A Quotes
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“As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.”
“As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.”
“As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.”
“As I look back over the other best friendships I've had that also ended, I wonder if, in addition to simply having a finite amount of time for such intimacy, we also have certain periods in our lives in which we seek out people who seem to embody the things we lack. Then, when we gain those things for ourselves, we no longer need that friend in the same way, which causes a serious dissonance in the relationship. Perhaps this is why these particular friendships burn so bright and then disappear so completely.”
Source: Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
“As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.'”
“As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.”
“As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.”
“As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.”
Source: A Sport and a Pastime
“As I look back, I understand what [the record company] was getting at. They were trying to market a record and make it as commercially acceptable as possible. It hurt me and my credibility with critics.”
“As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.”
“As I look hard at the Bible, however, and at the two thousand years of church history since the Bible's completion, it seems evident that God has accommodated himself over and over to the weakness and even the sin of human beings. He also has called his faithful ones to a similar accommodation. The 'already but not yet' tension is clear not only with the coming of Christ but also throughout the Old Testament story of redemption. God chooses a people as a vehicle for global salvation and then works with them in a convoluted trajectory of obedience and blessing, disobedience and punishment, first this way and then that way. God puts up with a compromised plan for the conquest of Canaan, blesses a monarchy he did not want, forestalls the prophesied judgment on both northern and southern kingdoms for generations, and even then preserves a remnant and reestablishes it in Jerusalem. God works not only through Israel but also through the empires of Egypt, Assyria, Persia, and Rome. God works not only through prophets and saints but also through Joseph's brothers, Balaam and his donkey, Nebuchadnezzar and Darius, Caiaphas and Pilate.”
Source: Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender
“As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.”
“As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.”
“As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.”
“As I looked at my hair this morning, I was reminded of a subtle yet certain truth: I cannot control every frickin’ thing!”
“As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw huge forests, extending along several borders. And I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all this: commonality and interdependence. We are one world.”
“As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.”
“As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here, facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running away from this, tired of not telling people, tired of not talking about it, tired of pretending things were okay when they had never, ever been less than okay.”
Source: Second Chance Summer
“As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running from this, tired of pretending that things were okay when they had never, ever been less okay.”
Source: Second Chance Summer
“As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.”
“As I looked up to the stars, I began to cry. I thought the one star that was missing was the Puerto Rican star on the American flag.”
Source: We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
“As I looked upon the lifeless body, devoid of tears, a cold-hearted resolve emerged, carrying the weight of unspoken grievances and a haunting desire for justice in the afterlife.”
Source: Upbringing: Through Trials and Triumphs: A Journey of Faith, Love, and Self-Discovery
“As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go, I discover I'm being supported and guided after all, and that as soon as I'm willing to embrace change, something or someone comes along and shows me how. Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.”
“As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“As I love and accept myself exactly as I am, right here and right now with all my so-called flaws and imperfections, I find it easier to accept others in the same way. As I open my consciousness to tap into unconditional love, I connect with new levels of spiritual power. I see a blanket of benevolence covering the planet, helping to transform Earth’s consciousness from fear to love.”
“As I love and approve of myself and others, my life gets better and better.”
“As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.”
“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”
Source: The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play, with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors by W. Dodd
“As I loved
It was a moment of inner strife,
Where everything clashed with every force of life,
The feelings shielded the heart,
The memories protected the mind with an inimitable art,
And in this brutal battle I was caught,
Everything appeared flawed and with follies fraught,
Heart was beating to please the feelings,
And the mind dwelled on memories in its secret dealings,
But whatever their acts might have been,
They both were desperately trying to keep alive her beauty that they had once felt and seen,
And I let them indulge in their acts,
Because my heart through the memories of the mind was actually safeguarding its love pacts,
Made many decades ago,
But their authenticity and their freshness it could not forgo,
And I knew both of them were willingly caught in this situation,
Because it was their only possible means to offer me some emotional restoration,
So that they could live as I lived,
So that they felt loved as I loved!
And they both silently quoth, “we love her,”
And I openly said, “I love you because you love her!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“As I'm a WIP (work in progress)
whip me if I'm wrong or disgress,
but time has no excuse
to age us at all, no use
when all that we feel is being ageless!”
Source: Flat Feet: An Autobiography of a Cosmic Dancer
“As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.”
“As I'm not currently being chased, I see no need to run.”
Source: House Rules
“As I’m sitting down, a spark flashes from the corner of my eye. She lights an unscented candle, the coy smile that Ryanne inherited appearing on her face.
Scratch that again. I’m going to go make a new life for myself in the woods, away from people forever”
Source: The Crush
“As I'm smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy.
"NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME."
"WELL, I WAS... FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS."
I don't know whether he wants me to apologize for impersonating a sailor, thank him for his service, or stop drooling as I melt into his eyes”
Source: Uninhibited From Lust To Love
“As I'm sure you can imagine, it's profoundly dehumanizing to listen to a virulent the angry stranger shout about how horrible you are to people who are primed to hate you.”
Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
“As I'm sure you know, whenever there is a mirror around, it is almost impossible not to take a look at yourself. Even though we all know what we look like, we all like just to look at our reflections, if only to see how we're doing.”
Source: The Miserable Mill
“As I'm sure you know, whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware. You might examine some letters your sister received recently, for instance, and learn that she was planning on running away with an archduke. You might examine the suitcases of another passenger on a train you are taking, and learn that he had been secretly photographing you for the past six months. I recently looked in the refrigerator of one of my enemies and learned she was a vegetarian, or at least pretending to be one, or had a vegetarian visiting her for a few days.”
Source: The Carnivorous Carnival
“As I’m writing this, I look down at my companion, my cat, Butter. He’s in one of his favorite positions, sprawled out, belly up, at my feet. We share as close a human-animal bond as possible, which is quite a bit. Not all cats obviously allow themselves to love you or even acknowledge your existence, but Butter does. Those soulful green eyes looking up at me in trusting dependence assure me that I am special, even if I am a human being. (p. 113)”
Source: The Women in Me: How They Helped Me Survive and Thrive
“As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.”
“As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.”
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.”
“As I matured, the things that I liked influenced the music I wanted to make.”
“As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do"”
“As I meditate, I leave my attachments and definitions behind, finding myself in a place of stillness, a place that only exists between the last word of a sentence… and the period.”
Source: Perfectly Ordinary: Buddhist Teachings for Everyday Life
“As I memorized the name of every bone and tendon and blood vessel they seemed like the names of animals or trees. There is great power in know the name of something. pg. 39”
Source: The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.”
“As I mentioned in the introduction, we asked around seventy-five hundred people to identify all of the emotions that they could recognize and name when they’re experiencing them. The average was three: glad, sad, and mad—or, as they were more often written, happy, sad, and pissed off. Couple this extremely limited vocabulary with the importance of emotional literacy, and you basically have a crisis. It’s this crisis that I’m trying to help address in this book.”
Source: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience