A Quotes
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“A great wave washed at your feet and dark wings lifted you away.”
Source: The Song Rising
“A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.”
“A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.”
“a great way to hide the truth is to write a lot of non-fiction”
“A great way to open the dopamine floodgate is to watch and listen to inspirational stuff about the activity you are prone to quitting at. Unlike meme-turds, videos are a more immersive sensory experience, and virtually all capitalize on the dopaminergic power of music. Music has the ability to not just arouse pleasurable feelings but also increase craving or wanting—two critical elements of sports motivation.”
Source: The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion
“A great way to persuade people is by making them feel like they're missing out, because people are much more likely to participate in something if they feel like they're the only ones not doing it.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.”
“A great website doesn’t just look good — it works smart, ranks high, and grows your business every day.”
“A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.”
“A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.”
Source: Different Seasons: Four Novellas
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.”
Source: Prisoner of Love
“A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.”
“A great woe underpinning the sorrows of the world today is this: so many people think they are far better than others and they are too righteous than others, and they know far better than others, and such thoughts give them reasons for an otherwise action!”
Source: Religion, Philosophy and life: the reasons behind action
“A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.”
“A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.”
“A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.”
Source: At Home and Abroad, Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe
“A great work of art is not necessarily the most beautiful one, but the one that makes us feel.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.”
“A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.”
“A great workspace is like a "Toddler Playpen" for entrepreneur. It allows us accomplish our dreams in a safe environment and without any major hazard or concerns...”
“A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.”
“A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.”
“A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“A great writer is a blitzed illusionist of portable magic. You're welcome.”
“A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.”
“A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country”
“A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.”
“A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.”
“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”
“A great Zen master said just before he died, "From the bathtub, to the bathtub, I have uttered stuff and nonsense." The bathtub in which the baby is washed at birth, the bathtub in which the corpse is washed before burial, all this time I have said much nonsense.”
Source: The Tao of Philosophy: The Edited Transcripts
“A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.”
“A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.”
“A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.”
Source: The Treatise on Religious Affections
“A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.”
“a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.”
Source: Memorials and correspondence
“A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.”
“A greater liar than the Parthians.”
Source: Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose
“A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the solution. Only when every person on the street realizes the role she can play in this movement, can we begin to change the conversations around education.”
“A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?”
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian
“A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.”
“A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.”
“A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.”
“A greedy heart kills. That is why there is no honor amongst thieves. That is why those greedy , corrupt politicians kill each other. If they are not killing each other. They are killing the country. If they are not killing the country. They are killing the economy. If they are not killing the economy they are killing the citizens.”
“A greedy man can never learn the language of the sea.”
Source: Selkie
“A greedy man, if he be not mindful,
eats to his own life's hurt:
oft the belly of the fool will bring him to scorn
when he seeks the circle of the wise.
Herds know the hour of their going home
and turn them again from the grass;
but never is found a foolish man
who knows the measure of his maw.”
Source: Havamal: Saying of the High One
“A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.”
“A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.”
“A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems