A Quotes
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“As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.”
Source: The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession
“As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."”
“As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.”
“As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.”
“As massas operárias revelam todos os traços da alma gregária. São interesseiras, ávidas, invejosas, tirânicas, ciumentas relativamente a toda e qualquer superioridade. É sobretudo em relação a elas que a seguinte afirmação se revela correcta: Se queres chefiar, começa por obedecer.”
Source: As Antinomias entre o Indivíduo e a Sociedade
“As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.”
Source: Tetrabiblos
“As mating itself is so exciting, lovemaking must be a lot more fulfilling”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“As Matt explained, 'When something is so horrifying that we can't stand to look at it, perhaps we shouldn't be tolerating it.”
Source: Racketeer for Life: Fighting the Culture of Death from the Sidewalk to the Supreme Court
“As Matt walked Rick outside, he whispered, "Don't forget my little secret." He wiggled his eyebrows. "A happy wife. A happy life. Got it?"
Rick nodded. "Got it.”
Source: The Shamrock Case
“As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of political leaders, and the lethal consequences of totalising ideologies.”
“As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.”
“As mature adults, are we not called to a level of discrimination and consideration for the repercussions of our actions on others? Yes, the power of that surge of sexual energy cannot be underestimated—but knowing that every feeling, every impulse, does not need to be acted on … at what cost does a person follow that desire? At what cost to one’s own sense of self-worth and integrity, and at what cost to others?”
Source: After His Affair: Women Rising from the Ashes of Infidelity
“As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.”
“As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options”
“As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected”
“As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.”
“As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional”
“As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy”
“As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive”
“As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?”
“As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.”
“As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.”
Source: A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings
“As McMasters raised the shotgun, the man removed his glasses. There were fields of stars where his eyes should have been. But they weren’t reflections of the night sky. These stars were a glimpse of a dim and distant future where the very laws of physics had been reduced to relics of a forgotten age. Feeble as dying embers, they were the palsied mourners at time’s wake.
McMasters could hear the ultimate silence and feel the biting cold of the one true void. The promise of the eternal nothing beckoned to him. There was a sort of peace in the death it represented, not the death of mind and body but of shape and form. It was the final revelation, the casting off of life’s illusion in favor of the void’s embrace.
from "Riders of the Necronomicon”
“As me old granny used to say before they carried her home to glory, there's three parts to a good sermon. First The Hook, then lay on The Guilt, then you deliver The Sting. I'll be sending the collection plate round shortly.”
Source: Andre's Adventures in MySpace
“As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."”
“As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no.
... "All we are is the result of what we have thought." By changing our mode of thinking, we can remake ourselves completely.”
Source: Meditation: A Simple Eight-Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideala Simple Eight-Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life S Into Daily Life
“As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating.”
Source: Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart Into Daily Life
“As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.”
“As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be less and less desire for that which you don't have, and more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. As meditation goes deeper, a very contented consciousness evolves. Ultimately there is no desire, only contentment.”
“As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.”
“As melancholia replaced the jarring of my invention, I sat.
Unable to breathe in the smog I had created, unable to stand on my betraying legs, unable to howl at the heavens over my sordid soul.
In this inferno, I became paroxysmic, my self-hatred, superparamount, numbness dulling the agony of such a devilish act,
An iron curtain fell upon the surrounding world, or at least what I had left of it to be owned by the laconic eclipse.
All the angels fled, disowning my prayers, the lurid world backed away, leaving me forsaken and detached,
I could no longer hear the bombings, hear them fall, my own fabrication, only the dead air that came after, the intense silence.
Cynical and paralyzed, I realized I had purloined a portion of Hell and given it to the unwilling Earth,
Punishing those I had no right to punish, judging those I had no reason to condemn, destroying cities I had never set foot in.
This is how I became Death, the destroyer of Worlds.”
“As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.”
Source: The Secret Hour
“As Melvin Thompson screamed, he saw his life flash before his eyes. He was disappointed it was not a good life. Nothing good ever seemed to happen to him.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.”
“As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.”
“As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.”
“As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.”
“As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.”
“As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.)”
“As members of the same species, human beings broadly share notions and precepts of morality, of what is socially regarded as a proper conduct. But again, there is no reason to think that these notions and precepts should fully converge and cohere between different people and different communities, or even in the minds of the individuals themselves.”
Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
“As memories flower, it means, they have carried something of the times we once had; that they have carried the nights when I saw stars in your eyes: that they have carried the days when I saw the sea dancing in your soul; that those flowers of memories carried the seeds of who I was to you or who you were to me. And though eons have passed between then and now, somewhere, somehow, the whispers we made from the hearts, still drift in the winds; it means, not all things die but float as songs, in the evening breeze.”
“As memories flower, it means, they have carried something of the times we once had; that they have carried the nights when I saw stars in your eyes: that they have carried the days when I saw the sea swelling in your soul; that those flowers of memories carried the seeds of who I was to you or who you were to me. And though, eons have passed between then and now, somewhere, somehow, the whispers we made from the hearts still drift in the winds; it means, not all things die but float as songs in the evening breeze.”
“As memories whisper, I hear their sweetest refrain.
Its wonders woven, through joy and pain.
The nights feel quieter, and hours stretch long.
In the stars is our story, in the winds, our song.
Each memory, a lamp, in the stillness of night,
A flower of light, in the sea of dark.”
“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.”
Source: Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli
“As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.”
“As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.”
“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
Source: Thoughts
“As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.”
Source: Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage
“As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.”
Source: Philaster