A Quotes
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“A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA
If you hold this
Dazzling emerald
Up to the sky,
It will shine a billion
Beautiful miracles
Painted from the tears
Of the Most High.
Plucked from the lush gardens
Of a yellowish-green paradise,
Look inside this hypnotic gem
And a kaleidoscope of
Titillating,
Soul-raising
Sights and colors
Will tease and seduce
Your eyes and mind.
Tell me, sir.
Have you ever heard
A peacock sing?
Hold your ear
To this mystical stone
And you will hear
Sacred hymns flowing
To the vibrations
Of the perfumed
Wind.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!”
Source: Portnoy's complaint
“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!”
“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”
“A jeśli wieczność okaże się nudna?
Wystarczy! Nudzić się można jedynie w czasie. Poza czasem będę bezpieczn, zdany na rozkosz bycia. Bez ciała, bez bliźnich, bez słów. Wieczny. Czysty umysł. O czystości przejrzystej dla siebie samej. (...)
Cały będę jak nicość, lecz będę całością. Przestrzeń jest moim więzieniem, czas - karą. Już ich nie chcę, uwalniam się od nich. Jestem wolny. Jestem koniecznością.
(...)
Kilka minut później Bóg zapadł w swój ostatni sen, zabierając świat z powrotem do nicości, z ktorej nigdy nie powinien był go wydobywać.”
Source: La Secte des égoïstes
“A jigsaw puzzle?'
Amren fitted a tiny piece into the section she'd been working on. 'Am I supposed to be doing something else during my Solstice holiday?”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!”
“A job half done is a job undone.”
“A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.”
“A job interview is a two-way communication to probe for cultural and team fit. No matter which side of the table you sit, you should be asking questions that are important to you without fear.”
“A job is a dumb fucking thing to give up happiness for.”
Source: Misinformation
“A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.”
“A job is a job. And I like to work.”
“A job is a sacrifice. Following an interest - that's a contribution. And we're here on the planet, not to sacrifice ourselves, but to make a contribution.”
“A job is a short term solution to a long term problem”
“A job is a very healthy thing to do.”
“A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.”
Source: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
“A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.”
Source: The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)
“A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.”
“A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.”
Source: Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe
“A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.”
“A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.”
“A job is not merely a means to earn livelihood but it also gives you a position in the society. You also participate in the betterment of the world by making meaningful contribution through your profession.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.”
“A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.”
“A job isn’t ‘till death do us part…”
Source: Mail-Order Brides of the West: Bertha: A Montana Sky Series Novel
“A job leads to a job, just like anything else, and it became apparent that this was probably what I was going to keep doing.”
“A job often makes it impossible for an employee to enjoy something it makes possible for them to do or have.”
“A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.”
“A job pays you. A career grows you. A calling outlives you.”
“A job should be a temporary thing”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“A job should be given to those who deserve it, not those who demand it.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.”
“A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.”
“A job should only be a means of attaining the highest goal”
“A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss”
“A job shouldn’t be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance”
“A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world.”
“A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.”
“A job well done is a job well understood.”
“A jobless barber shall learn new hairstyles”
“A jobless barber shall learn new hairstyles and a jobbed barber shall learn new ways to pluck others hair”
“A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too.”
“A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.”
“A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.”
“A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.”
“A joke a day keeps the gloom away!”
“A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good.”
Source: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“A joke from the elite level of Ai Engineering: “We discovered that very advanced electromagnetic entities had been living with us for a very long time. However, they operate on Harm None Protocols, so we couldn’t figure out how to communicate with them.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“A joke I used to know said that if you were planning a trip into the deepest wilderness you should pack a bottle of gin and a bottle of vermouth, and never open them unless and until you became hopelessly lost. Then, wherever you were, when you took your two bottles out of your kit bag, someone would come over the horizon and tell you how to make a better martini.”
Source: Selected Columns from Canadian Living