A Quotes
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“An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted.”
Source: The New Order
“An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life
“An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”
“An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.”
“An accidental visit
"The visitor was none other than the king.
He did not know that he was such a mighty person.
I did not realize it at that time either.
But the visitor was the king.
The king knew only two languages.
The first was the language of plants.
The second was the language of clouds.
At that time, I knew the language of the sea.
At that time, I spoke in the language of the rain.
We did not recognize that clouds and rains
have very similar languages.
Therefore, we could have a deep understanding of each other.
The king left my home because it was an accidental visit.
The rose that he brought me was rooted in the garden soon.
However, I do not understand its fragrant words.
The king saved the key to his language for himself only
because he was a lone proud king."
© Ekaterina Yakovina”
“An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.”
“An accomplished man to his fingertips.”
“An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.”
Source: The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge
“An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem
“An accountable waitress is more capable of running a nation than a bigoted scholar.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future.”
“An accountant is someone who attempts to value the present. An actuary is someone who attempts to value the future.”
“An accurate accent is powerful because it is the ultimate gesture of empathy. It connects you to another person's culture in a way that words never can, because you have bent your body as well as your mind to match that person's culture. Anyone can learn "bawn-JURE" in a few seconds. To learn how bonjour fits your companion's mouth and tongue; to learn how to manipulate the muscles, the folds, and even the texture of your throat and lips to match your companion's -- this is an unmistakable, undeniable, and irresistable gesture of care.”
Source: Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
“An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.”
“An accurate number for the missing people was unknown in the early days of the hurricane Ian Florida disaster.”
“An accurate picture of the odds is important when you’re choosing a path. But once you’ve already made your choice, then you should switch into irrational optimism for the execution phase.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.”
Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition
“An ace always represents positive forces. It is the standard-bearer for the best its suit has to offer.”
Source: The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth
“An ache filled my chest, so sharp that I gasped out loud. Was this what a broken heart felt like? Was it possible to die from the pain? I’d always thought the girls at school so dramatic; when they broke up with their boyfriends, they cried and carried on for weeks. I didn’t think they needed to throw such a fuss. But I’d never been in love before.”
Source: The Iron Daughter
“An ache throbbed deep inside, in the cavern of his heart, for want of his own child. His own little man whom he could love and be loved by. A son born of passion, by a woman who would delight to bear his child. Who would delight in him.”
Source: Lost in Darkness
“An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.”
“An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.”
“An achiever never sleeps with doubt, and a winner never wakes with excuses.”
“An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.”
“An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“An aching tooth is better out than in.
To lose a rotting member is a gain.”
“An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants.”
“An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.”
“An acorn is an oak tree turned inside out.”
“An acorn would never brag about giving shade.”
“An acoustic ecologist is a listener who is aware that sound is information. It's information because it's created by events, events produce sound, and that sound has all kinds of data, if you will, that conveys what event occurred, what the materials were, whether it was sudden, slow, loud, in what direction. And because it is information, we can think of it as a message. The acoustic ecologist studies information systems that are both intentional and sometimes wild.”
“An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.”
“An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.”
Source: Howards End: England Literature
“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
“An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder.”
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. --GQ 71 (GQ is A Guide for Quorums of the Melchizedek Priesthood, 3rd Edition, 1930)”
Source: Priesthood and Church Government
“An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71”
“An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.”
“An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.”
“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.”
“An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.”
“An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.”
Source: The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair
“An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.”
Source: The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul
“An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.”
“An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.”
“An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think