A Quotes
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“And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.”
“And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“And this young man, where is he?"
"He had to go to his aunt's house."
"Why? He didn't like the cooking here?”
Source: The Rabbi's Cat
“And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.”
“And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the world will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light. But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.”
“and Thor really likes hair, I guess
so he gets SUPER ANGRY
and he chases down Loki and is like "Hey
how about I cut of all of your FACE?!"
and Loki is like "But I need my face
for making infuriating smirks with!”
“And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child the gift is really self, and they want so much for their selves to be acceptable, to be loved.”
“And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.”
“And those monsters saw not a young man with a sword but a scarred and screaming horror with the rising red doom of the sun at his back and a hellishly shrieking, flashing, living sword in his hands.”
Source: Skallagrim – In The Vales Of Pagarna
“And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.”
“And those traces of my father-the pain he'd left behind in the people he'd stolen from, the genes I carried that made me just like him-terrified me.”
Source: Nearly Found
“And those who are truly strong do not need to demonstrate it every five minutes.”
“And those who flee for Allah's sake after they are oppressed, We shall certainly give them a good abode in the world; and the reward of the Hereafter is much greater...”
“And those who have no one in this world, God is within them, in their tears, in their smiles and in their sad lonely nights.”
“And those who know how to listen with a keen ear will discover a dialogue between sky and earth, a language without words, but dense and immense.”
Source: Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow
“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.”
Source: Breathing Tokens
“And those who walk there, walk together.”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (This is a beautiful thought, most often attributed to Nietzsche, but the original statement and who stated it is lost in history.)”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that, though Jahveh's prohibitions of certain forms of immorality are strict and sweeping, his wrath is quite as strongly kindled against infractions of ritual ordinances. Accidental homicide may go unpunished, and reparation may be made for wilful theft. On the other hand, Nadab and Abihu, who 'offered strange fire before Jahveh, which he had not commanded them,' were swiftly devoured by Jahveh's fire; he who sacrificed anywhere except at the allotted place was to be 'cut off from his people'; so was he who ate blood; and the details of the upholstery of the Tabernacle, of the millinery of the priests' vestments, and of the cabinet work of the ark, can plead direct authority from Jahveh, no less than moral commands.”
Source: The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study
“And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.”
“And those women were sneaky. They understood that including fantastical elements in their tales- golden eggs, signing harps, talking frogs- worked to mask a deeper purpose....it made the stories look on the surface like 'a mere bubble of nonsense' within which it was possible to 'utter harsh truths, to say what you dare' about the state of women's lives. Because they were just stories, right? Harmless little fantasies?”
Source: Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
“And thou art terrible--the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine.”
Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems
“And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey
“And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.”
“And thou shalt in thy daughter see,
This picture, once, resembled thee.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.”
“And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee”
“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“And thou win.”
Source: You By You
“And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
That makes ingrateful man!”
“And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.”
“And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.”
Source: The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem
“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.”
“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.”
Source: Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold
“And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.”
“And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.”
“And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.”
“And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Watson
“And though every feminist in history would throw her hands up in disgust, my
next thought was, who would save me now?”
Source: Superheroes Anonymous
“And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.”
Source: Ballads for Little Folk
“And though I am a committed Christian, I believe everyone has the right to their own religion - be you Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim, I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.”
“And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.”
Source: The farthest shore
“And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.”
Source: Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet. [Reprints of 21 separately issued pieces.] Edited by C. Hindley. L.P.