A Quotes
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“A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.”
Source: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality
“A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?”
“A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.”
Source: Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
“A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”
“A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“A German joke is no laughing matter.”
“A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.”
Source: Beyond Numeracy
“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”
“A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
“A German poet once said, "A Neapolitan (people who come from the area around Naples, Italy) would certainly be a different creature if he didn't feel himself wedged between God and the Devil.”
“A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men only listen half the time.”
“A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.”
“A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script.”
“A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.”
“A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.”
“A German was looking through a blown-out window framed by red brick and seemed to be waving something. A block-headed Russian pulled up and shot him through the forehead. The blood ran down over his eye socket and dripped off his high cheekbone and seeped into the pulverized masonry fragments.
~ The Jackass in The Road”
Source: Land of the Story Tellers: 24 Stories and 7 Poems
“A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.”
“A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.”
“A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.”
“A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.”
“A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations”
“A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.”
Source: Magic Burns
“A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.”
“A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.”
Source: Summer Breeze
“A ghost has all the time to reach for love, but never can. As a person has little time to reach for love, and never does.”
“A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“A ghost is only scary till you see it. Then it just becomes an image.”
“A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.”
“A ghost may only tread once more where, Living, he has trod before.”
Source: Magyk
“A ghost of a tender smile tugged at his lips. “Then let me set your mind at ease. You were never a conquest, Isydoris. I have always appreciated the fact you were not a possession, but a person with thoughts and feelings.” He cupped her face and brushed his lips against hers. “When you fear, I try to ease your mind. When you cry, I offer you comfort. When you speak, I listen to your opinion. Are those not signs of genuine affection?”
Source: The Queen of Aessarion
“A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!”
Source: Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
“A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider audience.”
Source: The Ghost
“A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!”
“A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn't. I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, 'Well, you know what? He's never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex, so I have no problem.”
“A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season.”
“A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around." "Funny, I feel that way about you too." He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.”
Source: Nora Roberts' Three Sisters Island Trilogy
“A ghràidh means "my love." Something ye have been since the first time ye blackened my eye.”
Source: Kilts and Daggers
“A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze!”
“A giant black beast came rushing up to her, the sound of hoofbeats thundering in her ears. She cowered, waiting to be trampled, but instead strong arms reached down and seized her, sweeping her up.
"I have you now, my Séraphine," growled the Duke of Montgomery in her ear. "Did you really think I wouldn't come for you?”
Source: Duke of Sin
“A GIANT heart
Needs a GIANT life!
GIANT arms
Can hold a world!
Let me lead a GIANT'S life!
No little steps, no holding back!
A GIANT'S way, a GIANT'S track!
Let my mistakes
Be GIANT ones!
For I can't live in little worlds!
I need the space to run my fill
I need to jump from hill to hill
And if you take my woods from me
I'll wander out into the sea
And try to find another world
So I can live a GIANT'S life!”
Source: Twice Magic
“A giant motherboard of geese,
unruffled by the state
police, swarmed in unison,
in harmony...”
“A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long, undulating legs, and it's heading somewhere, moving through the darkness of the ocean… It takes on all kinds of different shapes—sometimes it's 'the nation,' and sometimes it's 'the law,' and sometimes it takes on shapes that are more difficult and dangerous than that. You can try cutting off its legs, but they just keep growing back. Nobody can kill it. It's too strong, and it lives too far down in the ocean. Nobody knows where its heart is. What I felt then was a deep terror. And a kind of hopelessness, a feeling that I could never run away from this thing, no matter how far I went. And this creature, this thing doesn't give a damn that I'm me or you're you. In its presence, all human beings lose their names and their faces. We all turn into signs, into numbers.”
Source: After Dark
“A giant order was discovered here
Of which the tassel and extended fringe
Are the scant stuff of our material lives.
This overt universe whose figures hide
The secrets merged in superconscient light,
Wrote clear the letters of its glowing code:
A map of subtle signs surpassing thought
Was hung upon a wall of inmost mind.
Illumining the world’s concrete images
Into significant symbols by its gloss,
It offered to the intuitive exegete
Its reflex of the eternal Mystery.
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Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.”
“A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
“A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.”
Source: Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
“A gift.
A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.”
Source: Tower of Dawn