A Quotes
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“An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
“An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)
“An equal opportunity for the living is to live life.”
“An equally compelling point regarding the power of reciprocity comes from an account of a woman who saved her life not by giving a gift as did the captured soldier, but by refusing a gift and the powerful obligations that went with it.”
Source: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
“An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.”
Source: The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
“An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.”
“An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.”
“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”
“An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.”
“An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.”
“An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.”
“An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!”
Source: Blood Rites
“An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more”
Source: The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work
“An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.”
“An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.”
“An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.”
“An error becomes an error when born as truth.”
“An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.”
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.
(Young India 1924-1926)”
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
Source: How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life
“An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity of the Church, and of basic culture and social organization. A change in the doctrine of the Trinity in either of these directions cannot help but have political consequences.
Farrell, commenting on Nazianzen's connection between Trinity and Holy Monarchy”
“An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.”
“An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.”
“An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.”
Source: Marva Collins' Way
“An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.”
Source: Monsieur Vénus
“An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“An erupting existence
craves character mutation
as salvation for the alter ego.”
Source: ALTER EGO: Poetry for the Hidden Self
“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.”
“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”
“An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.”
“An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.”
“An especially close friend inquired ‘is it that you’re afraid you’ll never see England again?’ As it happens he was exactly right to ask, and it had been precisely that which had been bothering me, but I was unreasonably shocked by his bluntness. I’ll do the facing of hard facts, thanks. Don’t you be doing it too . . . ‘Yes, I suppose a time comes when you have to consider letting go.’ How true, and how crisp a summary of what I had just said to myself. But again there was an unreasonable urge to have a kind of monopoly on, or a sort of veto over, what was actually sayable.
-Mortality”
“An especially powerful type of historical evidence [for the Bible and Christianity] is that of fulfilled prophecy - historical events written down long before they actually happen. Hundreds of prophecies in the Bible have been remarkably fulfilled exactly as fortold but often hundreds of years later. This type of evidence is unique to the Bible and can be explained only by divine inspiration. God, the Creator of time, is outside of time. He is the One who controls the future and, therefore, is the only One who knows the future.
"Bible prophecies are not vague and rambling, such as those of Nostradamus and other supposed extrabiblical prophets. Prophecies in the Bible deal with specific places, people, and events, and their fulfillments can be checked by reference to subsequent history.”
“An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.”
“An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.”
“An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.”
Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature
“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.”
“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order to give us an experience - an experience of looking for something and then finding ourselves in a different place by the time we've finished our journey.”
“An essayist’s tone can be grim or playful, somber or teasing, and critical or uplifting. Unlike a thesis that a writer drafts to establish, verify, and support a proposition, a person primarily writes a personal essay to please oneself by questioning, probing, and investigating the mysterious, anomalous, and the unknowable wreckage of our humanity. A writer frequently initiates a personal essay by simply clearing their throat.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An essayist, unlike a fiction writer, needs to establish their objective reliability, equitable sincerity, intellectual integrity and maintain their authoritative trustworthiness because they are an acknowledged reporter of true events and relating or applying the ideas and principles of their sources.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.”
“An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed”
“An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.”
“An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.”
“An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?”
“An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.”