A Quotes
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“An anarcho-capitalist is someone who agrees that the best way to eliminate the tragedy of the commons is to privatize it away, and realizes that state politics is the mother of all such tragedies.”
“An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]”
Source: Tomorrow or Never
“An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."”
“An ancient bond, a wordless dialogue, between the sky's goddess and the waters that embrace her.”
Source: Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow
“An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.”
“An ancient custom obtains force of nature.”
“An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.”
“An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.”
Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it.”
“An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.”
Source: 365 Tao: Daily Meditations
“An ancient melody calls us
To the awareness of who we are
Infinite heart
Infinite love
Infinite peace
Fierce compassion
Ultimate power
-I am a Magnificent Woman”
Source: I AM A MAGNIFICENT WOMAN
“An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns - but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver.”
Source: The Elements of Typographic Style
“An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!”
Source: The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. With a Memoir of the Author
“An Ancient Proverb Concerning the US that I Just Thought Up
A sick man with a gun still has a gun.”
Source: Eyes Open With Your Mask On
“An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.”
Source: The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)
“An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.”
“An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.”
“An androgyne, even when living out his nature, can attain the same ethical and religious heights as any other individual.”
Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne
“An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.”
Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“An android,” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."
“Then,” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it".”
“An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act”
“An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.”
“An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.”
Source: The Ladder of Divine Ascent
“An angel for some,
a demon for some,
for me, it’s heart of the one.
Never want to hurt,
keep many secrets beneath the blood.
sob in the dark,
but, people thinks, it’s beat of the heart.
No one thought, no one observe,
but, it supplies tears as blood.
One day someone came,
took it out from dark,
she kissed it,
loved it,
played with it,
put it with her heart,
and makes it her life part.
Daily she played,
daily she fought,
But, never she threw it out.
one day, an unknown came,
who kissed her,
loved her,
and used to play with her.
He took my out my heart from her,
and threw it on the street,
then there is nothing more than weep.
An angel for some,
a demon for some,
for me, it’s heart of the one.
Never want to hurt,
keep many secrets beneath the blood.
Sob in the dark,
but, people thinks, it’s beat of the heart.
No one thought, no one observe,
but, it supplies tears as blood.”
“An angel has no memory.”
“An angel is a nonphysical being who has no ego - so we know angels are not human. An angel is a pure essence of the Creator's desire to connect with human beings.”
“An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.”
“An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.”
“An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.”
“An angel of God never has wings.”
“An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.”
“An angel once found a demon broken and nearly dead. The angel held out his arm to help the demond. The demond looked at the angel and asked 'Why would you save an evil demond like me?' The angel answered, 'Because without you there is no me.”
“An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."”
“An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.”
Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal
“An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile.”
“An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Source: The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. By E. Young
“An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.”
“An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.”
“An angel; or, if not,
An earthly paragon.”
“An Angels dance is unrehearsed when they come into our lives. They look over us fix, and adjust things that we are attempting to adjust. Their divine intervention is warm and many times exciting, when we feel their light upon us; we know this special help was meant to be. In Jesus name. Amen.”
“An anger that Ari had never known was crashing down around her, an anger not stemming from his nauseating statements or revolting countenance, but from the knowledge of what he had done, suddenly so tangible in his presence before her. Never had she allowed herself to consider his betrayal as something so real. Never had she stopped to think about what it truly meant to her. It had all been so distant, muddled in her seven-year-old brain. But now Zaid stood there with that self-assured expression plastered upon his pale face and the reality struck Ari with incredible force, burning and boiling up until she thought she might explode from the sheer heat of it.”
Source: A Memory of Light
“An angora. That's what it was," he exclaims with a grin. "They have translucent wings and are about five inches tall and are pure awesomeness."
Maybe it was the enthusiastic way he used that word, or perhaps it was the word itself—but either way, it annoyed me.”
Source: Sabre Black
“An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.”
“An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.”
“An angry enemy is a conquered enemy”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“An angry father is most cruel towards himself.”
“An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.”