A Quotes
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“At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.”
Source: Prey
“At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."”
“At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall. I dove.”
Source: The Mermaid Chair
“At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.
“At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.”
“At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.”
“At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.”
“At four Petie took to yelling at the heavenly bodies: —Hey, orbs! Wait for me! or, Orbs…listen to this! A genius, Lou thought; he commanded constellations. Clearly a poet.”
Source: The Maytrees
“At fourteen years of age, Fidel wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt conveying his pleasure at Roosevelt’s re-election. He continued the letter by asking President Roosevelt for a green ten-dollar bill since he had never seen one before. He ended the letter with, “Thank you very much. Good-bye. Your friend, Fidel Castro.”
Perhaps things in Cuba would be different today had Fidel received a written reply and a green ten-dollar bill from President Franklin D....”
“At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.”
Source: Cress Delahanty
“At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.”
“At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.”
“At funerals, people say things about a dead person that they should have told them while they were still alive.”
“At funerals, things are different. Everything is there—shrimp and red sauce both,
Lemons, too, all these things being very thoughtful, even the big, blue cloth napkins.
Fancy tongue sandwiches and family-recipe cilantro salsas and olives and pecans,
And everybody there is personally concerned that you should have it all,
Even though you are just a visitor. Eat up, son, they say. They say it repeatedly.
It is curious how you seem to be everybody’s son on these occasions.
They don’t want you to just eat a little, either--Look at that ham.
Have some more, they say. There’s plenty. And they mean it.
That’s what’s left to do at a funeral—make sure people get their fill.
There’s nothing else left, once all the food is there and the people have arrived.
That’s the business of it all. Anything else comes later. Missing a person,
That takes a while. It’s not something you have to worry about now.
Nobody else is hungry, so I come prepared. It never fails. People can be counted on
At times like these. I tell you, it always turns out to be my lucky day.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.”
“At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth... At the height of the invocation the Intercessor lifted the cloth to reveal in the dimness a glass dome inside which there was something too distant to see, until he pulled a string attached to a shutter above, letting a ray of sunlight through to strike the dome exactly. Then it became clear: a little thing like a weathervane, with four sails black on one side and white on the other, began to whirl around as the light struck it. It illustrated a moral lesson, the Intercessor explained, for the black of ignorance fled from the light, whereas the wisdom of white rushed to embrace it.
{Alluding to William Crookes's radiometer.}”
Source: Northern Lights: Oxford
“At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.”
“At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.”
Source: gilt-edged bonds
“At Garvin High we were dealt a hard dose of reality this year. People hate. That's our reality. People hate and are hated and carry grudges and want punishments ... I don't know if it's possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who've seen firsthand what hate can do. We're all hurting. We're all going to be hurting for a long time. And we, probably more than anyone else out there, will be searching for a new reality every day. A better one ... But in order to change reality you have to be willing to listen and to learn. And to hear. To actually hear.”
Source: Hate List
“At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.”
“At Ge 1:1 God used a matrix of sevens: (1) Seven words. (2) 28 letters (28 ÷ 4 = 7). (3) First three words contain 14 letters (14 ÷ 2 = 7). (4) Last four words contain 14 letters (14 ÷ 2 = 7). (5) Fourth and fifth words have seven letters. (6) Sixth and seventh words have seven letters. (7) Key words (God, heaven, earth) contain 14 letters (14 ÷ 2 = 7). (8) Remaining words contain 14 letters (14 ÷ 2 = 7). (9) Numeric value of first, middle and last letters equal, 133 (133 ÷ 19 = 7). (10) Numeric value of the first and last letters of all seven words equal 1,393 (1,393 ÷ 199 = 7). (11) The book of Genesis has 78,064 letters (78,064 ÷ 11,152 = 7).
So, what is the big deal about seven? Jesus is our Shiva (7), our Shabbat (7th day). (Lu 6:5) You couldn’t see this messianic reference, however, unless you are reading in Hebrew. This book is the beginning of an amazing pilgrimage.”
Source: The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians
“At General Dexterity, I was contributing to an effort to make repetitive labor obsolete. After a trainer in the Task Acquisition Center taught an arm how to do something, all the arms did it perfectly, forever,
In other words, you solved a problem once, and then you moved on to other more interesting things.
Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and digested.
Thus, the problem was ongoing.
Thus, the problem was perhaps the point.”
Source: Sourdough
“At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.”
“At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.”
Source: On the Social Contract
“At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.”
“At George & Matilda Eyecare, you always have a voice that is heard and respected. The first thing we do at our eye care center is to listen. We want to hear what you have to say, because your vision and your lens are one and the same. Whether it's your everyday routine needs, or a more complex vision problem that should be taken seriously, we'll guide you on the right path for your eyesight.”
“At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.”
“At Gethsamane and Calvary we see him enduring our hell so that we might be set free to enter into his heaven.”
Source: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews
“At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.”
Source: King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
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“At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.”
“At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.”
“At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.”
“At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.”
“At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.”
“At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.”
“At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.”
“At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.”
“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”
Source: This Business of Living
“At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.”
Source: The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi
“At Göbekli Tepe there is a creature, sculted in high-relief, identified by Klaus Schmidt as a beast of prey with splayed claws and powerful shoulders, its tail bent to its left over its body. A very similar animal is seen at Cutimbo [in Peru] with the same splayed claws and the same powerful shoulders, while the tail instead of being bent to its left is bent to its right. At both Göbekli Tepe and Cutimbo, reliefs of salamanders and of serpents are found. The style of execution in all cases is very similar. At about the level of the genitals of the so-called "Totem Pole" of Göbekli Tepe, a small head and two arms protrude. The head has a determined look, with prominent brows. The long fingers of the hands almost meet. The posture is that of a man leaning down through the stone and playing a drum. This is also the posture of two figures at Cutimbo, who emerge from a large convex block on one of the circular towers. They have the same determined features and prominent brow ridges as the figure on the "Totem Pole." The two serpents on the side of the "Totem Pole" have peculiarly large heads, making them look almost like sperm. So, too, does the serpent that emerges from the dark narrow entrance of the Temple of the Moon above Cuzco. Lions feature in the reliefs at Göbekli Tepe, pumas feature in the reliefs at Cutimbo and again the manner of representation is similar.”
Source: Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
“At halftime [of Game 7], one of our oldest guys on the team, James Jones, came to me, and he's like, "Man, it's time for you to do something. You've been sleeping the whole playoffs, the whole final series." First couple of shots I got coming out, I was like, "You know what, I'm gonna shoot it." Fortunately they fell, and we started making our way back.”
“At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass. That king did not use brick from poverty; for he was choke-full of revenues, being ruler of all Caria.”
“At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.”
“At Halloween, when fairy sprites
Perform their mystic gambols,
When ilka witch her neebour greets,
On their nocturnal rambles;
When elves at midnight-hour are seen,
Near hollow caverns sportin,
Then lads an' lasses aft convene,
In hopes to ken their fortune,
By freets that night.”
“At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.”
“At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.”
“At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.”