A Quotes
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“As coaches, the greatest gift that we can give you is to help you get better. You never have to worry when we are coaching you up, because that means we see potential.”
Source: Play Big: Conquer Your Fears and Make Your Dreams a Reality - Lessons from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL
“As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.”
“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy
“As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.”
“As coisas
A bengala, as modeas, o chaveiro,
A dócil fechadura, as tardias
Notas que não lerão os poucos dias
Que me restam, os naipes e o tabuleiro,
Um livro e em suas páginas a desvanecida
Violeta, monumento de uma tarde
Sem dúvida inesquecível e já esquecida,
O rubo espelho ocidental em que arde
Uma ilusória aurora. Quantas coisas,
Limas, umbrais, atlas, taças, cravos,
Servem-nos, como tácitos escravos, cegas e estranhamente sigilosas!
Durarão para além de nosso esquecimento
Nunca saberão que partimos em um momento.”
Source: Elogio de la sombra
“As coisas feias que você não conta se tornam cães que comem a sua cabeça enquanto você dorme.”
Source: The Lying Life of Adults
“As coisas mais simples da vida são as mais extraordinárias, e só os sábios conseguem vê-las.”
Source: The Alchemist
“As coisas não acontecem rápido assim em uma estrela. As mudanças levam milhões de anos, e não uma dezena. Fala sério, você sabe disso.
— Não, eu não sei. Eu achava que sabia. Agora, tudo que sei é que o Sol está morrendo — declarou ela. — Eu não sei por que e não sei o que poderíamos fazer a respeito disso. O que eu sei é que o Sol está morrendo.”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“As coisas não são baratas nem caras conforme o preço que se paga, mas sim conforme as horas de trabalho necessárias para as comprar.”
Source: A Causa das Coisas
“As coisas que vivem ao pé da morte sentem-nos e vêm ter connosco. Quando somos capazes de ver as coisas que vivem ao pé da morte é porque estamos ao pé dela. É sinal que vamos morrer.”
Source: A Luz Miserável
“As coisas que você costumava possuir, agora elas possuem você.”
Source: Fight Club
“As coisas visíveis são uma claridade sobre o invisível.”
“As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks walking by. "You can't wreck something that's already wrecked!" Peter shouted back angrily. "Hey, Peter, we're Spirit Bears," Cole reminded his friend. "Spirit Bears are strong, gentle, and kind." Peter thought a moment. "You got mauled, so that proves they can get ticked off too.”
“As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.”
“As Colin was starting to drift into the twilight he could feel blood pouring out of his head; whilst he was calling out to his true love.”
Source: Wanting
“As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design
“As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.”
“As colleges and universities became dominated by the Left, tolerance and diversity fell by the wayside. The rising hostility toward liberal values like free speech has made entire college campuses unsafe places for people who align with the Right.”
Source: No Safe Spaces
“As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.”
“As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.”
“As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.”
Source: Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice
“As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.”
“As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.”
“As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.”
“As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.”
“As commander in chief, I will not speak to Vladimir Putin until we've set up that no-fly zone; until we've gathered our Sunni-Arab allies and begun to deny ISIS territory; until I've called the supreme leader of Iran and told him new deal - new deal. We the United States of America are going to cut off the money flow, which we can do; which we don't need anyone's permission or collaboration to do.”
“As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries, men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel, and inspiration. It is a fountain of strength...an aid in attaining the highest aspiration of the human soul.”
“As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.”
“As common as unplanned sex. As uncommon as a planned child.”
Source: Divided & Conquered
“As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.”
Source: Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales
“As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.”
“As communicators, we are complicit in the harm caused by performative communications, microaggressions, reinforcing stereotypes in our content, and contributing to damaging our brand’s reputation…. As conscious communicators, with an awareness of others’ experiences and a commitment to centering them, we are uniquely positioned to help build a truly people-centered workplace.”
Source: The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t
“As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in mine.”
“As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, on the conscience by the religious sanctions of an oath. As metes and bounds of government, they transcend all other land-marks, because every public usurpation is an encroachment on the private right, not of one, but of all.”
Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1790-1802
“As companies age they tend to become more reliant on extracting value from their past successes and less desirous of innovating. It's every CEO's job to ensure the company rejects this tendency and instead chooses to embrace both the capital of past success and the capital of present innovation.”
“As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.”
“As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.”
“As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.”
“As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit”
“As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.”
“As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.”
“As computers replace textbooks, students will become more computer literate and more book illiterate. They'll be exploring virtual worlds, watching dancing triangles, downloading the latest web sites. But they won't be reading books.”
Source: High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian
“As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.”
Source: A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
“As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.”
“As concerning marriage, besides that it is a covenant, the entrance into which only is free, but the continuance in it forced and compulsory, having another dependence than that of our own free will, and a bargain commonly contracted to other ends, there almost always happens a thousand intricacies in it to unravel, enough to break the thread and to divert the current of a lively affection: whereas friendship has no manner of business or traffic with aught but itself. Moreover, to say truth, the ordinary talent of women is not such as is sufficient to maintain the conference and communication required to the support of this sacred tie; nor do they appear to be endued with constancy of mind, to sustain the pinch of so hard and durable a knot. And doubtless, if without this, there could be such a free and voluntary familiarity contracted, where not only the souls might have this entire fruition, but the bodies also might share in the alliance, and a man be engaged throughout, the friendship would certainly be more full and perfect; but it is without example that this sex has ever yet arrived at such perfection; and, by the common consent of the ancient schools, it is wholly rejected from it.”
“As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'" Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. "did Confucius really say that?" Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. "No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that?”
“As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.”
“As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.”
“As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.”
“As conscious adult women, if we really do care about the state of girls and women worldwide, we need to train this next generation of girls because they are going to be the ones taking over and they are going to be the ones that shift this paradigm. Unfortunately for our generation, we've been raised in a society where greed trumps all. In other words, where the bottom line is money...where money affects how we perceive each other, and how we perceive ourselves and our value. We need to break that now with this younger generation.”