A Quotes
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“Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.”
“Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.”
“Arguments for slavery weren't pragmatic or ethical discussions about the realities of slavery; they were assertions about abstract identities (The Slave, The Slave Owner, The Abolitionist) and performances of loyalty to the South. They were demagoguery.”
Source: Demagoguery and Democracy
“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.”
Source: Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being
“Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.”
Source: The Works of Booth Tarkington
“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison
“Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.”
“Arguments, speculation-- conspiracy theories of all kind. The usual thing, right? No one is ever simply assassinated any more. Ever since your Kennedys, it is always a matter of how many stories you can invent to explain the same body of facts. That is the great pleasure of conspiracy theory--not explanation, but narrative. It is like Scheherazade.”
Source: Green Mars
“Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing”
“Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.”
Source: The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws
“Ari could feel it in her chest like an unwanted heartbeat, the sound of a broken soul thrumming unevenly, desperately against her own. As they locked in battle, she could hear it all, every beat. It was the same way it felt to have Jagger’s heart in hers, and yet so different. Their soul sounded like stuttering, like something had died and grown back wrong.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“Ari era el único lugar en el que quería estar. Ella era mi hogar.”
Source: Dime que te casarás conmigo
“Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!”
“Ari!" Jeb had finally seen his son. He rushed to Ari's side and knelt next to him. Looking stunned, he gathered Ari's hulking form and held him to his chest. "I'm so sorry." I saw his mouth shape the words, though I couldn't hear them. "I'm so sorry." He bent over Ari's form, mindless of his vulnerable position.”
Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
“Ari, maybe we should get you out of here. No joke. You really are dangerous with thus truth serum in you, You might sat something you wished you hadn't."
"Like that your mum scares me, but I think your dad is kind of cute in and old-guy sort of way?"
"Exactly like that."
"Eh. I'm not worried.”
Source: Poison
“Ari’s eyes snapped up to meet Auovin’s, and he fell into the trap of looking too long, like a moth drawn to golden light. Auovin’s honey-colored gaze poured over him, thick and sweet, leaving Ari spellbound.”
“Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.”
“Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.”
“Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.”
“Ari to Fleur:
"I made plans for your glorious self."
"Do they require nudity?"
"Extensive. Prolonged."
Fleur's smile was so wide he thought her jaw must hurt.”
Source: Hers to Command
“Ari [Up] hides nothing from our audiences: if she’s in a bad mood, she shows it, and if we happen to be on stage when she’s not happy, she just does a shit gig. There’s no
You’ve paid money to see this so I’m going to give you a good time, or I’m not going to let the band down – she’s just grumpy and uncommunicative. This is a good thing in many ways, we’re against faking it, we tell it like it is. People in bands are just like the audience: they have good days and bad days, we’re not pantomime or theatre, we’re no different to anyone else. We don’t see ourselves as entertainers, trying to make the audience forget their troubles for forty minutes. We see ourselves as warriors. We’d rather people confronted their anger and dissatisfaction and did something about it. Like Luis Buñuel said, ‘I’m not here to entertain you, I’m here to make you feel uncomfortable.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“Ari [Up] was an artist and an artist needs love more than anyone, she needed loads, but I don’t know if she got enough on a one-to-one level. Everything came second to her music, even family. You have to be selfish to be an artist; your family just have to accept that. It’s not personal, it’s not that you don’t love them. What an artist gives their family isn’t routine and their constant presence, they give vitality and ideas, independence and creative thinking.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“Aria rested a hand on her mother’s shoulder, lending her strength.”
Source: Hearts of Gold Collection
“Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'. Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?”
“Ariadna sabía que él era posesivo y dominante, en parte la excitaba pero en parte no le hacía gracia.”
Source: Ariadna (Arte, Pasión y Seducción (APS))
“Ariadna siempre iba más allá o al menos cuando algún asunto le interesaba.”
Source: Ariadna (Arte, Pasión y Seducción (APS))
“Ariadna Warren destilaba una ardiente sensualidad que hasta un ciego vería, con cada paso que daba la chica era capaz de llevar cautivos a cuantos se le cruzaran por el camino”
Source: Ariadna (Arte, Pasión y Seducción (APS))
“Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice.”
“Arianna, hold on! I’m coming!” I yell as I watch the life leave her eyes and she falls to the ground.
“NO!” I scream as my eyes fly open.”
Source: Just A Touch
“Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision.”
“Arianna, what's up?"
"Is there a reason there's a blond boy jumping on your bed, or should I kill him?"
"Don't bother," I growled. "I'll kill him myself.”
Source: Supernaturally
“Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.”
“Arianne gave him her most seductive smile. "We might share a bed together."
Ser Daemon's face was stone. "Have you forgotten, princess? I am bastard born." He took her hand in his. "If I am unworthy of this hand, how can I be worthy of your cunt?"
She snatched her hand away. "You deserve a slap for that."
"My face is yours. Do what you will.”
Source: The Winds of Winter
“Arianne had her feet up on the table, wearing a striped conductor's cap.
Arriane was fixated on the game. A chocolate cigar bobbed between her lips as she contemplated her next move. Roland was giving Arianne the hawk eye.
"Checkmate, bitch," Arianne said triumphantly, knocking over Roland's king.”
“Aricles and I are married. The Greek god Apollo found out and he threatened to discredit and shame me before the other gods unless Aricles refused to fight. To protect my honor and name, he has allowed all of you to insult and attack him, and I will not stand for him to be hurt again. By anyone." Bathymaas”
Source: Dark Bites
“Arie, you bring out a fire in Noah that I’d never seen anyone else ignite. You not only complete him and compliment him but you are his opposite and other half. You are the very essence of who he is. He is who he is because of you. When he looks at you, he sees a mirror reflecting all the things that he hopes and longs for in life. And that, my dear, is something that no one will ever be able to take away from you.”
Source: Mr. Hinkle's Verum Ink: the navy blue book
“Ariel: “Eric!”
Eric: “Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two feet!”
Source: Ariel's Demise
“Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump speaks the erotics of being alive and being in love with being alive.”
“Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.”
Source: Eyes Like Stars
“Ariel learned why humans wore shoes and boots on their feet, how many seasons there were in a year, what telescopes did, and how to spit out the olive seeds from the salad Eric had brought. And in turn, she taught Eric how to read a fish's face for emotion, why Atlantica had been kept a secret from humans, and the best tactics for evading sharks.”
Source: A Twisted Tale Anthology
“Ariel looked queenly and elegant and ten years younger than her real age. Like Emma, her hair was blond and her boobs were big. She drove a convertible, wore diamonds with denim, and she never missed a homecoming game. She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”
Source: Garden Spells
“Ariel moved farther in, picking up and putting down the disgusting little pieces of bric-a-brac. Among all the horror was an ironically delicate vanity covered in mother-of-pearl- and, intriguingly, all manner of exquisite little glass bottles. Scents from the east, oils from the west, attar of roses, nut butter, extract of myrrh, sandalwood decoctions, jasmine hydrosols... Everything to make someone smell exquisite.
Or to mask whatever it was she really smelled like, Ariel thought wryly.
Or were the oils and butters for more medicinal reasons- for the cecaelia's skin? Ariel found herself looking at her own hands, rubbing them over each other lightly. Last time she had only been in the Dry World for a few days. Was it- literally- drying? Was it difficult or painful, for creatures from the sea to remain for months battered by void and air, despite their magic?
Ariel shivered. Magic didn't make everything simpler. Crossing the thresholds of worlds was no minor thing.”
Source: Part of Your World
“Ariel's cure is a nostrum that tastes of moss and sunsets, scratching my throat like swallowed earth. It sits in the core of me like ice, a steady coolth radiating outwards, soothing my fever; soothing me. I stare up at the painted angels overhead and wonder how unlike them I must be, that I can leave my father and husband to think me dead.”
Source: Coral Bones
“Ariel Sharon is a man of peace.”
“Ariel sighed. “How are you not self-conscious about that?”
Kitty chuckled. “Hey, I got used to it in a hurry, and I kind of like the side perks. I always wanted to … y’know, be superhuman, do some of the things I’ve been able to do with this setup.” She curled her tail up to take it in her hands. “Now I know how the guys feel, having something extra in your pants tends to be awkward after a while.”
Source: The Advance Guard
“Ariel signed.
"I will take these matters into consideration," Flounder translated, "and will either return here myself in three days or send a messenger in my place."
"Understood," the seagull said with a bow.
"Understood, My Queen," Flounder corrected politely.
"My Queen? How does that work with the Law of the Worlds- that of the Dry World and the World Under the Sea?"
Ariel found herself almost rolling her eyes and making that wide, sighing smile she used to with Flounder.
But the little gull looked at her, at her, while she signed. Not at her hands, or Flounder as he had spoken. There was a friendly heart under Jona's direct and inappropriate questions.
Ariel just shook her head and dove back under the water, tossing a sign over her shoulder as she went.
"The Queen says you may call her Ariel," Flounder said. Also, under his breath: "You have no idea what an honor that is.”
Source: Part of Your World
“Ariel touched his cheek again. He was peacefully asleep, and she knew she ought to leave before he saw her. But a part of her wanted him to remember something about her, even if he never saw her face or learned her name.
A song bubbled up to her throat, a melody she sang to herself whenever she yearned to explore more of the world that wasn't hers. Going by the party she'd watched on Eric's ship, it seemed they liked music on land, too. Perhaps it was something a mermaid and a human might have in common.”
Source: A Twisted Tale Anthology
“Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?"
Danny: "Human nature," he said. "When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it's a matter of personal survival, I think. It's not always meant to hurt, but it often does.”
Source: Ariel's Cottage