A Quotes
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“A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.”
“A hit, a very palpable hit.”
“A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.”
“A hoarse cry, and then his teeth were in my neck, the puncture wounds from his canines the most excruciating kind of pleasure-pain I'd ever known. This, right here, was why people were so obsessed with vampires. Why they wrote countless stories about them. Why they fantasized about taking vampires as lovers. Every long pull of blood Peter took from me sent screaming pleasure sizzling down my veins, through my blood, between my legs. My eyes went wide, unseeing, as I came a second time, even harder than the first.
Peter came unglued beneath me, snarling now as he drank, and fucked, and drank.”
Source: Road Trip With a Vampire
“A hoarse scream came from somewhere in front of them, and Billy stopped. Lee froze. The scream came again and again, the short repetition of it mad and desperate. She whispered as softly as she could. "Billy, is someone hurt?" But he didn't respond or turn around.
She cautiously joined him and Kimmie at the front, and she saw a bobcat in Billy's lamp light, staring them down as a humanlike wail came from the cat's mouth.
Billy moved slowly toward the animal with his arm outstretched as Lee pleaded for him to come back. When he reached it and offered his hand up to smell, the animal froze with its teeth bared. Lee imagined it mauling him and then moving on to her.
But then the animal rubbed its cheek against his palm like a housecoat, and Lee heard a low rumbling. The creature was purring. He gave it love for a few minutes until the cat got tired of it and loped out of sight.
He let out a breath and chuckled low to himself. "She was just lonely.”
Source: Strange Folk
“A hob played a lute strung with another reveler's hair.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.”
“A hobby accompanied by more effort on your part, will result in a great career.”
“A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.”
“A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.”
“A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.”
“A hodgepodge of fantasies lies within you; some are sexual; live them.”
“A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.”
“A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.”
“A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.”
“A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.”
Source: Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One
“A hole is a hole has always been my motto.”
“A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in.”
“A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.”
“A hole is nothing but what remains around it.”
“A holiday atmosphere
thrives in these ways:
Through laughter, attention,
goodwill, and true praise.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.”
“A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.”
Source: At Seventy: A Journal
“A holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.”
“A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up.”
“A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.”
Source: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
“A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“A holiness that is never seen by others is not a genuine holiness. A holiness that is only tacked up like a false front is not a genuine holiness, either.”
“A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of the strands is achievable and that it has a positive impact on people's lives you take another step towards proving the bigger theory of the case.”
“A Holistic Wealth perspective emphasizes creating budgets with purpose. Identify priorities, allocate resources and leave room for personal enjoyment. This approach fosters a healthy financial mindset, reducing the liklihood of regretting spending decisions.”
“A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“A holocaust of an afternoon.”
“A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.”
Source: The saint's everlasting rest: or, A treatise on the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in Heaven [abridged by B. Fawcett]. Also, A call to the unconverted, by R. Baxter. To which are added, A serious address to penitents, by J. Fletcher, also Alleine's Alarm (to unconverted sinners).
“A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.”
“A holy fast is the food of faith.”
“A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.”
“A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.”
“A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.”
“A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.”
“A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.”
“A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.”
Source: Living In God's Power
“A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.”
“A holy person makes you see things in yourself and around you that you had not seen before; that is to say, enlarges the world rather than shrinking it. ...Holiness [is] not an extra special kind of goodness... [or] competing levels of how good you are. It's ...about being involved in the world. A holy person is somebody who is not afraid to be at the tough points in the centre of what it's like to be a human being... this boils down to something extremely simple and extremely difficult, which is that holy people, however much they may enjoy being themselves, are not obsessively interested in themselves. They allow you to see not them, but the world around them. They allow you to see not them, but God. You come away from them feeling not, "Oh, what a wonderful person," but "What a wonderful world," "What a wonderful God," or even, with surprise, "What a wonderful person I am too.”
Source: Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life