A Quotes
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“An empty restlessness. The echo of single-lane traffic muffled by worn concrete and meager drywall. The low-decibel hum of a refrigerator fan blade twirling against the remnant of an old bag of Fritos. The faint but incessant buzzing of ambition, like a fly beating its head against a window, trying to escape from the invisible force that imprisons its true aspiration.”
Source: Dream Fisher: A Metaphysical Work of Contemporary Fiction
“An empty room can also be a catalyst for transformation. It was a reminder that I could now begin to shape the space around me exactly as I wanted, literally and metaphorically. By carefully choosing what I wanted to put into the space, by mindfully avoiding easy solutions, I could find myself.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“An empty room can be an instrument for introspection. It was a reflection of the void created by the decision to distance myself from a relationship that had defined me to others and to myself. If I was not a wife, who was I? I was removing a label that marked my place in a social system, but was I still “me” without that label?”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.”
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
“An empty stomach will teach you lessons a full stomach can’t.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“An empty street sucks your fullness; a full street fills your emptiness!”
“An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.”
“An empty throne always tempts me.”
“An empty vessel, like the hollow trunk; a husk of former glory, once a rendition of colour that painted the skies a greenish tinge, yet now so mute, poured too much to feed the flowers that were just weeds.”
“An empty world,
Full of many million people.
An empty heart,
But one desire to keep you.”
“An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.”
“An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.”
“An enabling force of the Internet is hyperconnectivity in the global community. The unintended consequence is that we are allowing tech to govern who we are; leading to society which is disconnected from our local communities. - Tom Golway 2020”
“An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.”
“An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.”
“An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.”
“An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.”
“An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.”
“An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.”
“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.”
Source: Composing a Life
“An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.”
“An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.”
Source: Killosophy
“An Encourager makes habits out of envisioning success for themselves and others and teaching us to do the same.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.”
“An end is only an end because we haven’t taken the time to find the door in the wall.”
“An end is the mark of a new beginning.”
Source: Uplifting Poetry for Self-Love, Hope and Healing
“An end of a marriage or a relationship is not a failure. It's an opportunity to love again. Align yourself accordingly.”
“An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.”
“An end to questions or an end to life, she said to herself as she raced towards the unknown.”
Source: Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
“An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.”
“An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness.”
“An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”
Source: Along for the Ride
“An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.”
“An endless party sounds fun in theory, but the body and mind can only take so much. Some people show up here hoping it’s the answer to all of their problems and figure out too late that they actually brought the problems with them.”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“An endless path is frightening but the path that ends is even more frightening!”
“An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.”
“An endogroup, as explained in The Creation of Me, Them and Us, is an emergency power structure that humans instinctually create and support in response to external threat.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“An endogroup, as explained in The Creation of Me, Them and Us, is an emergency power structure that humans instinctually create and support in response to external threat. A mono-empire has no external endogroup to act as an existential threat and so a mono-empire cannot form or maintain its defensive structure. It dissolves even as it attempts to form.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“An endorsement of scientific thinking must first of all be distinguished from any belief that members of the occupational guild called 'science' are particularly wise or noble. The culture of science is based on the opposite belief -- its signature practices (including open debate, peer review, and double-blind methods) are designed to circumvent the sins to which scientists, being human, are vulnerable. As Richard Feynman put it, 'the first principle (of science) is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
“An enduring belief in light rises above the darkness of night.”
Source: Unlocked
“An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.”
“An enemy can be put to death by a single smile.”
“An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“An enemy cannot betray you, as you already expect your enemy to try to bring you down. Only a trusted "friend," acquaintance, or family member can betray you, and that is what truly makes betrayal so hurtful and sad.”
Source: Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
“An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.”
“An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.”
“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.”
“An enemy is indeed a precious teacher.”
Source: Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama