A Quotes
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“Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation.”
“Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.”
“Any right not exercised will be taken away.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
“Any right not exercised will eventually be taken away.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
“Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.”
“Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren't willing to be changed by the ritual, don't do it.”
“Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.”
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.”
Source: DUNE
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
Source: DUNE
“Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
Source: DUNE
“Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough”
“Any road, smooth and straight leads to everywhere but important.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.”
“Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.”
“Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.”
“Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.”
“Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.”
Source: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
“Any sacrifice that I make will be worth it if we can become our ancestors’ wildest dreams.”
Source: Lore of the Wilds
“Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.”
“Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.”
Source: Conversations with Philip Roth
“Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.”
“Any scene (so long as it's a scene and not life) can be played. Whether well or badly it can be played. And it won't last more than a few minutes.”
Source: Blonde
“Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'”
“Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.”
“Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.”
Source: Dune: House Corrino
“Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.”
“Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action.”
“Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.”
“Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.”
“Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.”
“Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.”
“Any Scrum without working product at the end of a sprint is a failed Scrum.”
“Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.”
Source: I, Lucifer
“Any secured leader is comfortable consulting professionals in their areas of expertise, this demonstrates the strength and not weakness”
“Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.”
“Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you that
you don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.
The same should apply to ballsy remarks.”
Source: Sleeper's Run
“Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .”
Source: Legacy of A Sensei
“Any self respecting Scot knows that a good tartan is the solution to everything: it tells you where you are, where you belong, who your friends and family are. Forget the Vikings: those guys just can"t hold a candle to a delicious battle-weary warrior whose fighting skills and wicked sex appeal have spawned a thousand Scottish heartthrobs.”
Source: The Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance
“Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)”
“Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.”
“Any sense of privilege that we have to possess something seems to vanish once we are actually able to possess it. Therefore, in how many cases would it better ‘not’ to possess something?”
“Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.”
“Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.”
“Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.”
“Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.”
Source: Conversations with Derek Walcott
“Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.”
“Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.”
“Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.”
Source: The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture