A Quotes
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“Are we living life, or is life living us?”
Source: Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse
“Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.”
“Are we making a bomb?"
"This is a trust exercise, like in drama," she says.
"Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?”
Source: Submarine
“Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you have to agree, is a profound question.”
Source: Stories of Your Life and Others
“Are we napping?” she asked.
“For a little,” he said.
He wasn’t napping. He concentrated every cell of his body on memorizing the weight of her against him, and the smell of her hair in the sun. His arms measured the slender curve of her torso. His fingers separated out a single strand of her hair. Her breathing slowed, easing, while his watchful heart chugged on, stupid and hungry, and the red bracelet stayed in his pocket.”
Source: Ruled
“Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?”
Source: Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?”
“Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?”
“Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?”
“Are we not all chained down by our mood-swings sometimes?”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Are we not all desperate one way or another?”
“Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?”
Source: A daring coiffeur: reflections on War and peace and Anna Karenina
“Are we not all immortal till our work is done?”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.”
“Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and a working man is that they have now, while the other does not have it yet. Such things can be taken. They are always taken.”
Source: At Faith's End
“Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life—one scratched on the wall.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?”
“Are we not clouded by our own self-interest, veiled by our misunderstandings, corrupted by the misinformation feeding the 'motherboard'….our brain?”
Source: Lotus-eating Japan: Who is this man I hardly know?
“Are we not concerned, for example, by the growing danger related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology? All of this poses a clear threat to the world, to the region. However, we have obvious points of convergence that are related to our interests.”
“Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?”
“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
“Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.”
Source: The irresistible Diderot
“Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to him, are we not afraid that He might take something away from us? Are we not perhaps afraid to give up something significant, something unique, something that makes life so beautiful? Do we not then risk ending up diminished and deprived of our freedom? . . . No! If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed. Only in this friendship do we experience beauty and liberation. And so, today, with great strength and great conviction, on the basis of long personal experience of life, I say to you, dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ – and you will find true life. Amen.”
“Are we not really an increasingly cruel age?
Perhaps we are: but I think we have become
so in an attempt to reduce all virtues to kindness.
For Plato rightly taught that virtue is one.
You can not be kind unless you have all other virtues.
If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have
never yet done a fellow creature great mischief,
that is only because your neighbor’s welfare has not yet
happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease.
Every vice leads to cruelty.
Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by
charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty.
Most atrocities are simulated by accounts of the
enemy’s atrocities; and pity for the oppressed classes,
when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads
by a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities
of a reign of terror.”
“Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“Are we not somehow compelled by love? I shall not let one day pass without giving you the assurance of mine. Surely there is a future for us together. I am yours yours yours.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.”
“Are we not the ambassadors of this truth that we humans are fundamentally equal and no human being is superior to another on the basis of caste creed or religion or language . Upholding these values that to speak truth is important, to lie is a sin, not to kill an innocent life, striving for peace, upholding the human dignity, and cherishing the differences with honor, and finally believing that our God is one. Our creator is one. He has to be one. We are one family.”
“Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.”
Source: The Bondage of the Will
“Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.”
Source: A Sermon Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of Clergy-men: In the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Nov. Vii, 1678
“Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?”
“Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings”
“Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?”
“Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.”
“Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.”
Source: Blood Of The Fold
“Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?”
“Are we prepared to leave our comfort zones to reach a better place?”
“Are we prepared to make an enemy out of the Kingdom? The question is, are you bastards prepared to make an enemy out of Fairy Tail?”
“Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?”
“Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?”
Source: Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers
“Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said about the Constitution and the threats to it?”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?”
“Are we really bad at this?" I asked. "We've been fake broken up once."
"Yes, but we fake resolved our difficulties and fake got back together, and I'm hoping it's made us fake stronger.”
Source: Boyfriend Material
“Are we really going to play truths and lies? Just tell us, you bastard.”
Source: Empire of Storms
“Are we really trying to encourage and
normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra
cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect,
just so one can still feel superior?”
Source: Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
“Are we riding far tonight, Gandalf?” asked Merry after a while. “I don’t know how you feel with small rag-tag dangling behind you; but the rag-tag is tired and will be glad to stop dangling and lie down.”
“So you heard that?” said Gandalf. “Don’t let it rankle! Be thankful no longer words were aimed at you. He had his eyes on you. If it is any comfort to your pride, I should say that, at the moment, you and Pippin are more in his thoughts than the rest of us. Who you are; how you came here, and why; what you know; whether you were captured, and if so, how you escaped when all the orcs perished—it is with those little riddles that the great mind of Saruman is troubled. A sneer from him, Meriadoc, is a compliment, if you feel honoured by his concern.”
“Thank you!” said Merry. “But it is a greater honour to dangle at your tail, Gandalf. For one thing, in that position one has a chance of putting a question a second time. Are we riding far tonight?”
Gandalf laughed. “A most unquenchable hobbit! All wizards should have a hobbit or two in their care—to teach them the meaning of the world, and to correct them.”
Source: The Two Towers
“Are we running away from home?” I asked, giving voice to the question that had been on my mind for two days, ever since the lady at the Wok On restaurant asked where we were from and my mother lied.
My mother had laughed. I couldn’t see her face, but her laugh I could always conjure—rich, ringing, like bells calling you to a wedding. “No, silly goose. You can’t run away from home. It’s not home if you want to run away from it.” She paused to brush a strand of hair from my face. “You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.”
Source: Ghost Flower
“Are we safe from human exposure? I don't want the owners to find a busted-up angel and a buzzed vampire lurking in their shed and freak out.”
Source: Broken Faith
“Are we savages or what?”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.”