A Quotes
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“Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.”
“Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.”
“Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.”
“Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters of the conditions and situations in our lives.”
“Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.”
“Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.”
Source: SHOW BOAT SO BIG CIMARRON
“Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.”
“Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.”
Source: Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical
“Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!”
“Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.”
Source: With No Apologies
“Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!”
“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.”
“Any place I hang my head is home.”
“Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.”
“Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.”
“Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.”
“Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions.”
“Any place that we love becomes our world.”
“Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu.”
“Any place where my heart believes I have more love, compassion or mercy than God, I have elevated myself above Him and am believing a lie. And any place where I have placed limits on His love and power, I have humanized Him and reduced Him to what my mind can comprehend.”
Source: Who Do You Say I Am?: Overcoming the Spirit of Identity Theft
“Any place where soul images share hearts and minds becomes a shrine dedicated to those feelings.”
Source: Just Love Her
“Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.”
“Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.”
“Any place with year-round Christmas lights is a place I want to be. I usually see them in dive bars, strung along cheap sheet paneling where they cast their twinkly glow on the tap handle of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, where Pabst is drank for what it is instead of ironically, like in some other bars.”
Source: Gone to Dust
“Any place you love is the world to you.”
Source: Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
“Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.”
“Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.”
“Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.”
“Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.”
“Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.”
“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
Source: Pebble in the Sky
“Any planet that confuses guns with gallantry is a planet of apes.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.”
“Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.”
“Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family in order to. To create, in other words, to put a group of people together who love to share together what they're doing, rather than be individuals as such.”
“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.”
“Any play, I'm ready for all the plays, ... That's the whole thing. . . . Any time I can get out and show I can do this, do those type of things, I'm going to do it. It was just fun, being able to run and get down the field. Just run, do what I do.”
“Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing.”
“Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.”
“Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.”
“Any pleasure I took in life I now renounce; it’s death I want.”
“Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse.”
“Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.”
“Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.”
“Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.”
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“Any policy that reduces the incomes of the very rich will have a positive ecological benefit. And because the excess incomes of the rich win them nothing when it comes to welfare, this can be accomplished without any cost to social outcomes.”
Source: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.”