A Quotes
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“An advice from a person who has nothing to lose. It will lead you to lose everything you have.”
“An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“An aesthete does not necessarily dress well or collect art works: an aesthete is one who lives by the eye.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.”
“An affair is a destructive and inarticulate response to a feeling of disappointment.”
Source: How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships
“An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.”
“An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.”
“An Affair With The Media
Being President presupposes a relationship with the media. One does have control over the intimacy of that connection.
My media association might be best represented by the following interview, recently undertaken for this book:
“What do you think of Newstime’s review of your book, Madam President?”
“Newstime’s review? Surely you mean Bill Bologna who works for Newstime?”
“Well, yes.”
“Now, Bill Bologna. What has he published?”
“He’s a critic. He does reviews.”
“Oh, he gets paid for reading what other people have published and then writing what he thinks of their writing?”
Source: The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
“An affected health has come in contact with worry”
“An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.”
Source: Hagakure: Selections: Or, the Way of the Samurai
“An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!”
Source: The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee
“An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful
and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. On the
other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear upset our peace of mind, make
us agitated and affect our body adversely. Even our body needs peace
of mind and is not suited to agitation. This shows that an
appreciation for peace of mind is in our blood.”
“An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.”
“An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.”
“An Affermation of Love:
I am worthy of love, just as others are worthy of my love. It is not fair to love others so much, but never to express it. I must not allow my fear of being rejected or being misunderstood to block my expression of love because in doing so I cut off access to feeling one of the most beautiful emotions known to man. Today I will both share and receive love.
A.I.M. Lawal”
Source: Millennial Philosophy: Thoughts Expanded
“An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.”
Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition
“An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.”
Source: Affirmations
“An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.”
“An affirmation opens the door. It's a beginning point on the path to change.”
Source: 21 Days to Master Affirmations
“An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I'm not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real, the little voice in our head usually responds with This isn't true, this is BS...On the other hand, a declaration is not saying something is true, it's saying we have an intention of doing or being something. This is a position the little voice can buy, because we're not stating it's true right now, but again, it's an intention for us ion the future.”
Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
“An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.”
“An affirmation without evidence is a mere credence”
“An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.”
“An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself”
“An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.”
“An afro is a poor man’s haircut.”
“An afterlife in the bowels of a tortuous hell together is still a life I would choose over wandering paradise alone.”
Source: The Dreams of the Descendants
“An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy.”
Source: Exhumations
“An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.”
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.
The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.”
Source: An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
“An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.”
Source: Table-talk
“An age in rapid transition is one which exists on the frontier between two cultures and between conflicting technologies. Every moment of its consciousness is an act of translation of each of these cultures into the other. Today we live on the frontier between five centuries of mechanism and the new electronics, between the homogeneous and the simultaneous. It is painful but fruitful. The sixteenth century Renaissance was an age on the frontier between two thousand years of alphabetic and manuscript culture, on the one hand, and the new mechanism of repeatability and quantification, on the other.”
Source: The Gutenbery Galaxy
“An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.”
“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
Source: SPACE
“An age is just an indication that there's more to be done.”
“An age is the reversal of an age:
When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
It had not touched our lives.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“An age-old city is like a pond. With its colours and reflections. Its chills and murk. Its ferment, its sorcery, its hidden life.
A city is like a woman, with a woman’s desires and dislikes. Her abandon and restraint. Her reserve - above all, her reserve.
To get to the heart of a city, to learn its most subtle secrets, takes infinite tenderness, and patience sometimes to the point of despair. It calls for an artlessly delicate touch, a more or less unconditional love. Over centuries.
Time works for those who place themselves beyond time.
You’re no true Parisian, you do not know your city, if you haven’t experienced its ghosts. To become imbued with shades of grey, to blend into the drab obscurity of blind spots, to join the clammy crowd that emerges, or seeps, at certain times of day from the metros, railway stations, cinemas or churches, to feel a silent and distant brotherhood with the lonely wanderer, the dreamer in his shy solitude, the crank, the beggar, even the drunk - all this entails a long and difficult apprenticeship, a knowledge of people and places that only years of patient observation can confer.”
“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.”
Source: The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions
“An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.”
“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.”
“An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.”
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick”
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.”
“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.”
“An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!”
“An agenda is not a bad thing.”
“An agenda serves myself, while a conviction serves everyone except myself.”
“An agent friend of mine who will remain nameless said you can't make a romance about homeless people; nobody wants to see them kiss. And I thought, what a repulsive, repugnant, extraordinary thing to say. I had to think about the fact that the world is probably full of other people who feel like that. The very idea that we spend time trying to humanize humans is extraordinary to me.”
“An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.”