A Quotes
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“Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed.”
“Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed.”
“Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.”
“Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.”
“Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.”
“Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law.”
“Any one can hold the helm when the seas are calm.”
“Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.”
“Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.”
“Any one in love
will have no religion.”
“Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be;
but be the right thing.”
“Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.”
Source: A Sentimental Journey
“Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.”
“Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.”
“Any one of us knows how happy you get when your best friend, or your sister, or your brother sends you a text and just says, "Hey, how are you? I was thinking about you." That's become such a important part of our lives.”
“Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…
“Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.”
“Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.”
“Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.”
“Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”
“Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.”
“Any one who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’ like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time. It’s just a natural feeling. You’re not the person who discovered that feeling, so don’t try to patent it, okay?”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.”
Source: The Portable Plato
“Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.”
“Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with; and, not unfrequently, in spite of a long career of usefulness, turned out to be wholly erroneous in the long run.”
Source: Collected essays
“Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.”
Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms
“Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.”
“Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.”
“Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.”
“Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.”
Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.”
“Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.”
Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
“Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.”
“Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.”
“Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.”
“Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.”
“Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.”
“Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.”
“Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.”
“Any opportunity to serve in the Church is a blessing.”
“Any opportunity to share my experiences and help someone, I jump at the chance to do it. At this point in my life, I'm not nervous to share anything. Someone has to be real and completely transparent, why not me?”
“Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.”
Source: Illuminations
“Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.”
“Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.”
“Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.”
“Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.”
“Any organization is one transition away from losing its faith-driven values and higher purpose to advance the Kingdom of God.”