A Quotes
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“As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.”
Source: Meditations to Heal Your Life
“As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'”
“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
“As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.”
“As my mom used to say,"If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit.”
Source: The Eldritch Conspiracy
“As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do about this? We’re going to go eat pizza.' We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball. In a way, it was my decision not to starve myself that turned me into a supermodel, and later on, a businesswoman.”
“As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.”
Source: The feast of love
“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.”
“As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.”
“As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.”
“As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.”
Source: Sweet Love
“As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.”
“As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.”
“As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation; and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.”
Source: THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I’ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.”
“As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.”
“As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands, like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks together that people can actually buy and afford.”
“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies”
“As my passion is theatre when I do a film I'm taking time out from my theatre career. So, I'm desperate to get back into the theatre. So, I have to make sure that I put my foot down, especially with the agents and stuff, and say: "Hey no, I'm doing some theatre!" It is hard but it matters so much to me that it's just something that's going to be necessary and people will have to deal with it.”
“As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God lay in this direction. At the same time, these undeniable experiences lit up and were in turn illuminated by all the philosophical and historical knowledge I had by then amassed and I began to understand in an entirely new way the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity as well as the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.”
“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”
“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.”
“As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.”
“As my princess commands," he says, "I shall now cease to worry about her uncle chopping off her head.”
Source: A Creature of Moonlight
“As my research into electromagnetic radiation progressed, I was turning into a strange mixture of Nikola Tesla, Bruce Banner, Dr John Ott and Karen Silkwood.”
“As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?”
“As my sister got older, I saw how excited she got when she got to do all of that stuff. I was always like, "One day, I'll get to do older parts." I thought that was cool.”
“As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.”
Source: How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture
“As my sons went into teenagehood, they started to look like some of the groups of people that I had photographed previously. They started to become like my old subjects. As if, as a photographer, you come around to the same visual points.”
“As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.”
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“As my summer draws to a close,
I drag my dreams behind me,
till all collapses back into light,
in a season without hours.
In the end, only you remain,
beyond the unfolded memory,
as I turn my only heart
toward the sunrise.”
Source: The Void That Reflects Your Beauty
“As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.”
“as my understanding of and competence in treating the disorder have grown, multiple personality has come to seem, though still horrendous, less unique and incomprehensible, and thus more manageable”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“As my visits with Morrie go on, I begin to read about death, how different cultures view the final passage. There is a tribe in the North American Arctic, for example, who believe that all things on earth have a soul that exists in a miniature form of the body that hold it -so that a deer has a tiny deer inside it, and a man has a tiny man inside him. When the large being dies, that tiny form lives on. It can slide into something being born nearby, or it can go to a temporary resting place in the sky, in the belly of a great feminine spirit, where it waits until the moon can send it back to earth.
Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
That is what they believe.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.”
Source: The Woman Upstairs
“As mães são as fiéis depositárias da nossa infância, dos primeiros anos. As tuas memórias mais importantes, mais formadoras, não são tuas, são dela. E quando a tua mãe morrer, levará consigo a tua infância, perderás os primeiros anos da tua vida. Por isso, trata-a bem.”
Source: Flores
“As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.”
“As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.”
Source: Mein kampf, complete and unabridged, fully annotated
“As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.”
“As nations improve, so do their gods.”
“As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.”
“As Native Americans, we believe the Rainbow is a sign from the Spirit in all things. It is a sign of the union of all people, like one big family. The unity of all humanity, many tribes and peoples, is essential.”
“As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.”
Source: Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.”
Source: On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection
“As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.”
Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
“As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.”
“As nature bursts into life this May, so should your creative and intellectual endeavors...your GENIUS!”
Source: Out With The Old TREND INTO YOUR NEW
“As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.”
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity.”
Source: An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?