A Quotes
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“Any day you wake up, maybe you die.”
Source: Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.”
Source: The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.”
“Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.”
“Any decent human being, witch or otherwise, has the capacity to do good in this world. It's merely a case of whetever one chooses to do so.”
Source: The Price Guide to the Occult
“Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.”
Source: Ender's Game
“Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.”
“Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.”
“Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.”
“Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.”
“Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.”
“Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.”
“Any decision we make, no matter how wise or foolish, bold or timid, will be paid for in blood and pain and suffering. If we order a road built, inevitably someone will die building it, and once it is finished trade will shift from one town to another, one man will grow rich while another will starve. If we are wise, we do more good than harm, but we can no more avoid causing harm than we can avoid growing old.”
Source: An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
“Any decision which gives pain or causes harm to self or others or all is a wrong decision. Decision which is good for you or others or all or beneficial to you and at the same time, does not harm others is definitely righteous decisions.”
Source: MEET THE REAL YOU: A Recipe To Find Meaning, Purpose...Everlasting Peace, Love, Joy...Success, Growth And Happiness in Life...
“Any decision you take can have good and bad consequences. (No decision is also a decision.) If you’re ready to accept the consequences, it will turn out to be good decision. Because action and its consequences make the whole circle. Acceptance of the whole brings blessings of the whole (The Supreme Power).”
“Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love.”
“Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.”
“Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.”
“Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.”
“Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Any deficit that you have can never stand against the asset that that deficit is waiting to become.”
“Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.”
“Any definition which limits us is deplorable.”
“Any degree of concern with someone else’s sex life is too much, unless they are your dependent, or you are or want to be part of it.”
“Any degree of unemployment worries me.”
“Any degree of waste is too much.”
“Any deliberate effort aimed at bringing a powerful woman down ends up building her up, when she has the Lord by her side.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Any deliberate effort aimed at bringing a powerful woman down ends up building her up, when she has the Lord on by her side.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Any delusions of Free Will he harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage. His curse lay in the fact that he saw the cage. He saw it!”
“Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them.”
“Any Democrat running is trying to get that Barack Obama coalition, which is an increasingly diverse voter base. It's young folks. It's minorities, as well as white women. I don't think we as a party can afford to alienate or not try to speak to the concerns, fears, insecurities, aspirations of white men. We should not give up that ground.”
“Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.”
“Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.”
“Any democratically elected government that listens more to its campaign financiers than its citizens, takes the demands of financial lenders sine qua non and those of its impoverished citizenry non exitus, is a failed government, corrupt and incompetent. It's not a government for the people and by the people, it is a government by the Whores for power!”
“Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.”
“Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.”
“Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.”
“Any desire to grow is following the flow of love”
“Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.”
Source: A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader
“Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.”
“Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.”
“Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.”
“Any dictatorship takes a psychological toll on its subjects. If you are treated as an
untrustworthy person-a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief-you may begin to feel less trust worthy yourself. If you are constantly reminded of your lowly position in the social hierarchy, whether by individual managers or by a plethora of impersonal rules, you begin to accept that unfortunate status. To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological sciences, there is ample
evidence that animals-rats and monkeys, for example-that are forced into a subordinate status within their social systems adapt their brain chemistry accordingly, becoming "depressed" in humanlike ways. Their behavior is anxious and withdrawn; the level of serotonin (the neurotransmitter boosted by some antidepressants) declines in their brains.
And-what is especially relevant here-they avoid fighting even in self-defense.
Humans are, of course, vastly more complicated; even in situations of extreme
subordination, we can pump up our self-esteem with thoughts of our families, our
religion, our hopes for the future. But as much as any other social animal, and more so than many, we depend for our self-image on the humans immediately around us-to the point of altering our perceptions of the world so as to fit in with theirs. My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers - the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being "reamed out" by managers - are part of what keeps wages low. If you're made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you're paid is what you are actually worth.
It is hard to imagine any other function for workplace authoritarianism. Managers may
truly believe that, without their unremitting efforts, all work would quickly grind to a
halt. That is not my impression. While I encountered some cynics and plenty of people who had learned to budget their energy, I never met an actual slacker or, for that matter, a drug addict or thief. On the contrary, I was amazed and sometimes saddened by the pride people took in jobs that rewarded them so meagerly, either in wages or in recognition.
Often, in fact, these people experienced management as an obstacle to getting the job done as it should be done.”
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
“Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.”
“Any dimension or number is a relative category. The number is absolute in its absolute volume, but it has its absolute volume only as a sign. No number is absolute; every number gains meaning in relations and only exists in relationships. Only the infinity is absolute and “contains every number” (potentially), but there is no last number. Infinity, as a manifestation in any of its variations, possibilities, and cycles, cannot be reached because infinity is an absolute potential. It is not possible to reach the last number. If there were the last number, there would be no infinity. Although there can be no infinite regress, there can be infinite “progress.” The idea of the infinite regress is the intellectual construct or attempt to reconstruct the “past conceptually.” In contrast, infinite progress is potential that may actualize up to every actualized point ad infinitum. There is no end to the potential of the Absolute.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.”
“Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.”
“Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.”
“Any disaster is a learning process.”
“Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.”
Source: Clarence Thomas -- Confronting the Future: Selections from the Senate Confirmation Hearings and Prior Speeches