A Quotes
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“And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.”
“and before the credentials, i am kin to all persons
humans and the more-than-human alike
those who walked before me
the guides and the living earth
and the child who walks beside me now
the stories that needed to be told and chose me as their vessel
this is the kinship that nests and fuels my craft”
“And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.”
Source: Shaded Vision: An Otherworld Novel
“And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time." "That accident was not my fault." "You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too.”
“And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.”
Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away
“And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.”
“And before you say this is all far-fetched, just think how far the human race has come in the past ten years. If someone had told your parents, for example, that they would be able to carry their entire music library in their pocket, would they have believed it? Now we have phones that have more computing power than was used to send some of the first rockets into space. We have electron microscopes that can see individual atoms. We routinely cure diseases that only fifty years ago was fatal. and the rate of change is increasing. Today we are able to do what your parents would of dismissed as impossible and your grandparents nothing short of magical.”
“And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.”
“And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”
Source: Revelation
“And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
“And being a survivor is just the same as being dead with a longer sell-by-date on the top of your packet.”
Source: Fearsome Creatures
“And being alone is the best way to be
When I'm by myself it's the best way to be
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be
When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye”
“And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.”
“And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.”
“And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”
Source: Every Day
“And being gay isn't so easy, either I've always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses - but when I finally came out and said, "Yes, I do sleep with men and I'm gay," yeah, I lost record sales. There's no question - big, big time.”
“And being part of something -- really part of it -- means it can be taken away. It means you have something to lose.”
Source: Windfall
“And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“And, believe it or not, anger often comes bearing gifts. Through anger, God may help us discover what we really want, get us to pay attention to even deeper emotions, help us identify unmet expectations, and sometimes, see the folly of our sin.”
Source: The Emotionally Healthy Woman: Eight Things You Have to Quit to Change Your Life
“And believe it or not, we did end up going to the bottom of the ocean, just not for the reasons I had wanted to go there in the first place.”
Source: Addicted to Time
“And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."”
“And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.”
“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”
“And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late.”
“And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.”
“And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a shining Alabama girl by your side--to have had all that and then to have seen those red shirts pour onto the field, and, then, coming behind them, with that inexorable big cat walk of his, the man himself, The Bear--that was very good indeed.”
“And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“And beneath her bare feet lay the biggest structure on earth, a whole world unto itself. How strange that there were millions of people below her at this very moment, eating, sleeping, dreaming, touching. Avery blinked, feeling suddenly and acutely alone. They were strangers, all of them, even the ones she knew. What did she care about them, or about herself, or about anything, really?”
Source: The Thousandth Floor
“and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.”
Source: Train Dreams
“And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.”
Source: You
“And beside the slides and the monkey bars of youth, the eternity of the swing lay like a forgotten child.”
Source: Peter
“And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.” He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. “Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.” I grinned back.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“And besides, isn't this the way one loses boyfriends, by acting paranoid and jealous and insecure? I'm fairly certain this is not a good look on me.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“And besides, libraries aren't just about books. They are one of the few public spaces we have left which don't like our wallets more than us.”
Source: Notes on a Nervous Planet
“And besides, we lovers fear everything”
Source: Metamorphoses
“And besides, we’re not really all that different. Although I think I’m a little more . . . ”
“What?”
“Optimistic.” She nudged him with her shoulder. “You’re Eeyore.”
He blinked. “You think I’m Eeyore?”
“You tell me. I take my empty glass and try to fill it up with what happiness I can find. Friends, family, my work . . . And then there’s you.”
He raised a brow. “Me.”
She nudged him again, looking playful and damn sexy while she was at it. It was the short shorts with the boots, he decided. Or everything. It was everything.
“You take that empty glass,” she said, happily analyzing him. “And you wonder what the heck to do with it. You don’t need the glass, you don’t have time for the glass. Hell, you’ll just drink from a spigot if you get thirsty. And in any case, there’s probably another one up the road if that one runs out, so—”
Source: Animal Magnetism
“And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine”
“And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.”
“And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.”
“And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding”
Source: Comfort and Protest: Reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos
“And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.”
“And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?”
Source: Sesame and Lilies, etc
“And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
“And better still, reference librarians served well in the role that the internet never did: They were the perfect bouncers at the door of bad information. Or, put differently, they were the best vectors to transmit truth.”
Source: Wanderers
“And between all
those eternities
you realise that art & love
my be the only things
that stay long enough
inside one's soul
to make an impression.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“and beware those who
only take
instructions from their
God
for they have
failed completely to live their own
lives.”
Source: Love is a Dog From Hell
“And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order on chaos and hold forth a key to all the paradoxes and arcana of the worlds we know.”
Source: The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
“And beyond the Elysian Fields and the Garden of Eden I will look for the path that leads to your heart.”