A Quotes
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“As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.”
Source: New Collected Poems
“As I allow my soul to drive
the various systems in my body,
I also allow my soul to create and experience
all the prosperity that my heart desires.”
Source: Affirmations for Glowing skin
“As I always have with stand-up or anything, you kind of draw on what you're going through in your life.”
“As I always mingle with you poesy,with a half lip of smile,my heart is so in frail and mind in ponder,without knowing how to Love you deeper,for what you gave me as another sun shine.”
“As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.”
“As I always say, 'Not always right, but never in doubt.'”
“As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.”
“As I always say, leopard print is a neutral.”
“As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.”
“As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.”
“As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.”
“As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can't take proper care of too many things. That's why I want to cherish properly the things I love.”
“As I am defeated today, I tell you to believe what you will. Just as you believe in yourself, your worst enemies believe in themselves.”
Source: The Amulet: Journey to Sirok
“As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.”
“As I am generous towards others ... As I see a person in need and don't just say, 'God bless you.' I am proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.”
“As I am in favor of human rights, so am I also in favor of animal rights. That’s the way of a whole human being.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.”
“As I am still on duty at this moment, is there anything else I can do for you?” he continues.
Images of him kissing me, disrobing me and fondling my entire body fill my mind… I push them away, although I know my face has coloured at the thought.
“I have a few suggestions…” I murmur quietly, staring into his smouldering blue eyes. “But I am not sure they fall into a butler’s remit.”
“Perhaps you’d be surprised at the lengths I’m prepared to go to in order to keep you happy, madam,” he replies, winking at me.”
Source: Erotic Fantasies
“As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]”
“As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place.”
Source: Correspondence: 1676-1687
“As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.”
“As I am. As I am. All or not at all.”
Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader
“As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.”
“As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.”
Source: Renegade’s Magic (The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 3)
“As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.”
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“As I approach mid-life, I feel like the old boot that lands on Mayfair after an eight-hour game of Monopoly.”
Source: Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8
“As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.”
“As I approach the last of a man's seven ages, i am more than ever persuaded that life is too short for Wagner, a man who was never in a hurry when it came to composing an opera.”
“As I approached the field, I called the tower, identified myself, and said I would like to land and pay my respects to General Patton if that was agreeable and convenient. I was cleared to land. When I parked, there was Georgie in his famous Jeep with the three-star flags flying, his helmet reflecting the sun gloriously and his ivory-handled revolvers at his side. He rushed forward, threw his arms around me, and with great tears streaming down his face, said, "Jimmy, I'm glad to see you. I didn't think anyone would ever call on a mean old son of a bitch like me.”
Source: I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
Source: Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“As I battle this plague from past, I pin my hope in your sacred grace, Thy love shall resurrect itself I know, In the most unholiest of places…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went - indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.”
“As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening.”
“As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.”
Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning
“As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.”
“As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.”
Source: Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth
“as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.”
Source: The House of Commons at Work
“As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.”
“As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.”
“As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.”
Source: The Slight Edge
“As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.”
“As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!”
“As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.”
“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".”
“As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.”
“As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".”
“As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.”