A Quotes
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“A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.”
“A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!”
“A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?”
“A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.”
“A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a growing demand. Quite recently, the state-owned TV channel 'Russia' aired a series based on Varlam Shalamov's works, showing the terrible, cruel truth about Stalin's camps. It was not watered down.”
“A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.”
Source: A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer
“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.”
“A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.”
Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
“A great number of those working for liberal causes are not only shy but borderline collusive. They want change to happen nicely, and it won't. They want decency to come about without anybody suffering or being embarrassed, and it won't. And most of all they want to give many of the enemies of open government the benefit of the doubt, and I don't. It's not just a difference of approach, it's a complete schism in our respective philosophy. You can't go about disclosure in the hope that it won't spoil anybody's dinner.”
Source: Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
“A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?"”
“A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.”
“A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.”
“A great ox like a hill in a barren field
Standing black against the dawn
With body once broken, now healed,
With silver-mended horns and brawn:
He pushed past the sun
And the mountains, unplowed immensities,
And with his silver won
A briar-crown of vanities.”
Source: Fret Not
“A great ox stands on my tongue.”
Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides
“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?”
Source: The Art Spirit
“A great painting is a great painting.”
“A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.”
“A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff.”
“A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance”
“A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.”
“A great part of everyday is not lived consciously. One walks, eats, sees things, deals with what has to be done; the broken vacuum cleaner; ordering dinner; writing orders to Mabel; washing; cooking dinner; bookbinding. When it is a bad day the proportion of non-being is much larger.”
Source: A Sketch of the Past
“A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.”
Source: Literary and political addresses
“A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.”
“A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.”
“A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.”
“A great passion has no partner.”
“A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.”
“A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.”
“A great perfume will weave an emotional thread in the fabric of our lives."
Marian Bendeth
Global Fragrance Expert
Sixth Scents”
“A great perfumer can take the visual perfection of living flowers and materials and elongate and morph it's lifespan into olfactory bliss.”
“A great perfumer can take the visual perfection of living flowers and materials and elongate and morph it's lifespann into olfactory bliss.”
“A great person defines himself; an average person defines others.”
“A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.”
“A great personal growth plan feeds on strenghts and opportunities that could be improved. What you can't get better at doesn't count as growth. Hey, Success is never a static endeavour- it is a mindset based on a continuos and delibrate upgrade of your person and your tactics”
“A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!”
Source: Macbeth: Third Series
“A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.”
Source: Sammlung
“A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.”
Source: On the Use of Philosophy: Three Essays
“A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.”
“A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.”
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...”
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
“A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.”
“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”
Source: The Glass Bees
“A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.”
“A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention.”
“A great piece of advice for online dating is to stand out from the crowd. So greetings like "hello" and "hi" are very common. They do less well than things that are a little bit quirky or a little bit weird, like "howdy" or "holla." The rarer your salutation, the better it does, in general.”
“A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.”