A Quotes
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“As pessoas não percebem o quanto não são livres lá onde mais livres se sentem, porque a regra de tal ausência de liberdade foi abstraída delas.”
Source: Indústria Cultural e Sociedade
“As pessoas não precisavam ouvir tudo. Quanto mais peculiaridades e vicissitudes contadas, mais fraco você se tornavaaos olhos delas.”
Source: O que disse o Imperador
“As pessoas não vão se tornando melhores, apenas mais espertas.”
Source: Carrie
“As pessoas pensam que a intimidade tem que ver com sexo.
Mas a intimidade tem que ver com a verdade.
No momento em que percebemos que podemos contar a alguém a nossa verdade, quando podemos mostrar-nos a essa pessoa, quando nos despimos de tudo à frente dela e a resposta é: «Comigo, estás segura.» Isso é intimidade.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“As pessoas pensam que, depois de ser estuprada, você é só uma vítima', diz Mukunilwa. '[...] a vida continua depois do estupro. O estupro não é o fim. Não é uma identidade imutável.”
Source: The Vagina Monologues
“As pessoas podem ser cruéis quando você realiza um sonho que costumava ser delas. Logo vai perceber que o amor dos leitores, da crítica ou da mídia pode se virar contra você a qualquer instante.”
Source: Escrita Maldita
“As pessoas precisam de uma despedida, mesmo as que dizem que não, que nem pensar, que não irão ao velório nem ao cemitério. Sobretudo essas. Precisam do adeus para poderem continuar.”
Source: Margarida Espantada
“As pessoas prevem inventando narrativas.
As pessoas prevem muito pouco e explicam tudo.
As pessoas vivem sem ter certeza se gostam ou não.
As pessoas acreditam que podem prever o futuro se trabalharem com afinco.
As pessoas aceitam qualquer explicação contanto que se ajuste aos fatos.
A escrita estava na parede só que a tinta era invisível.
As pessoas muitas vezes dão duro para obter informação que já têm e evitam novo conhecimento.
O homem é um dispositivo determinista lançado em um universo probabilístico.
Nessa partida surpresas são esperadas.
Tudo que já aconteceu deve ter sido inevitável.”
“As pessoas que acompanham uma história estão dispostas a suspender a descrença, desde que as limitações que tornam a história possível sejam coerentes e consistentes. Os escritores, por sua vez, concordam em obedecer às suas decisões finais. Quando os escritores enganam, os fãs ficam irritados. Querem atirar o livro para a lareira e atirar um tijolo à televisão.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“As pessoas que não compartilham os mesmos horizontes com você permanecerão em sua vida apenas por um tempo!”
“As pessoas querem te derrubar. Para ser miserável como eles ou a ser menor do que são. Mas você deve libertar-se desta gravidade que sempre quer mantê-lo no chão. Sempre que você quer voar, você é puxado para baixo pelos opositores, que têm medo que você vai voar para fora e vencer. Eles querem um amigo miserável que eles podem mandar sempre. Eles te seguram, porque eles viram suas asas a crescer, eles sabem que você é um pássaro e pode voar e ir para onde eles não podem. Porque "os pássaros têm asas; eles estão livres; eles podem voar onde eles querem, quando quiserem. Eles têm o tipo de mobilidade muitas pessoas inveja ", como disse Roger Tory Peterson”
Source: A Grande Pérola da Sabedoria
“As pessoas raramente depositam toda a sua fé numa única história. Em vez disso, mantêm um portefólio de várias histórias e várias identidades, mudando de uma para a outra à medida das necessidades. Essas dissonâncias cognitivas são inerentes a quase todas a sociedades e movimentos. (…) A modernidade não rejeitou a profusão de histórias que herdou do passado. Em vez disso, abriu um supermercado de histórias. O ser humano moderno tem liberdade para experimentá-las a todas, escolhendo e combinando aquilo que lhe aprouver.”
Source: 21 lições para o século 21
“As pessoas sempre foram o que são hoje, só que estavam escondidas do nosso olhar e percepção, o que acontece é que a internet permite que se mostrem, que consigam atingir-nos lá no fundo das suas cavernas, que saiam das tocas para nos golpear.”
Source: Jogos de Raiva
“As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.”
“As Petrarch said in a letter to a friend, “I ate in the morning what I would digest in the evening; I swallowed as a boy what I would ruminate upon as an older man. I have thoroughly absorbed these writings, implanting them not only in my memory but in my marrow.”
Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”
Source: The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation
“As philosopher Kent Dunnington explains, “persons with severe addictions are among those contemporary prophets that we ignore to our own demise, for they show us who we truly are.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this vocabulary is limited, like our own vocabulary that goes from A to Zed, or whether this vocabulary can carry on growing. And to me, I hope that it carries on growing.”
“As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.”
Source: Portrait of Myself
“As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.”
“As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.”
Source: On photography
“As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.”
Source: Psyche and Matter
“As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.”
Source: Twelve Essays
“As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.”
“As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.”
“As Piper walked inside, she surmised that the place was part restaurant, part delicatessen, part butcher shop. One long wall was taken up with a sprawling glass-front refrigerated case housing all sorts of meats and cheeses waiting to be sliced. There were aisles of shelves lined with balsamic vinegars, oils, rice, pastas, salts, and seasonings. Customers sat eating sandwiches at several round tables to the side of the room.
"What'll it be?" asked the teenager behind the counter.
"I'm not sure," said Piper. "What's in a muffuletta?"
The young man recited the ingredients. "Salami, pepperoni, ham, capicola, mortadella, Swiss cheese, provolone, and olive salad.”
Source: That Old Black Magic
“As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.”
“As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.”
“As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.”
“As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.”
Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.”
“As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician.”
“As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more”
“As players, we always have a way to get back at you.”
“As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.”
“As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.”
“As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.”
“As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other.”
“As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?”
Source: Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions
“As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.”
“As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office.”
“As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.”
“As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think environmental concerns have to go to the deep place, so we speak from a place of great empathy for the planet - for the disadvantaged people, animals, places, cultures.”
“As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.”
“As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.”
“As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.”
“As police officers, we’re ready to put our lives on the line to save the lives of others. We may joke and kid around with each other, sometimes, but when the shit hits the fan, it’s time to rock and roll. You don’t think about dying. The adrenaline takes over and you react. Seldom do you have time to think about what you are doing. Instead, you think about staying alive, at all costs, even if it means breaking the rules. Deep down, you know you need to survive, just to avoid putting your family and friends through that hell.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.”
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.”
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator... will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.”