A Quotes
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“As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.”
“As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.”
“As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.”
Source: Havemercy
“As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.”
“As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“As it comes down, carefully situate the sun on yourself like a paper crown, so the light of the universe never sets on your dreams.”
Source: Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life
“As it devises its own system, the Qur’an takes pains to explain its reasoning. For example, the admonition against indulging in alcohol and gambling is justified by the “immense social harm” both can cause, especially the ripple effect of damage to others via drunken violence and crippling debt (addicts in
Arabia often sold their own children into slavery to repay debts).”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“As it drew nearer, excitement grew intense. Swarms of adventurers expecting the overthrow of the Government crowded into Washington.”
Source: The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
“As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?”
“As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers' fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility.”
“As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.”
Source: Children of Blood and Bone
“As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made.”
“As it goes with leaders, so it goes with the whole organization.”
“As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.”
Source: The art of noises
“As it grows, every system exhibits self-reinforcing behavior.”
Source: Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
“As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.”
“As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear.”
“As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.”
“As it happens, I am trying to walk on stars.
Which I think, personally, is more impressive than trying to walk on water.
It's just simple math.
Stars are pretty far apart, you know.
Anyways, I'll let you know how it goes.”
Source: a year in the life
“As it happens, I have a terrible weakness for books."
"What kinds of books?"
"All kinds." Her white shoulders lifted in a charming little shrug, momentarily fascinating him. "History, science, natural philosophy."
"Really?" Born and bred for action, he had never been much of a scholar himself.
"Oh, yes. The ancients. Traveler's tales. And... Gothic novels," she admitted, biting her lip with an impish twinkle in her eyes. "Ghosts and curses and such.”
Source: My Dangerous Duke
“As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.”
“As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.”
“As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.”
“As it has been since the dawn of time, the light and dark are linked as one”
Source: Satan's Secretary, Vol. 1
“As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.”
“As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.”
“As it has the quality to transmit skills and knowledge, our personal history is a brilliant coach teaching us how to act and play along the meanders of life. While it inhabits our living it comes to be our fellow traveler shielding us from slippery slopes; and sometimes from ourselves. ("Going back to yesterday" )”
“As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.”
“As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.”
Source: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered
“As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.”
Source: Bad Science
“As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.”
“As it is I crawl on everyday towards the tomb. When I wake in the morning I think first of death, do you?”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.”
“As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.”
“As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.”
Source: Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions
“As it is known to us through East Asian sources, Chan/Zen is the product of two traditions that sometimes overlap, sometimes contradict or ignore each other: namely, the Buddhist orthodoxy the
Sino-Japanese historiographical tradition.”
Source: Chan Insights and Oversights
“As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.”
“As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments.”
“As it is now, decades after 1965, the people of Indonesia have no clue about any other system except their own, or about true democracy.”
“As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.”
Source: Ricordi
“As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.”
Source: Enchiridion
“As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.”
Source: The High Window: A Novel
“As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?”
“As it is the case with the Democratic construct, which is inherently a cultural expression, this truth is in most part also self-evident in apropos to all variant of institutionalized coercion, rather of a political or theocratic disposition. Such as is the case in particular in non-Democratic disposed cultures, where the cultural norm for their cultivation, is most prolific and sentient. Ergo, the ensue of political severity, is not always necessarily attributed to an imposed arbitrarian polity..but rather, it can also be a self-imposed cultural property and organic form of a specific facet of cultural norm or proclivity".”
“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.”
“As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.”
“As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man's heart be much indisposed to prayer, yet, if he can but fall into a meditation of God, and the things of God, his heart will soon come off to prayer....Begin with reading or hearing. Go on with meditation; end in prayer....Reading without meditation is unfruitful; meditation without reading is hurtful; to meditate and to read without prayer upon both, is without blessing.”