A Quotes
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“At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'”
“At any minute, I am four minutes from a poncho.”
“At any moment, Cordelia knew, her mother would notice that she was drifting in the middle of the dance floor like an abandoned tugboat and charge toward her, and then Cordelia would die. She would die of the humiliation.”
“At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.”
“At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.”
“At any moment, life has the capacity to change, good or bad. To believe we have control over where or when these things happen is to believe we control the destiny of our lives”
“At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.”
Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton
“At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.”
“At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.”
“At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“At any moment we may be toppled from our perch and made to do with less—less money, less recognition, less access, less resources. Even the “less-es” that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom. But we can prepare for that, in some way, by familiarizing ourselves with what that might feel like.”
Source: The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
“At any moment, you can use your face to open doors of opportunity if it demonstrates interest, enthusiasm, respect, understanding, delight, agreement, and more.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“At any moment, you discover the dream, begin to live it.”
“At any moment, you have the right to take up space and be yourself.”
Source: Your Sacred Journey: The Ultimate Guidebook to Align Your Mind, Body, & Spirit
“At any moment your Simon of Cyrene will appear. God uses people to perform His will. Someone is going to be compelled by the Holy Ghost to come into your path of suffering, reach out and help.”
Source: The Main Thing...Is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
“At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?”
“At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.”
“At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we are resisting what is. Being with what is means letting ourselves have and feel our experience, just as it is right now. ... This is where genuine creativity, health, and communication, as well as spiritual power, arise from.”
“At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.”
“At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.”
Source: Blood Sugar
“At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.”
“At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory . But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.”
“At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.”
“At any other time it's better. You can do the things you feel you should; you're an expert at going through the motions. Your handshakes with strangers are firm and your gaze never wavers; you think of steel and diamonds when you stare. In monotone you repeat the legendary words of long-dead lovers to those you claim to love; you take them into bed with you, and you mimic the rhythmic motions you've read of in manuals. When protocol demands it you dutifully drop to your knees and pray to a god who no longer exists. But in this hour you must admit to yourself that this is not enough, that you are not good enough. And when you knock your fist against your chest you hear a hollow ringing echo, and all your thoughts are accompanied by the ticks of clockwork spinning behind your eyes, and everything you eat and drink has the aftertaste of rust.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.”
Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
“At any point, for all perpetuity, any new administration—any future rogue head of the NSA—could just show up to work and, as easily as flicking a switch, instantly track everybody with a phone or a computer, know who they were, where they were, what they were doing with whom, and what they had ever done in the past.”
Source: Permanent Record
“At any point God can change his plans for your life when he decides your life purpose needs to be protected.”
“At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, 'This is just the
beginning.' How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How
unimaginably dreadful for those who are not.”
“At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the late Conservative years - the end of Thatcher/start of Major and certainly continued throughout New Labour and continuing now - that new is necessarily better, so there is this neophilia which isn't the vanguard of progress, it's just the vanguard of the construction industry enjoying itself.”
“At any point in time – it is the state of your attention that defines your level of existence as human beings.
In your waking state – Flowing Attention trapped in thoughts make you a private person.
In your sleeping state – Still Attention free from thoughts make you an universal perceiver.
In your natural state – Absolute Attention as it is naturally returns to its source and make you the peaceful pure presence.
However in reality – only supreme source exists in all the above mentioned states.”
Source: ATTENTION: The Ultimate Antidote for Tension
“At any point, the information available for decision-making is historical... The single most dangerous mistake is looking at disruption as isolated cases or independent episodic events.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts”
Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“At any rate, spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you enjoying it. This is a satisfying reflection. How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the young corn, and thought of all the important persons who would stop me enjoying this if they could. But luckily they can’t. So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, Spring is still Spring. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.”
Source: Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
“At any rate, that being the case, why should I care if I lay under layers of rock the whole time? Why, as long as I’d been in this world already, should I care if my end came in another millennia, or a hundred of them? What sort of urgent business did I have in the world that I did not want to leave it? When I had spent my long time listening to fish, or staring at the stars? What was the point, what had ever been the point, in my constant, unconscious effort to keep that view of the stars? None except that I had wanted it.
It had made things pleasant for me.”
Source: The Raven Tower
“At any rate, the principles of a noble manner of life and the ethics of the nobility now take on the clear and uncompromising form known to us from the chivalric epic and lyric. We often find the new members of a privileged group to be more rigorous in their attitude to questions of class etiquette than the born representatives of the group; they are more clearly conscious of the ideas which hold the particular group together and distinguish it from other groups than are men who grew up in those ideas. This is a well-known and often-repeated feature of social history; the novus homo is always inclined to over-compensate for his sense of inferiority and to emphasize the moral qualifications required for the privileges which he enjoys. In the present case, too, we find that the knights who have risen from the ranks of the retainers are stricter and more intolerant in matters of honour than the old aristocrats by birth. What seems to the latter a matter of course, something that could hardly be otherwise than what it is, appears to the newly ennobled an achievement and a problem. The feeling of belonging to the governing class, one of which the old nobility had scarcely been conscious, is for them a great new experience. Where the old-style aristocrat acts instinctively and makes no pretensions about it, the knight finds himself faced with a special task of difficulty, an opportunity for heroic action, a need to surpass himself—in fact to do something extraordinary and unnatural. In matters in which a born grand seigneur takes no trouble to distinguish himself from the rest of mankind, the new knight requires of his peers that they should at all costs show themselves different from ordinary mortals.”
Source: The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
“At any rate, there were no women in my apartment."
"Porn?" I question with a snort. "Figures."
"Non, it was an actress I asked to do me a favor. A phone call. It was my way to get you back for spilling wine on my duvet and all your stomping around."
"Oh my god," I say, sitting back in my chair, shaking my head with disbelief. After I got over the initial shock of his deception, my lips twist into an awkward smile. "So, the other night---"
"I just placed my iPhone by the vent---"
"She's a really good actress," I say with a snort. "Really good.”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.”
“At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.”
Source: Diary Of A Young Girl
“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.”
Source: A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria
“At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it leads. This might mean reworking his interpretation of Genesis on the subject-much like Christians have had to rework their interpretation of biblical passages referring to the sun rising and setting, the earth not moving, or the earth resting on foundations.”
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
“At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.”
“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.”
Source: A Room of One's Own (Annotated)
“At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It gave me a kind of excitement.”
“At any specific stage of your life, you are certain about few things which when passes over the time to be something uncertain and vice versa.”
Source: The Weak Point Dealer
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds? We go to Nature for comfort in trouble, and sympathy in joy, only in books. Admiration of those beauties of the inanimate world, which modern poetry so largely and so eloquently describes, is not, even in the best of us, one of the original instincts of our nature.”
Source: The woman in white
“At any time the atmosphere in the West could change, for which determined political will I do not see at the moment is a necessary prerequisite. From the sidelines, it seems that he's caught up in his own exorbitant ambitions.”
“At any Trump rally, the Trump supporters were peaceful. They were enthusiastic. They loved America. They were excited. They were pro Trump. They were not bullies. They were not angry. They were not doing anything unless they were provoked.”