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“At moments like this, she briefly considered giving up on optimism. Expecting the worst sounded so much easier than demanding wonderfulness from life. But no! She would not be defeated!”
Source: Squirrel Meets World
“At moments like this, sleep feels like falling; you sink into luxurious blackness only to jolt awake again, staring around at the darkness as if you might divine something in the grainy night.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“At moments of deep uncertainty, I find that I sometimes jump the tracks into taking control, and in those moments, if I can move back toward following, the process often finds its own feet again. All of this has gradually led me to believe that letting go of expectations about the outcome of therapy as much as possible gives the process the most room to show itself.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.”
“At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“At moments we are all artists.”
Source: Delenda est * BOD : staff use only
“At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, principle is desire. Gravity, light, magnetism, thought may be aspects of the same universal longing. Suffering, emptiness, darkness are nothing more than interruptions of a cosmic orgasm that grows forever in intensity...”
Source: Enemies: A Love Story
“At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.”
“At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld a two-fold woe, and all Cyrene bowed her head, to see the home of happy children made desolate.”
“At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that caused the dumb acquisition to be made are quickly forgotten. You've got denial, you've got everything in the world. You've got Pavlovian association tendency. Nobody even wants to even be associated with the damned thing or even mention it. At Johnson & Johnson, they make everybody revisit their old acquisitions and wade through the presentations. That is a very smart thing to do. And by the way, I do the same thing routinely.”
“At most periods of her history India, though a cultural unit, has been torn by internecine war. In statecraft her rulers were cunning and unscrupulous. Famine, flood and plague visited her from time to time, and killed millions of her people. Inequality of birth was given religious sanction, and the lot of the humble was generally hard. Yet our overall impression is that in no other part of the [Page 9] ancient world were the relations of man and man, and of man and the state, so fair and humane. In no other early civilization were slaves so few in number, and in no other ancient lawbook are their rights so well protected as in the Arthaśāstra (p. 152f). No other ancient lawgiver proclaimed such noble ideals of fair play in battle as did Manu (p. 126). In all her history of warfare Hindu India has few tales to tell of cities put to the sword or of the massacre of noncombatants. The ghastly sadism of the kings of Assyria, who flayed their captives alive, is completely without parallel in ancient India. There was sporadic cruelty and oppression no doubt, but, in comparison with conditions in other early cultures, it was mild. To us the most striking feature of ancient Indian civilization is its humanity.”
“At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.”
“At most schools, the social, intellectual, and spiritual components are confined to separate experiential spheres. We party, we learn, and we contemplate the metaphysical, but we rarely do all three simultaneously and en masse. Maybe most college students aren't looking for spiritual euphoria from their schools, but I can't say I blame the ones who are.”
Source: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
“At most unsuspected moments, we may all be victims of life's mishaps and realize we must ask ourselves how to run up the hill without missing the essential appointments with the achievability and viability of our choices. (“The Infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“At most, You exist for 80/90 years, and you don't exist for ∞ - 80/90 Years. Do you think your existence makes any difference to the period you don't exist? Assuming you were born for a noble and great purpose to do some great things is an idiotic self-consoling assumption. Your existence is worth absolutely nothing.”
“At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.”
Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.”
Source: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy
“At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.”
“At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids
“At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.”
“At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.”
“At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.”
“At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest - everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.”
“At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.”
“At my 30th birthday party, one of my best friends gave a toast and said I'd been waiting for that day since I was 13. Everyone laughed, but he was right! Life continues to get more fun, more surprising, more delightful.”
“At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!”
“At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.”
Source: The Infinite Plan: A Novel
“At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.”
Source: The Last Titan
“At my age flowers scare me.”
Source: The Most of George Burns
“At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.”
“At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.”
“At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.”
“At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.”
“At my age, my mind confidently says it can be done. My body shakes it head and says it can’t. And while I typically complete the task that my body said couldn’t be done, my mind ends up regretting the pain that my body generously sends its way.”
“At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.”
Source: The Good Earth
“At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.”
“At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.”
“At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.”
“At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.”
Source: Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film
“At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations
“At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.”
“At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?”
“At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.”
“At my age, I dont even buy green bananas.”
“At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.”
“At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.”
“At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.”
“At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.”
Source: Paradise
“At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.”