A Quotes
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“As the season changes, we learn to adapt.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire.”
“As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.”
“As the seasons of the soul change, so too does the relationship between ego and essence evolve. Through practices such as meditation, reflective journaling, and mindful living, we cultivate a soil rich in understanding and acceptance. In this enriched soil, the essence, with its timeless wisdom, is allowed to bloom, spreading its fragrance of peace and serenity through the gardens of our minds.”
Source: The 7 Laws of Quantum Power
“As the seasons of your life turn, you come to discern who truly matters, who never did, and who, through every season, always will—and you choose your peace accordingly.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.”
“As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.”
“As the Self [Pure Soul], one never dies; it is only the beliefs that die.”
“As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.”
“As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.”
“As the sensations of motion and discreteness led to the abstract notions of the calculus, so may sensory experience continue thus to suggest problem for the mathematician, and so may she in turn be free to reduce these to the basic formal logical relationships involved. Thus only may be fully appreciated the twofold aspect of mathematics: as the language of a descriptive interpretation of the relationships discovered in natural phenomena, and as a syllogistic elaboration of arbitrary premise.”
Source: The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
“As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.”
Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
“As the service proceeded, the clergyman drew such pictures of the graces, the winning ways, and the rare promise of the lost lads that every soul there, thinking he recognized these pictures, felt a pang in remembering that he had persistently blinded himself to them always before, and had as persistently seen only faults and flaws in the poor boys. The minister related many a touching incident in the lives of the departed, too, which illustrated their sweet, generous natures, and the people could easily see, now, how noble and beautiful those episodes were, and remembered with grief that at the time they occurred they had seemed rank rascalities, well deserving of the cowhide. The congregation became more and more moved, as the pathetic tale went on, till at last the whole company broke down and joined the weeping mourners in a chorus of anguished sobs, the preacher himself giving way to his feelings, and crying in the pulpit.”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value to reckon by.”
Source: The God of the Machine
“As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.”
“As the shadow mixes with the shadow,
I crave for mixing with you sexually so!”
“as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times
“As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.”
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together.”
“As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.”
Source: Survivor: The Ultimate Game : the Official Companion Book to the CBS Television Show
“As the Siamese says: "Pea rattles loud in empty head".”
“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.”
Source: Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
“As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.”
“As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.”
“As the sky began to darken she sank down in the chair. She had just watched over a thousand Alliance soldiers die in the space of less than a minute. Yet the encounter would be considered a victory, for the enemy was vanquished. But at such a cost.
She considered what Alex had asked of her…and began to understand.”
Source: Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Three
“As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated—but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water.”
Source: Poisoned Apple
“As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night’s velvet slippers
I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“As the sky unveils the path, may every step I take lead me closer to our fate.”
“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.”
Source: The Way of Peace
“As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me. Would it make you feel better To watch me, while I bleed? All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.”
“As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“As the snake slid swiftly past him, Harry could have sworn a low, hissing voice said, "Brazil, here I come.... Thanksss, amigo.”
“As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.”
Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill
“As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.”
“As the soil was renewed, so one's feelings seemed to change, uniting in some inexplicable way with a distant age when the eyes and ears of men were more alert to sights, sounds, and fine distinctions.”
Source: Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales
“As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit”
“As the son of a director, I really believe an actor's place is just to shut-up and do what you're told to some agree.”
“As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.”
“As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.”
“As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.”
Source: The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts
“As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.”
“As the song goes, 'You are lost and gone forever, oh my darling, Valentine.'"
[...]
I’m listening to someone give up. Someone I knew. Someone I liked.
I’m listening. But still, I’m too late.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.”
“As the soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body.”
“As the southern sun is setting, my internal flame for thou still rise.”
“As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger”
“As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.”
“as the spirit wanes the form appears”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.”
Source: Out-door Papers