A Quotes
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“As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.”
Source: Religious Training of Children in the School, the Family, and the Church
“As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.”
Source: On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
“As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“As life continues, a new light brings a new book. As goodness only reigns by silent respect, I admit the sun always shines.”
“As life continues, so will grief.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.”
Source: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends
“As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood.”
Source: The letters of Lewis Carroll
“As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.”
“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
“As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“As life has its way, unfortunate events often happen in a row-one after another, shooting forth like a rapid train in front of our eyes. When one's heart is still hurting, still fighting, another strike is already on the way.
No time to feel, no time to notice, no time to heal.”
Source: Sense of Home
“As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“As life is a breath, savoring is a held exhale, a placeholder for joy.”
Source: Serve and Savor: Nourishing Health, Family & Community
“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”
“As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.”
“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”
“As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.”
“As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great strong masses: the buttons are lost, but the sitter remains; the sitter is lost, but the shadow remains; the shadow is lost, but the picture remains. And that, night cannot efface from the painter's imagination.”
“As light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow upbeat views to gain power. Thus and so, thoughtfulness readily opens a blistering sky in the faltering shadow of unawareness. ("Absence of Desire")”
“As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.”
“As like as we (Super Junior and E.L.F.) started together, let's put up the end together.”
“As like flour, sugar, eggs, etc. all needed to bake a cake the same process is needed in your life to bake your cake, all of us have all the ingredients we ever need to bake any cake we desire”
“As Lillian walked into the orangery, she was suffused in the scent of... oranges. But lemons, bays, and myrtles also cast their fragrance extravagantly through the gently heated air.”
Source: It Happened One Autumn
“As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.”
“as linhas de sua palma parecem uma delicada coleção de ausências. você sempre terá que tomar cuidado com o que toca.”
Source: Uma delicada coleção de ausências
“As Little Crow had said, 'When men are hungry, they help themselves.”
Source: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.”
Source: The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation
“As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."”
“As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“As LLMs burgeon and permeate diverse sectors, the mandate for transparency, facilitated by all-encompassing documentation, becomes even more pressing.”
Source: Introduction to Large Language Models for Business Leaders: Responsible AI Strategy Beyond Fear and Hype
“As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.”
“As London Bridge burns down, Brixton’s burning up, turns out you’re in luck cos’ I know this dodgy fuck in the duck.”
“As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.”
“As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination... to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.”
“As long as [Mikhail] Saakashvili is president, I will be unable to prove my innocence in Georgia. Seen in this light, there is a positive aspect to my arrest in Germany. It will be much easier for me to refute the charges here.”
“As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.”
“As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is not only untrue but also unbiblical. It cheapens the gift of salvation – the gift of grace – and make God look like a finicky human.”
Source: 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them
“As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.”
“As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities.”
“As long as a character doesnt die, the character can always come back.”
“As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.”
“As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.”
“as long as a
great number of those impressions which form character, like the nice
motions of the arm, remain absolutely independent of the will of man,
though it would be the height of folly and presumption to attempt to
calculate the relative proportions of virtue and vice at the future periods
of the world, it may be safely asserted that the vices and moral
weakness of mankind, taken in the mass, are invincible.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population
“As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.”
Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do
“As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.”
“As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
all of his works are zero.
When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead,
then the work of the Teacher is over.”
Source: The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir
“As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.”
“As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.”
“As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.”
“As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure”