A Quotes
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“Apapun yang tidak membuatmu hancur, akan membuatmu semakin kuat”
Source: Komet Minor
“Apareció entonces un hombre delgado de chaleco pulido tocando el violín en la esquina. Debo explicar que a este hombre lo vi una vez al anochecer cuando yo era niño en Recife y el sonido extenuado y agudo subrayaba con una línea dorada el misterio de la calle oscura. Junto al hombre escuálido había una latita de zinc donde hacían un ruido seco las monedas de los que oían con gratitud porque él les sollozaba la vida. Sólo ahora entiendo y sólo ahora brotó en mí el sentido secreto: el violín es un aviso. Sé que cuando yo muera voy a oír el violín del hombre y pediré música, música, música.”
Source: The Hour of the Star
“Aparentemente, las ratas de la vindicación y el resentimiento siempre están allí, en el desván, de mi alma. Y ese desván está fuera del alcance de mi voluntad consciente. Puedo, hasta cierto punto, controlar mis actos, pero no tengo un control directo sobre mi temperamento. Y si, (como dije antes) lo que somos importa aún más que lo que hacemos —si, ciertamente, lo que hacemos importa principalmente como evidencia de lo que somos— entonces se sigue que el cambio que más necesito llevar a cabo es un cambio que mis propios esfuerzos directos y voluntarios no pueden realizar. Y esto puede aplicarse también a mis buenas acciones. ¿Cuántas de ellas fueron hechas por el motivo correcto? ¿Cuántas por miedo a la opinión pública, o por un deseo de ostentación? ¿Cuántas por una suerte de obstinación o de sentido de superioridad que, en circunstancias diferentes, podrían haber conducido igualmente a una mala acción? Pero yo no puedo, a través de un esfuerzo moral directo, proporcionarme a mí mismo nuevos motivos. Después de los primeros pasos en la vida cristiana nos damos cuenta de que aquello que verdaderamente necesita hacerse en nuestras almas sólo puede ser hecho por Dios.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“Apart aging, certain things will not change and certain things will not be the same, love and sex.”
“Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.”
“Apart from a belief in the supernatural, it has become very hard to distinguish the natural from the unnatural. Without Heaven, what is the difference between Hell and Earth? Without God, how can the human and the demonic be told apart? More than two hundred years after the French Revolution, the only people who attack a position or practice as “unnatural” are those who believe in God, as well, because the concept of nature only makes sense as an intermediary between the supernatural and the unnatural.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion - all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade.”
“Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one we did with Keegan Michael-Key - they really are little hero narratives. The whole "Save the Day" - it's called that, specifically, for a reason - ethos is there is this heroic act called voting. And the world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.”
“Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.”
Source: Style: The Art of Writing Well
“Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.”
“Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.”
“Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.”
Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism
“Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.”
“Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.”
“Apart from anything else, I got to work with Jennifer Lawrence. She’s a lovely girl. I know people often say things like that in interviews, but she really is. While she may be young, she doesn’t feel at all precocious. Instead, she’s smart and funny and terrific at connecting with people. She just blew me away.”
“Apart from Arsenal and Barcelona, I don't see myself playing anywhere else. I will definitely be going back (to Arsenal) whenever I have time to watch games and to see the guys… and if there is one place to go back to (to play), it is Arsenal for sure.”
“Apart from being dead its going to be necessary to die. And I'm dealing at the moment with the realization that at my age there is absolutely no way in which I can skirt the matter and come out on the other side.”
“Apart from being dead its going to be necessary to die. And I'm dealing at the moment with the realization that at my age there is absoutely no way in which I can skirt the matter and come out on the other side.”
“Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.”
“Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.”
“Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“Apart from Cherokee freedpeople, Cherokee citizens also spoke out against the present of African Americans from the United States. In 1894, the editor of the Cherokee Advocate incited his fellow tribesmen to resist both Black and white migration, telling them to ‘Be men, and fight off the barnacles that now infest our country in the shape of non-citizens, free Arkansas ni—ers, and traitors.’
Anti-Black sentiment like this encouraged Native peoples to ignore Indian freedpeople’s shared histories with their nations and to inaccurately associate them with Black interlopers from the United States. Indian freedpeople fought this attitude by attempting to differentiate themselves. When Mary Grayson was interviewed in 1937 as part of the Works Progress Administration Slave Narrative project, she illustrated this dichotomy, saying ‘I am what we colored people call a ‘native.’ That means I didn’t come into the Indian country from somewhere in the Old South, after the War, like so many Negroes did, but I was born here in the Old Creek Nation and my master was a Creek Indian. Mary felt that her experiences of enslavement were better than those of Black Americans, arguing that ‘I have had people who were slaves of white folks tell me that they had to work awfully hard and their masters were cruel to them, but all the Negroes I knew who belonged to Creeks always had plenty of clothes and lots to eat and we all lived in good log cabins we built.’ Mary clearly demarcated her history and circumstances from those of African Americans from the United States. Mary’s assertion of her identity as a ‘native’ rather than a newcomer (like other Blacks in the West) is reflective of a key component of the settler colonial process—strategic differentiation.”
Source: I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
“Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.”
Source: Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.”
“Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.”
“Apart from donkeys, mules and horses, which we continue to eat as before, we have now also eaten most of the dogs and cats as well as a good number of large rats”
“Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?”
“Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.”
“Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.”
“Apart from golf, it was a great week.”
“Apart from growth and change caterpillars don't become butterflies!”
“Apart from humans all other creatures on this planet only, live/maintain the objective 'COMMUNITIEs' : few territorial & all food chain bases.”
“Apart from if Playboy come calling.”
“Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a symbol of the victory of death over life. By the Resurrection it was that the Crucified One was "declared to be the Son of God with power," the great truth on which the Christian's faith is founded, and to which his hope is anchored. That Christ died for our sins is the Gospel of the Christian religion regarded as a human cult. The Gospel of Christianity goes on to declare "That He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures"”
“Apart from its stated objective, the DRS was part of Patel's strategy against Nehru. Patel even intended to throw Nehru out of Congress, which is why Nehru asked his lieutenants Rafi Ahmed Kidwai and Acharya Kripalani to leave Congress and prepare a new party, the Democratic Front which was dissolved again when Patel suddenly died in December 1950 and Nehru's position in Congress became unassailable.”
Source: Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism
“Apart from Jesus Christ you are spiritually bankrupt.”
“Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
“Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.”
“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”
“Apart from liberty, I believe that equality is the tune of our generation.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962
“Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.”
“Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.”
“Apart from masochists, if everyone treated others the way they would like to be treated, the world would be an infinitely better place. We should dedicate an international EKT Day to this principle, a day to celebrate empathy, kindness, and the transformative power of treating others as we wish to be treated.”
“Apart from money printing and interest rates. It is the rich, those who refuse to pay taxes and spend their capital, who will ultimately cause inflation and the downfall of a nation.”
“Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.”
“Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.”
Source: Twilight Over England
“Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.”
“Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.”
“Apart from not being sleepy all the time, there is nothing you can’t learn about raising a baby.”