A Quotes
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“Auch wenn es aus heutiger Sicht tausend Indizien dafür gibt, dass ich einer der naivsten Menschen war, die jemals Londoner Luft riechen durften, damals kam es mir eigentlich nur zugute. Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, dass ich nur halb so viele positive Dinge in Großbritannien erlebt hätte, wäre ich damals mit einer anderen Einstellung nach London gezogen. Meine Naivität war meine Achillesferse und zeitgleich mein Sprungbein ins Glück.”
Source: Koks im Zuckerstreuer und Kakerlaken in der Wand
“Auch, wenn ihre Nachbarn litten - solange das Leid nicht bei ihnen selbst Einkehr hielt, zogen sie es vor, wegzusehen und so zu tun, als würden die schlechten Dinge nicht existieren. Es war nicht immer Feigheit. Für manche erforderte das Leben an sich schon sehr viel Mut.”
Source: Les Enfants de la liberté
“Auch wenn mir die Prinzipien des Kommunismus einleuchteten, war ich nicht im Stande, an die Menschen oder das System zu glauben, die seine Ideen in die Praxis umsetzten.
- Leutnant Mamiya”
“Auch wenn Niliana ihm erzählt hatte, dass ihre Magie so nicht funktionierte, sondern nur auf Literatur angewendet werden konnte, so wusste er es instinktiv besser. Er hatte die Magie gespürt, die Inspiration, die aus seiner Not entstanden war und die die Basis für seinen ersten Thriller gelegt hatte. Er musste sie lediglich wieder auf ihre Situation anwenden, sich vorstellen, sie wären die Figuren seines neuesten Thrillers, bei dem es ein Happy End geben sollte.”
Source: Inspired - Magie der Muse
“Auch wenn zwei Staaten in Deutschland existieren, sind sie doch füreinander nicht Ausland; ihre Beziehungen zueinander können nur von besonderer Art sein."
("Even though two states in Germany exist, they are not foreign countries to each other—their relations with each other can only be of a special kind.")
First Inaugural Address as West German Chancellor, October 28, 1969”
“Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.”
“Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.”
“Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.”
“Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.”
“Aucun couple, même le meilleur, ne peut encourager à l'amour, ce n'est pas vrai.”
Source: Les petits chevaux de Tarquinia
“Aucun des sophismes de la folie, - la folie qu'on enferme, - n'a été oublié par moi : je pourrais les redire tous, je tiens le système.”
Source: Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre: A season in hell & The drunken boat
“Aucun destin biologique, psychique, économique ne définit la figure que revêt au sein de la societé la femelle humain; c'est l'ensemble de la civilisation qui élabore ce produit intermédiaire entre le mâle et le castrat qu'on qualifie de féminin.”
Source: Le deuxième sexe, I
“Aucun destin ne justifierait une quelconque exaltation de quiconque”
Source: The World As I See It
“Aucun homme ne consentirait a être une femme, mais tous souhaitent qu'il y ait des femmes.”
“Aucun n'est d'un métal si pur qu'il laisse l'autre sans voix.”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“Aucun pays ou État laïc ne peut imposer à ses citoyens des lois interdisant la polygamie ou la bigamie, à moins qu’une religion ne bénéficie de plus de privilèges que les autres.”
“Aucune caresse ne va jusqu'à l'âme.”
Source: Mémoires d'Hadrien
“Aucune frontière n'est facile à franchir. Il faut forcément abandonner quelque chose derrière soi.”
Source: Eldorado
“Aucune protection, pas d'assurance, menaces et terreur de partout, de la famille, de l'entourage, de l'Etat, d'un jeune mollah de Qom qui peut te viser du doit et t'envoyer en enfer. p368”
Source: Elle joue
“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
“Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating. You do the natural. Trust God for the super.”
Source: Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible
“Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.”
“Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.”
Source: Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
“Audacity and collaboration aren’t just luxuries—they’re necessities. No matter who you are, daring to dream boldly and building alongside others will always take you further than you could ever go alone.”
“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.”
“Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.”
Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works
“Audacity is not rebellion or mere bravado. It is the essence of a fearless mind, a spark that ignites the rebellion against the ordinary, paving the way for extraordinary possibilities.”
Source: A League of Your Own: Discovering Your Distinctive Advantage
“audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.”
Source: Works
“Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.”
“Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'”
Source: Sun Stand Still Devotional: A Forty-Day Experience to Activate Your Faith
“Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.”
“Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.”
“Audacity, audacity, always audacity.”
“Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.”
“Aude Aliquid Dignum”
Source: Spiritual Survival: How Faith and Preparedness Go Hand in Hand in a Chaotic World: A Christian’s Guide to Embracing Faith and Practical Prepping
“Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.”
“Auden’s gone full-blown Lydia “Bennet and accused me of being Lizzie. Which, I don’t mind, but still.”
“Plain English here please, Em. You know I don’t speak Austen.”
“Neither does she.” I exhale”
Source: The Crush
“Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.”
“Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.”
“Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.”
“Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.”
“Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.”
Source: The cognitive style of PowerPoint
“Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Audience interest is directly proportionate to the presenter's preparation. You better spend time and energy on any presentations where the stakes are high. If you are trying to close a large sale or speak at a conference to an audience of potential clients, you better be ON your game. An audience can tell how much energy you spent on your presentation, which is a reflection of how much you valued their time. If they gave you an hour of their time, you need to make it worth it to them by treating their time as a valuable asset by making the content valuable to them.”
“Audience member: Living Room!
Sara: Kitchen”
“Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.”
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.”
“Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage”
“Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.”