A Quotes
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“Anything easy ain't worth a damn!”
“Anything easy teaches you nothing! To learn something, have some difficulties!”
“Anything eaten just before a bout of stomach bug may be hated for life.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Anything else?” asked Matthias.
“I like singing,” said Alys.
Wylan shook his head frantically, mouthing, No, no, no.
“Shall I sing?” Alys asked hopefully. “Bajan says that I’m good enough to be on the stage.”
“Maybe we save that for later—” suggested Jesper.
Alys’ lower lip began to wobble like a plate about to break.
“Sing,” Matthias blurted, “by all means, sing.”
And then the real nightmare began.
It wasn’t that Alys was so bad, she just never stopped. She sang between bites of food. She sang while she was walking through the graves. She sang from behind a bush when she needed to relieve herself. When she finally dozed off, she hummed in her sleep.
“Maybe this was Van Eck’s plan all along,” Kaz said glumly when they’d assembled outside the tomb again.
“To drive us mad?” said Nina. “It’s working.”
Jesper shut his eyes and groaned. “Diabolical.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“Anything else you want to discuss before we begin?”
“Who cuts your hair? You should run them through with their own thinning shears. You have a wonderful face, and so much wasted potential for—” He stepped forward and grabbed my ear. “Ow!”
Source: The Subs Club
“Anything else you want to tell me?” I asked Valek as we stopped a few feet short of the castle’s south entrance. “Did Ari and Janco set me up for Nix’s attack? Do you have another test of loyalty for me up your sleeve? Maybe the next time, I’ll actually fail. A prospect that seems appealing!” I pushed away Valek’s supporting arm. “When you warned me that you would test me from time to time, I thought you meant spiking my food. But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person’s heart, and it doesn’t even require a meal.”
Source: Poison Study
“Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.”
“Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“Anything ending in "ism" should be cause for questioning or deep consideration depending on it's context. -Julieanne-ism”
“Anything ever written needs a disclaimer.”
Source: Winter Lyric
“Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.”
“Anything feasible and potentially effective should be explored.”
“Anything for Byron’s least favorite apprentice. It’s the least I can do since you took over my torch.”
Source: Apprentice
“Anything for gold and experience.”
“Anything for Human Rights is constitutional.”
“Anything for our Moony.”
“Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”
“Anything for you, as long as we are one.”
Source: Strings of Fate
“Anything for you, Dru. And I mean it. Now, be quiet and let me concentrate.”
Source: Reckoning
“Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.”
“Anything free is worth what you pay for it.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.”
“Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result”
“Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing something wrong with the satellite that a country was depending on for its communications, to making some mistake that could actually cost you and the crew either a mission or your lives. So there is a lot of pressure that's put on every astronaut to just make sure that he or she understands exactly what to do, exactly when to do it, and is trained and prepared to carry it out.”
“Anything gained through ignorance is destined to be lost in the same way.”
Source: Dark Rooms
“Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!”
“Anything God has ever done, he can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you.”
“Anything goes and nothing matters.”
“Anything goes on any given Sunday, especially Monday Night.”
“Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.”
“Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!”
“Anything good in the briefcase?” he asked.
I smiled back at him. “Everything’s good in the briefcase, Walter.”
Source: Full Moon Saturday Night
“Anything good on the trucks?"
"Some beautiful lake salmon, fresh asparagus, and new potatoes."
"New enough their skin is peeling?"
"Yes."
"I know what we're going to do today!" Lou felt the excitement surge. This was why she loved cooking: getting amazing fresh ingredients and making something extraordinary. Luella's traditional French menu didn't leave much room for creativity, so the daily special had become Lou's canvas, where she was limited only by her imagination and whims.
"We'll keep it a simple spring dinner. Roast the potatoes in butter, salt, and pepper. Maybe some thyme or tarragon, too. We'll top the salmon fillets with hollandaise and roast the asparagus.”
Source: The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
“Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.”
Source: Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
“Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.”
“Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.”
“Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours?”
“Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.”
“Anything happening,” she whispered.
“Aside from you blundering about like a lost elephant?” he asked, in the same low tone.
She nodded, accepting the rebuke. “Aside from that.”
Source: The Royal Ranger
“Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.”
“Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.”
“Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."”
“Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?”
“Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.”
“Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.”
Source: The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966
“Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.”
“Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Anything I do, I always have a reason for.”
“Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.”