A Quotes
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“As snowflakes kiss the earth, hearts bundle up to ignite the light of love. For this is the quest, to gather for the lost fire beneath the sheets of snow as the hearts are riotous for love.”
“As so many commitments
demand your time
Or your shut-eye important be,
Your attraction to me must
in some way lack,
Such a pity to spend time
on thee.”
“As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.”
Source: Frenzied liberty: the myth of
“As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.”
Source: Frenzied liberty: the myth of
“As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.”
“As so often happened in the village, Beryl had noticed that there were undercurrents and unspoken histories flowing between people. It was something she had never experienced herself, and whenever it occurred, it left her feeling a little hollow inside, as if there was a part of life that she had missed out on by being so eager to ramble from place to place.”
Source: Murder Comes to Call
“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.”
Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir
“As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.”
“As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.”
“As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.”
“As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.”
“As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.”
“As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.”
“As so often is the case, the public hero that others admire can leave quite a trail of private hurt in his wake.”
“As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has begun with accusations of plagiarism after Mr Trump's wife Melania gave a speech dotted with sentences that appeared to have been lifted from a speech that Michelle Obama gave in 2008.”
“As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.”
“As soap wastes away each time when used, so a prostitute wastes away each time she gives of herself.”
“As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders”
Source: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them”
Source: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
“As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.”
“As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.”
“As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of both government and environmentalists, these strategies, and the institutions that were created to prosecute them, foundered.”
“As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.”
“As sociedades modernas vivem tempos insanos. A serenidade é um artigo de luxo”
Source: A Saga de Um Pensador
“As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“As societies become more egalitarian, people feel less pressure to pursue ever-higher incomes and more glamorous status goods. This liberates people from the treadmill of perpetual consumerism.”
Source: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.”
Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”
Source: Critical Writings
“As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.”
“As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.”
“As society evolves, business models evolve.”
“As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.”
“As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.”
“As society is inundated with complex issues, fatigue is taking over making simplicity of the message more attractive, especially when more effort is put into the amplification of the message then the research needed to find a path to viable answers. - Tom Golway”
“As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“As society, we haven’t quite figured out what a new structure for meals would look like that isn’t just a hasty sandwich in the car on the way to something more important.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.”
“As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.”
Source: A Few Brass Tacks
“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.”
“As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.”
“As soldiers, you will always have to cherish and live up to the three ideals of faithfulness, duty and sacrifice. Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible. If you, too, want to be invincible, engrave these three ideals in the innermost core of your hearts.”
Source: Netaji Collected Works
“As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.”
“As sombras continuarão a visitar-me
mas o meu amor as distrairá.
Cozinharei para elas a euforia
com fígado e cebola, água do rio,
granizo e mel. Afundarei o crepúsculo
nos pratos, enquanto sussurro o segredo
da loba, e deixarei que todas se sentem
em redor da mesa.
Elas soltar-me-ão o cabelo e tocarão,
ao de leve, o meu pescoço.
E da minha boca cairão flores sobre a toalha.
Vejam o meu amor aí derramado
como é infinito e grande e húmido,
uma debandada de cavalos selvagens.
Assim é o meu amor, sintam-no
tão largo como é, ofensivo, bruto.
Comam-no, digladiem-se, desçam.
E, no fim, deixem-me em paz
para eu poder adormecer docemente
depois de voltar a pentear os meus afectos.”
Source: Infinitesimal Agora A Partir Da Terra [Poesia Reunida 2002-2024]
“AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?”
“As some find picking on people a treasured entertainment, ‘recreational bullying’ has become their devious tool, to satisfy an exhibitionist urge to outdo themselves, by dredging up acerbic stories for score-settling and airing dirty laundry. ("On a doggy day")”
“As some heads cannot carry much wine, so it would seem that I cannot bear so much society as you can. I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough of it this year I shall cry all the next.”
Source: The Quotable Thoreau