A Quotes
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“An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.”
“An ejaculation is a waste of nutrients, unless it leads to pregnancy … and intentionally.”
“An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.”
“An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a talk over a cup of tea and the elder started boasting about the superiority of town life, with all its comforts, the fine clothes her children wore, the exquisite food and drink, parties and visits to the theatre.
The younger sister resented this and in turn scoffed at the life of a merchant's wife and sang the praise of her own life as a peasant.
'I wouldn't care to change my life for yours,' she said. 'I admit mine is dull, but at least we have no worries. You live in grander style, but you must do a great deal of business or you'll be ruined. You know the proverb, "Loss is Gain's elder brother." One day you are rich and the next you might find yourself out in the street. Here in the country we don't have these ups and downs. A peasant's life may be poor, but it's long. Although we may never be rich, we'll always have enough to eat.'
Then the elder sister said her piece.
'Enough to eat but nothing but those filthy pigs and calves! What do you know about nice clothes and good manners! However hard your good husband slaves away you'll spend your lives in the muck and that's where you'll die. And the same goes for your children.'
'Well, what of it?' the younger answered. 'That's how it is here. But at least we know where we are. We don't have to crawl to anyone and we're afraid of no one. But you in town are surrounded by temptations. All may be well one day, the next the Devil comes along and tempts your husband with cards, women and drink. And then you're ruined. It does happen, doesn't it?”
Source: How Much Land Does a Man Need?
“An elderly person who cannot see beneath the surface should donate his brain to a mechanic workshop for an experimental quick fix tutorial with apprentices.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“An eldery fallen angel travelling incognito.”
“An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.”
“An election can be won ever before the campaign has started.”
“An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.”
“An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.”
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.”
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
“An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.”
“An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.”
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.”
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.”
Source: The Journalism: 1834-1846
“An electric hum made the hair on her arms rise. Like being caught in a storm right before lightning strikes.”
Source: Heartless Hunter
“An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud researcher would be considered suicidal by many people.”
“An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society. We take invisible ideas and make them tangible. That's our job.”
“An electron exhibits a slight spin precession characterized by the inverse fine structure constant. Electric charge (spin precession) corresponds to a torsion field dislocation defect (loop closure failure).”
Source: Quantum Wave Mechanics
“An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices.”
“An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.”
Source: New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)
“An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.”
“An electronic machine can carry out mathematical calculations, remember historical facts, play chess and translate books from one language to another. It is able to solve mathematical problems more quickly than man and its memory is faultless. Is there any limit to progress, to its ability to create machines in the image and likeness of man? It seems the answer is no.
It is not impossible to imagine the machine of future ages and millennia. It will be able to listen to music and appreciate art; it will even be able to compose melodies, paint pictures and write poems. Is there a limit to its perfection? Can it be compared to man? Will it surpass him?
Childhood memories… tears of happiness … the bitterness of parting… love of freedom … feelings of pity for a sick puppy … nervousness … a mother’s tenderness … thoughts of death … sadness … friendship … love of the weak … sudden hope … a fortunate guess … melancholy … unreasoning joy … sudden embarrassment…
The machine will be able to recreate all of this! But the surface of the whole earth will be too small to accommodate this machine – this machine whose dimensions and weight will continually increase as it attempts to reproduce the peculiarities of mind and soul of an average, inconspicuous human being.
Fascism annihilated tens of millions of people.”
Source: Life and Fate
“An electronic paper has infinite space because you can bring forth as much content as a reader wants. And the resolution of ads is very high. And when you touch the ad you can interact with the advertiser and the paper will take you to the advertiser's Web site and you can get more information. So ideally there should be a better connection between the ads you're shown and what you're actually interested in.”
“An elegant behavior, an elegant look, an elegant word, an elegant posture, an elegant idea, they are all moonlight, mysterious and magical, calming and peaceful!”
“An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.”
“An elegant woman does not settle for mediocrity, because she is excellence-oriented.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
“An elegant woman is like an elephant, she makes her presence felt.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“An elegant woman may not wear the most expensive clothes. But she knows how to look attractive.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.”
“An elegant woman who fears the Lord carries a sweet fragrance within her Soul.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“An elegantly crafted novel, "The Reluctant First Lady" clearly documents author Venita Ellick as an exceptionally accomplished writer able to skillfully weave memorable characters into a riveting story line from beginning to end. As engaging as it is entertaining, "The Reluctant First Lady" is highly recommended for both personal reading lists and community library contemporary fiction collections.”
“An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!”
“An Elegy
A thousand times must we deplore
The lost will never come to life again;
Even as flowing water runs away,
Returning nevermore.
Lady Kanin”
Source: Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry
“An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.”
“An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.”
Source: The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual
“An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”
Source: The National Review
“An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender”
“An element of human invention transforms the natural into the cultural, rendering a higher life form an invention, an effect of the operation of biopower.”
Source: Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technology.
“An elephant constantly in denial. - On Government”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“An elephant does not need to pick a fight to let the whole jungle know of its strength.”
“An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.”
“An elevator is a ride. It’s for thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.”
“An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps”
Source: Virals