A Quotes
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“An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.”
“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
“An unguarded strength is a double weakness.”
“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
“An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.”
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse
“An unhappy gut is an unhealthy one, which can upset every other system in your body.”
Source: Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“An unhappy life is a life not lived.”
“An unhappy life is a wasted life.”
“An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.”
“An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.”
Source: Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
“An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.”
Source: The Letters of E. B. White
“An unhealthy life is destined to end with an unhealthy death.”
Source: EAT! Empower. Adjust. Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!
“An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.”
“An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“An unhurried life is a life fully lived.”
“An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.”
Source: Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
“An Unhurried Sense of Time Is Itself A Big Wealth”.”
“An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.”
Source: Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
“An uninformed judgement, even when right, is often less useful than a reasoned view, even when wrong, that can then be dissected, examined, and corrected.”
“An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.”
“An uninspired mind creates a lack of energy for the body, resulting in a lack of performance filled with excuses.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.”
“an unintentionally hilarious 84 percent of users answer this match question…
Would you consider dating someone who has a vocalized a strong negative bias toward a certain race of people?
In the absolute negative (choosing “No” over “Yes” and “It Depends”. In light of the previous data, that means 84 percent of people on OKCupid would not consider dating someone on OKCupid.”
“An uninvited guest who makes appearances at public occasions with no warning. An unconditioned reflex that cannot obey the dictates of common sense or reason. A reflex that commits an act of betrayal just when one is about to excuse oneself from a populated room. A breaking wind that sometimes chooses the path of silence, at other times loudness. If one is born under lucky stars, one might make it to open spaces with no company just in time to expel the intestinal gas with an unpleasant odour. If star-crossed, a cough or a slight movement or even miscalculations in time to reach the door could cased the wind to explode in a way that compels those in the vicinity to shield their nostrils or turn their head sideways for fresh air in disgust. Farts are mortifying!”
Source: I Am Audacious
“An university is judged by the beauty of its tree lines.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.”
“An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.”
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
“An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.”
“An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.”
Source: Treasury of David
“An unkindness of ravens flew from the north and landed in a rustle in the surrounding trees with varied sounds of begging and recognition. Years ago, the local ravens had figured out that Lorth not only walked with death but also left portions of his kills for his eldritch companions. The creatures always seemed to know where he was, a sense born of thousands of years of hunting with wolves.”
Source: Ascarion
“An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.”
Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
“An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.”
Source: Ability Development from Age Zero
“An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?”
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”
“An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.”
“An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness.”
Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.”
Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
“An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.”
“An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.”
“An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.”
“An unnamed favour is a dangerous thing to give...”
Source: The Wicked King
“An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)”
“An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“An unplanned tomorrow is like a potluck dinner not a gourmet meal.”
“An unpopular rule is never long maintained.”