A Quotes
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“A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher wanted to tell her—at least this is what she claimed—that she, the teacher, found my behavior different from that of the other children, that I spoke of dreams and desires that were too grandiose, ambitions that were abnormal for children my age. She said that the others wanted to become firemen or policemen, but I spoke of becoming the king or the president of the republic; that I swore that as soon as I grew up, I’d take my mother far away from my father and that I’d buy her a château. I would like for this book—this story of her—to be, in some way, the home in which she might take refuge.”
Source: Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
“A final menu was drawn up, with chutney sandwiches, mutton cutlets, pork sausages, chicken fry, homemade sponge cake, boiled chickpeas, fruit punch and potato chips from Ideal Wafers at Khotachi Wadi making it to the busy list.”
Source: Bombay Balchão
“A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.”
“A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.”
“A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.”
“A final thought concerns the relationship that philosophy entertains with politics, especially Nietzsche's idea that while philosophy might be helpful in identifying what is wrong with the world, it is not the right place to start to try to change it. We must first begin by reeducating ourselves before moving, as Nietzsche came to see, to politics. In many ways Williams reached a similar conclusion in what possibly remains his best work, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), although perhaps without the politics: philosophy can help in trying to resolve questions of theory, but it is incapable, as the title suggests, of telling us how to live. As he puts it in that wonderfully liberating phrase : 'The only serious enterprise is living.”
Source: Nietzsche's Great Politics
“A final victory is a succession of small victories”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of a partial victory by which new efforts are powered.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.”
Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation
“A final word on self-criticism: Do not beat up on yourself. Even if you think you know your flaws, there is no need to advertise them. Most people won't have noticed.”
Source: Zen Guitar
“A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.”
“A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.”
“A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.”
“A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.”
“A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.”
“A financial wellness program is a perfect approach to letting your employees see that you care for them.”
“A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”
“A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.”
Source: Between you and me
“A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.”
Source: The spectator
“A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”
Source: Orlando
“A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”
“A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.”
“A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.”
Source: The Military MEGAPACK ®: 25 Great Tales of War
“A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart”
Source: Willy Ronis:
“A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“A fine lady she weren't, oh, but a damn fine woman and a brave one....”
Source: Fortress in the Eye of Time
“A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.”
Source: Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy
“A fine line existed between accomplice and useful idiot, and in matters like this the line was often treated as if it didn't exist.”
Source: Nina's Friends
“A fine line exists between quitting on ourselves and letting go of a restrictive position in life and moving forward to reach our ultimate destination based upon our natal predisposition honed by a lifetime of experimentation. Who has not been forced to stop and ask ourselves, ‘who are we,’ ‘what are we doing,’ and ‘where are we going?’ Who has not been forced to pause by life’s dynamic forces and ask ourselves, ‘what mystical chords bind us as a species; what is the meaning of life; and how do we give birth to our genetic blueprint while shaping a sense of purposefulness out of our own existence and striving to bring joy to other people’s hearth?’ To answer these life affirming questions that gnaw most voraciously at our consciousness at the time when tension and unsettling trauma besieges us, we must appreciate our heritage, be mindful our epoch, accept responsibility for our adult decisions, and strive to accumulate wisdom that segues our entrance into the future. Each of us must arrive at a unifying philosophy that guides our living quest, and the sooner we come to terms with our eccentric self the quicker we will perceive and appreciate the ineffable beauty of nature.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A fine line exists between self-discovery, thoughtfully exploring a person’s transience, probing the lucidity of the soul, and slippage into morose philosophizing.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel
“A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.”
Source: To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth
“A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.”
“A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!”
“A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.”
“A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.”
“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
“A fine rain fell without sound on the oak-leaves and on the narrow pathways to the Lodge and the river. Only if you listened intently could you hear the rain, too multitudinous a music for one mind to grasp, a single endless chord played on the entire forest.”
Source: The Word for World is Forest
“A fine shiver coursed over my skin. "Seth?" "Yeah?" "You were in my dream." One amber-colored eye opened. "Please tell me we were naked." I rolled my eyes. "You're such a perv." He sighed mournfully as he wiggled closer. "I'll take that as a no." "You'd be correct." Unable to fall back to sleep, I started chewing on my lip. So many worries surfaced at once that my brain spun.”
“A fine statue of a naked Theseus stands proudly today in Athens' central place of assembly, the city's hub, Syntagma Square. Even today he is a focus of Athenian identity and pride. The ship he brought back from his adventures in the Labyrinth of Crete remained moored in the harbour at Piraeus, a visitor attraction right up to the days of historical ancient Athens, the time of Socrates and Aristotle. Its continuous presence there for such a long time caused the Ship of Theseus to become a subject of intriguing philosophical speculation. Over hundreds of years, its rigging, its planks, its hull, deck, keel, prow, stern and all its timbers had been replaced so that not one atom of the original remained. Could one call it the same ship? Am I the same person I was fifty years ago? Every molecule and cell of my body has been replaced many times over.”
Source: Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
“A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.”
“A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.”
Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.”
Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.”
“A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.”
“A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”
“A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms