A Quotes
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“And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs”
“And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.”
“And by the time Captain Lambestyo had though of an answer and opened his eyes, the sun was rising.”
Source: Theatre of the Gods
“And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.”
“And by the way, I enjoyed your pool very much. It's a shame you'll never get me that wet.”
Source: Inevitable
“And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.”
“And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.”
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.”
“And by the way, I would not only reappoint Greenspan; if Greenspan would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him.”
“And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.”
Source: Ranting Again
“And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug!”
Source: Bite Club
“And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage.”
Source: The Water Dancer
“And by this time the Chinese box was peeling crazily, and as each layer fell away a new voice told a new tale, none of the tales finished because the box inevitably found a new story inside each unfinished one, until it seemed that digression was the true principle of the universe, that the only real subject was the way the subject kept changing, and how could anyone live in a crazy situation in which nothing remained the same for five minutes and no narrative was ever driven through to its conclusion, there could be no meaning in such an environment, only absurdity, the unmeaningness that was the only sort of meaning anyone could hold on to.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.”
Source: An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
“And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.”
“And Caesar shall go forth.”
“And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.”
“And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.”
Source: Roxelana
“And can a man his own quietus make
with a bare bodkin?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?”
“And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
“And can we get a tarte normande, the kind you used to love as a little girl?"
The mere mention has my mouth watering and my heart aching. I can almost taste the tarts my mother used to make, with apples from the trees in our garden, loads of freshly grated cinnamon, and a dollop of whipped cream on top.
"And can we look for treasure on the beach?"
"Yes, sweet child."
"And can we throw rocks in the water and look for starfish in the tide pools?”
Source: All the Flowers in Paris
“And can you please have the janitor check my floor for fucking superglue?” ~ Andrew Hamilton”
Source: Reasonable Doubt: Volume 1
“And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.”
“And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.”
“And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest, with black hair as iridescent as a raven's wing and cheekbones sharp enough to cut out a girl’s heart. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“And carnival or no carnival, Denver preferred the venomous baby to him any day.”
Source: Beloved
“And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!”
Source: The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir
“And, carrying this thought just a little further, in some ways, Carol was me and I no less was her. And I still am her, in some sense. Sometimes I describe how I feel these days by saying, "Well, now I'm Doug-&-Carol." Carol's hopes and dreams now reside in my brain; they grew there over the years, just as they grew inside her brain. They still flourish in mine, and in a small, diluted way, far less than before, some of Carol's soul, some of Carol's consciousness just a tiny fraction, to be sure, but still, not nothing at all - survives inside me, because of all the merging and blurring over years of intimacy. And I'm not the only one in whom Carol's way of looking at the world, her way of being, lives on to different degrees, she lives on inside those people who knew her intimately and loved her deeply: her family and her close friends.”
“And Caspian Marks, he was meant to be someone. Someone grand, someone big, someone with power and authority, and I had no doubt in my mind that Caspian Marks could give someone the entire world. He was capable of it. I don’t think anyone would have put it past him. But I would never allow him to give it to me, if at the end of the road, it ever came to that.
My world was ending and beyond restoration.
His was just beginning.”
Source: Counting Stars
“And certain animal products, such as commercial beef and processed meats, are more disease-promoting in our diets than others, such as frogs, salamanders, sardines, snakes, and wild salmon.”
Source: The End of Heart Disease: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
“And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.”
“And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me and said, “you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization“. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.”
“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”
Source: Middlemarch
“And change isn't destruction. It's just change.”
Source: Thin Air
“And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.”
“And charge it please.”
Source: Eloise in Paris: with audio recording
“And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.”
Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems
“And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.”
“And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.”
“And children know,
Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.”
Source: The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…
“And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.”
“And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.”
“And Chris Benoit, as magnificent as he looks, is not medically cleared yet.”
“And Chris remembers: what they used to talk about was desire. Impossible, longing dreams. Delirious, aching confusion. That was the vital element they lived off … because it was the one thing that mattered. Not things, or achievements, or politics, or fracking or anything else: just sweet naked blameless unending desire.”
Source: Immaculate Blue