A Quotes
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“Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.”
Source: Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
“Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.”
Source: Where Love is: A Novel
“Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
Source: Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week
“Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.”
“Any humane, modern society must provide a reliable, well-financed, state-of-the-art health system, which supports and promotes a prosperous and morally responsible society.”
Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are
“Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.”
“Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized”
“Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.”
Source: Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
“Any idea can become a success as long as you carefully think about it, work around it, work on it, and wait on it.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Any idea is actually an unstable, shifting intersection between myself and whatever I was encountering. By extension, thought doesn't occur somehow inside of me, but between what I perceive as me and not-me.”
Source: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“Any idea is as good as it's owner; don't waste your precious time seeking for good ideas but being good at the idea you already have!”
“Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.”
“Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.”
“Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation. And in the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of such man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date. But in order to bring out all its effectiveness into the human society, it must be sweetened first with the touch of philosophy. Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.”
Source: The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
“Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.”
“Any idea that takes away sweet sleeps from you will eventually bring to you sweet life. Be diligent and willing to stay awake until your good is better and your better becomes excellent!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.”
“Any idea what the pattern is?” Dex asked
“I’m not sure.” Something felt familiar, a shadow of an idea, not formed enough to make sense. She poured through her memories, scrounging for the clue she was missing. The pieces clicked. “Elementine.”
“What’s the pattern?”
“I don’t know, but I know Elementine is right.”
“Any idea's a great idea as long as it tastes great.”
“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.”
“Any idealism is a proper subject for art.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.”
“Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.””
“Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought”
“Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.”
“Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.”
“Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.”
“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.”
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
“Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.”
“Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.”
“Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.”
“Any idiot can kill his enemy with a gun; the hardest is to kill your enemy with love! Love kills her enemy by making the enemy her friend!”
“Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.”
“Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!”
“Any idiot can put up a website.”
Source: The Mercy Thompson Collection
“Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?”
“Any idiot can stand in front of a target. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying him. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.”
Source: Divergent
“Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice" "Then it should be easy for you," Eric sys. "If you're willing ot take his place.”
“Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.”
“Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies; the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!”
“Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.”
“Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.”
“Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.”
“Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.”
“Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.”