A Quotes
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“An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.”
Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan
“An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!”
Source: King Lear
“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into universal existence, keeping them on the other side of the bridge… It may be exaggerating to say that all completely successful short stories, especially fantastic stories, are products of neurosis, nightmares or hallucination neutralized through objectification and translated to a medium outside the neurotic terrain. This polarization can be found in any memorable short story, as if the author, wanting to rid himself of his creature as soon and as absolutely as possible, exorcises it the only way he can: by writing it.”
Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.”
“An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.”
“An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.”
“An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.”
“An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.”
“An adult can correctly tell a kid, ‘what you are I was and what I am you will be’. And unlike a child he cannot misplace priority due to purity and immaturity.”
“An adult can only preach you but, an innocent kid can teach you lesson of the life. Just try it for once, you will stop listening to the world!!!”
“An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.”
“An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.”
“An adult is a child adulterated.”
“An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.”
“AN ADULT IS HE WHO NOT ONLY OVERCOMES HIS PAINS BUT HIS PLEASURES”
“An adult is just a child who started to rot”
“An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.”
“An adult is someone who is capable of being responsible and responsible for being capable.”
“An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds”
“An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.”
“An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development”
“An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.”
“An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).”
“An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.”
“An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution.”
“An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.”
“An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.”
Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess
“An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.”
“An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.”
“An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.”
“An adventure can begin without warning, that the most minor decisions—right, left—can change lives in a moment. That friendships, even the best of them, don't always survive. Oh, and this: that so much of what happens can't ever be proved—the best we can do is write out paltry tales.”
Source: Shirley
“An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.”
“An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.”
“An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words”
Source: Fire
“An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.”
“An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity.”
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
“An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.”
“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.”
“An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.”
“An adventure without risk,
is not an adventure.
A life without adventure
is a life less complete.”
“An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.”
“An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.”
Source: Misadventurous
“An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.”
“An advertisement will be a good one - that is if the headline is really a "stopper."”
Source: Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork
“An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.”
“An advertising campaign should be timely.
A branding campaign should be timeless.”
Source: Marketing Words of Wisdom
“An advertising strategy is based on proper research which guides you in this entire process of customer acquisition with the help of ads.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“An advertising strategy must support your marketing strategy. The aim is to attract the customer, capture his or her attention and leave an impression and some level of curiosity.”
Source: Quotable Quotes For Business: Lessons For Success