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“aphorism 129:
I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.”
Source: A Human Strategy: Toward a genuine spirituality, second edition
“APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.”
“Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.”
“Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.”
“Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.”
Source: The World in a Phrase
“Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.”
“Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.”
“Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.”
“Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.”
“Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.”
“Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.”
“Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Aphrodisiacs come in many forms: food, drink, the internet.”
“Aphrodite cried at Knidos when she saw Aphrodite:
O Zeus! Where did Praxiteles see me naked?”
“Aphrodite embodies sexuality free of ambivalence, anxieties and self-consciousness, a sexuality so natural and quintessential to her that no myth deals with her virginity or its loss.”
Source: The Gods of Greece
“Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.”
“Aphrodite is about love and beauty. Being loving. Spreading beauty. Good friends. Good times. Good deeds.”
Source: The Lost Hero
“Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.”
“Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.”
Source: House of Night Series
“Aphrodite, on the other hand, saw every wedding as a
small defeat. She prized love, but not the marital kind. Never the marital kind. What kind of love was that: companionship? The precursor to children?”
Source: A Thousand Ships
“Aphrodite's mirror is symbolic of a most profound quality of the goddess of love. She frequently offers one a mirror by which one can see one's self, a self hopelessly stuck in projection without the help of the mirror. Asking what is being mirrored back can begin the process of understanding, which may prevent getting stuck in an insoluble emotional tangle. This is not to say there are not outer events. But it is important to realize and understand that many things of our own interior nature masquerade as outer events when they should be mirrored back into our subjective world from which they sprang. Aphrodite provides this mirror more often than we would like to admit. Whenever one falls in love, sees the god or goddess-like qualities in another, it is Aphrodite mirroring our immortality and divine-like qualities. We are as reluctant to see our virtues as our faults and a long period of suffering generally lies between the mirroring and the accomplishment.”
Source: She: Understanding Feminine Psychology
“Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.”
“Aphrodite then promised Zeus that as soon as the girdle could be removed, she would reserve her flower for him. And she told him that her flower, as Nerites had advised her, was like a lovely oyster & she hoped that he liked oysters. And she told him that that was all that she had to give him in return for his seed. And she hoped that he would swallow her flower just as she swallowed his seed.”
“Aphrodite then reminded Zeus what Themis had said. She had to swallow a whole amphora full of his seed before Eros & Chaos would let her girdle hang free. And she said that she looked forward to swallowing his seed, if he would let her. Zeus then took the young Goddess in his arms & told her that he would even willingly give her a whole amphora full of his blood if that would make her happy. He would like to give her all the seed that his sperm sacs could produce each day but only wished that the transaction did not have to go through Hera.”
“Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said. “Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement. “Mom,” Piper said with no enthusiasm. “Girls!” The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug. The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree.”
“Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart. Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.”
“Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!” “Oh, sure,” Leo said. “Like…um, the Little Mermaid?” Aphros frowned. “Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!” “Oh. ”Leo had no idea who any of those people were. “You trained Bill? Impressive.”
“Api tidak akan terpadam dengan api”
“Apinamies ikävystytti minua loppujen lopuksi. Se oletti olevansa viiden sormensa ansiosta minun vertaiseni ja lörpötteli minulle kaiken aikaa mitä joutavinta soopaa. Yksi puoli siinä huvitti minua hieman: sillä oli loistava kyky muodostaa uusia sanoja. Se luullakseni uskoi, että mitääntarkoittamattomien sanojen lörpöttely ilmensi puheen syvintä olemusta. Hän kutsui sitä ”isoksi ajatteluksi”, vastakohdaksi ”pienelle ajattelulle” – tavallisten arkisten asioiden käsittelylle. Aina kun lausuin jotain, mitä se ei ymmärtänyt, se ylisti minua vuolaasti, pyysi minua toistamaan sen, opetteli ulkoa ja hoki sitä uudestaan ja uudestaan – pari sanaa väärin siellä täällä – kaikille säyseimmille eläinihmisille. Mitään selkeää ja ymmärrettävää se ei pitänyt missään arvossa. Kehittelin jonkin verran varsin erikoista ”isoa ajattelua” varta vasten apinamiehen käyttöön. Uskon nyt, että se oli älyttömin otus, minkä olen nähnyt; sille oli sille oli kehittynyt mitä mainioin inhimillisen typeryyden asteikko, ilman että se oli menettänyt hitustakaan apinan luontaisesta päättömyydestä.”
“Aping urbanity,
Oozing with vanity,
Plump as a manatee,
Faking humanity,
Intellectual inanity,
Journalistic calamity,
Fox Noise insanity,
You're a profanity,
Hannity.”
“Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.”
“APIs are the conduits through which data flows, applications communicate and functionality is shared.”
Source: Serverless Web Applications with AWS Amplify: Build Full-Stack Serverless Applications Using Amazon Web Services
“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.”
Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective
“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.”
Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective
“Aplaudi o comediante com gargalhadas ricas em alegria.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Aplicar análise económica e empresarial a cartéis de droga pode parecer absurdo, mas não compreender os princípios básicos do comércio de droga (…) condenou governos a desperdiçar dinheiro e vidas em políticas que não funcionam.”
“Apna Time Ayega’ is perhaps a way to console yourself when you don’t get what you want but you see all others around you getting ‘success, fame and money’. But wait! What’s wrong with having to toil longer for what you want and experience delays and denials while honing your creativity, your skills and your art? What is wrong with enjoying the process of doing what makes you come alive? Actually, it is this process, this journey, that counts more than arriving at some place, proving to someone or getting something! There is no right time in the future. This moment, now, this is the only time you have – because the past is dead and the future is not yet born. This is always the right time. So, instead of sighing and saying ‘Apna Time Ayega’, flip the paradigm, say: ‘Yehi Hai Right Time, Baby!”
“apne jalne me.n kisii ko nahii.n karte hai.n shariik
raat ho jaa.e to ham sham.a bujhaa dete hai.nThe poet/lover takes pride in his self-control and says that he does not like to share his agony. When the pain of loneliness burns him in the desolate nights, he extinguishes the candle.”
“Apne siwaah koi raas nahi mujhe, dekhe manzar humne niraale hain
— Wajid Shaikh, 2019 collection, from book
sukoon 2024
Expect For Me, I Don’t Trust Anyone, I’ve Seen Sights That Are Extraordinary.”
Source: Sukoon
“Apni zindgi mein kari galti kam nahi,
Jiske liye khuda se kari binti kam nahi,
Jiske liye humne bitaye jaagte raate kam nahi,
Uske liye hamare ishq mein dum nahi,
Aate aate uski yaad aati kam nahi,
Kisi dawa se hota ye dard kam nahi,”
“Apni zindgi mein kari galti kam nahi,
Jiske liye khuda se kari binti kam nahi,
Jiske liye humne bitaye jaagte raate kam nahi,
Uske liye hamare ishq mein dum nahi,
Aate aate uski yaad aati kam nahi,
Kisi dawa se hota ye dard kam nahi,
Waqt bewaqt hoti aksar Aankhen nam Kam nahi,
Jab jab aati uski yaad, aur hum rehte hum nahi,
Apni zindgi mein kari galti kam nahi,
Jiske liye khuda se kari binti kam nahi”
“Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.”
“Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.”
Source: The Forge of God
“Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.”
Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
“Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.”
“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”
“Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world.”
Source: Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia
“Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.”