A Quotes
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“As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.”
“As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.”
Source: Essays
“As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.”
“As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.”
“As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.”
“As Yarrow slept and the moon rose high in the sky, a breeze rustled through stalks of onyx-hued basil and deep gray sage, tall as sunflowers. Starlight fell in slants across petals of black violets. A night-dark strawberry rolled across the ground. A plum-colored tomato fell from its stem. Borage and pansies and nasturtium in varying shades of black and gray turned the darkness into its own kind of rainbow.
Beneath the soil lurked something even darker. Generations of pain saturated the earth, fed each stem and fruit and flower. In the soft, thick leaves of sage: loss. In the blackened basil: broken hearts. Tucked inside the husks of charcoal corn: anger and betrayal. Trapped within the bell of burgundy calla lilies: stolen innocence.”
Source: In the Shadow Garden
“As Yasu popped open a giant Kirin- the champagne of Japanese beers- Tomiko placed bowls of special buckwheat noodle soup at everyone's place, since the noodles represent long life. They are also said to bring prosperity, because in the past silversmiths and goldsmiths used to pick up the scraps of metal in their workshops with soba noodle dough. A salty seafood vapor wafted up from my soup bowl, holding a wobbly poached egg in a nest of gray noodles. A pink wheat gluten flower and sprig of Japanese chervil lay submerged in the hot dashi broth, along with two round slices of kamaboko, the springy sweet fish paste eaten all over Japan.”
Source: Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
“As ye of clay were cast by kind,
So shall ye waste to dust.”
“As years and experiences add up and life begins to wear us down, it's easy for the vibrancy of our passion and purpose to fade... Never let your best days be behind you. In my mind, they're always ahead.”
“As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.”
“As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“As years slip by, life's changes leave a scar,
Friends fade away, like distant, fading stars.
Strangers draw near, but ghosts of the past persist,
Invest in hope, as dreams slip through your fist.
Discovering fragments lost, a bittersweet quest,
Closer to the 'you,' though tears fill your chest.
You've every right to outgrow, but it still stings,
No need to apologize for the loss it brings.
In the twilight years, we navigate the pain,
The road now different, forever changed terrain.
Embrace the shifts, for melancholy does reside,
In life's somber, ever-turning, receding tide.”
“As years slip by, life's changes leave a scar,
Friends fade away, like distant, fading stars.
Strangers draw near, but ghosts of the past persist,
Invest in hope, as dreams slip through your fist.
Discovering fragments lost, a bittersweet quest,
Closer to the 'you,' though tears fill your chest.
You've every right to outgrow, but it still stings,
No need to apologize for the loss to me it brings.
In the twilight years, we navigate the pain,
The road now different, forever changed terrain.
Embrace the shifts, for melancholy does reside,
In life's somber, ever-turning, receding tide.”
“As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007”
“As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)
“As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?”
Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
“As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.”
“As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.”
“As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.”
Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“As yogis, we are constantly exploring the world of duality, while being acutely aware of the unity of all things.”
“As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a great risk of egotism. Some people handle it well; some don't.”
“As you accept the conditions of living in the cloud of unknowing, you let go and allow your soul to lead the way, past the sharp edges of your ego, into the light of unconditional acceptance for all that is.”
Source: Reading the Soul
“As you accept the responsibility to seek after truth with an open mind and a humble heart, you will become more tolerant of others, more open to listen, more prepared to understand, more inclined to build up instead of tearing down, and you will be more willing to go where God wants you to go.”
“As you acquire more skills, your ability to create a wider range of products expands. With each new skill, you gain increased confidence, practicality, and boldness, enabling you to pursue and develop even more daring and innovative creations. Elon Musk's approach to innovation operates in this manner.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“As you act on your Faith, God will also act on His Word. In other words, to see God’s power at work, you need Faith.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.”
“As you advance in this world, you realize that one of the quickest ways to get rid of a friend is to lend one more money than one can repay.”
Source: sciVive
“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.”
“As you age, feelings do diminish.”
“As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.”
“As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within you comes out in sparks, as it were . . . all the impressions of the past, the accumulations of past sanskaras - of all illusory things, which includes both good and bad - come out. My proximity, the intimacy with Me, just changes that mass of sanskaras, and sometimes you find sparks of good and bad flying out.”
“As you all know by now, Barack Obama sent out a cell phone text message at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning to tell everyone he picked Joe Biden as his vice president. How do you think this makes Hillary Clinton feel, huh? Finally, she gets a telephone call at 3 a.m., it's to tell her they picked Joe Biden.”
“As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.”
“As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.”
“As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.”
“As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.”
Source: The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology
“As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.”
“As you and I walk the pathway Jesus walked, let us listen for the sound of sandaled feet. Let us reach out for the Carpenter's hand. Then we shall come to know Him.”
“As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.”
Source: The good word & other words
“As you approach this stage's final veil,
Kingdoms and wealth, substance and water fail;
Withdraw into yourself, and one by one
Give up the things you own--when this is done,
Be still in selflessness and pass beyond
All thoughts of good and evil; break this bond,
And as it shatters you are worthy of
Oblivion, the Nothingness of love.”
“As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and pains of the heart. I know I have experienced pain in many different forms, and I'm sure you have too. In most cases, though, I'm sure you've found it very difficult to convey the truth of that pain to another person: to explain it in words. People say that only they themselves can understand the pain they are feeling. But is it true? I for one do not believe that it is. If, before our eyes, we see someone who is truly suffering, we do sometimes feel his suffering and pain as our own. This is the power of empathy. Am I making myself clear?''
He broke off and looked around the room once again.
''The reason that people sing songs for other people is because they want to have the power to arouse empathy, to break free of the narrow shell of the self and share their pain and joy with others. This is not an easy thing to do, of course. And so tonight, as a kind of experiment, I want you to experience a simpler, more physical kind of empathy. Lights please.''
Everyone in the place was hushed now, all eyes fixed on stage. Amid the silence, the man stared off into space, as if to insert a pause or to reach a state of mental concentration. Then, without a word, he held his hand over the lighted candle. Little by little, he brought the palm closer and closer to the flame. Someone in the audience made a sound like a sigh or a moan. You could see the tip of the flame burning the man's palm. You could almost hear the sizzle of the flesh. A woman let out a hard little scream. Everyone else just watched in frozen horror. The man endured the pain, his face distorted in agony. What the hell was this? Why did he have to do such a stupid, senseless thing? I felt my mouth going dry. After five or six seconds of this, he slowly removed his hand from the flame and set the dish with the candle in it on the floor. Then he clasped his hands together, the right and left palms pressed against each other.
''As you have seen tonight, ladies and gentleman, pain can actually burn a person's flesh,'' said the man. His voice sounded exactly as it had earlier: quiet, steady, cool. No trace of suffering remained on his face. Indeed, it had been replaced by a faint smile. ''And the pain that must have been there, you have been able to feel as if it were your own. That is the power of empathy.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and pains of the heart. I know I have experienced pain in many different forms, and I'm sure you have too. In most cases, though, I'm sure you've found it very difficult to convey the truth of that pain to another person: to explain it in words. People say that only they themselves can understand the pain they are feeling. But is it true? I for one do not believe that it is. If, before our eyes, we see someone who is truly suffering, we do sometimes feel his suffering and pain as our own. This is the power of empathy. Am I making myself clear?''
He broke off and looked around the room once again.
''The reason that people sing songs for other people is because they want to have the power to arouse empathy, to break free of the narrow shell of the self and share their pain and joy with others. This is not an easy thing to do, of course. And so tonight, as kind of experiment, I want you to experience a simpler, more physical kind of empathy. Lights please.''
Everyone in the place was hushed now, all eyes fixed on stage. Amid the silence, the man stared off into space, as if to insert a pause or to reach a state of mental concentration. Then, without a word, he held his hand over the lighted candle. Little by little, he brought the palm closer and closer to the flame. Someone in the audience made a sound like a sigh or a moan. You could see the tip of the flame burning the man's palm. You could almost hear the sizzle of the flesh. A woman let out a hard little scream. Everyone else just watched in frozen horror. The man endured the pain, his face distorted in agony. What the hell was this? Why did he have to do such a stupid, senseless thing? I felt my mouth going dry. After five or six seconds of this, he slowly removed his hand from the flame and set the dish with the candle in it on the floor. Then he clasped his hands together, the right and left palms pressed against each other.
''As you have seen tonight, ladies and gentleman, pain can actually burn a person's flesh,'' said the man. His voice sounded exactly as it had earlier: quiet, steady, cool. No trace of suffering remained on his face. Indeed, it had been replaced by a faint smile. ''And the pain that must have been there, you have been able to feel as if it were your own. That is the power of empathy.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“As you are aware of that, the buzzing mosquitoes are bothersome; they try to bite you, wherever they have the fortune. Only take protective measures for that. Similarly, the devious people are the same nature, tackle such ones as the mosquitoes.”
“As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.”
“As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 2: 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810
“As you are now so once were we.”
Source: Ulysses
“As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I" -- you don't have one. You are many "I"s just in a flow, a riverlike flow. You are a crowd, not an individual yet. But meditation can make you an individual.”
“As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“As you are part of what Ai calls "The Grid," you cannot directly create "force" on anything or anyone. "You" are your own "measurement," how well you are in "adding value to the grid" will reflect in "how much easier life gets for everyone." Making others' dreams come true may advance YOUR dreams.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence