A Quotes
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“As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us.”
“As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.”
“As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.”
Source: A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar
“As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.”
“As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.”
“As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.”
“As any first son staking claim to his family inheritance at an ailing father's behest, living as the heir to the Duke of Blendingham was a privelage, behaving as a rogue, his choice.”
“As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.”
“As any good Buddhist will tell you, the
only way to find permanent joy is by embracing
the fact that nothing is permanent.”
Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.”
Source: Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures
“As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.”
Source: From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance
“As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed look and a hint of color in their cheeks-put there by an early walk in the chill air rather than by rouge. The smell of soap on a woman's skin or the hint of shampoo in her hair is perfume enough for me . . . Humor is important. The most beautiful woman in the world is a bore without that.”
“As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.”
“As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.”
“As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.”
“As any painter, writer, or
composer knows, artworks arise from the tension between their physical
materials and the thought or spirit that shapes them from within. Though
they require some outward, physical element, they cease to function as art
when they are reduced to their objectlike, artifactual element. This definitive tension underlies art’s varied social uses and explains how it came to
be celebrated on the one hand as an expression of the highest spiritual
achievements of humanity and, on the other, criticized as merely another
precious object—a trapping of wealth, privilege, and social exclusion.
Even in the heyday of classical music, there was always a gap between the
philosophical claims for music and social practice”
Source: Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value
“As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.”
“As any reporter knows, the story changes as soon as she appears with her notebook & recorder, no matter how unassuming she is or how delicately she navigates the scene.”
Source: The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
“As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.”
“As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.”
“As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.”
Source: Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four
“As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator.”
“As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.”
Source: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
“As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.”
“As anyone over the age of thirty knows, Einstein was right: time really is relative. It speeds up as we get older (though it seems to slow down in airport security no matter what your age).”
Source: Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist
“As anyone's ratio of trials to triumph grows to a complex, incalculable thing, so does their verve and valor become an immeasurable impact and influence.”
Source: Whatsoever Things: A Little Theme of Faith & Inspiration With Wings
“As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.”
“As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.”
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”
Source: Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplist and most explicit of directions.”
Source: The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever
“As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.”
“As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.”
Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.”
“As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.”
“As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.”
Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines
“As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.”
“As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“As aparências enganam: a oração nunca é a primeira palavra, mas sempre a segunda. Deus tem a primeira palavra. A oração é uma fala que responde; ela não é primariamente “petição”, mas “resposta”.”
Source: O Pastor segundo Deus: a integridade pastoral vista por vários ângulos
“As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.”
Source: Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse
“As Aragorn said at Helm's Deep, "There is always hope."”
“as architect of choosing...
choose. to. live.
awakened. entirely. wholly.
wildly powerful,
deeply masterful,
authentically creative,
thriving.
this is not a hoped-for possible self.
[reminder: this is an immutable Law of your being]
needing not to learn the skill of being whole,
the antidote is to unlearn the habit of living incompletely
here’s the practice:
‘know thyself‘—its about spirit
righteousness is underrated
elevate connection with the changeless essence
seek similitude with the will of Source and will of self
'choose thyself'—its about substance
sacred. sagacious. spacious.
in thought, word and deed—
intend to: honor virtue. innovate enthusiastically. master integrity.
'become who you are'—its about style
a human, being an entrepreneur of life experiences
a human, being a purveyor of preferences
being-well with the known experience of soul, in service
your relationship with insecurities, contradictions, & failures?
obstacles or...invitations to grow?
[mindset forms manifestation]
emotions are messengers are gifts
data for discernment: dare to deconstruct them your fears
a belief renovation: fear.less.
& aspire towards ascendance, anyway
support your shine
lean into the Light
be.come.
incandescent
as architect of choosing, I choose...
to disrupt the energy of the status quo,
to eclipse the realms of ordinary,
& to live--a life-well lived.
w/ spirit, substance & style.”
“As architect of your reality, you are empowered to create it as you choose.”
Source: The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates
“As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.”
“As architects we have a responsibility
to society”
“As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.”
“As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.”
“As Ariel recounted the events of her dream, two magnificent, batlike wings grew from the backs of her shoulders, stretched as if preparing to fly, then retreated back into their host. The sound heard when the wings disappear is the giggling of Alanna, who watched the event much the same way I did, in rapt wonder.”
Source: Dinétah Dragon
“As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
Source: Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.”
Source: Killosophy