A Quotes
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“Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!”
“Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.”
“Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”
“Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.”
“Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.”
“Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.”
“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”
“Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.”
“anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.”
“Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.”
Source: Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
“Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.”
“Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.”
“Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.”
“Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.”
“Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it.”
“Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.”
“anything can be a drug if you love it.”
Source: Madness
“Anything can be a microphone.”
Source: Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging
“Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.”
“Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
“Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.”
“Anything can be achieved with a strong enough why!”
“Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.”
Source: Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967
“Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.”
“Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.”
“Anything can be brought into existence with a powerful mind and a willing signature”
“Anything can be dark if you wish it to be. Hemlock is a beautiful flower until you use it to take a life.”
Source: The Price of Magic: A Cursed Magic Novel
“Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.”
“Anything can be done, as long as you truly believe it.”
“Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could've been good. There's an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you can't, it doesn't matter how skilful you are.”
“Anything can be lost if you try hard enough.”
Source: Everything Under
“Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.”
“Anything can be painted without representation.”
Source: Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973
“Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.”
Source: And Another Thing...
“Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.”
Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?
“Anything can be worked out, between anyone, at anytime, when you want the outcome bad enough.”
“Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.”
“Anything can become a spiritual practice once you are willing to approach it that way—once you let it bring you to your knees and show you what is real, including who you really are, who other people are, and how near God can be when you have lost your way.”
Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“Anything can become music if listened to long enough”
“Anything can break at any time.”
“Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.”
“Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.”
“Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it.”
“Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.”
“Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.”
“Anything can happen and it probably will.”
“Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.”
“Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. There's more to life than being alive.”
Source: Everything, Everything
“Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.”
Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle