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“Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. “I don’t want to scare you.” “Too late.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door—a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. “Carter after you.” “Um, how do I—” “How do you think?” Great another mystery. I was about to suggest we ram Amos’s head against it and see if that worked.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Amos [Tversky] liked to say that if you are asked to do anything—go to a party, give a speech, lift a finger—you should never answer right away, even if you are sure that you want to do it. Wait a day, Amos said, and you’ll be amazed how many of those invitations you would have accepted yesterday you’ll refuse after you have had a day to think it over. A corollary to his rule for dealing with demands upon his time was his approach to situations from which he wished to extract himself. A human being who finds himself stuck at some boring meeting or cocktail party often finds it difficult to invent an excuse to flee. Amos’s rule, whenever he wanted to leave any gathering, was to just get up and leave. Just start walking and you’ll be surprised how creative you will become and how fast you’ll find the words for your excuse, he said. His attitude to the clutter of daily life was of a piece with his strategy for dealing with social demands. Unless you are kicking yourself once a month for throwing something away, you are not throwing enough away, he said. Everything that didn’t seem to Amos obviously important he chucked, and thus what he saved acquired the interest of objects that have survived a pitiless culling.”
Source: The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable - or rather unwilling - to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.”
“Amou, perdeu-se, e morreu amando.”
Source: Amor de Perdição
“Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.”
Source: Crome Yellow
“Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.”
“Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.”
“Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.”
“Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.”
Source: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“Amphora,” he murmured against the wide, sweet curve of her lips. His hands slid over the wide, sweet curve of her hips, cupping smoothness cool and solid, timeless and graceful as the swell of ancient pottery, promising abundance. “Like a Grecian vase. God, you’ve got the most beautiful arse!”
“Jug-butt, huh?”
Source: Drums of Autumn
“Ample figure, dazzling splendour to rest under the bed of soil; blooming dreams and withering numb; pangs of hunger, hitches of joy; dreadful pain, loudest laughter, piteous silence that echoes deep – were they all mere delusion? Yet, I wonder if they were real at least until I close these eyes!
O dear! Did your own self deceive you?”
Source: The Solitary Shores
“AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State
“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.”
Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“Amplified intuition is a byproduct of happiness.”
“Amplify the positive energy and subdue negative energy through the power of your perspectives.”
Source: Quantraz
“Amplify your Thanksgiving if you want to level up in life. Thanksgiving is an opportunity to illuminate your inner light.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.”
“Amplifying technology within the surface area of materials is the key for nanotechnology to innovate.”
“Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can't avoid being involved with a book, caring about it, even if it's not a particularly good book. You're in it, and you're committed to it.”
“Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.”
Source: The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered
“Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone.”
“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”
“Amren and Varian didn't even bother to join us.
No, she'd just wrapped her legs around his waist, right there in front of us, and he'd stood, lifting her in one swift movement. I wasn't entirely sure how Varian managed to walk them out of the tent while still kissing her. Amren's hands dragging through his hair, letting out noises that were unnervingly like purring as they vanished into the camp.
Rhys had let out a low laugh as we all gawked in their wake. 'I suppose that's how Varian decided he'd tell Amren he was feeling grateful she ordered us to go to Adriata.'
Tarquin cringed. 'We'll alternate who has to deal with them on holidays.'
Cassian chuckled hoarsely...”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Amren had entirely given up on her. The debate about sending her up here had been different- Nesta knew that debate had been out of a desire to help her. She could acknowledge that now.
This debate had been out of hatred and fear of her.
The tiled rooftops became clear. Her legs were shaking. She didn't feel them.
Didn't feel anything but that molten rage as the stairs suddenly stopped and she found herself before a door.
It opened before her fingers could touch the handle. Sunlight flooded the stairwell, revealing cobblestones beyond.
Rage rippling like a storm around her, Nesta stepped back into Velaris at last.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Amren's right,' Rhys drawled, leaning against the threshold of the town house sitting room. 'You are like dogs, waiting for me to come home. Maybe I should buy treats.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Amren said to her, 'I'm surprised you didn't take the king's head back to have stuffed and hung on your wall.'
Nesta's eyes shot to her.
Mor clicked her tongue. 'Some would consider that joke to be in bad taste, Amren.'
'I saved your asses. I'm entitled to say what I want.'
And with that Amren stalked out of the house and into the city streets.
'The new Amren is even crankier than the old one,' Elain said softly.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Amren said, 'When Rhys came back, after Amarantha, he was a ghost. He pretended he wasn't, but he was. You made him come alive again.'
Words stalled, and I didn't want to think about it, not when what ever good I'd done- whatever good we'd done for each other- might have been wiped away by what I'd said to him.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Amren smiled slightly- at me, at Varian. 'I watched them for so many eons. Humans- in my world, there were humans, too. And I watched them love, and hate- wage senseless war and find precious peace. Watched them build lives, build worlds. I was... I was never allowed such things. I had not been designed that way, had not been ordered to do so. So I watched. And that day I came here... it was the first selfish thing I had done. For a long, long while I thought it was punishment for disobeying my Father's orders, for wanting. I thought this world was some hell he'd locked me into for disobedience.'
Amren swallowed.
'But I think...I wonder if my Father knew. If he saw how I watched them love and hate and build, and opened that rip in the world not as punishment... but as a gift.' Her eyes gleamed. 'For it has been a gift. This time- with you. With all of you. It has been a gift.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Amren,' Varian said, and sank onto his knees. 'I am begging you-'
...
She looked to Varian, a wry smile on her red mouth. 'I watched them most- the humans who loved. I never understood it- how it happened. Why it happened.' She paused a step away from the Cauldron. 'I think I might have learned with you, though. Perhaps that was a last gift, too.'
Varian's face twisted with anguish. But he made no further move to stop her.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have
promised myself never to abandon this place. Either, I will contest from Amritsar, or else I won’t contest elections”
“Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.”
“Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.”
“Amsterdam mesmerized me. The narrow houses that lined the canals, the centuries-old architecture, the squares throughout the city and the cafés all had a unique charm. There were many reasons to fall in love with the city.”
Source: Train to Mumbai
“Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.”
“Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.”
Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.”
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“Amurgul picta acum pământul în umbre indigo și violete,”
Source: Sorcery of Thorns
“Amuri è cuntintizza.”
“Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“Amusement always means putting things out of mind, forgetting suffering, even when it is on display. At its root is powerlessness.”
“Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.”
Source: John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
“Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.”
“Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.”
“Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.”
“Amusement to an observing mind is study.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)