A Quotes
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“An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.”
“An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.”
“An eloquent orgasm paints the most beautiful portrait of life.”
“An eloquent style of fashion enhances the elegance of enchanting beauty.”
“An emaciated gospel leads to emaciated worship”
Source: What Is the Gospel?
“An email address is like a customer's "digital fingerprint".”
“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.”
Source: Essays on Music
“An embarrassed mind thinks their fart echoed across the mountains.”
“An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.”
“An embroidery machine has to do chaotic motions to create beautiful patterns. Chaos in life means that creation of something beautiful is in progress.”
“An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.”
“An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.”
“An emerging vanguard of copaganda is rebranding repressive policies as compassionate. Politicians around the country are increasingly using the concept of "care" to describe policies of violence that jail unhoused people and criminalize people for their mental illness.”
Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“an emigres artistic problem: the numerically equal blocks of a lifetime are unequal in weight, depending on whether they comprise young or adult years. The adult years may be richer and more important for life and for creative activity both, but the subconscious, memory, language, all the understructure of creativity, are formed very early; for a doctor, that won't make problems, but for a novelist or a composer, leaving the place to which his imagination, his obsessions, and thus his fundamental themes are bound could make for a kind of ripping apart. He must mobilize all his powers, all his artists wiles, to turn the disadvantages of that situation to benefits.
[...] Only returning to the native land after a long absence can reveal the substantial strangeness of the world and of existence.”
Source: Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
“An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.”
Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government
“An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold).”
“An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.”
“An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or perhaps that it wasn’t how he had said it, and she was wrong, and she’d heard a question simply because the sound of him speaking her name made her wish that she were his answer.”
Source: The Winner's Crime
“An emotion I’d never felt such an extent of washed over me. Sadness. It was blue and black like a bruise.”
Source: Sameness
“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”
“An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.”
Source: Defending Jacob: A Novel
“An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.”
Source: Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
“An emotion is correct, “when one’s feelings are adequate to their object — adequate in the sense of being appropriate, suitable, or fitting”
“An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions.”
“An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.”
“An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it.”
“An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.”
“An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.”
“An emotional abuser doesn’t necessarily see their abuse as abusive. They can see it as “trying to help.” Therein lies the toxicity.”
“An emotional debt is hard to square.”
“An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.”
“An emotional overcoming, disconcertingly distant from happiness, more like joy—if joy is the recognition of an almost intolerable beauty. It’s not a very civilized emotion.”
Source: Feel Free: Essays
“An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.”
“An emotional support animal is an animal that provides relief to individuals with “psychiatric disability through companionship.”
“An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy.”
“An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An empath hones in on the emotions of a person. Having Psychic abilities focuses on the communication of the soul. Not to be mistaken for a gut feeling-Instinct. Gut Instinct is the internal mechanism for survival.”
Source: Eros and Psyche: An Ancient Soul Mate/Twin Flame Story
“An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselves in feeling for others.”
“An EMPATH is someone with at least one significant gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be another person. Many different empath gifts are possible, but the process of developing empath skill is identical whether you were born with one empath gift or many.”
Source: The Empowered Empath — Quick & Easy: Owning, Embracing, and Managing Your Special Gifts (An Empath Empowerment® Book)
“An EMPATH is someone with at least one significant gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be another person. Many different empath gifts are possible, but the process of developing empath skill is identical whether you were born with one empath gift or many.
Whichever of these 15 special empath gifts you have, it was installed on the day you were born. Installed fully switched ON.”
Source: The Empowered Empath — Quick & Easy: Owning, Embracing, and Managing Your Special Gifts (An Empath Empowerment® Book)
“An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.”
“An empathy and understanding of what others are going through and altruistic, selfless support for them are the hallmarks of a developed society.”
“An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.”
“An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.”
“An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.”
Source: The story of civilization
“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
“An empire that cleaves to power cleaves itself; the blade that binds its dominion also splits its foundation, for conquest divides even its victors.”