A Quotes
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“A gyermekkor természetes igénye: szabadság. S a mai gyermeket szinte ketrecbe kényszerítik.
A felnőttkor természetes igénye: élet. S a mai felnőtt, vagy alig-él, vagy maga és mások rovására, rejtek-utakon él.
Az öregkor természetes igénye: nyugalom. S a mai öreg, minthogy korábbi igényei ki nem elégülhettek, még a sír szélén is szabadságot és életet akar.”
Source: A teljesség felé
“A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.”
Source: What's the Story: Essays about Art, Theater and Storytelling
“A gynecologist is the dentist for the downstairs mouth.”
“A gyom fölverte a fejét; és ez csak az első változás egy végtelen változássorozatban. Nem tudom, mi fájt jobban, a felháborító azonosság-e, vagy a felháborító különbözőség.”
Source: Helping Verbs of the Heart
“A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!”
“A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.”
Source: Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui
“A Gypsy never parts with her gold, unless she intends to spend it.”
Source: Mystic Montana Sky
“A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.”
“A gyászév első fele eltelt; Zsófi néha már a színes ruháit is megnézte a fiókban, hogy nem molyosodnak-e.”
Source: Gyász
“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
“A habit does not a monk make.”
“A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.”
“A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation. Everyone is grateful for it. It improves every human relationship, it brings new courage to people facing difficulties, and it brings out the best in everyone. So, give appreciation generously whenever you can. You will never regret it.”
“A habit is automated will, a system is scaled discipline.”
“A habit is something more mysterious and confounding than affection. Affection is a conscious thing, but habits are subconscious. I thought at the time that perhaps what’s real is dominated by the subconscious.”
Source: No One Writes Back
“A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.”
“A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.”
“A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.”
“A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.”
Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.”
“A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.”
“A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.”
“A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.””
“A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.”
“A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was over his eyes. He looked like a failed soldier. Dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing.”
Source: This Census-Taker
“A Hagrid, le confiaría mi vida-dijo Dumbledore.”
“A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.”
Source: Haiku: Eastern culture
“A hair divides what is false and true.”
“A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.”
“A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“A hairdresser holds a trusted place in a woman's life”
“A hairdresser talking with the Doctoresse about the bombing:
- "I'm not afraid of it. The dead are better off than we are."
- "But you don't know that."
- "Yes, I do. I'm sure of it because not a single one of them has ever returned.”
Source: A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945
“A hairdresser who did my hair said, "You, my darling, have something that we call successful' hair," which is basically battered hair that's split and falling out in the back because you've had to blow-dry it every day. I don't want my hair falling out, so I wear wigs!”
“A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.”
“A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.”
Source: Juvenal and Persius
“A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!”
“A half-blood of the eldest dogs...”
Source: The Last Olympian
“A half blood of the eldest dogs..."
"Er, Percy?" Annabeth interrupted. "That's gods. Not dogs."
"Oh, right," I said.”
“A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.”
“A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.”
Source: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
“A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.”
“A half century of neoliberalism has brought the world to the brink of collapse. Only concerted effort and cooperation by the world’s governments provides any chance of survival.
Understanding MMT does not make this easy. But it helps us to recognize what the true constraints are: resources, initiative, politics, imagination.”
Source: Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers
“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-
Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars.”
“A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.”
“A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.”
“A half-hearted forgiveness is pretentious. You cannot forgive and say that you still have not forgotten. If you have not forgotten, it means you have not forgiven.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“A half-hour later, Zack, Micah and Matt Jordan, Micah’s crime scene specialist, were standing in the lobby of Manistee police headquarters, waiting for Alexander.
“What’s he like?” Micah asked.
“A little to the right of Buford T. Justice,” replied Zack, referencing Jackie Gleason’s classic portrayal of a country cop in Smokey and the Bandit.
“I love Buford T. Justice. If I were an actor and I could choose to play only one part, it would be Buford T. Justice.”
“Great role, Micah, but Buford is not the type of cop you want if you are trying to prove your client’s innocence.”
“Suppose not.”
A door opened, and Alexander walked out into the lobby. Micah started chuckling. Buford T. Justice!
“What’s so funny?” Chief Alexander asked.”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.”
“A half mile down the hillside, he could see Warren's pickup stop in a cloud of dust. Hud watched Dana get out. She was still beautiful. Still prickly as a porcupine. Still strong and determined. Still wishing him dead.”
Source: Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch
“A half-open window.
Morning-fresh air carries
curious sunlight into a bedroom.
Flecks of dust shimmer yellow-gold.
Four feet, entwined under white sheets.
Joni's Blue, on the player.
Delicate curtains slow-dance
to Sunday's tune.
Laughter.
Talk of: what for breakfast?
Anything. Anything at all.”