A Quotes
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“As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind all principality and power, so Christians put on the Holy Spirit, and are at rest.”
“As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.”
“As the love symphony
of Beethoven wafted
in the air, you and I
made love last
Saturday afternoon.
And the neighbor's dog
barked madly, every time
our bed creaked
from all the gyrations
that you and I
could outmaneuver
in our frenzy of wanting
each other's body and soul!”
“As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.”
Source: Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China
“As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, “Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.””
“As the lyrics show, BTS knew that even if they were to come down from their height, they knew how to land and not fall. This was the result of resilience and hope earned through coming through countless struggles.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“As the lyrics show, BTS knew that even if they were to come down from their height, they knew how to land not fall. This was the result of resilience and hope earned though coming through countless struggles.”
“As the machinations of the end-time conspiracy seemed to become more involved, some fundamentalists felt a need to monitor the enemy. Conspiracy theorists share a passion for gathering and collating data matched only by professional intelligence agencies. In 1937, the fundamentalist Church League of America, in Wheaton, Illinois, began to compile dossiers on the enemies of Christ. By the late 1960s, the group claimed to have seven million index cards on subversives, a collection they said was second only to that of the FBI. An associate of Mclntire, Major Edgar C. Bundy, assumed control of the Church League of America in 1956. Using his experience as a former Air Force intelligence officer, Bundy built up a data bank the organization had inherited from J. B. Matthews, a former investigator for Senator McCarthy.”
Source: Architects Of Fear
“As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.”
Source: A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction
“As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.”
“As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: ‘Don’t waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!’
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.”
Source: The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
“As the manager of the Desoto Solar Farm, I started to slowly become aware it was dangerous from private conversations with the field workers that were involved with its construction.”
“As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all.”
Source: Afterlife
“As the manufacturing base at home hollows out, human talent withers. If scientists are beset by constant worry about landing the next short-term contract, the prospects for profound discovery will not be auspicious.”
Source: China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine
“As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“As the map of the Great Plain was being redrawn by a young Shazarian councillor, the ageing Shylonian king interrupted mid-speech to ask him his name. With a piercing glare and a haughty flick of his cloak, he retorted ‘Lord Ratilla, Shazarian Imperial Secretary, and who might you be?’ Behind the gasps of horror, the message was clear. It was Shazaria who now bestrode the Amaran world, henceforth the office of Shazarian minister now held greater prestige than even that of foreign monarchs. What became even clearer were the depths of Shazarian treachery. The impudent youth who stood before the kings of Amara stripping them of ancient provinces, was the same adolescent reputed to have delivered an eloquent speech which swayed the Shazarian councillors in favour of war.
Had this been their intention all along?”
Source: Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
“As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity
Unveiling the grim reality of duality
In which everyone is a casualty, no one will be exempt
Truth has many shades
It's not a matter of black and white, but gray
Although many, we are one, so in the final analysis
Could it be that we are fighting a war that can't be won?”
“As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.”
Source: The quiet crisis and the next generation
“As the master so the valet.”
“As the means, so the end.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.”
“As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.”
“As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.”
“As the memories break loose in the breeze, yesterday comes back all over again...”
“As the men of the age were not accustomed to see any excellence or greater perfection than the things thus produced, they greatly admired them, and considered them to be the type of perfection, barbarous as they were. Yet some rising spirits, aided by some quality in the air of certain places, so far purged themselves of this crude style”
Source: [(The Lives of the Artists )] [Author: Giorgio Vasari] [Dec-2008]
“As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.”
Source: Sex & Character
“As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.”
“As the middle child of the Laurel Canyon Adams Family, Whit was surprisingly chill on the subject of ampire-vays.”
Source: Drain You
“As the milky early morning sun slips in through her kitchen windows, Cosima plucks the blossoms off her yellow squash and begins to make her way through today's menu: courgette blossom and artichoke pizza, wild mushroom and tomato bruschetta, lemon and pistachio cake, vanilla and orange oil cannoli, espresso and hazelnut tart... And into each bowl she sprinkles a generous pinch of paternal love, protection, and devotion.”
Source: The Witches of Cambridge
“As the mind expands, so does the universe of possibilities.”
“As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man”
“As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
“As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.”
Source: The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid
“As the mind of the biologic (human) functions on electromagnetism and the electromagnetic field surrounds and pervades, a dynamic where magnetism flows through your screen interface is a functional reality.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“As the mind of the individual develops within various contexts, such as the family or different educational institutions, it seeks out those various and fluctuating traditions that are at hand. The child learns, for example, to speak the language of his or her nation and what it means to be a member of that nation as expressed through its customs and laws. These traditions become incorporated into individual's understanding of the self. When those traditions that make a part of one's self-conception are shared by other individuals as part of their self-conception, one is then both related to those other individuals and aware of the relation. The relation itself, for example, living in the same geographical area or speaking a common language, is what is meant by the term "collective consciousness".”
Source: Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction
“As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.”
“As the Minotaur walks to his car Buddy charges the fence, snorting, slobbering and barking maniacally. The Minotaur is no longer afraid of Buddy, and he knows the dog means no real harm. But they have an unspoken understanding. Each of them has a history; each clings to an image, however diminished, of himself and his place in the world.”
Source: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
“As the Mississippi snaked and their old home slipped further away, perhaps Samuel had finally left the curse behind.”
Source: These Colors Don't Run
“As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will”
“As the modern scholar Alan Cameron has put it: ‘In 529 the philosophers of Athens were threatened with the destruction of their entire way of life.’ The Christians were behind this – yet you will search almost in vain for the word ‘Christian’ in most of the writings of the philosophers. That is not to say that evidence of them is not there. It is. The miasmatic presence of the religion is keenly felt on countless pages: it is Christians who are driving persecutions, torturing their colleagues, pushing philosophers into exile. Damascius and his fellow scholars loathed the religion and its uncompromising leaders. Even Damascius’s famously mild and gentle teacher, Isidore, ‘found them absolutely repulsive’; he considered them ‘irreparably polluted, and nothing whatever could constrain him to accept their company’. But the actual word Christian is missing. As if the very syllables were too distasteful for them to pronounce, the philosophers resorted to elaborate circumlocutions.
At times, the names they gave them were muted. With a masterful understatement, the present system of Christian rule, with its torture, murder and persecution, was referred to as ‘the present situation’ or ‘the prevailing circumstances’. At another time the Christians became – perhaps a reference to those stolen and desecrated statues – ‘the people who move the immovable’. At other times the names were blunter: the Christians were ‘the vultures’ or, more simply still, ‘the tyrant’. Other phrases carried a contemptuous intellectual sneer. Greek literature is awash with hideously rebarbative creatures, and the philosophers turned to these to convey the horror of their situation: the Christians started to be referred to as ‘the Giants’ and the ‘Cyclops’. These particular names seem, at first sight, an odd choice. These are not the most repellent monsters in the Greek canon; Homer alone could have offered the man-eating monster Scylla as a more obvious insult. That would have missed the point. The Giants and the Cyclops of Greek myth aren’t terrible because they are not like men – they are terrible because they are. They belong to the uncanny valley of Greek monsters: they look, at first glance, like civilized humans yet they lack all the attributes of civilization. They are boorish, base, ill-educated, thuggish. They are almost men, but not quite – and all the more hideous for that. It was, for these philosophers, the perfect analogy. When that philosopher had been beaten till the blood ran down his back, the precise insult that he hurled at the judge had been: ‘There, Cyclops. Drink the wine, now that you have devoured the human flesh.”
Source: The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
“As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.”
“As the moon glides through its sacred dance of light and shadow, so too will you move through the varied rhythms of your days. There will be times when your light is full, when you stand in your radiance, casting a gentle glow that reaches far and wide. And there will be moments when shadows gather, when your light seems to fade into the quiet, hidden places of your soul.”
“As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.”
“As the moon rose before her very eyes, the first beams hit the pond, sending sparkles of light bouncing off the water. "It's beautiful."
"So are you." His voice seemed to brush across her, like soft, smooth silk.”
Source: Midnight Ride
“As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.”
“As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.”
Source: Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales
“As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons
“As the morning laughs over the meadows, the daffodils splash new life over the fields, a new beginning written in gold.”
“As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.”
Source: The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...
“As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.”