A Quotes
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“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Any faithful account of police investigations, in even the most spectacular homicide case would be abysmally dull. I should have thought you'd seen enough of the game to realize that. The files are a plethora of drab details, most of them entirely irrelevant. Your crime novelist gets over all that by writing grandly about routine work and then seleting the essentials. Quite rightly. He'd be the world's worst bore if he did otherwise.”
“Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.”
“Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.”
Source: Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001
“Any family could have lived in that room, filling the shelves with bought or borrowed books that eventually overflowed to the short glass coffee table. Porcelain ballerinas and clowns, cartoonish and threatening in their amplified emotions, must have been gifts from doting great-aunts. Three living succulents—I touched them, to check for falsity and perpetual longevity—were equally spaced in front of a thick copy of Elizabeth Bishop’s collected works. My family could not have lived in that room; I could not have lived in that room.”
Source: A Good Happy Girl
“Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.”
“Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation to beget another when parents can secure so little for their children, so little safety, even in the best circumstances. Great faith is required to give the child up, trusting God to honor the parents’ love for him by assuring that there will indeed be angels in that wilderness.”
“Any fear around ‘imperfection’ is a censoring of life now, and when we censor life we simply cannot sense our innate natural joy.”
Source: The Human Experience Is The Dance Of Heaven And Earth: A Call Home To Peace
“Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.”
Source: Fields of Gold
“Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.”
“Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.”
Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence
“Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.”
“Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.”
“Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.”
Source: Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
“Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text, then the light should be as strongly part of that text as, for example, the sound it should be or whatever it is that you see.”
“Any fight that Floyd Mayweather is in is going to be entertaining, regardless. People come to see an icon, a living legend, a superstar.”
“Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.”
“Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.”
Source: The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!”
“Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.”
“Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.”
“Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.”
“Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.”
“Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.”
“Any film is at least better than real life.”
“Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.”
“Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.”
“Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."”
“Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.”
“Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.”
“Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time."”
“Any filmmaker, big directors, and I'm not dropping any names - I actually have couple names I want to say, but I will not - we have a ratio. Each thing you repeat, my ratio is one to four.Actually some people are ratio one to 34. I know couple directors, big directors, they are just shooting over and over.”
“Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.”
“Any final requests? This is going to be quick."
"Yes, actually I'd like you to change your mind."
"Not about to happen.”
Source: Archon
“Any financial system that seeks to eliminate the need for trust will be eliminated by the need for trust.”
“Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.”
“Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.”
“Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.”
“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.”
Source: Moral Realism: A Defence
“Any fitness expert will tell you that a strong core is the start to a strong and healthy body. The same is true with our identities. It's about strengthening our core, which requires digging past all of the surface identities that crowd our nametags and remembering that at the deepest level we are God's masterpiece. The stronger our knowledge of the core of who we are, the better we'll be able to deflect the old names and false identities that try to own us.”
“Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.”
Source: Capital
“Any flood would feel like the end of the world if your neighbors drowned and your community washed away. In Mesopotamia when torrential rains hit alongside spring snowmelt, the Tigris and Euphrates would burst their banks, growing the region under hundreds of miles of lakes. Archaeologists say an ancient Sumerian city called Shurrupak (Iraq's Tell Fara) was laid waste by flood nearly 5,000 years ago. A Babylonian version of GILGAMESH mentions Shurrupak by name. It describes a deluge that wipes out mankind, and a pious king called Ziusudra who overhears from a sympathetic god that the great flood is on its way. Ziusudra builds a huge boat and survives.”
Source: Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
“Any fluid material possesses the highest gravitational response than any physical material for any given balanced or unbalanced mass”
“Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural
in all likelihood is not.”
“Any food products made from flour, especially whole-wheat flour, form gas when broken down in the large intestine. Beware of eating these types of food before bedtime to avoid feeling inflated in the morning.”
“Any food that refuses to digest in your body is unwanted for your health”
“Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.”
“Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.”
“any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
“Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.”