A Quotes
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“And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs”
“And a naïve part of me thinks that since we have made it this far, we will make it forever. If we existed for even a second, we could exist eternally.”
Source: Sunburn
“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.”
“And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one's own concept of existence and meaning and truth. ...if we want a society that reveres life, that defends the family, and that discourages delinquency and promotes decency, we cannot force a privatization of religion; we must allow the truth-claims of religious faith to be uttered aloud in the public square.”
“And a painting could be
a beautiful poem in vain,
But poetry is simply
romanticizing the pain.”
Source: Ethereal
“And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.”
“And a part of me duck egg cracked”
Source: Wilding of this Hagstone Heart
“And a people - or, for that matter, a human being - only has value to the extent that it is able to put the stamp of the eternal on its experiences; for in doing so it sheds, one might say, its worldliness and reveals its unconscious, inner conviction that time is relative and that the true meaning oflife is metaphysical.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
“And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past.”
Source: Psalms of life
“And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.”
“And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?”
“And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.”
“And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.”
“And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we move on. It’s just the body, man. It’s just the body. The soul’s already gone. So don’t be afraid of a dead body absent a soul. It’s empty, man. No resident. What you need to worry about is a living body that’s lost its soul. Now that is scary, man.” - Funk N. Wagnalls, owner of the Grim Reapers auto lot, a character in Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues.”
Source: Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
“And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.”
“And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.”
“And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.”
Source: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
“And a six-week cap on the relationship was perfect. He could enjoy the getting-to-know-you sex and the know-you-well-enough-to-push-the-right-buttons sex, but be gone before the I’m-falling-in-love-with-you-Mitch sex.”
Source: All He Ever Needed
“And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven. The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of their bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.”
“And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.”
Source: Leviathan
“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
Source: Player Piano
“And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.”
Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman
“and a table
in a kitchen
at which
the nightingales feasted on fairy tales,
the angels stuffed themselves with fog”
Source: Space, in Chains
“And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.”
“And a tiny looper caterpillar would be there, too, measuring, like a child’s finger and thumb, the rim of the table, and every now and then stretching upward to grope, in vain, for the shrub from which it had been dislodged.”
Source: Speak, Memory
“And a ton came down on a coloured road,
And a ton came down on a gaol,
And a ton came down on a freckled girl,
And a ton on the black canal,
And a ton came down on a hospital,
And a ton on a manuscript,
And a ton shot up through the dome of a church,
And a ton roared down to the crypt.
And a ton danced over the Thames and filled
A thousand panes with stars,
And the splinters leapt on the Surrey shore
To the tune of a thousand scars.”
Source: The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
“And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.”
“And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!”
Source: The Cheerleaders of Doom: NERDS (Book Three)
“And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.”
Source: Selected poems
“And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.”
“And a wild, primitive madness seemed to descend on the men who fought in the cornfield: they went beyond the limits of sanity and endurance at times, Northerners and Southerners alike, until it seems that they tore at each other for the sheer sake of fighting. The”
Source: Mr. Lincoln's Army
“And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master.
Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!”
Source: Monstrous Regiment
“And a woman had to yield. A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child be would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasing connection. But a woman could yield to a man without yielding her inner, free self. That the poets and talkers about sex did not seem to have taken sufficiently into account. A woman could take a man without really giving herself away. Certainly she could take him without giving herself into his power. Rather she could use this sex thing to have a power over him. For she only had to hold herself back in sexual intercourse, and let him finish and expend himself without herself coming into crisis: and then she could prolong the connection and achieve her orgasm and her crisis while he was merely her tool.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship.
And he answered, saying:
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.”
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
Source: The Prophet: by Kahlil Gibran
“And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.”
“And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.”
Source: Unspoken
“And above all,” Darian concluded, his gaze unwavering but hopeful, “Elian must come to understand—truly understand, not merely as an idea but as a conviction he lives by—that the life he has been given is not his alone. Every choice he makes either honors those who came before or diminishes their sacrifice. Every act either brightens or dims the path for those who follow. When he stands at life’s crossroads, let him ask not ‘What will this gain me?’ but ‘What light will this leave when I am gone?’ Let him plant seeds whose shade he’ll never sit under. For in the end, we are each but one chapter in humanity’s endless book—and I believe with all my heart that his will be one that future generations turn to for courage.”
Source: The Untarnished: A Fairy Tale of Truth and Becoming
“And above all else, remember that the end of a movie (or a TV show, or a play, or a book) is never really the end.”
Source: On Location
“And,
above all, our present goal is to know Jesus Christ as the Son of Man,
true man. But we fall short of the goal if we will not try to rescue
the question from the impasse into which it was led by the christological
discussion of the older Protestants.”
“And above all, the fear of putting land to good use.”
Source: Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
“And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places”
“And above all, what a strange attitude that actually is, when we no longer find Christian service worthwhile if the denarius of salvation may be obtained even without it! It seems as if we want to be rewarded, not just with our own salvation, but most especially with other people's damnation - just like the workers hired in the first hour. That is very human, but the Lord's parable is particularly meant to make us quite aware of how profoundly un-Christian it is at the same time. Anyone who looks on the loss of salvation for others as the condition, as it were, on which he serves Christ will in the end only be able to turn away grumbling, because THAT kind of reward is contrary to the loving-kindness of God.
-What It Means To Be A Christian”
“And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.”
“And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.”
“And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.”