A Quotes
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“Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of all nations was amazingly religious and apocalyptic - ghosts and visions, crucifixions and sacrifice, crusaders and holy warriors.”
“Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.”
Source: Cibola Burn
“Apocalyptic Negroes in a stream
Of moving torches, marching from the slums,
Beating a band of garbage pails for drums,
Marching, with school-age children in their arms,
Advancing on the suburbs and the farms,
To integrate the schools and burn the houses...”
“Apoi am refuzat să mă gândesc în urmă și să mai dezgrop oase și singurele amintiri cărora le dădeam voie să se așeze confortabil în mintea mea erau cele bune,adică cele care mă făceau să râd pe dinăuntru.”
Source: Carte de colorat pentru orbi
“Apoi Clarisse McClellan vorbi din nou.
― Te superi dacă îţi pun o întrebare? De cît timp eşti pompier?
― De zece ani, de la vîrsta de douăzeci de ani.
― Citeşti vreodată cărţile pe care le arzi?
― E interzis prin lege! rîse el.
― Oh. Desigur.
― E o muncă bună. Luni ardem Millar, miercuri ardem Whitman, vineri Faulkner, le facem scrum,
apoi ardem şi scrumul. E deviza noastră oficială.
Merseră mai departe şi fata îl întrebă:
― E adevărat că, în urmă cu mulţi ani, pompierii stingeau focurile în loc să le aprindă?
― Nu. Casele au fost întotdeauna construite din material neinflamabil, te rog să mă crezi.
― Ciudat. Am auzit că, odinioară, casele luau foc din întîmplare şi pompierii erau necesari ca să
stingă focul.
El rîse.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Apoi, crescând mai mare, le-am dat lor, celor ce mă priveau de după gard, sufletul meu. Iar ei îl dădeau de-a dura prin colbul vieţii şi mi-l înapoiau strivit, lovit şi fără de viaţă. Trist, îmi luăm propriul suflet în braţe şi-l mângâiam. Apoi, când se refăcea, mă părăsea zâmbind şi se arunca naiv în braţele pofticioase ale celor din jur. Şi din nou, zdrobit de valurile vesele dar necunoscute ale vieţii, se-ntindea obosit la picioarele mele, spunându-mi că este pentru ultima oară. De atunci îmi îngrop şi dezgrop propriul zbor sufletesc ca pe un blestem.”
Source: Fii demn!
“Apoi, pe când toată camera era invadată de soare, R. a strălucit, a strălucit așa cum n-o mai făcuse cred niciodată, și asta a fost confirmarea că m-am întors în timp, și încă nu se construiseră toate bălăriile în Vamă, ea avea 14 ani și era barmaniță de vară, iar tufișul meu scuipător de păsări încă mai trăia, era acolo, unde azi stătuse suedezul la coadă să-și ia clătite, dar îl dăduseră p**dele pofticioase afară din rând, și habar n-am de ce și-a dus un deget la buzele ei cărnoase și a făcut “șșșt”, era inutil, fiindcă nu-mi trecuse prin cap să vorbesc, nu aveam ce să spun. Era suficient să simt.”
Source: Ani cu Alcool şi Sex
“Apoi toate gândurile îi pieriră și sufletul rămase gol în fața ei. Numai pe ea o mai vedea, parcă ar fi dispărut lumea întreagă.”
Source: Adam și Eva
“Apoi, într-o zi, când ea crescuse mai mare şi cuvântul acela urât din înjurăturile băieţilor n-o mai speria ca altădată de câte ori îl vedea scris pe vreun gard, Leontina a descoperit că şi tăietura ascunsă între picioare era o cale prin care se putea intra în trupul ei până în miezul fiinţei. Ce era acolo, în acest miez, sau mai precis cine era acolo, ce animal preistoric, ce creatură oarbă şi nesătulă, cu bot umed de cârtiţă şi gâtlej de rechin? Va încerca toată viaţa să-şi răspundă la întrebarea asta şi nu va reuşi.”
Source: Pupa russa
“Apoi îşiridică ochii şi privi visând în faţa cea blândă a lunii — ea trecea frumoasă, clară pe un cer limpede, adânc, transparent, prin nouri de un fluid deargint, prin stelele mari de aur topit. Părea că deasupra mai sunt o mie de ceruri, părea că presupusa lor fiinţă transpare prin albastra-i adâncime...”
Source: Sărmanul Dionis
“Apolitical people are often unaware of the procedural aspects of voting.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.”
“Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.”
“Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.”
“Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.”
Source: Electra
“Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.”
“Apollo had changed Hyacinth into a flower to protect him. I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her. That's how we were different from the gods.”
Source: Elixir
“Apollo had said he knew what this kind of love was capable of. And I finally understood why Paris had risked his country and his blood for Helen. Selfish, yes, but I understood. I would burn the world if that meant Alex would be safe.”
Source: Elixir
“Apollo has peeped through the shutter,
And awaken'd the witty and fair;
The boarding-school belle's in a flutter,
The twopenny post's in despair;
The breath of the morning is flinging
A magic on blossom and spray,
And cockneys and sparrows are singing
In chorus on Valentine's day.”
“APOLLO: I don’t know but I’ve been told!
CAMPERS: We don’t know but we’ve been told!
APOLLO: The sun god’s got a bow of gold!
CAMPERS: The sun god’s got a bow of gold!
APOLLO: He’s the best shot in the land!
CAMPERS: He’s the best shot in the land!
APOLLO: Augh! [Apollo trips and lands on his backside] I’ve fallen in the
sand!
CAMPERS [jogging circles around him]: Augh! He’s fallen in the sand!
APOLLO: I meant to do that, so don’t laugh!
CAMPERS: He meant to do that, so don’t laugh!
APOLLO [tries to get up but falls back again]: Ow! I hurt my godly calf!
CAMPERS: Ow! He hurt his godly calf!
APOLLO [glowering and starting to glow]: If you want to live another day…
CAMPERS: If we want to live another day…
APOLLO [radiating brighter]: STOP REPEATING WHAT I SAY!
CAMPERS: STOP—um…
—Military cadence written, chanted, and abruptly ended by Apollo (Best. Scene. Ever. - P.J.)”
Source: Camp Half-Blood Confidential
“Apollo leaned down and devoured my mouth. He took my lower lip in his teeth, the pressure threatening to puncture it with a fang. Revulsion at the idea overrode any of the sensations Apollo's bite may have had on me. There was too much adrenaline in my body and my head still swam with light, drifting swirls. But I didn't pull back. Not once.
When Apollo was satisfied that I had put on a pleasant show for his taunting on Ryker, he let me go, but not before letting his fang nip the thin skin at my lip, leaving a bead of red blood to fill my mouth with the metallic taste of my own downfall. The blood that had caused so many vampires to hunt me down.”
Source: Dirty Lying Dragons
“Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.”
“APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH
"You are gorgeous and people love you!”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armour was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear.”
Source: The Last Olympian
“Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.”
“Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
“Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.”
“Apollo watched me closely, intently. “No.”
My eyes narrowed. “No to what?”
“I’m not sending you after them. Not yet,” he said, surprising me into silence—a rarity. “I have another task for you. You need to leave for southern Virginia immediately. I’d snap your sunshine-and-rainbows ass there, but now that you’ve annoyed me, you’ll drive the twenty or so hours to get there.”
Okay. That was irritating, but I kind of liked road trips, so whatever. “What’s in southern Virginia?”
“Radford University.”
I waited.
I waited some more, and then sighed. “Okay. You want me to enroll in college?” I asked, and Apollo tipped back his head and laughed so loudly, he actually whooped. I frowned. “What the hell is so funny about that idea?”
“You. College. Using your head. That’s what’s funny.”
I was seconds away from blasting him with akasha.”
Source: The Return
“Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.”
Source: The Culture of Education
“Apollo, you remember what this felt like, for musicians first experiencing the baptism of fire that was jazz.”
Source: Lovely War
“Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.”
Source: Electra
“Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred?”
“Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.”
“APOLLYON is an alternative and credible alternative drama about the foundation and emergence of Christianity.”
Source: Apollyon
“Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.”
“Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.”
“Apologetics involves a conflict over ultimate authorities — that is, a conflict over our presuppositions or final standard. What should be the source of a person's presuppositions? For the unbeliever, it will be some authority for reasoning other than the word of God, while for the believer it is God's revelation.”
Source: Van Til's Apologetic: Readings and Analysis
“Apologetics is both a science and an art. It is a science because it deals with the truth found within the various disciplines of knowledge—philosophy, biology, physics, math, and history. It is also an art because each person has the flexibility to craft their arguments however they wish." (Life Hacks, p.85)”
Source: Life Hacks: Nine Ideas That Will Change How You Do Everything
“Apologetics is reason flying to the rescue of faith”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Apologies are banned from this household. We are sorry for nothing. We are bold explorers, sexual anarchists.”
Source: Jarring Sex
“Apologies are not pass/fail.”
“Apologies are seldom of any use.”
Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772
“Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.”
Source: God is No Laughing Matter
“Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror”
Source: Gun, with Occasional Music
“Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.”
“Apologies do not make good bandages.”
Source: As Often As Miracles
“Apologies don't mean anything if you keep doing what you are saying you are sorry for.”
“Apologies don't really matter unless they come from the heart.”