A Quotes
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“Aye, born heir to the infinite thou art,
within the heart is the ocean of love,
"give, give away," - whoever asks return,
his ocean dwindles down to a mere drop.
From the highest brahman to the yonder worm,
and to the very minutest atom,
Everywhere is the same god, the all-love;
Friend, offer mind, soul, body, at their feet.
These are his manifold forms before thee,
rejecting them, where seekest thou for god?
who loves all beings, without distinction,
he indeed is worshipping best his god.
Vivekananda”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Aye, Claudia. You are mine, and I protect what is mine. Our children will never know the fear you have lived with all these years." He brushed his thumb across her lower lip. "In time I will make you forget your fears and replace them with smiles. I want sleepy smiles when you wake up in my arms each morning. Sensual smiles when you arouse my passions at night. Playful smiles when you tell me I am pigheaded in my business ventures." He kissed the corners of her mouth, gentle, undemanding kisses that melted her resistance. "That is one of the reasons I would marry you, sweetheart. Your smiles make me feel things I have never felt before. They are as addictive as a fine wine, and just as rare. I want them all.”
Source: Betrothed
“Aye. Freaky iffen you ask me. But guessing that what Terrible like, aye. What he deserve sneaking off into the bathroom with some rigmutton cunt, leaving me on my alones in the bar, and other men talking to me and saying I got me a date there and he fucking some whore while everyone outside the bathroom hearing them.”
Source: City of Ghosts
“Aye, I can.” He pressed his hand against her belly above her womb. “I love you, Bethie Stewart. Any
child you conceive of me will be born of that love. You’ll be a light to our children, as you are a light to
Belle—as you are a light to me.”
She looked into his eyes, saw the full force of his feelings revealed there, felt as if her heart were singing.
He loved her . Oh, how she had longed to hear those precious words! And yet . . . “I dinnae know if our
love will be enough.”
“It will be more than enough.” Then he covered her mouth with his, and she forgot everything but him.”
Source: Ride the Fire
“Aye, I did, but I took no part. I was only the watcher, I swear it . . ."
"Lord Umber," said Robb, "this one was only the watcher. Hang him last, so he may watch the others die.”
Source: A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold Pt. 2
“Aye, I loved you. I love you still. I'll always love you.”
Source: Dark Heat: The Dark Kings Stories
“Aye. I’m afraid for my immortal soul now.”
Source: Steel Blood
“Aye, Icarium. Such are memories in full flood. We are not simple creatures. You dream that with memories will come knowledge, and from knowledge, understanding. But for every answer you find, a thousand new questions arise. All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.”
A stubborn tone was evident as Icarium muttered, “A burden I would accept nonetheless.”
“Let me offer some advice. Do not say that to Mappo, unless you wish to further break his heart.”
The Trell’s blood was a thunder coursing through him, his chest aching with a breath held overlong.
“I do not understand,” Icarium said quietly after a time, “but I would never do that, lass.”
Mappo let the air loose, slowly, struggling to control himself. He felt tears run crooked tracks from the corners of his eyes.
“I do not understand.” This time, the words were a whisper.
“Yet you wish to.”
There was no reply to that. A minute passed, then there came to Mappo sounds of movement. “Here, Icarium,” Apsalar said, “dry those eyes. Jhag never weep.”
Source: Deadhouse Gates
“Aye me, how many perils do enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,
And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.”
Source: Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves
“Aye, revolution is grand idea. It’s nothing more than a spinning wheel. In the end, there will be rich and poor. There will be luxury and struggle. Bad things will happen. Innocent people will die. For all yer fighting, killing, dying, the world’s going to have the same problems. Brotha, revolution doesn’t change the world. It just changes who runs it.”
Source: The Outlands
“Aye, that was him in a nutshell, veiled in secrets and stories, dark smuts that would either stick or be cleaned away. In the semidarkness, he was more shadow than person, more darkness than light. The devil was incarnate, sitting opposite, making secret pacts with her, asking her to sign over her soul.”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.”
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit
“Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother.”
Source: The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere
“Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.”
Source: Moby Dick
“Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!”
“Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.”
“Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.”
“Aye, tough mermaids are, the lot of them.”
“Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish.”
Source: Burned: A House of Night Novel
“Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.”
Source: Conan the Barbarian
“Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.”
Source: The Moorchild
“Ayelet Fishbach, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago, said, "Food really connects people. Food is about bringing something into the body. And to eat the same food suggests that we are both willing to bring the same thing into our bodies. People just feel closer to people who are eating the same food as they do.”
Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.”
Source: 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt
“Ayer unas personas me preguntaron cuál era, para mí, el gran problema de la literatura chilena. Ya es bastante absurdo que en una conversación de pasillo pueda darse una pregunta como esa. Las conversaciones de pasillo, por lo demás, siempre fracasan, o al menos así se me presentan la mayoría de las veces: como simples promesas de dispersión. Pero respondí, con seguridad, que el problema de la literatura chilena era la costumbre de escribir cigarrillo en lugar de cigarro. En Chile nadie dice cigarrillo, decimos cigarro, argumenté, como golpeando una mesa imaginaria, pero los escritores chilenos escriben cigarrillo, y al final agregué esta frase absolutamente demagógica: Yo soy de los que escriben cigarro.”
Source: My Documents
“Ayikho into ehlekisayo , Ngomuntu ohluphekayo.”
“Ayla had grown accustomed to quiet and solitude over the past years. The mere presence of another person, while relished, required some adjustment and accommodation, but the emotional upheavals of the day had left her drained and exhausted. She did not want to feel, or think about, or react to, the man who shared her cave. She only wanted to rest.”
Source: The Valley of Horses
“Ayla loved these moments of solitude. Basking in the sun, feeling relaxed and content, she thought about nothing in particular, except the beautiful day and how happy she was.”
Source: The Clan of the Cave Bear
“Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.”
Source: The Valley of Horses (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Two
“Ayleen não era o tipo de pessoa feita para esse mundo. Dizem que a gente vem pra cá apenas para aprender, melhorar nossas almas. A alma dela já sabia de tudo, ela só veio para nos ensinar.”
Source: Singular
“Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.”
“Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."”
“Ayn Rand described Hayek’s book as “pure poison”; Frank Chodorov “thought the program verged on intellectual cowardice”; libertarian economist Walter Block was probably not alone in thinking him only “a weak and conflicted supporter of the market”; and Hans-Hermann Hoppe referred to “Hayek’s social-democratic theory of government”.”
Source: Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950
“Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.”
“Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.”
“Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.”
“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
“Aynada hoşuna gitmeyen bir şey gördüğün zaman kendini kandırarak başka aynalara bakmana gerek yok, bütün aynalar sana aynı şeyi gösterecektir! Gerçekçi ol, gerçekle yüzleş!”
“Aynaya bak! Sen kimsin? Sen kendin değilsin, sen senin kültürünsün! Kendin olmak istiyor musun? O halde hapishaneni terk et ve yolunun ötesindeki yolları tanı!”
“Aynayı bıraktı. Kırk iki yıl kalmıştı! Kırk iki yıl daha nasıl dayanacaktı? Kırk iki yıl daha yılların geçmesini bekleyecekti. Kırk iki yıl daha yaşlanan gözlerine bakacaktı. Zaman hapishanesinden kaçmanın bir yolu yok muydu? Ah, keşke tekrar en baştan başlayabilseydi! Ama nasıl? Nereden? Kiminle? Bertha ile olmazdı. O özgürdü istediği zaman onun hapishanesine girip çıkar ya da uçup gidebilirdi. Üstelik onunla asla “biz” olunamazdı; “bizim” yaşamımız, “bizim” yeni yaşamımız mümkün olamazdı.”
Source: When Nietzsche Wept
“Aynı eski fikirleriyle aynı zihin aynı eski yıla girer; yalnızca yeni fikirleriyle yeni zihin Yeni Yıla girer!”
“Aynı fikirler aynı yüzler yaratmaz ama aynı davranışlar yaratır!”
“Aynı kafa yapısıyla binlerce hayat yaşasan bile hepsi aynı olacaktır! Farklı bir yaşam edinmek için farklı bir kafa yapısı edin!”
“Aynı kişi olmanı bekliyorlar: Aynı düşman. Aynı sevgili. Aynı çocuk. Aynı yazar. Aynı esnaf. Aynı isyancı. Aynı çizer. Aynı arkadaş. Aynı amatör. Aynı tanıdık. Aynı yabancı... Seni ‘öyle’ tanımış olanlar, seni hep ‘öyle’ görmek istiyor: Halbuki eski düşmanların bile en temel stratejik hatasıdır ‘seni hâlâ o kişi sanmaları’.”
Source: Babam Beni Şahdamarımdan Öptü
“Aynı pencereden aynı manzarayı görmeye devam edersin!”
“Aynı ufka bakarken birisi en fazla önündeki kuşu görebilir ya da biraz ilerideki tepeyi ve epey uzaktaki bulutları görebilir ya da bulutların ötesindeki Ay'ı ya da Ay'ın ötesindeki yıldızları görebilir! Ufkunun derinliği senin derinliğinle ilgilidir! Çok derinsen, yıldızlar ve galaksiler henüz doğmamışken ne ya da kim varsa oraya kadar gidersin!”
“Aynı yere bakıp farklı şeyler görmek istiyorsan aynı yere farklı bakış açılarıyla bak!”
“Ayo for yayo
Walk around with yayo, all in my nasal
I must have been craze yo”
“Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep”
“Ayodhya is the heart of Hindus, while Bharat is the body.”