A Quotes
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“Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.”
“Amy Winehouse's mother wrote an open letter to the News of the World newspaper telling Amy she's worried about her and to please call her. I doubt this is the best way to communicate with Amy - she should try spelling it out in lines of cocaine.”
“Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.”
“Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England”
Source: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
“Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. "Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.”
Source: The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack
“Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's." Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.”
“Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?”
Source: The Medusa Plot
“Amy: "Can I come?" Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back." Amy: "People always say that." Doctor: "Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor.”
“Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.”
“Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*”
“Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!”
“Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses.”
“Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
It's three long words, and I can say it faster than anyone in the family, like a ninja-twister champ. I didn't mean to get so good at it, but it goes through my head over and over like a soccer move I can't shake. It's a super-frustrating disease to fight. One day a muscle moves - the next day? Nope.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“Amé, fuí amado, el sol acarició mi faz.
¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!
I loved, I was loved, the sun stroked my face.
Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we are at peace!”
“Amélie's eyes blazed into mine. Hatred emanated from every skinny bone in her body. I supposed that might happen when your plans to destroy somebody blew up in your face. And you'd also been caught with your skirt up. But she didn't know Olivier's plans for her just yet.
Game over, Amélie.”
Source: Sophie Valroux's Paris Stars
“Amărăciunea impregna până și cea mai neînsemnată dintre formulele noastre și fiecare, adesea fără să o știe, urmărea moartea celuilalt sau pe a sa. În mijlocul atâtor ruine ne minunam că mai suntem în picioare, dar nu mai eram prea siguri că vom mai face față mult acestei supraviețuiri. Nu se rostogolea în prăpastie numai lumea, ci și noi înșine. Totul se clătina, și noi de asemenea. Eram echilibriștii timpurilor moderne, un fel de saltimbanci ai unui amurg care ar fi încercat, dar în zadar, să treacă drept o auroră.”
Source: Din voia Domnului
“Amžina žmonijos scena: prievartos tarnai, jų auka, o greta - visada ir visais laikais - trečias, žiūrovas, kuris nepakelia rankos apginti auką ir nebando jos išvaduoti, nes bijosi dėl savęs. Ir kaip tik dėl to jam nuolatos gresia pavojus.”
Source: The Night in Lisbon
“An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.”
“An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.”
“An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.”
Source: On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3
“An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.”
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“An 'Islamic economy' or 'Islamic finance' doesn't mean anything to me. But I do think that in the multi-polar world, it is time to find new partners, to find a new balance in the economic order. And this could help you to find an alternative way forward.”
“An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!”
“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”
“An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy”
“An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to drain. Of all the emotional types, empaths are often the most devestated.”
Source: Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
“An 11 year old sister has been taught by the media that her body is an object, will be compared to other bodies, and that it holds more significance than her mind or talent. This should not be the first thing she learns. This should not be her first social experience.”
“An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.”
“An 83-year-old male prostitute was arrested. Police say he only charged $20 an hour, but for most of that time, he just talked about his grandkids.”
“An 87 on the left, an 87 on the right. If a guest is dissatisfied with an elevator operator he can note the number and report him to the nearest starter. 'That 87 is a son-of-a-bitch, that 87 took me four floors too high, 87 87 87, I wasted two minutes in this box, that goddam son-of-a-bitch 87!' It's fun to berate a number. It's fun to use numbers. 24,035 deported to Siberia. Fun. Forty-seven dead in an airplane crash. Fun. 7,038,456 needles sold. Fun. Tonight Mister X got lucky three times. Fun. Today Miss Y died once. Fun. Right now I'm alone and I'll take a pill and have more fun.”
Source: Balta drobulė
“An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.”
“An 'a' is a very impersonal letter.”
“An abductor is reliant on your silence.”
“An abductor relies on you being submissive, your life relies on you controlling the dangerous situation.”
“An Abel Muranda without his wife and children would be a wandering bachelor without any dignity. He would sleep in caves and feed on wild berries. But no matter how lonely life became, he would never come to a place like this”
Source: Sprout of Disruption
“An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that nature is, in Hegel's words, 'out and out other' to 'spirit'. It's easy enough to see how 'constructivist' or 'humanist' conceptions are efforts to dispel this fear.”
“An abiding hope never dims, even in the darkest times.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people like the Chekhov story The Lady With the Little Dog.”
“An ability of counting the other people's blessings in place of your own blessings is called jealousy.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.”
“An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.”
“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.”
“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery”
Source: Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it may be; (2) rejects welfare campaigns that seek more “humane” exploitation, or single-issue campaigns that seek to portray one form of animal exploitation as morally worse than other forms of animal exploitation (e.g., a campaign that seeks to distinguish fur from wool or leather); and (3) regards veganism, or the complete rejection of the consumption or use of any animal products, as a moral baseline. An abolitionist regards creative, nonviolent vegan education as the primary form of activism, because she understands that the paradigm will not shift until we address demand and educate people to stop thinking of animals as things we eat, wear, or use as our resources.”