfa completamente. Troviamo conforto e rifugio nelle pagine di un fumetto, o nell’episodio di un telefilm epico, perché nella fantasia altrui troviamo ciò che la nostra realtà non ci ha ancora dato. Perché vorremmo di più dal mondo reale, e da noi stessi. Grazie a loro ci sentiamo diversi, migliori, forse più forti. Se Iron Man riesce a salvare il pianeta, allora anch’io potrò salvare gli alberghi di mio padre. Se Carrie Mathison riesce ad uccidere un terrorista, allora anche tu potrai fare un lavoro che non ti piace. Non c’è nulla di più immaturo, me ne rendo conto. Un uomo e una donna in età adulta che investono tempo e denaro in faccende da adolescenti. In molti la considerano una follia.”
Source: La tentazione di Laura
“Amica mia. Amore mio. Mio respiro.”
Source: Amico mio irresistibile
“Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore”
“Amico discretissimo, il libro non è petulante, risponde solo se richiesto, non urge oltre quando gli si chiede una sosta. Colmo di parole, tace.”
Source: Tacet
“Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur'
[A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]”
“Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.”
“Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!”
“Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.”
“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”
“Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.”
Source: the hour whic conveth and now is sermons preached in indiana place chapel boston
“Amid all of my diligence and ambition,
I’ve never received any answers,
I am left ignorant
about the family
that died
before I
knew them”
Source: For the Intellect
“Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.”
Source: The Summer Prince
“Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts.”
“Amid all the harsh words of a cruel world, let my voice speak out in tenderness. There is an inner light which must be nourished and cannot be replaced with a blind eye. Soft spirits are so much more than the simple result of hopeless romanticism. Each one is the soul of beauty and love combined.”
“Amid all the Internet point-scoring, though, one thing is certain: spiders have no interest in your open mouth, which is moist and quivering and unwelcoming, and will not willingly go near it. There is just an inch of truth to it: you will have inhaled millions of microscopic pieces of spider in dust - but then, by that reckoning, you have inhaled substantial portions of people, too.”
Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
“Amid all the light-hearted chatter filling the room, how many of these people are sharing confidences, divulging secrets, betraying trust? Everyone appears friendly and solicitous, but can any of them be trusted?”
Source: The Engraver's Secret
“Amid all the negativity at Newcastle, we achieved some great things. Finishing fifth in the Premier League with a great team was a fine effort and we also got to the quarterfinals of the Europa League and nearly got past a Benfica side that went to the final. They were great days, great nights at St James' Park and I remember them with affection. Maybe they are forgotten too quickly.”
“Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.”
Source: Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth
“Amid all the vituperation we forget that the defects of capitalism represent the basic flaws of human nature, allowed unlimited freedom together with the various human rights; we forget that under Communism (and Communism is breathing down the neck of all moderate forms of socialism, which are unstable) the identical flaws run riot in any person with the least degree of authority; while everyone else under that system does indeed attain 'equality'—the equality of destitute slaves.”
“Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.”
Source: Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)
“Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look.”
Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
“Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.”
“Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.”
“Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder through inspiration, reverence, gratitude, interconnectedness, transcendence, and grace.”
“Amid historic isolation, we should unlock our potentials and become more creative to be able to continue existing and coexisting.”
“Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.”
“Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."”
Source: Young's Night Thoughts. With life and critical dissertation, by the Rev. G. Gilfillan. The text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke