A Quotes
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“Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.”
“Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.”
“Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.”
“Anime is not the end. Don't stop believing.”
“Animikiins used all his skills. But the earth is good at swallowing up all traces of people. At last, in spite Animikiins's great powers, they lost his trail.”
Source: Chickadee
“Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.”
Source: Primitive Culture
“Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.”
Source: The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
“Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.”
Source: Animism
“Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of this statement is not the issue. To say that the world is a sacred place is to make a statement about values, not facts. It’s a statement about what you mean by ‘sacred,’ just as ‘Money can’t buy happiness’ is a statement about what you mean by ‘happiness.’ To put it all very simply, animism isn’t a belief system, it’s a value system.”
“Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.”
Source: Animism: Respecting the Living World
“Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.”
Source: Chronicles of wasted time
“Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.”
“Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always loved in relationship with others. Animism is lived out in various ways that are all about learning to act respectfully (carefully and constructively) toward and among other persons.”
“Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.”
“Animosity breeds chaos.”
“Animosity built higher in me, brick by brick. Here it was again, that old ugly impulse. The first and maybe most powerful thing I’d ever felt about Wist.
You aren’t allowed to do that.
If anyone hurts her, it’s going to be me.”
Source: Clematis and the Queen of the Void
“Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)”
Source: The Dhammapada
“Animosity hung between them like a two-edged sword; neither of them could use it without first getting hurt herself.”
Source: Beast In View
“Animosity in fact loves, but in a different sense. Meaning it loves in the same way that, as it is often said, misery loves company. And just as love seeks unity, so does hatred crave uniformity.”
“Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.”
“Animula vagula blandula, each one of us, little wandering souls seeking a share of happiness and always disappointed, as we go from dawn to dawn, our hearts torn, brave and pathetic, desperately trying to behave with the dignity required by our human condition.”
Source: Orlanda
“Aniołowie przekazują nowiny, ostrzegają nas i prawdopodobnie przeprowadzają wewnętrzne dialogi z naszym sumieniem, podszeptując nam, byśmy wybrali dobro zamiast zła, i umacniają nas, byśmy nie ulegali pokusie.”
Source: Spotkanie z Aniołem; prawdziwe historie
“Aniołowie przybliżają nam Boga. Nic dziwnego, że ich tak bardzo kochamy.”
Source: Spotkanie z Aniołem; prawdziwe historie
“Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.”
Source: Raventide
“Anishanaabeg women hunted, trapped, fished, held leadership positions, and engaged in warfare as well as engaged in domestic affairs and looked after children. They were encouraged to show a broad range of emotions, and express their gender and sexuality in a way that was true to their own being, as a matter of both principle and survival. Anishinaabeg men hunted, trapped, fished, held leadership positions, engaged in warfare, and also knew how to cook, sew, and look after children. They were encouraged to show a broad range of emotions, and express their gender and sexuality in a way that was true to their own being, as a matter of both principle and survival. This is true for other genders as well. The degree to which individuals engaged in each of these activities depended on their name, clan, extended family, skill, interest, and most important, individual self-determination or agency. Agency was valued, honored, and respected, because it produced a diversity of highly self-sufficient individuals, families, and communities. This diversity of highly self-sufficient and self-determining people ensured survival and resilience that enabled the community to withstand difficult circumstances.
Not Murdered and Not Missing: Rebelling against Colonial Gender Violence. March 15, 2014. Nations Rising. Thanks to Miigwech/Nia:wen/Mahsi Cho, Tara Williamson, Melody McKiver, Jessica Danforth, Glen Coulthard, and Jarrett Martineau.”
“ANIT
¿I m'ho ha de dir la matinada,
esmelegant-se, insomnes?
¿I l'esglai que t'ha pres, i a l'anar a caure—
i quina v'ritat deia, que l'esgarres?
¿I els ràpids ensurts de la pols
ara,
la fulla inesperada de l'insecte,
les mans i els coves acabats de collir,
la mala herba que et creix, tendre
verd rabiant, fum viva,
esta aigua, dolcesa, verí, que encens i vesses
quina mà me l'aboca, quin vent
pluig?
Que és verda l'aigua,
la vestidora!
Té, tremolós gris àlic,
les cordes dels sols en terra caigudes,
vent plata d'oliveres, plata
de verd
núvol.”
Source: Córrer la taronja, 1979-2001
“Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play." "And pigs fly," I said. "You don't believe me?" "Not hardly," I said.”
Source: The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, 'That's interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it's water weight. Maybe it's my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.' I know it's not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat-and definitely without missing a meal.”
“Anita Kleinman was a slight woman in her seventies. Her hair was thinning and white with a touch of pink, and was swept back from her face in unbroken waves. She wore a full-length Chinese silk gown covered with bright gold dragons on a blue background. Her fingers were tipped with long red nails and heavy with gold rings. She held out her arms in an expression of welcome and perhaps to show me the full extent of her dragons.”
Source: Teller
“Anita knew there were people who didn't like to be alone. She also knew light was a wave. It didn't mean she understood it.”
Source: The Peculiar Gift of July
“Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.”
“Anita would never say no to anybody’s dreams.”
“Anitra! Evas naturlige datter!
Magnetiskt jeg drages; ti jeg er mann
og, som det står hos en aktet forfatter
das ewige weibliche zieht uns an!”
Source: Peer Gynt
“Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja.”
Source: Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
“Ankh-Morpork is a godless city--'
'I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?' said Maladict.
Strappi stared at him in rage that was incoherent until he managed to touch bottom again. 'Ankh-Morpork is a godawful city', he recovered.”
Source: Monstrous Regiment
“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.”
“Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!”
Source: Gulliver’s Travels
“Anlamak kabul etmenin ilk adımıdır ve iyileşme ancak kabulle gelir.”
“Anlamaktan sonra gelen bir hal vardı: Kavramak. Anladığının bütün ağırlığını beyninde duymak, ellerinde, kollarında, damarlarında duymak.”
Source: A Long Day's Evening
“Anlamlı bir bakış yalnızca anlamlı bir zihinden çıkar!”
“Anlar uçar; eğer anlarla beraber uçmazsan anlar uçarken sen yerde anların dışında kalırsın!”
“Anları birleştiren ya da müzemizde olduğu gibi, anları içlerinde taşıyan eşyaları birleştiren çizgiyi gözümüzün önüne getirmeye çalışmak, hem çizginin kaçınılmaz sonucunu, ölümü hatırlattığı için hem de çizginin kendisinin -çoğu zaman hissettiğimiz gibi- pek bir anlamı olmadığını yaşımız ilerledikçe acıyla kavradığımız için üzer bizi.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“Anlatmak istediğim şudur ki, eğer bizler, İslam şeriatının özünün ne olduğunu kaynaklarıyla bilebilmiş olsak, şeriatçıyı kendi silahlarıyla susturup, insanlarımızı akıl çağma kavuşturmakta güçlük çekmeyeceğiz. İşte elinizdeki kitap bu maksatla, yani şeriatçının yalanlarını yüzüne vurmak ve insanlarımızı bu yalanlardan kurtarıp yaşantılarını akılcı düşünce yoluyla düzenlemeye alıştırmak amacıyla kaleme alınmıştır.
Her vesile ve fırsatta dile getirmeye çalıştığım inancım şudur ki, İslam şeriatını ve onu uygulamaya çalışan şeriatçıyı, Türkiye için giderek büyüyen bir tehlike olmaktan çıkarmanın başlıca yolu, ister Kur'an olarak ve ister Kur'an olmayarak (örneğin hadis şeklinde) konmuş olan din verilerini akılcı eleştiriden geçirip sergilemektir. Bu yapılacak olursa, aklı başında hiçbir insanın "şeriat" yanlısı olmasına imkân kalmayacak ve şeriatçıyla savaşım, olumlu sonuç sağlayacaktır.”
Source: Şeriatçıyla Mücadelenin El Kitabı
“Anlatıyı kontrol eden, insanları kontrol eder.”
“Anlıyor musun? Böyledir bu dünya, yaşam cömertlik ister: İnsanın kendi içindeki karekteri yetiştirmesi, ama bunu yaparken de çevredeki hiçbir şeyi algılamaması, hâlâ soluk alsa da ölü olmaya benzer.”
Source: Follow Your Heart
“Anlıyorsun! Anlıyorsun ya, seni bu yiyecek! Anlamasaydın mutlu olurdun!”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“Anlıyorsun değil mi, ateşli mektuplarım, ateşli çağrılarım, ateşli tutkularım, yanmış ellerimle kağıda döktüğüm bütün bir yangın -en çok korktuğum şey, bütün bunların bir parça yanmış kağıda dönüşebilme olasılığı. Dünyadaki tüm kağıtlar sonunda ya kömürleşmiştir ya da suda yumuşamıştır, çünkü ateşin üstüne hep suları püskürtür.
Malina: Eskiler, aptal biri için, onun kalbi yoktur, derlerdi. Aklın ve zekanın bulunduğu yer diye kalbi göstermişlerdi.
Kalbini her şeye açmak, tüm söylevlerini ve mektuplarını ateşe boğmak zorunda değilsin.
Ama ne kadar çok insanın yalnızca kafası var ve kafasından çok hiçbir şeyi yok, bir bilsen! Ve onların kalpleri yok.”
Source: Malina
“Anmut ist die Schönheit der Gestalt unter dem Einfluss der Freiheit.”