A Quotes
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“As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.”
“As we open the gates to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, we know that millions of guests will open their hearts to this fantasy world where characters and stories spring to life, where dreams come true and where families will have fun together.”
“As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place.
He chuckled rather heartily at my naiveté. 'I'm afraid it's not as if we have substitutes sitting on the bench somewhere waiting to be called in to play. When a specialist retires or, even more unfortunately, dies, that can bring a stop to things in that field, sometimes for a very long while.'
And I suppose that's why you value someone who spends forty-two years studying a single species of plant, even if it doesn't produce anything terribly new?'
'Precisely,' he said, 'precisely.' And he really seemed to mean it.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“As we pass the mirror in the bedroom, my attention is drawn to the lovely couple in the reflection. There is a man, tall with broad shoulders. His red hair cut short. He has nothing but a towel on. In his arms is a female, slender but muscular. Her wheat colored hair is pulled back in a neat bun on top of her head. Both of their skin is smooth and flawless, a little paler than most, but still complete perfection. You can tell by the way the man holds her, he cares a lot for her. You can also tell that he is afraid of holding her too tight, not wanting to crush her smaller frame into his body. Looking at this young pair in the mirror, one can only wonder of all the possibilities. What led them to this place? What is in store for them? Will there be a happy ending?”
Source: Broken Rules
“As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'”
“As we passed he returned grimly to his task, though his arthritic hands could hardly close around the stick. There was something almost regal about him, I thought; a defiance I admired. He was a holdout who refused to give up his post. The last watchmen at the end of the world.”
“As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.”
Source: The Essential Lewis and Clark
“As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.”
Source: (The Great Gatsby)
“As we passed the 10th floor, we found ourselves staring down at the city of Atlanta as we moved ever faster towards the 72nd floor. Rudy’s color changed dramatically. His face turned deathly white, which scared the hell out of me. But that was only the beginning. He began screaming, then slid down to the floor and covered his head with both of his arms.”
Source: Murder in Buckhead
“As we passed this living cruelty, I shuddered in momentarily isolation and then let out an audible gasp at what I saw. They were hanging from trees! Some shaking violently, with their intestines hanging out of their bodies! Those who were still partly alive were screaming with pain, and wriggling on the branches trying to get off the ropes ... some had fallen off the branches of the trees, they were crawling along the ground, and towards us.”
Source: Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain
“As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done ― not on an empty road at midnight.”
“As we patiently follow the Savior, He will bless us beyond our own capacity to become what He wants us to be.”
“As we pay our tithing faithfully, the Lord will open the windows of heaven and pour out upon us His richest blessings.”
“As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”
“As we penetrate deeper and deeper, we not only have to abandon ordinary language but also long-held concepts that no longer apply to this world of the infinitely small. Now, physicists are dealing with nonsensory experience reality. Like mystics, they have to face the paradoxical aspects of this experience.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“As we plant in tears, we shall harvest with joy.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.”
“As we practice life-long learning, never accept ignorance in yourself, but do tolerate it in others.”
Source: Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified
“As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.”
“As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.”
“As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.”
“As we pray these fire prayers, the powers of darkness in the spirit realm will quiver and tremble in every area of your life that needs to be broken and brought down. Whether it’s fear, terror, sickness, or any kind of torment that any demons have against you, they will know today that the same as Pharoah and his army drowned in the Red Sea, these demons will drown in the blood of Jesus today.”
Source: Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
“As we prepare our homes to be places where the Spirit is welcome, we will be prepared to feel more 'at home' when we enter the House of the Lord.”
“As we pretend to be brave, we become so.”
Source: Morning Star
“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”
“As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.”
“As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.”
Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
“As we protect our bodies, we should protect our minds too. Because when your mind is happy and healthy, it will not work against you, and it will work for you.”
Source: Pause. Heal. Live.: A Woman's Guide to Happiness
“As we pursue our strategies world-wide, we accept a social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a sustainable economy and recognition of the accountability we have to the economies, environments, and communities where we do business around the world.”
“As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime.”
“As we raise our vibrations through awareness of our true being, our energy field expands in radiance and beauty. Our awareness also expands with our energy field, and we become more intuitive and telepathic. We become more heart-centered in our personal relationships and with ourselves.”
Source: Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
“As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.”
Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.”
“As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.”
Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
“As we reached the wooded hill that led to the pipe, Cheater said, "Uh-oh."
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Is anyone here thinking about kicking the crap out of me?" he asked.
"Not me," I said.
"Me either," Lucky said.
"Maybe tomorrow," Flinch told him. "But not at the moment." hidden talents”
Source: Hidden Talents
“As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.”
“As we read on a daily basis, growing in our skill in Bible reading, the rhythm of a life lived deeply in God’s Word will become as nurturing as our daily meals, as spiritually strengthening as daily exercise, and as emotionally satisfying as a good-morning kiss from a spouse. It takes discipline, but Bible reading can come to be a discipline of delight if we open our hearts and lives to it.”
Source: Read the Bible for Life: Your Guide to Understanding and Living God's Word
“As we read, ponder, and pray, there will come into our minds a view of the three gardens of God—the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the Empty Tomb where Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene.”
“As we read the stories of [the] last week of the life of Christ…, we are not to think of what we read as the last days of a good man scandalously treated and slowly engulfed by powers too great for him. No, we’re to wonder at the majestic condescension of God, the unbroken movement of the will of God. At the Last Supper, faced with the presence of his betrayer, Jesus said, ‘the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!’ (Luke 22:22). These words—‘as it has been determined, but woe’—stand over the whole of the course of the passion. Holy Week is no accident and no tragedy. The betrayal of Judas, the abandonment of the disciples, the vacillation and weakness of Pilate, the self-protection of the leaders of the people—none of this corners Jesus or overtakes him. He is and remains Lord.”
“As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.”
“As we receive, we give.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.”
“As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.”
“As we reinvent our life endlessly we should open our minds to the infinite possibilities that do exist.”
Source: The Solution
“As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.”
“As we remember the importance of the enlightened feminine in this book, as in the story of Tara that I shared in the Introduction, we must bear in mind that ultimately in the absolute sense, gender is an illusion, just another one of those illusions that we attach to and fixate on so firmly.
At the same time, as Tara also said, in the relative world, empowerment has been the domain of one gender. And therefore she vows:
"Those who wish to attain Supreme enlightment in a man's body are many, but those who wish to serve the aims of beings in a woman’s body are few indeed; therefore may I, until this world is emptied out, work for the benefit of sentient beings in a woman's body."
She makes a commitment not only for enlightenment, but to have all our voices heard: our human rights respected, violence and rape cease, serial harassment end, and women's issues represented at the table where decisions that affect us all are being made.”
Source: Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
“As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.”
“As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.”
“As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others.”
Source: Skillful means
“As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)