A Quotes
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“An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.”
“An almost invisible bird, a small piece of hopping dirt, purposed along the edge of the flower bed, eyeing for beauty or looking for worms. Olivia watched it as she walked with her husband toward the yew and puzzling statue. We count those birds as nothing, she thought, the small dun-colored ones, and prefer to keep our wonder for the spectral glory of cardinals, or the ungainly grace of cranes. Goldfinches and even jays delight us, but are they so different from these common little brown birds which we think of as vermin? Astonishing accidents of pigment, size, plumage: Why do they elicit or wonder?”
Source: The Garden Party: A Novel
“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]”
“An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.”
“An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“An alpha man is confident, fully centered in his masculine core, sure of his self worth and what he brings to the table in dating and relationships. He doesn't seek the approval of others and is repulsed by women who don't recognize his value, no matter how attractive the woman might be. An alpha man knows that he fully deserves a partner who mutually chooses him and makes a mutual effort to be together. If a man doesn't recognize himself to be valuable, then women will not see him as valuable either. What you feel, you attract." (Coach Ricioppo Parra)”
“An alpha, who desires to dance with other alphas, needs to be able to lead and be lead.”
“An alpha would never google anyone they lived with.”
Source: Alpha
“An altar is like an airport where spirits take off and land”
“An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.”
Source: The Works of Emily Dickinson
“An altered state of consciousness simply means any state of awareness that is different from our normal waking state. When we daydream or dream at night, we are in an altered state. We can also get into an altered state by using meditations, hypnosis and exercises like jogging or yoga. Using drugs or alcohol can also produce an altered state, but in a less healthy way.”
Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Short Meditations: Meditations to Quiet Your Mind and Soothe Your Soul
“An altered state of mind cleared the fog of educated greed.”
“An alternate explanation is not a refutation.”
“An alternate
version
of me
lives in every choice
I didn’t make.
A better
version
of me
lives
on the other side
of my mistakes.”
“An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: air, sunlight, wind, water, the motion of waves, the patterns of clouds before a coming storm. These elements, unlike 20th-century office routines, have been here since before life appeared on this planet, and they will continue long after office routines are gone. They are understood by everyone, not just a small segment of a highly advanced society. When considered on purely logical grounds, they are more real than the extremely transitory lifestyles of the modern civilization the depressed ones want to return to.If this is so, then it follows that those who see sailing as an escape from reality have their understanding of sailing and reality backward. Sailing is not an escape, but a return to and a confrontation of a reality from which modern civilization is itself an escape. For centuries, man suffered from the reality of an Earth that was too dark or too hot or too cold for his comfort, and to escape this he invented complex systems of lighting, heating and air conditioning.Sailing rejects these and returns to the old realities of dark and heat and cold. Modern civilization has found radio, television, movies, nightclubs and a huge variety of mechanized entertainment to titillate our senses and help us escape from the apparent boredom of the Earth and the Sun, the wind and the stars. Sailing returns to these ancient realities.”
“An alternative definition of psychology from the Islamic perspective would include: the study of the soul; the ensuing behavioural, emotional, and mental processes; and both the seen and unseen aspects that influence these elements.
This description stems from the notion that the soul is the basic element of life. It drives the behaviour, emotions, and mental processes of the human. The human psyche is not purely psychological; its essence is spiritual and metaphysical.”
Source: Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
“An alternative to love is not hate but patience.”
“An altogether different temporality is inherent in information. It is a phenomenon of atomized time, namely of point-time. [...]
Atomized time is a discontinuous time. There is nothing to bind events together and thus found a connection, a duration. The senses are therefore confronted with the unexpected and sudden, which, in turn, produces a diffuse feeling of anxiety. Atomization, individualization and discontinuity are also responsible for various forms of violence.”
Source: The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
“An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.”
“An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.”
“An amateur magician who keep practising eventually becomes better than a professional magician who stop practising.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An amateur magician with affection is more delightful to watch than an expert magician with arrogance.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.”
Source: Curiosities of literature
“An Amazing God + Amazing Faith = An Amazing Life!”
“An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?”
“An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.”
“An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.”
“An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business.”
“An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.”
“An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.”
Source: Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
“An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.”
“An ambassador from any country is always conscious of the fact that he has a tremendous responsibility because he is the representative by whom his country is going to be judged. And to us is given the privilege and responsibility of being the representatives of the Son of God in this world. We stand for him, people judge him by what they see in us, and they are perfectly entitled to do so because we are the ones through whom and in whom he is glorified. Do we, I wonder, always realize this?”
“An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays
“An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.”
“An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky - they are all silent. It's the words that give them meaning, decipher their essence and share their message.”
“An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."”
Source: Rootabaga Stories
“An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.”
“An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.”
“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what she called the contemporary crisis of truth. It was pitched as a new public works project for the intellectual class, so many of us lately busy driving cars and delivering groceries and completing tasks on demand to make ends meet. Government jobs would put all those degrees to work and be comparatively lucrative. The congresswoman envisioned a national network of fact-checkers and historians, a friendly citizen army devoted to making the truth so accessible and appealing it could not be ignored.”
Source: The Office of Historical Corrections
“An ambitious man needs to know when to take risks.”
“An ambitious, paradoxical world we live in -
of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon.”
Source: Wine, Fire, Satin, Dew
“An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous”
“An ambivert navigates the introvert/extrovert spectrum with ease since they do not fit directly into either category. Since neither label applies to them, they are social chameleons who adapt to their environment to maximize their interaction and optimize their results.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.”
“An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.”
“An America we can be proud of, rather than an America to be embarrassed of. You know it's a sign, when you see American backpackers traveling abroad with Canadian flags on their packs!”
“An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.”
“An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.”
Source: Democracy in America