A Quotes
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“Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.”
“Are the people you are listening to experts in selling or experts in their given fields or both?
Many can sell their services with a greater expertise than the expertise they have in the services they are selling. Watch out, look out and dig deeper.”
“Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism? Are they alone never to know freedom and never even to have a choice in the matter?”
“Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?”
“Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.”
“Are the professionals that are pitching you online only marketing their services and products?
Or are they also delivering messages of authenticity, authority and education?
There is an abundance of people that use the latest content to hype, pitch, market and sell everyday.
It is a limited few that work to still market but choose to engage with education, information and direction.
Let their authority and knowledge sell you over another sales pitch from someone that might only know how to sell and not have the ability to perform what they are selling.”
“Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me?”
Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
“Are the styles we embrace a matter of taste, or of values rejected?”
“Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?”
“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”
“Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?”
Source: The Psychology of Socialism
“Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry”
“Are there any alternatives? Well, there is the hypothesis that this universe is not unique, but that all possible universes exist, and we find ourselves, not surprisingly, in one that contains life. But that is a cop-out, which dispenses with the attempt to explain anything. And without the hypothesis of multiple universes, the observation that if life hadn't come into existence we wouldn't be here has no significance. One doesn't show that something doesn't require explanation by pointing out that it is a condition of one's existence. If I ask for an explanation of the fact that the air pressure in the transcontinental jet is close to that at sea level, it is no answer to point out that if it weren't, I'd be dead.”
Source: Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
“Are there any celebs I'd like to meet? I'd love to meet the Dalai Lama.”
“Are there any educational programs for children or youth within Paras Parivaar?”
Source: kya kehne kavi ke / क्या कहने कवि के
“Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.”
“Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.”
“Are there any military actions that the president of the United States may not order on his own authority? If so, what are they? Bit by bit, decade by decade, Congress has abdicated its assigned role in authorizing war. Today, it merely rubberstamps what presidents decide to do (or simply stays mum). Who does this deference to an imperial presidency benefit? Have U.S. policies thereby become more prudent, enlightened, and successful?”
“Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?”
“Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.”
“Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“Are there any other well-guarded places I should not be that you would like me to get into, Shipwife?” he asked.
“Not at the moment, Joron,” she smiled, “but when I think of them you will be first to know.”
Source: The Bone Ships
“Are there any parents who can make their children completely happy?”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?”
“Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.”
“Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)”
Source: March
“Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?”
“Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.”
“Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!”
“Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.”
“Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds of inhuman time, in which men fall into the slow hands of the living damnation?”
Source: Sophie’s Choice
“Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be moving around. Why?" Halt let go a long breath. "Just a vague hope, really. There's a chance that when the Temujai here you crashing around in the trees, they might think you're a bear." Erak smiled, with his mouth only. His eyes were as cold as the snow. "You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." "If you could manage to do it quietly, I'd almost welcome it," Halt said.”
“Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.”
Source: Pure
“Are there books and journals in Heaven?”
Source: The Reformation
“Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said.”
“Are there emotional underpinnings that incline us to indulge so greatly in relaxation, instead of taking on more productive uses of time?”
“Are there experts, ethical experts, that's very offensive to all of us? Because it's part of our humanity to have a stake in these questions to feel that we ourselves know the difference between right and wrong. And then along come these experts, philosophers, claiming, you know, an expertise, a special training, a special skill, a special talent.”
“Are there flowers here, your ladyship?' he asked when Pole had gone.
'Flowers?' Lucretia touched a hand to her cheek. 'Surely you have smelt rose water before?'
In the Solar Gallery, remembered John. The scent teased his nostrils as he bent to prise open the first dumpling. The soft dough parted and a puff of steam carried a second sweet smell into the chamber. Lucretia peered at the glistening mass then looked up curiously. 'What dish is this?'
'"Let me feed thee Honey-sugared Creams,"' John recited. '"As cool the Quodling's 'scaping Steam."'
She stared at him, amazed. 'The verses? You can read?'
'Is it so strange in a cook?'
'I... no.' Lucretia gathered herself. 'Of course you must read your receipts.'
'They are our verses, your ladyship. We give each other recitals down there in our kitchens.'
John brought a corked flask from inside his doublet and poured sweetened cream over the apple. He watched her dig into the apple's oozing flesh, swirl the thick cream then slip the marbled mixture into her mouth.
'Your honey-sugared cream is as sweet as the verses claim,' Lucretia told him, swallowing. 'It all but conquers the sourness of the quodling.”
Source: John Saturnall's Feast
“are there for a reason—but politicians are cherry picking and choosing patriotism .”
Source: Quote: +/-
“Are there glass shards in my anus?!”
“Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?”
“Are there hopes and wishes that you truly hold near and dear to your heart?”
“Are there many little boys who think they are a
Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the
Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him
Joyfully”
Source: Autobiography of Red
“Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a television set and wishing they had the courage to roll over the parapet of a high bridge? I bet there are millions of us.”
“Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated
“Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.”
“Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?”