A Quotes
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“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“An apprentice starts off with the certainty that only by disciplining himself into becoming an impeccable warrior can he live his life without regrets, but by the time he has achieved warriorship, he knows beyond all controversy that impeccability of the spirit is for him his innermost predilection.”
Source: Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2
“An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their parents with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves - because they owe it to them for all those years in which their parents took care of them - is utterly selfish.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“An approachable person intuitively knows how to set new acquaintances at ease and create a safety net for them to be vulnerable and authentic.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“An appropriate joke should contain elements of information that sounds realistic, logical and entertaining which can amuse others to listen you when initiating a meaningful conversation.”
“An appropriately warm and affectionate relationship with the father is the greatest basis for future warm and lasting relationships with men emotionally and sexually. I say this not by virtue of any statistic but by virtue of the absence of such relationships is most of the sexually unhappy women I've treated. I can't think of one who had a wondrous relationship with her father- except for those who did have such a relationship but lost it because of the early death of the father.”
“An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.”
“An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."”
Source: The City of God
“An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.”
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.”
“An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken in both. But one of them could be exploited much more easily and has been in the context of world conflict. And the other is very difficult to do on the grounds that science and literature and mathematics have been among the uniting factors in the history of the world.”
“An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.”
“An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.”
“An archaeologist is a ghoul with credentials.”
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
“An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision.”
“An archer must never blame a target for missing it.”
“An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.”
“An archetype can be defined as a mental representation of an instinct. (...) We are already born with an image of mother, an image of that archetype; and we are already born with an image of father, an image of birth, an image of growth, an image of death, etc. But different people have slightly different images of these archetypal phenomena.”
Source: The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, Vol. 1
“An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.”
“An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!”
“An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.”
“An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.”
“An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.”
“An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.”
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
“An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times.”
Source: The Public Papers
“An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.”
“An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.”
Source: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News
“An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.”
“An argument anchors the conversation and slows down the decision-making process.”
Source: Quantraz
“An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).”
Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.”
“An argument can be made that while all people are born and die and during their lifetime they will lead almost identical lives devoted to fulfilling their will by eating, sleeping, procreating, taking care of their children, and building shelters. This still allows for innumerable personal decisions how to conduct our lives. For instance, identical twins share many physical traits but their personalities vary. How everybody reacts to a physical world, and the mental decisions that they make affects the trajectory of their life. Given the vast world that we must operate within our choices regarding how to live are only limited by our knowledge, ethics, abilities, imagination, and physical constraints. Accordingly, the outcome of our lives is not certain, fixed, ordained, or fated, but rather a mystery that we can assist pen with our conscious, deliberative actions. In other words, we might do what we do in certain situations because who we are, but we have some say in what we are.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”
Source: Social Statics: Great Essays
“An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist.”
Source: Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists
“An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.”
“An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.”
Source: Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
“An argument intended to manipulate can stand on emotion. But an argument intended to persuade must stand on fact and reason.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.”
“An argument is a creation of discussion happening between an intelligent and a fool person. In this argument, an intelligent person is a bigger fool.”
Source: Quantraz
“An argument is a war without weapons”
Source: Quantraz
“An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person