A Quotes
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“Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.”
“Aspire to do anything, start something and stop at nothing.”
“Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.”
“Aspire to expire for a cause uncausable.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Aspire to expire for a cause uncausable, and your heart will shine with light untamable.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Aspire to live a life of victory. A life where joy is a reality.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Aspire to rise no matter what, and that starts with your ability to appreciate where you are without regretting your past.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Red cotton night-cap country. Aristophanes' apology, etc
“Aspirin is perfectly legal, but if you take 13 of them motherf***ers, it'll be your last headache.”
“Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.”
Source: My Family and Other Animals
“Aspirin will not bring dead hookers back to life.”
“Aspiring authors, get this through your head. Cover art serves one purpose, and one purpose only, to get potential customers interested long enough to pick up the book to read the back cover blurb. In the internet age that means the thumb nail image needs to be interesting enough to click on. That’s what covers are for.”
“Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield
“Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.”
Source: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
“Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.”
“Aspiring entrepreneurs should not blindly replicate the business models of existing successful businesses. Instead, they should actively explore emerging technologies to uncover new opportunities tailored to the current business environment.”
Source: Emerging Technologies for Profit: A Guide to Earning Money
“Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.”
“Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.”
“Aspiring to start a new business does not stop with an application for an LLC. Get out there and read up!”
“Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights.”
Source: The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester
“Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.”
“Aspirins and sleeping pills are not going to cure America's tensions although they may help temporarily. To get at the real source of our anxieties we must find serenity within ourselves.”
“Aspiro a no depender de nadie, ni del hombre que adoro. No quiero ser su manceba, tipo innoble, la hembra que mantienen algunos individuos para que les divierta, como un perro de caza; ni tampoco que el hombre de mis ilusiones se me convierta en marido. No veo la felicidad en el matrimonio. Quiero, para expresarlo a mi manera, estar casada conmigo misma, y ser mi propia cabeza de familia. No sabré amar por obligación; sólo en la libertad comprendo mi fe constante y mi adhesión sin límites. Protesto, me da la gana de protestar contra los hombres que se han cogido todo el mundo por suyo, y no nos han dejado a nosotras más que las veredas estrechitas por donde ellos no saben andar...”
Source: Tristana
“Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.”
“ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'
He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.”
“Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his own people. He has used chemical weapons on his own people. He continues to be a hindrance to peace in Syria. And that is something the Trump administration strongly believes.”
“Assad is not going away, but we're not going to stop beating up on him. We're not going to stop saying that the way he treats the people in Syria is wrong, that he has actually killed his own people and America will never stand for that.”
“Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.”
“Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards”
Source: Disgrace
“Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but it's useless information. It doesn't tell me anything about how the first and second armored brigades are going to operate.”
“Assaile who will, the valiant attends.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Assalamu'alaikum rindu
semoga Allah senantiasa meletakkan tangan pelindungNYA untuk menjagamu, dari kejahatan kesedihan yg senantiasa menyinggahimu.”
“Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.”
“Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.”
“Assassin?” I repeated, numb. “You wanted me to kill for you?!”
“What else were you going to do? Seduce the other side into accepting us with good orgasms?”
Source: A Demon's Horns
“Assassin?...that sounds so exotic...i was just a murderer”
“Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.”
Source: Recollections of Curran, and some of his contemporaries ... Second edition
“Assassinating a bigot is easy,
Ending bigotry is the real objective.
Kill one chimp, ten more will take his place.
Render 'em irrelevant, 'n they're walking invalid.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Assassinating a tyrant is not the solution, it only makes them a martyr to their followers. Stand up to them, strip them of their position, then throw 'em in jail. There's nothing more torturous to a megalomaniacal tyrant than rotting behind bars like a two-bit criminal.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”
“Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.”
“Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.”
Source: The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel
“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.”
“Assassination is probably the only enterprise where private industry is not more efficient”
Source: Iron Gold
“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”
“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.”
“Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Assassination's the fastest way.”