A Quotes
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“A gallant man is above ill words.”
Source: The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer
“A Gallic-nosed fellow, slight with silver-shot dark curls and dark eyes, brushed rudely past them just as Jack returned from the top of the plank. He reeked of vertiver and musk; Jack’s nose wrinkled as he passed, and he half-smiled at himself to realize how accustomed he’d become to the Puritan cleanliness of American colonials, and their aversion to heavy perfumes.”
Source: New Amsterdam
“A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!”
“A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.”
Source: The Drowned Cities
“A game began so long ago that we forgot it was a game at all. We can only see the game and its rules. We can’t see the room where we are playing, nor can we stop playing. Everyone is born into it. We spend the first few years learning the rules, and we know that to win the game, we must become an amorphous, perfect person. If we just follow the right steps, read the right things, and behave in the right ways, we’re certain to become this person. We’ve built pipelines and institutions to encourage this, complete with pre- made goals, graded feedback, moral guidance, an armory of cosmetic solutions, and anything else you can imagine. We are all-in, dead-set on this belief that we can and will become the perfect person. Even though no one has done this before. Ever. It has never happened.”
Source: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“A Game Changer doesn’t search for excuses nor that which removes them from a solution.”
Source: What's Going On? How Can We Help?: The consequences of capitalism and actionable steps towards a healthy and sustainable future
“A game is a construct to secure unrestricted freedom within a highly restricted setup.”
“A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude”
Source: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition
“A game is a series of interesting choices.”
“A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.”
Source: Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
“A game is always won through a mistake.”
“A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.”
Source: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
“A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.”
“A game is not won until it is lost.”
“A game is the complete exploration of freedom within a restrictive environment”
“A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.”
“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.”
Source: The Witch of Little Italy
“A game like that is typical for Tipper. She looks for ways to squeeze any last drop of pleasure from a situation, to create joy and surprise whenever she can.”
Source: Family of Liars
“A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.”
Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
“A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.”
“A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.”
“A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.”
“A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.”
“A game of rugby is a work of art!”
“A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.”
Source: More Stately Mansions
“A game of shuttlecock: And I thought how there had not been an evening as sweet as this one at Bidnold for many a long time, and how it was as if all my Melancholy had been swept from my heart and sent by the Shuttlecock into some faraway void.”
Source: Merivel: A Man of His Time
“A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.”
“A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.”
“A game teaches you patience, discipline and team work.”
“A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.”
“A game. That’s all life is, that’s all it feels like. Everyone waiting for their turn to spin the bottle or for the bottle to finally choose them. Who would you rather is real. We can be erased, that’s real too.”
Source: Love and Other Theories
“A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.”
“A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.”
“A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.”
Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions
“a gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. "I would sometimes join them, and listen for a great part of the night to some of the finest fairy tales and most romantic legends it has ever been my fortune to hear.”
Source: Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor
“A ganância é que move o mundo. Sem essa ganância que tanto te aflige, o homem não seria mais do que estes pobres pássaros. (...) A ganância arrancou o homem da selva e há de levar-nos às estrelas.”
Source: A Rainha Ginga e de Como os Africanos Inventaram o Mundo
“A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity!”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“A gap in the fire that was consuming every other book on the shelf.
I don't want to die.
She had to try harder. She had to want the life she always thought she didn't. Because just as this library was a part of her, so too were all the other lives. She might not have felt everything she had felt in those lives, but she had the capability. She might have missed those particular opportunities that led her to become an Olympic swimmer, or a traveller, or a vineyard owner, or a rock star, or a planet-saving glaciologist, or a Cambridge graduate, or a mother, or the million other things, but she was still in some way all those people. They were all her. She could have been all those amazing things, and that wasn't depressing, as she had once thought. Not at all. It was inspiring. Because now she saw the kinds of things she could do when she put herself to work. And that, actually, the life she had been living had its own logic to it. Her brother was alive. Izzy was alive. And she had helped a young boy stay out of trouble. What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind. She didn't need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.”
“A garden always has a point.”
“A Garden Epitaph by Stewart Stafford
From a verdant birth,
Two roses entwined together,
A union withered from the earth,
Root quest in envenomed weather.
Green fingers pruned with ill will,
Each barb taken to wounded hearts,
Cut natures freed of earthly swill,
Two crimson blooms, beyond scars.
Master gardener, just hear me,
If you see devotion, leave it be,
In silent witness, wonders see,
Lest you hasten obsequies.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.”
Source: The fragrant path
“A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.”
Source: A Woman Talking
“A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“A garden has to be disciplined so that the plans and flowers do not strangle each other, but the beauty of the garden is not in the discipline so much as the things whose growth it has made possible.”
“A garden heals the saddened heart
Its fruit brings light out of the dark
A passing bee, in zigging zee’s
Wakes up your eyes so you can see
Away from those who brought you hurt
Your soiled feet find love in dirt
So from your crown, down to your toes
Your heart heals as your garden grows.”
“A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.”
“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.”
“A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.”
“A garden is a friend you can visit any time.”