A Quotes
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“An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.”
“An exceptionally positive emotional response indicates that you're summoning the divine energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in nonresistant manner.”
Source: The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection
“An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.”
“An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked as a thumbprint, and is a playwright's truest imprimatur. It is as innate as breathing, and can be as unique as any genetic code. By its very singular nature, it is seldom born in the act of collaboration. True authorial voice always pre-dates the first rehearsal of a text. And it is - and will always be - an author's most distinguishing and valuable feature.”
“An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.”
“An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.”
“An excess of reason is itself a form of madness”
“An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”
“An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.”
“An excessive suavity of manners is not only displeasing, it is disgusting, for it is generally a sing of insecurity and deception.”
Source: The Perfect Gentleman, Or, Etiquette and Eloquence: A Book of Information and Instruction ... Containing Model Speeches for All Occasions ... 500 Toasts ... the Duties of Chairmen of Public Meetings
“An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.”
“An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem regarded as the most Jewish writing in the German language. The Anti-Journalist is the best book I have seen on this engaging topic.”
“An exciting minute-by-minute story of the English Civil War … from the soldier’s point of view … the historical accuracy is fantastic … the storyline and writing style tremendously exciting.”
“An exciting minute-by-minute story of the English Civil War … from the soldier’s point of view … the historical accuracy is fantastic … the storyline and writing style tremendously exciting." - God's Vindictive Wrath by Charles Cordell”
“An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.”
“An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.”
“An excuse is a lie guarded.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author
“An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.”
“An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase.”
“An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.”
“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
Source: The works
“An excuse will not wake up early”
“An execution order hasn’t kept us apart before. There are ways to get around it. We will be together.” “Is that an order?” “No, a promise.”
Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study
“An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.”
“An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right”
“An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.”
“An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.”
“An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.”
“An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.”
“An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.”
Source: Dynamic Spiritual Leadership: Leading Like Paul
“An exhausted mind was both willful and nocturnal, like a cat.”
Source: The Strange Land
“An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.”
“An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.”
“An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.”
“An exile of wheat and olives”
Source: Thoughts To Live
“An exile, ill in heart and frame,--
A wanderer, weary of the way;--
A stranger, without love's sweet claim
On any heart, go where I may!”
Source: A wreath of wild flowers from New England
“An existence constantly transfigured by failure.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“An existence transfigured by failure.”
“An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.”
“An exotic and irrational entertainment.”
“An expanse of short green grass undulated around sand traps and manicured trees. Up ahead, a multi-winged clubhouse loomed.
“Jesus God,” I muttered. “Ninth circle of hell.”
“I think they have eighteen at courses like this,” Andy said.
“Ha.”
Source: All the Better Part of Me
“An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.”
“An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.”
“An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.”
“An expedition of using cellulose as a renewable fuel
to rescue depletion with its biomolecules.”
Source: Ghost Tracks
“An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.”
“An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.”
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”
“An expensive tow was a hell of a lot better than no tow at all.”
Source: Let It Snow