A Quotes
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“At trial, it became clear that in the macho, mustache-man world of drug-trafficking, Chapo had as much use for women, seducing them with saccharine forevers, then putting them to work in his stable—as buyers, as Blackberry-tapping go-betweens to preserve his anonymity on deals—involving their family members because there’s no glue stronger than blood.”
Source: In the Thrall of the Mountain King: The Secret History of EL CHAPO, the World’s Most Notorious Narco
“At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.”
Source: My Story
“At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.”
“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.”
“At twenty a woman's face begins to show matrimonial addresses.”
Source: Plotless
“At twenty every one is republican.”
“At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.”
“At twenty, he had been passionately certain: there's just one thing I'm destined for and that's glory; that's right, glory! He had no idea what kind of glory he wanted, or what kind he was suited for. He knew only that in the depths of the world's darkness was a point of light which had been provided for him alone and would draw near some day to irradiate him and no other.”
Source: The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.”
Source: Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
“At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.”
“At twenty-one or twenty-two, so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible, which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this. Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.”
Source: The Magnificent Ambersons
“At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.”
Source: Many Inventions
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
“At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.”
“At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.”
Source: The Spinster Book
“At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.”
Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel
“At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.”
“At twenty-seven years old, I was diagnosed HIV. Three years later I decide to dedicate the remainder of my life to art. Leaving work and refusing the assistance of Unemployment Insurance or Welfare, I challenged myself to live completely through my art.”
“At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.”
“At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.”
“At two instances, a person will not come back to you, one is after his death and the other is after killing his feelings”
“At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)
“At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.”
“At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.”
“At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.”
“At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.”
“At uni I met a lot of people I had nothing in common with. Some were very clever, some very rich, some very sporty. Some of them became my best friends, but not at first. Having things in common isn't always the best start to a friendship. I'd stick with it! Also, try to chat to people when they're on their own. So many people feel they need to perform in big groups.”
“At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.”
“At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.”
“At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.”
“At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.”
“At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.”
“At various points in our lives we had considered joining the circus, a daydream handed to us, in fact, by our parents. If we got mad and were casting around for something to do about it, our parents would suggest with great mirth that we run away to join the circus and eventually it became a concrete possibility in our minds, a genuine emergency hatch through which we could slip if things became too unbearable. Although we hadn’t been to a circus, we had ideas of what it might entail: days of trundling along in painted wagons and stringing cooking pots over rosy fires and sitting in front of mirrors lit up by light bulbs as large as conference pears, broken up by spurts of action in which we tested our fantastic discipline against the messy and somewhat arbitrary nature of death. I don’t think it’s something kids think about anymore and anyway we never did it. We stayed right where we were, which our parents always knew would be the case and also why they’d offered it up like a dare in the first place. It was unkind but also their way of reaffirming the cords that bound us.”
Source: Idle Grounds
“At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)”
“At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men”
Source: A Series of Pamphlets
“At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.”
“At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.”
“At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.”
Source: Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life
“At Vatican II my mind was growing through the embryonic beginning of a reversal of moral conscience unlike any I had known. I found myself increasingly critical of the Freudian psychoanalysis that had long shaped my interest in personal behavior change. I better recognized the long captivity of Protestant pastoral care to contemporary psychology and became a critic of the very accommodation to modern consciousness that I myself had advocated throughout the preceding decade.”
Source: A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir
“At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.”
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“At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?”
“At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.”
“At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.”
“At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.”
Source: A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
“At war, there's no right or wrong.
Winner's right while loser's wrong.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut