A Quotes
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“At some point in their life, everyone is given a mission - something they are called to do. And what's important to remember is that, no matter how difficult that undertaking may be , it's their duty to fulfill that task. One day, you may be called to do something you don't think you have the strength to handle - something that scares you. It may even terrify you. That's when you need to dig deep inside yourself and find the courage. It's there.”
“At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.”
“At some point in their lives, each one of us requires mentoring, guidance and counsel to get better clarity on our vision, passions, goals, and life in general.”
“At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.”
“At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.”
“At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.”
“At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.”
“At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.”
“At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. And I think we're at a point now where a lot of older women take better care of themselves, compared to the 1940s and '50s when women were programmed to figure it's all over after 30.”
“At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.”
“At some point in your life you will need to escape from something, so think about your escape routes and make sure they are always open!”
“At some point in your life you will understand that girls and women are genetically predisposed to keep testing you. They are programmed by evolution to test and find out the right characteristics in a man. Don't take these tests seriously or get affected by them. Reassure the women that they are important and focus back on your goals.”
“At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.”
“At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.”
Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel
“At some point in youth an old person will tell you a harsh truth you will not believe, in middle age you will realize its true. In old age you will tell a young person the same harsh truth but they will not believe it. Because history repeats itself.”
“At some point it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.”
“At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone.
"Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered.
"He doesn't say goodbye," Inej said. She kept her eyes on the lights of the canal. Somewhere in the garden, a night bird began to sing. "He just lets go.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.”
“At some point, loneliness become less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your phone wondering why you can't think of anyone to call, stop getting you hair cut, stop working out, stop thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. Because tomorrow is today, and today is yerterday, and yesterday beat the shit out of you and brought you to your knees. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better.”
Source: One Last Thing Before I Go
“At some point, Maxwell, you have to decide to stop waiting, for adults or anyone else your age. As you say, perhaps some rules are good, and they are there for a reason. I am not saying you should not follow those rules. I am saying you have to stop waiting for other people to tell you what to do. You have to stop waiting for other people to tell you how and who to be. You have to stop waiting for other people to give you permission to live your life.”
Source: The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid: A Humorous Middle Grade Novel About Standing Up to Bullies for Kids
“At some point, most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we’re already good at.This confines us and stifles us. We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at. If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war and kill people and act cruelly? You would see American GMC trucks go by and soldiers reaching down to whack a girl riding a bicycle. They would yank at her hat and she would get thrown and she would die. You would see Americans do this and feel like they can do anything in our country. But then you'd take an English class with an American soldier from Ohio who seemed just as nice as anyone, yet he was a soldier too.”
“At some point, old is indistinguishable from drunk.”
“At some point, on our way to a new consciousness, we will have to leave the opposite bank, the split between the two mortal combatants somehow healed so that we are on both shores at once and, at once, see through serpent and eagle eyes.
-- Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)”
“At some point on the morning of the second day she came to a terrifying realisation. She had no idea how it had happened or how she was supposed to cope with it. She was in love for the first time in her life.”
Source: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
“At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that question. A sleeper can be decoyed out of bed by the sheer beauty of dawn on the open seas. Part of my job, as I see it, is to allow that to happen. Sleepers like me need at some point to rise and take their turn on morning watch for the sake of the planet, but also for their own sake, for the enrichment of their lives. From the deserts of Namibia to the razor-backed Himalayas, there are wonderful creatures that have roamed the Earth much longer than we, creatures that not only are worthy of our respect but could teach us about ourselves.”
Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
“At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over.”
“At some point, our lips met and it was perhaps the most wonderful thing I'd ever experienced. And truly, I guess there wasn't just one kiss, but several. A polite frenzy. A mass migration of delicate wildebeest kisses. I remember them as one transcendent event, though.”
“At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled”
Source: Fancy Pants
“At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“At some point reality set in. You realize that you've been holding on to someone or something until you look upon your tightly gripped fist and see nothing is there.”
“At some point, something or someone is going to disrupt your entire life. Shouldn't it be you?
The ability to disrupt yourself is critical in today’s volatile economic environment that's changing faster and more furiously than ever.”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“At some point, something or someone somewhere is going to disrupt your entire life. Shouldn't it be you?”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.”
“At some point, the girl who never thinks she is pretty, will believe she is. And she is beautiful.”
“At some point the Japanese, Chinese and Saudi buyers of US and European Government bonds will see just what miserable value they offer. Then governments may have to stop all the runaway spending and bailouts and even put up interest rates.”
“At some point the listener will lose track of the words altogether and it is then—especially when a single note is held for an impossibly long time, until finally there is a break just before the end, when the singer gasps silently for breath—that Poizat says people start to cry. Listeners sense that the singer’s voice had almost broken free of language, and at the
same time they know that the voice can never break out of language. After the soprano catches her breath and sings the tonic note, the opera goes on in ordinary human language. Poizat thinks only angels can sing and still not
make sense; if human singers could actually move outside of language the result would be a wild scream ing, something dangerously close to insanity. According to Poizat, all true opera lovers feel this, even if it’s unconscious, and all true opera lovers cry. Ordinary pole-faced opera fans do not understand that when the coloratura sings, it’s not a human voice
they are hearing, but “the angel’s cry.”
“At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?”
“At some point they show their true colors
After the break up
After the trial
After the contract is signed and broken
Their true colors stink
These days
I find it hard to get along with them
I want to push them until the colors come out
And sometimes I hate them so much, I push and see
I do the same to the ones I like
The ones I don’t care about
I smile at real nice”
“At some point, though the girl couldn't remember exactly when, she had become the only girl in the village...If a family had a son and a daughter and two bites of food, who would waste one on a daughter?”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“At some point, to counter the list of the dead, I had begun keeping my own list of the living. It was something I noticed Len Fenerman did too. When he was off duty he would note the young girls and elderly women and every other female in the rainbow in between and count them among the things that sustained him. The young girl in the mall whose pale legs had grown too long for her now too-young dress and who had an aching vulnerability that went straight to both Len's and my own heart. Elderly women, wobbling with walkers, who insisted on dyeing their hair unnatural versions of the colors they had in youth. Middle-aged single mothers racing around in grocery stores while their children pulled bags of candy off the shelves. When I saw them, I took count. Living, breathing women. Sometimes I saw the wounded- those who had been beaten by husbands or raped by strangers, children raped by their fathers- and I would wish to intervene somehow.
Len saw these wounded women all the time. They were regulars at the station, but even when he went somewhere outside his jurisdiction he could sense them when they came near. The wife in that bait-'n'-tackle shop had no bruises on her face but cowered like a dog and spoke in apologetic whispers. The girl he saw walk the road each time he went upstate to visit his sisters. As the years passed she'd grown leaner, the fat from her cheeks had drained, and sorrow had loaded her eyes in a way that made them hang heavy and hopeless inside her mallowed skin. When she was not there it worried him. When she was there it both depressed and revived him.
~Len Fenerman on stepping back/letting go/giving up
pgs 271-272”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“At some point, Tracy sent me the demos for the next Static Saints album. I was knocked out, and soon became fixated on the song "Useful and Beautiful." It would likely be heard as an ode to sexual debasement, but I think it's also an invitation to root your life and your art in utility and beauty. I found myself returning endlessly to this question: How can we make Tracy's memoir more useful and more beautiful. I love that her song enacts what it extols. It reminds us that we can revel in sexual pleasure and perversity ("I've got uses, I've got bruises") while also opening up to become more expansive, more useful, and more beautiful ("Oh let me be a crashing wave. Oh let me be a secret cave.").”
Source: Any Other City
“At some point we all have to grow up. Sure, high school might be the best years of our lives the way people say, but when that's over what are we gonna have? An old football career if we don't play college ball and a whole lot of broken people on our conscience. I don't want that.
Maybe there's hope for me after all.”
Source: Count on Me
“At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.”
“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“At some point, we decide it’s time do to something about our yearnings, to share and live life as who we really are, to accept joy, let go of struggle, and have our lives start flowing instead.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“At some point, we find ourselves reaching maturity and establishing lives of our own. Childhood is a blip on the radar.”
“At some point, we have all had to get help in figuring out what is getting in the way of us taking our next best step forward.”
“At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.
But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.”