A Quotes
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“At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.”
“At our best, we are all teachers”
“At our best, we're all teachers”
“At our church I do not endorse politicians publicly. Because I am afraid that if I endorse one candidate, it would keep somebody from coming to our church. So I made one exception one time to put one bumper sticker on my car, but I don't ever do it anymore.”
“At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.”
“At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.”
“At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.”
“At our core, most of us are still the same as we were when we were young. It's just a matter of what we've collected around ourselves from our experiences to obstruct what's at the center. - The Malwatch”
“At our core there is silence and stillness…that is truly who we are when you peel away the titles, the ego, the thoughts, the beliefs, the intellect….once you get REALLY naked –you will see that who you are has nothing to do with all that we have given meaning to.”
“At our core, we just want to know that we matter.”
“At our current evolutionary stage, a mass of people is no more wise than a pack of wolves.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again...”
Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“At our latitudes people mostly kill themselves in the spring. People can’t bear the idea of the earth renewing itself. Of everything starting anew except themselves.”
Source: Hotel Silence
“At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.”
Source: The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
“At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.”
“At our next session, the shrink calls this metaphor psychological warfare. You must rise above it, she says. They're just words being said many miles away.
That phrase about sticks and stones and bones.
But my bones are very brittle. And I am lactose intolerant.”
Source: Chemistry
“At our own free will, we must make this declaration to ourselves today - the declaration of justice - the declaration of order - the declaration of a united independence from the oppression of prejudices, hate and segregation.
In the course of human events, if ever, injustice grabs hold of the landscape that we the people step foot on, it will be our organically divine right to abolish such injustice, with our thoughts, words and actions conscientious. We the people, each one of us, will do our utmost to create a society that needs not the intervention of law or any specialist authority. We will create a society of humans with our own two hands for the humans that are yet to be born, so that they may know justice and order in their life, which we have been deprived of due to the indifference and callousness of our ancestors. We the living, breathing and thinking humans do solemnly declare upon our functional conscience, that from this moment onwards, we will no longer adhere to the traditional habit of dependency, hypocrisy and meekness, and we will come to the aid of every human who faces injustice in any form, with this golden principle engraved upon our hearts, that there are no foreigners, only family.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.”
“At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage.” It’s a poem about imperfection, about being more together than we can be on our own: “Most like an arch—two weaknesses that lean / into a strength. Two fallings become firm.” Being married isn’t being two columns, standing so straight and tall on their own, they never touch. Being married is leaning and being caught, and catching the one who leans toward you.”
Source: You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.”
“At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.”
“At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble”
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
“At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“At parties, everyone always thinks I'm drinking, but actually I rarely drink. I live on energy drinks, basically. I love vitamin water.”
Source: Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose
“At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.”
“At passe på sig selv bliver opfattet som en svaghed og er ofte et stort irritationsmoment hos kolleger og ledere.
Vidste du, at rigtig mange, der i dag bliver mobbet på arbejdspladsen, bliver det, fordi de begynder at passe på sig selv ved at gå hjem til tiden og sænke deres ambitionsniveau? De bliver opfattet som usolidariske, illoyale og tarvelige.
Så robusthed handler også om at kunne stå alene og vide, at du har valgt rigtigt, selv om du har hele verden imod dig.”
Source: Stress - Grib Chancen For Et Bedre (Arbejds)Liv
“At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.”
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
“At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?”
“At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.”
“At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth. Later, he passes from the consciousness of luminous astral birth to the consciousness of dark astral death and awakens in a new physical body. Thus astral death is physical birth. These recurrent cycles of physical and astral encasements are the ineluctable destiny of all unenlightened men.”
“At Pinetop I just studied music, and there was no pressure to look any certain way, and so being able to sing and play guitar was enough. But when I came out to L.A., there's a whole image that you put out there and people really feed off of that because of social media platforms. And sometimes someone will see a picture of me before they hear one of my songs. It's really important to have it all figured out so that you can portray what you want people to see.”
“At Pioneer Power, we consider safety to be an ongoing journey rather than a destination. Our copper-bonded earthing rods are your electrical system's dependable traveling partners, guaranteeing a secure and effective route.”
“At Pioneer Power, we think that being safe is a journey rather than a destination. Your electrical system will travel safely and effectively with the help of our copper-bonded earthing rods, which are your dependable traveling companions.”
“At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.”
“At Pixar, I don't have to compromise at all. When I look at the finished "Toy Story 3," I don't sit and constantly think, oh, the actor was having a bad day, or oh, it rained and we couldn't use that set. The story that I wanted to tell is what is on screen, and I haven't had to compromise it one iota.”
“At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.”
“At Poinciana Schools, every student is like a beautiful Poinciana Tree that produces an abundance of blossoms of value.”
“At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.”
Source: The Life of Luther Written by Himself
“At practically every level, the way I make comics is an act of improvising within structural boundaries. There's a rough plan, with a beginning, middle and an end, but how I get from one point to another is unknown at the outset, and a large part of what keeps me engaged. It's an exploration for me, and hopefully for the reader as well.”
“At precisely the noon hour she stopped to eat an apple and a wedge of cheese, while the Lithuanians sat across the table from her and made a picnic of black bread and dumplings stuffed with some kind of minced meat that Mary wanted to take apart with her fork and examine.”
Source: Fever
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.
Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.”
Source: Some Mistakes of Moses
“At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.”
“At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.”
“At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.”
“At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.”