A Quotes
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“And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.”
“And we don’t just see ourselves as “better,” we also see others as “worse.” Psychologists use the term “downward social comparison” to describe our tendency to see others in a negative light so that we can feel superior by contrast.”
Source: Self Compassion / The Compassionate Mind
“And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.”
“And we dress, sir --?" he murmured, feeling Osnard's gaze burning the nape of his neck. "Most of my gentlemen seem to favour left these days. I don't think it's political."
This was his standard joke, calculated to raise a laugh even with the most sedate of his customers. Not with Osnard apparently.
"Never know where the bloody thing is. Bobs about like a windsock," he replied dismissively.”
Source: The Tailor of Panama
“And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”
Source: The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists
“And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.”
Source: The End-of-the-road
“And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.”
“And we forget because we must and not because we will.”
“And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not.”
Source: Cautionary Tales: Voices from the Edges
“And we go on, keep giving birth and watch
ourselves die, over and over.
And the ground spinning beneath us
goes on talking.”
Source: She Had Some Horses
“And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.”
“And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "both" shit. "Both" comes off as sloppy characterization, muddy filmmaking, lack of focus. ... But I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.”
“And we have a new era in boxing!”
“And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.”
“And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
“And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.”
“And we have got to go back - I will tell you what we have got to do. We have got to go back to the small disciplines that really make a difference in defining ourselves as a profession. And we will.”
“And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.”
“And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.”
“And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.”
“And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.”
“And we have the tools. We have the tools to choose. They are free, and within you now! It is the tool of conscious thought. Imagine your life and how it could be better if you used the power of conscious thought effectively?”
Source: Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
“And we hope that when they hear it, you know, it'll make people get out of their cars and just go live life to the fullest!”
“And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.”
“And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical. It was a dialogue between two young people with high ideals and a Big Plan. It was about belonging, secrets, partnership, commitment.”
Source: Shades of Grey
“And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.”
“And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.”
“and we laugh and laugh and
all I know is
at this moment I feel like
I can do anything I want
and be anyone I want
and go anywhere on the globe
and still call it home”
Source: The Geography of Girlhood
“And we laughed, and charted each other's bodies down to our cores, maps of places that were familiar and yet new, and the night was good, and my heart was full and I was happy, so happy, to fall in love on a night like this, where I felt like I had finally caught the moon, and more.”
Source: The Seven Year Slip
“And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls”
“And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.”
Source: Hope Was Here
“And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.”
“And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.”
“And we'll act like some people mean nothing to us, but we don't live very long. When you get older, you'll see: a week with someone is enough to cry about for a lifetime.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“And we'll punish the people who don't conform. Not bodily of course. This is a civilized country.”
Source: Requiem
“And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.”
“And we love you but I have to ask you to help me, to help us, please.”
“How?” I asked, “By pretending nothing ever happened? Act as if she and I were strangers? Stand the way your sister acts towards me after all of what we had? Forget my story by her side? Are you asking me for that, Gabriel, for God’s sake?”
“It sounds pretty bad when you put it like that…” Gabriel said, “but yes, pretty much.”
Source: Cielo Por Tu Luz
“And we loved ourselves anyway.”
Source: Heartstopper: Volume Three
“And we may be led, then, upward through more
Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”
Source: Selected poems
“And we may know the answer deep inside,
But we may not want to know it”
“And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.”
Source: Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)
“And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.”
“And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us.”
Source: The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells (Fiction, war, Military) [Annotated]
“And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.”
Source: The Republic
“And we must fight back! President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.”
Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus
“And we must pray for a generation who will inherit a grief that they do not own.”
“And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.”
Source: In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)
“And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.”