A Quotes
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“A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.”
“A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.”
“A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield
“A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful.”
“A flawless delusion is more appealing to the human mind than a flawed reality.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“A flawless process isn’t one that never fails, it’s one that knows exactly what to do when it does.”
Source: Standard Operating Excellence: The Complete Guide to Building, Implementing, and Mastering SOPs
“A flea makes an elephant out of a fly.”
“A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.”
“A fleet of restored vintage trolleys ran from the West Village to Downtown. They had adorable names like Rosie, Betty, Petunia, and the Green Dragon. They dinged cheerfully down the green median of a cobblestone path. Griffin took a few shots of Megan and Josh in front of the Green Dragon before we all climbed aboard.
As we looped around the neighborhood, I looked out the window and felt the breeze on my face. The West Village was a great cross section of urban Dallas life. Yuppies, families, and empty nesters commingled on the streets. Most days a breeze blew down the corridor, making it bearable, even enjoyable, to sit outside the cafés year-round. A dog-friendly café with an adjoining dog park was down the block, and a parade of pups dripped down the street, tails wagging, sopping wet from doggie pools. A couple on roller skates did tricks for pedestrians before they skated away, hand in hand. It felt vibrant and magical. Homey.”
Source: Without a Hitch
“A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.”
“A fleeting dream”
I once dreamed of us in some hazy, far-off future.
We owned a small, weathered house by the sea,
a place where light poured in soft and warm,
and everything was touched by gold.
The day was mellow, the kind that promised tranquility and peace.
I covered your eyes with my hands,
guiding you toward the little apartment—
faded wallpaper, creaking floors,
the soft decay of things well-loved.
Old green windows and the faint scent of salt in the air.
The walls carried whispers of a long time passing.
It wasn’t much, but it was enough,
because it was ours.
I pulled my hands away,
and you had seen the sea, endless and shimmering,
and in that moment, you were radiant,
smiling like you’d found something you never knew you needed.
You loved it then, loved it with that quiet look you had— a soft smile that spoke of everything unspoken.
You smiled like you’d tasted a secret that could never be shared, and for that moment, we were wrapped in something delicate and fleeting,
a quiet happiness that felt too fragile to hold for long.
You loved it, loved the way the sun hit the water just right, loved the quiet promise held in the soft hum of the waves.
For that brief, perfect moment, you were happy,
and so was I, lost in the simple beauty of what could have been.”
“A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( "Girl in blue" )”
“A fleeting second on someone's news feed,
No dearth of meanings for those who read,
Not my stories but 'tis what I think,
I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.”
“A fleeting vision, however vivid and permanent its effects may be, is not complete attainment. The search for abiding reality, the quest of final truth cannot end, in emotional satisfaction or fitful experience.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
“A flexible body and a flexible mind will keep you stable and strong.”
Source: The Tantric Curse
“A flexible body without a flexible mind isn't perfect.”
“A flexible body without flexibility of mind isn't perfect.”
“A flexible body without flexible mind isn't perfect.”
“A flicker of hope in one’s heart, is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny…”
Source: High Achiever: The Shocking True Story of One Addict's Double Life
“A flicker of someone else’s memory came to Simon and he picked up Excalibur from where he had dropped it. Carefully, he laid Excalibur on Arthur’s chest. A smile crossed the king’s pasty face as he closed his grazed hands around the sword’s hilt. The touch of something so familiar seemed to give Arthur cause to close his eyes and after a final, relieved breath left his lips, he died.”
Source: The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time
“A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.”
“A flip is just an inversion. So, when you're going to go left at an intersection, but then someone jumps in front, humans have at best about one-twelfth (1/12) of a second to react.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.”
“A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.”
Source: The Works of J. W. Von Goethe
“A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.”
“A floating catfish cake doesn't sink!”
Source: xxxHOLiC, Vol. 11
“A flock of birds came bursting across the treetops in an explosion of life flying headlong into the wind of a gathering storm. And as they passed I thought, “such should be the extent of our passion and such should be the intensity of our flight.”
“A flock of black birds flew by, screeching loudly. Passing through he clouds, they soared into the distant sky. "Do you know what kind of birds those are?" I asked. "They're a type of cuckoo," Honda said. "In Australia, they're called rainbirds. They're thought to sing before stormy weather--it has something to do with their migration patterns." So those were rainbirds.”
Source: Rainbirds
“A flock of blessings light upon thy back”
Source: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English
“A flock of butterflies riots in my stomach and steals my breath.”
Source: The Host
“A flock of fairy wrens could land
on grass stalks in the medieval garden.
Splendidly whistling their fine stories,
fluttering their wings before the Queen.
The golden pear could be their gift,
a very rare find in a world so bleak.
The pear could be placed into the lap
of the very tired and aged Queen.
[Seeing Life Through the Bleak]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.”
Source: Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper
“A Flock of Geese"
She often wondered
about the inexplicable deep sorrow that she feels
every time she sees a flock of geese flying in the sky …
Do the flying geese remind her that she has wasted her life
stuck in the trivialities of daily life?
Or perhaps the flying birds remind her
that she’s lost her ability to fly?
She thinks at times in sadness
how she wasted the years of her life
like a naïve bride dreaming about the ideal groom...
A bride planning the minutest details of her wedding,
not realizing, until her wings were clipped,
that the wedding, the groom, and the bride
are roles and illusions created by society
to counter the dangers of all those who wish to fly;
those who dream about creating new worlds
instead of getting hanged or strangulated
in a world created on their behalf by others …
As she hears the honking of another passing flock of geese
flying over her head as did the most beautiful years of her life
the birds awaken in her that uncontrollable itch to depart
to refuse the illusion of settling and stability
The illusion of the wedding and the groom
The illusion of all the wedding invitees
Who spend an entire night dancing, cheering, and celebrating
the clipping of her wings…
[Original poem published in Arabic on December 14, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako”
“A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.”
Source: The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
“A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.”
Source: Poems of William Wordsworth. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott ... Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel
“A flock of small birds took off from the wall of the fort. They moved like a length of dark silk caught by the breeze as they headed out to sea. Behind them, the sky was the colour of forget-me-nots. The sun blazed.”
Source: On Starlit Seas
“A flock without lambs is doomed. A herd without calves has no future. A people whose children are doomed to ignorance has no future. It is our children who are, by this Act, condemned to a world of darkness and ignorance, who will never fit in anywhere in the world after being shut away from the rest of humanity by Bantu Education. If we all realise that, we cannot, no matter what the odds, stand idly by and let that happen. Where are the mothers in this hall who will say: 'Never! Not to my child!'? Where are the women of this nation who will say: 'Never, not to our children!'? Have we less courage than the mother-hen, that will dare the falcon that swoops down on her young? I do not think so. Let us take a lesson from those mothers in Hitler's concentration camps, who, in a desperate situation, tried to save their children. We will do the same too. We will tell Verwoerd that over our dead bodies will he condemn our children to ignorance. We will tell him: Never, not to our children.”
Source: A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
“A flood of emotions broke across Nika’s expression. “If this doesn’t work, I don’t know what else to do. I fear we’ll lose Namino forever.”
Dashiel gave her the bravest, most confident smile he could conjure. “Then let’s make sure it works.”
“Right. Okay. The Concord fleet is standing by. The Kat fleet is standing by. Our tiny little DAF fleet is standing by. Even a few hundred Taiyok vessels are standing by, gods thank them for their overwrought sense of honor. Perrin and Katherine are standing by to receive a new influx of refugees. Every weapon in our arsenal is standing by.”
She leaned in to rest her forehead on his. “It’s time.”
Source: Inversion
“A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!”
“A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect have been working on a different show from all the others. If all contributors do not share the same vision of the evening, the end product will not evince the harmony of diverse elements-the seeming inevitability of book, score, and staging-of a good musical.”
“A flor, um dia, vira passar uma caravana:
- Os homens? [...] Não se pode nunca saber onde se encontram. O vento os leva. Eles não têm raízes. Eles não gostam das raízes.”
Source: O Pequeno Príncipe: Com ilustrações do autor
“A Florescent Floral Acrostic:
Flowerevelation 777.777
– Goldenrod
– Cosmos
– Red-Hot Poker
– Beardtongue
– Marguerite
– Beebalm
– Speedwell
– Cotoneaster
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=’s God Rules.
– Learn to see His sparkling hidden secrets which are abundantly made manifest in the ordinary.”
“A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.”
“A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf.”
“A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
A nameless piece of Babyhood,
Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb