A Quotes
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“Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.”
Source: Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)
“Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.”
Source: Mortal Questions
“Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.”
Source: The Public Letters of John Bright
“Any reform of that fundamental nature, potentially constitutional, it has to go to the people. It has to be a be a referendum, and that's why it was a plebiscite in all of the provinces in which it's been attempted.”
“Any refuge other than God is probably something that I should seek refuge from rather than seek refuge in.”
“Any refuge that I create is something akin to a cardboard box in the rain. The harder the rain, the more boxes I go through.”
“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity”
“Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!”
“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.”
“Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.”
Source: Architecture and Disjunction
“Any relationship beyond acquaintanceship is composed of one to three qualities: passion, intimacy, and commitment. Simple friendship has one: intimacy. You can have other friends and you do not feel passionately about one another, or we are dealing with another animal. Most romantic relationships begin with a dollop of passion, often to the exclusion of anything else. The person in your arms is the best in the world, though you barely know him or her. You have never felt this way. Any gaps or deficits are temporarily puttied over by passion. When most people envision romantic love, this is where they stop. Romantic comedies but only rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because they must be up early for work. No one wants to see the mundane when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-stunted frottage. The passion of infatuation triggers the release of addictive chemicals. We would rather get another hit than cope with the relative dullness of intimacy and commitment.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“Any relationship founded on lies is destined to fail. It’s a good thing we don’t have that problem.”
“Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.”
“Any relationship is not a game to play, on all the grounds, you are the loser, even you win that.”
“Any relationship, no matter how fulfilling and restorative it may be, can always be enlivened and enriched. Regardless of how elated or deflated you feel about your work, what can you do to breathe new life into it—to make it more rewarding than it has ever been? Do you need to leave your current work and answer another calling? What is your spiritual employment, dear reader, carrier of so many gifts?”
Source: Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive
“Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.”
Source: See You at the Top
“Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.”
“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them.”
Source: Artificial Gods
“Any relationship that we get into should grow us. Growth should be the grounding of all relationship. We're in a relationship with everything around us, that's the first level of interaction; and then from there, we learn how to be in partnership with someone else. Partnership is a higher level of relationship with another.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.”
“Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.”
“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Any religion-based state has a mission to limit the minds of its people, to fight the developments of history and logic, and to dumb down its citizens. It’s important to stand in the way of such a mentality, to deny it from continuing its mission to murder the souls of its people, killing them deep within while they are still alive and breathing.”
Source: 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
“Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or cleaned from time to time, it loses its usefulness and cannot relate anymore to changed times and people.”
Source: The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion
“Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.”
Source: Conversations with Wendell Berry
“Any religion is a perspective upon existence.”
Source: Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library
“Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.”
Source: Selected essays
“Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.”
Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer
“Any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.”
“Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.”
Source: Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
“Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!”
“Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.”
“Any religion whose messiah’s name isn’t recognized by Microsoft Word can’t be that much of a threat.”
“Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.”
“Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.”
Source: Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together
“Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken”
“Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.”
“Any representation of God produces accordingly.”
Source: The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
“Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.”
“Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.”
“Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.”
“Any responsive, intelligent cat can be trained.”
“Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.”
Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford 'form without power,' for it creates Christians without purpose.”
Source: When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.”
Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation
“Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.”