A Quotes
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“Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.”
“Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.”
“Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.”
“Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.”
“Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.”
Source: Thieftaker
“Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.”
“Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.”
“Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.”
“Any noun can be verbed.”
“Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.”
Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“Any number of animals can shed tears. But only humans smile.”
Source: xxxHOLiC: AnotherHOLiC
“Any number of celebrities are dogged by "gay rumors" because we cannot quite place them into a given category. We act like placing these people in categories will have some impact on our lives, or that creating these categories is our responsibility, when, most of the time, such taxonomy won’t change anything at all.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.”
Source: Character
“Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.”
“Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.”
Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard
“Any Number that is not dividable exactly through 13, will create endless Blocks of a repeating Pattern of Numbers.”
“Any Number that is not divisible exactly through 13, will create endless Blocks of a repeating Pattern of Numbers.”
“Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology; And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!”
“Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.”
“Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.”
Source: Ulysses
“Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.”
“Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.”
“Any obsession is dangerous.”
“Any obstacle is an opportunity to gain strength and think differently.”
“Any obstacles you encounter in life are signs to keep going.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts
“Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.”
“Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.”
“Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.”
Source: A World Without Heroes
“Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.”
“Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do.”
Source: Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free
“Any of them could have a disaster before the school year is over. You could have a disaster an hour from now. Bending over. Something could hit you. People carry guns in glove compartments and lunch boxes. Cars spin out of control in minor drizzle. The more you know, really, the more you have to worry and fret about. It's a miracle anyone can sleep at all.”
Source: There Is No Long Distance Now
“Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.”
“Any of these moments, you can turn it all around.”
“Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.”
“Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.”
“Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.”
“Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.”
“Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'”
“Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude. I think that's how you pass those tests.”
“Any of us is on this planet at this exact moment to serve a specific purpose.”
Source: HAPPY LIVING: A guide to understand yourself and your behaviours
“Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.”
Source: The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World
“Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then to ignore the violence and create a gentler world in our fiction, or to heighten the violence through the use of point-of-view in order to explore it and gain some insight and understanding. Since I'm living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it's kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it.”
“Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.”
“Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.”
Source: Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving
“Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.”
Source: Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“Any of you who have members of your family in the lifestyle, we have a member of our family that is [lesbian]. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay.”
“Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.”