A Quotes
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“As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.”
“As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.”
“As much delusion there is, there is that much weakness. How can one be weak if he is free from delusion?”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.”
“As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.”
“As much fun as it would be to arrest Ruth for murder, he had to grudgingly give up that idea.”
Source: How the Light Gets In
“As much fun as you can have online, always value a real friendship over something virtual. Do yourself a favor and phone, text, or message someone you haven’t seen in six months and ask if they are available for coffee or something. Challenge yourself to do this every month. Turn it into a habit and do it for the rest
of your life.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.”
“as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.”
“As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.”
Source: Roomies
“As much joy as the heart can feel,
As much love as the heart can feel,
The heartbreak, the pain, the loss it can feel, seems to eclipse it all.
Starting at one end of the spectrum to the extreme other end.
Eye-opening it is when you realize how one may not comprehend the pang you feel at the thought of them.
When one doesn't see how bold it was for you to have given your heart to them in the first place.”
“As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.”
Source: The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
“As much less you expect, much less you get hurt.”
“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
“As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.”
“As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.”
“As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.”
“As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.”
“As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances.”
“As much recollection power one has, that much dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) prevails. Our people do not have recollection power at all, so how would dispassion for worldly life arise? Due to illusory attachment (moha), they forget the beatings that they have experienced!”
Source: Worries
“As much research as you think you're doing, you're going to mess up, without a question.”
“As much resolution the mind finds, it (mind) will come to an end by that much and when it finds complete resolution, it will completely dissolve.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.”
“As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.”
“As much upayog (applied awareness) as one can keep, that much authority has been created. If one can keep upayog for five hours, then the authority for five hours has been created. If complete swa-satta (authority of the Self) occurs, then he has become God.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.”
Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)
“As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.”
Source: Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan
“As mudanças económicas do século XVIII tornaram necessário fazer circular os efeitos do poder, por canais cada vez mais sutis, chegando até os próprios indivíduos, seus corpos, seus gestos, cada um de seus desempenhos cotidianos. Que o poder, mesmo tendo uma multiplicidade de homens a gerir, seja tão eficaz quanto se ele exercesse sobre um só.”
Source: Microfísica del poder
“As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminado.”
Source: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
“As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.”
Source: The Way of Zen
“As mulheres em particular saio engenhos de multiplicar homens, são todas feitas de bívios as mulhers, artista de povoar mesmo sem prenhez, basta-lhes falar ou ser, no resto pensam eles: falo-lhe ou não falo? Beijo-a ou não beijo? São irremediáveis e estúpidos os homens, se se aguentam na vida é mais por privilégios de género que por competência, os homens são idiotas carregados de sementes.”
Source: No Meu Peito Não Cabem Pássaros
“As mulheres são muito extensas, a gente viaja-lhes, a gente sempre se perde.”
Source: Every Man Is a Race
“As mundane beings, we really need to make friends with people of good character, for they can have a positive influence on us by encouraging us to do good, pointing out the errors we make, and preventing us from going astray when we are in the deep suffering of anguish and afflictions.
When we become afflicted and get confused about what to do with our life, we are like a traveler who loses his orientation and doesn’t know which way to go. The way for him to get back on track is to quickly seek help from someone who can point out the right road. When he is given directions, he should really mindfully listen; otherwise he will soon get lost again and not be able to reach his destination.
In life, we need wholesome friends beside us. Not only can they provide guidance, support and encouragement; they also set a good example for us.”
Source: The Power of the Heart: A Collection of Teachings
“As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.”
“As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.”
Source: How Music Works
“As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.”
“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.”
“As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.”
“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.”
“As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.”
“As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.”
“As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.”
“As Muslims the way we show respect to the creator is by respecting creation and this is why we have to reconcile ourselves with the objectives of the Revelation and the objective is really to honor nature as part of Creation.”
“As Muslims we can advise one another from love, but the role of the Divine Judge, Al-Hakam, is purely reserved for Allah alone. As Muslims we can’t be harsh with the creation and expect the Creator of that creation to be soft with us. In fact, the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم tells us, “The merciful will be shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those on the earth and the One in the heavens will have mercy upon you.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith
“As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of critical loyalty: Staying loyal to our countries by always being critically engaged in the name of the principles of justice, equality and human brotherhood. We should be the ethical and moral voice wherever we are by saying that, even though we understand economic and geo-strategic interests, we cannot accept a violation of these principles by any society.”
“As Muslims, we are all equals, we abide by the laws and we understand that we have to be active citizens wherever we are. Our goals are first to live by our principles, to remind people of these values, to reconcile our respective societies with these shared universal values and to try our best to push for a spiritual agenda with more ethics in society, in politics, in economics, and in culture.”
“As Muslims, we must have an active presence based on ethical and moral consistency. We need to be very vocal, to inform people, to demonstrate when necessary. We need to write so that the people understand that what they are getting from the media and politicians is biased and not accurate. And this is true especially when it comes to some communities within the U.S. or with respect to the Middle East and Africa. This is what I am expecting from a new generation of leaders: Meet these expectations of moral consistency.”
“As my Advent celebration approaches its end, I remember how merciful the Lord has been. My eyes move reluctantly from the manger. But if I emulate the wise men, who followed the star that led them to Jesus, my view will move across the poignant scenes of Christ’s mortal life, be stopped short by wonder and gratitude as I consider the incomparable gift of His atonement, crucifixion, and resurrection, and then lift to the promised dawn of His second coming. As I consider His promised return, I might ask myself, “When that day comes, will I kneel and joyfully exclaim that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Light of the World, my Redeemer, Deliverer, and Savior, or will it be truth that compels me to confess His name?” Today, as my celebration by candlelight of His first advent draws to a close, I resolve to let Him prevail in my life so that my adoration of Him in the brilliant light of His second advent will be spontaneous, heartfelt, and unrestrained.”