A Quotes
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“Amira makes room for me, and I come up around her and also grip the handle, my hands resting above hers on the bar. “One, two, three . . . !” she says, and we pull hard. The door jerks back and Amira falls into me, but I instinctively grab her waist, steadying her. “Nice catch,” she says, patting my hand that has somehow come to rest on her stomach. I quickly pull it away, before I do something stupid like hold her there against me, her back to my front. “No problem,” I choke out.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“Amira no more trusted him than she would trust a starving kelpie.”
Source: Daindreth's Assassin
“Amira’s lips twitch and she shakes her head like she doesn’t know what to do with me. 'Apology accepted,' she says. 'Though I maybe also owe you an apology.' This surprises me, and it must show on my face. Amira adds, 'Don’t look so shocked. I just mean it’s possible you’re not the only one to blame for us not getting along all these years. You pushed me away, and I pushed back by trying to beat you in any class we were in together. Which, honestly, has been really exhausting. You’re very smart. Most of the time anyway. Though your emotional intelligence could use some work.' That shocks a laugh out of me, and Amira grins. 'So, does this mean we’re good now?' I ask. This almost feels too easy. Too good to be true. 'That depends, are we actually friends now?' There’s a small voice inside of me that wants me to ask for more than that, but I’m not willing to open that can of worms yet. I hold out my hand. 'Friends,' I say.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“Amira says, grinning at me in a way that makes it impossible for me to look away.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“Amira shoots me a look of amusement.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“Amira turns away from me to open the door. 'We have a lot of work to do today, so you don't want to start off in bad shape. Glory's already inside.' Ah, the real reason for the question. Glad to know Amira isn't going soft-she simply wants to make sure I'm still useful. Honestly, I kind of respect it.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“Amira waits a second, as if she's waiting for me to say more, but any words I attempt to form feel caught in my throat. She's lifting the flip-up section on the counter when I finally get the courage. ‘I'm sorry about what I said during training,’ I say. Amira stops and turns to look at me. When the silence stretches on, she raises one of her perfectly manicured brows. ‘Is that all?’ Of course, she's not going to make this easy for me. A bubble of irritation threatens to pop inside me, but I push it down. ‘I'm sorry that I said that I didn't think this job would be too hard-‘ ‘I think what you said was it wouldn't be 'too difficult to manage.' God, she's so annoying. ‘Right, and I can see now that it is not a simple job and so I'm sorry. And I don't want to fight with you anymore. At least not at work.’ I jut out my hand then, waiting for her to shake it, but Amira just looks down at it and then back at me. ‘You're supposed to shake it.’ ‘Yeah, no, I got that. I'm just thinking.’ ‘About what?’ ‘If I want to shake it.’ I swallow a groan of frustration and instead plaster the best smile I can to my face.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“Amiriska continued to gently comb her brother’s hair back from his face as she met Seth’s gaze. A muscle twitched in her cheek. “I want to kill the bastards who did this.”
“We already did,” Seth said.
“Then bring them back so I can kill them again.”
“Would that I could,” he muttered.”
Source: The Lasaran
“Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.”
“Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound, and also the most sinister and animalistic one. He understands every note of every octave that separates the liberating shout of mirth from the cackle of a bully or the snigger of a sadist.”
“Amistades revolucionarias, yo os digo: la tierra ya no es de quien la trabaja, sino de quien la enseña.”
Source: Gozo
“Amit a moralisták az emberi szív mélységeinek neveznek, voltaképpen csalóka gondolatok, az egyéni érdek önkéntelen rezdülései. Ezek a lelki bonyodalmak, amelyekről annyi üres szó esik, ezek a hirtelen pálfordulások, nem egyebek élvezeteink javára végzett számításoknál.”
Source: Père Goriot
“Amit Datta,doctorando entonces en la prestigiosa Universidad Carnegie Mellon de Pensilvania, y su equipo crearon 500 perfiles masculinos y 500 femeninos con los que llevaron cabo búsquedas en Google esencialmente similares desde presuntos puestos de trabajo. A pesar de la coincidencia en todo, excepto en el sexo, los varones tenían muchas más probabilidades de recibir ofertas de empleo para directivos con sueldos superiores a los 200.000 dólares mientras que a las mujeres se le ofrecía puestos directivos medios.”
Source: Mundo Orwell: Manual de supervivencia para un mundo hiperconectado (ARIEL)
“Amity above assumption, comity over condescension, that's the way forward.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts--how even with the best intentions, we fail to love those closest to us as well as we wish we could. Eric Schroder should take his place among the most charismatic and memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Amity Gaige her place among the most talented and impressive writers working today.”
“Amity is composed.
Hate is always loud.”
“Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.”
Source: Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)
“Amity was the cold, steady gaze of a double-barreled shotgun, bearing down. She was the glint of pinprick pupils gleaming through a night-lit window, the rythmic blast of a door left banging in a gale wind. The slither of a flesh-flayed limb beneath a bed skirt, a welcome note etched in blood. Amity's forever was reflected in the glimmering edge of an ax, in the rushing footprints, the twitching tail, the brushing fingertips of a zephyr, a cipher, a wordless, formless shape.”
Source: Amity
“Amizade' era uma palavra quase tão distante quanto 'família'. Quase. Um pouco mais desconhecida, mais traiçoeira.”
Source: Todas as mentiras que eu nunca quis contar
“Amka, fumbua macho, uujue ukweli.”
“Amma misses her daughter now she’s away at university
Not the spiteful snake that slithers out of her tongue to hurt her mother, because in Yazz’s world young people are the only ones with feelings”
Source: Girl, Woman, Other
“Amma mən rahatlıq istəmirəm. Mən Tanrı istəyirəm, poeziya istəyirəm, həqiqət istəyirəm, azadlıq istəyirəm, yaxşılıq istəyirəm. Mən günah istəyirəm.”
“Amma says,
“My darlings, miracles happen at this time of the year;
God peeps down from the sky & listens.
And the lucky ones…
When God happens to listen to their prayers.
Miracles happen to them.”
Source: RUKMI: Three Kids & One Hill, Wonder Tales of Kadri Hills
“Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to put his sandals on his feet, and suddenly he saw the devil in the form of a man sitting in the corner of his cell. The devil was also putting on his sandals. He said to the monk, "Are you leaving here because of me? Well then, wherever you go, I will be there before you."”
“Amma wanted her daughter to be free, feminist and powerful
Later she took her on personal development courses for children to give her the confidence and articulacy to flourish in any setting
Big mistake
Mum, Yazz said at fourteen when she was pitching to go to Reading Music Festival with her friends, it would be to the detriment of my juvenile development if you curtailed my activities at this critical stage in my journey towards becoming the independent-minded and fully self-expressed adult you expect me to be, I mean, do you really want me rebelling against your old-fashioned rules by running away from the safety of my home to live on the streets and having to resort to prostitution to survive and thereafter drug addiction, crime, anorexia and abusive relationships with exploitative bastards twice my age before my early demise in a crack house?
Amma fretted the whole weekend her little girl way away”
Source: Girl, Woman, Other
“Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs
perfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation
whereupon she walked right back out again
in turn a casting director told Dominique she was wasting his time when she turned up for a Victorian drama when there weren’t any black people in Britain then
she said there were, called him ignorant before also leaving the room
and in her case, slamming the door”
Source: Girl, Woman, Other
“Ammesso che la passione umana abbia la virtù d'innalzarsi al disopra di ogni assurdo, come si può sostenere che non abbia anche quella d'innalzarsi al disopra dei propri assurdi?”
Source: Confessions of a Mask
“Ammiravo il suo carattere, allo stesso tempo intransigente e flessibile, fidato e imprevedibile, orgoglioso ma anche capace di estrema sincerità, quando permetteva a qualcuno di gettare uno sguardo nella sua anima.”
Source: I miei vent'anni
“Ammonia poisoning can cause fluid filled lungs.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Ammonia poisoning was making me really sickly!”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”
“Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“Ammunition will get you through times of no food, but food won’t get you through times of no ammo.”
Source: The Coming
“Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.”
“Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.”
Source: Teatro Grottesco
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Amnesia can affect both implicit and explicit memory.”
Source: The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic
“Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.”
“Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.”
“Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.”
“Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.”
“Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.”
“Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.”
“Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.”
“Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.”
“Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time, accelerate Medicare's and Social Security's slide into insolvency and put enormous strain on our public-assistance programs.”
“Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.”
Source: The Orations of Demosthenes
“Amo el canto de la vida,
aunque odie a su cantante,
solo sigo y no consigo
pensar que todo es como antes”
“Amo el papel en blanco, cualquier cosa puede salir de él; es la promesa más grande de posibilidades infinitas.”