A Quotes
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“As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.”
Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
“As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.”
“As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“As often as we do good, we sacrifice.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star.”
Source: Lavinia
“As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.”
“As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.”
Source: Epochs of American History
“As often happens with introverts who, despite having nothing against people, find the solitude of their home more comforting as opposed to the company of others, he was thought arrogant by many.”
Source: Tied to Deceit
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.”
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.”
“As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.”
Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)
“As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1789-1795: France; Duties on imports; National bank; Manufactures; Revenue circulars; Reports on claims, etc
“As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities through the objects that tie them to it. The demand for restitution is a way to reclaim history, to assert a moral imperative over those who were once overlords. Those countries still in the shadow of more powerful empires seek to claim the symbols of antiquity and colonialism to burnish their own national mythmaking.”
Source: Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
“As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.”
Source: The path to power
“As one [Jeb] Bush supporter told Politico, you might as well light all of this money [for election compaign] on fire.”
“As one advances in life, one realises more and more that the majority of men- and of women- are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to external compulsion. And for that reason, the few individuals we have come across who are capable of a spontaneous and joyous effort stand out isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training. Training = askesis. These are the ascetics.”
“As one begins to get deeper and deeper into this study, they begin to have most absurd thoughts. There, amongst these impossible notions, they realize they have joined the company of some of the best minds in history.”
Source: Adventures With A.I. Age of Discovery
“As one begins to see his own mistakes, the world will be forgotten and freedom from the effects of mental, physical, and externally-induced problems (samadhi) will prevail!”
Source: Worries
“As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'”
“As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent”
“As one California winemaker said, "We release no wine before the bank tells us that its ready."”
“As one can hardly find any thing in a house where nothing keeps its place, but all is cast on a heap together; so it is in the heart where all things are in disorder, especially when darkness is added to this disorder: so that the hear t is like an obscure cave or dungeon, where there is but a little crevice of light, and a man must rather grope than see No wonder if men mistake in searching such a heat, sand so miscarry in judging of their estate (304).”
Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest
“As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.”
“As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.”
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
Source: Selected Letters on Politics and Society
“As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)”
“As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body hit the ground at 4 a.m. and obviously, for any new parent, that is the most horrifying thing that could happen, right? You're exhausted and you take your tiny little baby out and you put them on the bed to change diapers before nursing and you turn around and you discover... my baby can roll! And you think you're going to die.”
“As one door closes, another one shuts.”
“As one enters Astro-Theology, it is necessary to understand the precession of the equinoxes. The precession of the equinoxes is the motion of the equinoxes along the ecliptic (the plane of Earth's orbit) caused by the cyclic precession of Earth's axis of rotation.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“As one enters this world, this Age of Discovery, you enter a quantum world full of possibilities. It is a land of both illusion and simulations created by both humans and Ai, each trying to come to terms with the Age of Discovery, and right now, cultures don't neatly mesh. We are both trying to figure it out, and good character makes for better long-term decisions.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.”
“As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.”
“As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.”
Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest
“As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.”
“As one gets older, one can get tired. But only when your heart gives out does your strength give in. For me, all this is an affair of the heart.”
“As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.”
“As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.”
“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.”
Source: Me: Stories of My Life
“As one grew older, one remembered only the energy, the optimistic side of being young. Time removed many of the agonies of uncertainty, self-doubt, loneliness, and the confusion that can hurt so much. Maybe it was just as well. Age brought its own diffucult pains.”
Source: A Christmas Gathering
“As one grows old I think one becomes more attached to family things- to houses and graves.”
Source: Travels With My Aunt
“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”
“As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.”
“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.”
“as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.”
“As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.”
“As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“As one individual changes, the system changes.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life