A Quotes
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“An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.”
Source: Night Watch
“An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?”
Source: Night Watch
“An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.”
Source: Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes
“An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.”
“An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.”
Source: The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
“An asset is anything that puts money in your account consistently and results in net value increases.”
“An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.”
“An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'”
“An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks as he 'also cited religious themes and maxims.' Why didn't the press, the ACLU, and People for the American Way cry foul?”
“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“An association that chooses to emerge healthier it needs to be willing to shift the energy of the board and volunteers to be positive and fun, shift down to a more manageable and nimble-size board, and via the law of attraction know the right board members will lead the association forward.”
Source: Ctrl+Alt+Believe: Reboot Your Association For Success
“An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.”
Source: Killosophy
“An assumption of flawlessness is the swiftest shortcut to disaster there is.”
“An assurance that your life is worth living comes from God. He is the one who gave you that life. So, as long as you have it; it is His confirmation that He knows you still need it.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.”
“An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it's microbes. They're the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.”
“An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.”
“An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.”
“An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.”
“An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three - They are delicious... I kiss you millions of times.”
“An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.”
“An astrological placement describes an arrow which points somewhere, a creative energy which gradually layers flesh onto the bare bones of archetypal patterning, an intelligent movement which, over time, fills in the stark black-and-white outlines of the essential life-myth with the subtle colours of experience and individual choice.”
Source: The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope, Vol 3 (Seminars in Psychological Astrology)
“An astronaut cannot be suspended in space and not have God in his mind and his heart.”
“An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services”
“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
“An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in the future and there's nothing now, so why not just save money and kill themselves.”
“An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.”
“An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.”
“An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.”
“An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.”
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
“An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.”
“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.”
“An atheist is a person who has nobody to blame when he screws up.”
“An atheist is as religious as a theist.”
“An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.”
Source: Poetry and letters-1807
“An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
“An atheist is like a fish that doesn't believe in the existence of the sea because it's never seen it.”
“An atheist is like a fish that doesn't believe in the existence of the sea because it's never seen one.”
“An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes
“An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.”
Source: Conversations with Carl Sagan
“An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.”
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.”
“An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.”
Source: Why I Am an Atheist ; Including, A History of Materialism
“An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5