A Quotes
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“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
“As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.”
“As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.”
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.”
“As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty dollar was the way to be happy...and I woke up one morning and I had three retail establishments and a full-blown construction company with partners making great money and I was miserable.”
“As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves”
“As Luke knelt down beside his corpse, Clary couldn’t help but remember what he had said about having loved Valentine once, about having been his closest friend. Luke, she thought with a pang. Surely he couldn’t be sad — or even grieved? But then again, perhaps everyone should have someone to grieve for them, and there was no one else to grieve for Valentine.”
“As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.”
“As luzes da cidade embaçam o céu escondendo as estrelas.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“As lyke as one pease is to another.”
Source: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580. Collated with Early Subsequent Editions
“As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers. In the end, Lynn's stories could not be denied. She was not only a victim, she wanted badly to heal. As her experiences were told and worked through, as she slowly began to come to grips with her past, the personalities within her have slowly begun to heal.”
Source: Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country
“As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests.
I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as known that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free.
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Source: Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country
“As lágrimas de Prajapati
Segundo a sabedoria dos mitos, o deu Prajapati nasceu do turbilhão das águas primordiais, chorando convulsivamente por estar sozinho e por não saber ao certo a razão por que tinhas vindo ao mundo.
Das lágrimas que verteu nesse choro convulsivo de criança abandonada à sua sorte nasceu a Terra e muitos dos seres que passaram a povoá-la. Mas lágrimas houve que foram arrastadas pelo vento para muito longe. Dessas lágrimas nasceu o céu e nasceram as nuvens.
Foi também das suas lágrimas que nasceram as pessoas e os espíritos, a noite e o dia, as estações do ano e também a morte, a única entidade capaz de pôr fim a muitos dos seres nascidos das copiosas lágrimas de Prajapati.
Diz-se que, ainda hoje, sempre que uma criança acabada de nascer irrompe num violento choro, há quem se interrogue sobre a possibilidade de ser um descendente de Prajapanti, com poderes bastantes para transformar as lágrimas da solidão primordial numa miríade de novos seres terrestres e celestes.”
Source: Lendas e contos indianos
“as lágrimas que
caíram no meu caderno
se tornaram poemas”
Source: Inverno do Coração (Versos de Riz de Ferelas)
“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.”
“As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.”
Source: More lives than one
“As madcap whitecaps hammered at the hulls,
the bowsprits breasting saw-toothed waves
now high and mighty, now abject, the Sun
looked down and watched the boats—so bantam, meek,
and of no consequence—become engulfed
by stormclouds smothering the sallow sea.
A norther hurled its curses at the fleet
as in return garboards and sheerstrakes groaned
amidst the helter-skelter of loud shouts.
With drenched and veiny arms the tillers clenched
the quarter rudders, trying to prevent
the roaring ocean, frothing at the mouth,
from swallowing the ships they’d sworn to guide
while thinking: Who, in the last instance, can
withstand its infinite, digestive force?
Anon this beast became a lesser cause
for fear, supplanted by the high-pitched shrieks
of something neither man nor animal
that lurked beyond them in the ebon drear,
its contour barely visible by turns
when intermittent bolts transpierced the sky.
(Canaäd, XV 271-91)”
“As Maeve hurried from the study, she turned and took one last look at her father and Boudicca, whom she always thought of as her sister, an older sibling who remained distant and seldom displayed anything but animosity, but a sister nonetheless. Her father had kept the secret well, enduring the shame and hiding it from the world. It sickened her to discover after all these years that Boudicca was a man.”
Source: Shock Wave
“As magical as they come. What other eyes pray to become. The everlasting magic birthed from. The unconditional love of a mum - Our eyes”
Source: Coming Home
“As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy London air, and remembered another night, a night of ghosts and snow and Christmas music, and Will standing on the steps of the Institute, watching Magnus as he went.”
“As mais das vezes, as individualidades superiores são sacrificadas pelas mediocridades da vida social que as rodeiam. Além disso, o homem superior não trabalha para a sociedade, julgada por ele amiúde como pouco interessante, mas para o sobre-humano, ou seja, para o sobre-humano nele, para o seu ideal pessoal de grandeza.”
Source: As Antinomias entre o Indivíduo e a Sociedade
“As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.”
“As man acts, God reacts.”
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
Source: The Descent of Man: the Evolution
“As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.”
“As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.”
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“As man gradually advanced in intellectual power, and was enabled to trace the more remote consequences of his actions; as he acquired sufficient knowledge to reject baneful customs and superstitions; as he regarded more and more, not only the welfare, but the happiness of his fellow-men; as from habit, following on beneficial experience, instruction and example, his sympathies became more tender and widely diffused, extending to men of all races, to the imbecile, maimed,
and other useless members of society, and finally to the lower animals,—so would the standard of his morality rise higher and higher.”
Source: The Descent of Man
“As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.”
“As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.”
Source: The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation. He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test. He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience. What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.”
“As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.”
Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology
“As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.”
Source: The Marrow of Tradition
“As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life”
“As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.”
“As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose premeditated, sadistic and organised abuse by their parents, relatives and other caregivers such as priests and teachers (Hechler 1988). Adults in psychotherapy described similar experiences. The dichotomies that had previously associated organised abuse with the dangerous, external ‘Other’ had been breached, and the incendiary debate that followed is an illustration of the depth of the collective desire to see them restored. Campbell (1988) noted the paradox that, whilst journalists and politicians often demand that the authorities respond more decisively in response to a ‘crisis’ of sexual abuse, the action that is taken is then subsequently construed as a ‘crisis’. There has been a particularly pronounced tendency of the public reception to allegations of organised abuse. The removal of children from their parents due to disclosures of organised abuse, the provision of mental health care to survivors of organised abuse, police investigations of allegations of organised abuse and the prosecution of alleged perpetrators of organised abuse have all generated their own controversies.
These were disagreements that were cloaked in the vocabulary of science and objectivity but nonetheless were played out in sensationalised fashion on primetime television, glossy news magazines and populist books, drawing textual analysis. The role of therapy and social work in the construction of testimony of abuse and trauma. in particular, has come under sustained postmodern attack. Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded from the dominant symbolic order. However, since the 1990s, post-modern and post-structural theory has often been deployed in ways that attempt to ‘manage’ from; afar the perturbing disclosures of abuse and trauma that arise in therapeutic spaces (Frosh 2002). Nowhere is this clearer than in relation to organised abuse, where the testimony of girls and women has been deconstructed as symptoms of cultural hysteria (Showalter 1997) and the colonisation of women’s minds by therapeutic discourse (Hacking 1995). However, behind words and discourse, ‘a real world and real lives do exist, howsoever we interpret, construct and recycle accounts of these by a variety of symbolic means’ (Stanley 1993: 214).
Summit (1994: 5) once described organised abuse as a ‘subject of smoke and mirrors’, observing the ways in which it has persistently defied conceptualisation or explanation.”
Source: Organised Sexual Abuse
“As manias de um homem podem ser tão boas quanto as de qualquer outro, mas sempre gostamos mais das nossas”
Source: Persuasion
“As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.”
“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations
“As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.”
Source: Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations
“As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.”
“As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.”
Source: Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
“As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison.”
Source: Ovid
“As many as thirty or as few as ten years later, lying exhausted and still, eyes open in the dark long after the three suns of Rakhat had set, no longer bleeding, past the vomiting, enough beyond the shock to think again, it would occur to Emilio Sandoz to wonder if perhaps that day int he Sudan was really only part of the setup for a punchline a life-time in the making. It was an odd thought, under the circumstances. He understood that, even at the time. But thinking it, he realized with appalling clarity that on his journey of discovery as a Jesuit, he had not merely been the first human being to set foot on Rhakhat, had not simply explored parts of its largest continent and learned two of its languages and loved some of its people. He had also discovered the outermost limit of faith and, in doing so had located the exact boundary of despair. It was at that moment that he learned, truly, to fear God.”
Source: The Sparrow