A Quotes
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“A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.”
“A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
“A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.”
“A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.”
“A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”
Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“A large, white, winged horse stands before me, wings outspread and nostrils dilated, she writes. He tells me that he is here to carry me into the moonlit realms of imagination, dreams, and intuition. He uses his hooves to strike at the ground of my being, to trigger wellsprings of poetic inspiration and artistic creativity fed by memories of times long since past, memories that often creep into the dream time. Furthermore, he says the deep unconscious – in the form of a magician’s spell – is calling to me to remember who I have been and who I am destined to be.”
Source: Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery
“A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.”
“A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.”
Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc
“A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."”
Source: The Anatomy of Bibliomania
“A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.”
“A larger share of the answer to the question why the Titanic still arouses so much interest, however, may lie in the position that the Titanic held in the world of 1912. The Titanic was not simply a means of conveying people from a place they wished to leave to a place they wanted to be, as is the case with most modern ships. It was a floating symbol of status, almost a materialized article of social faith. Its owners had succeeded admirably in establishing it as a symbol of safety, luxury, exclusiveness, and social privilege. This world was smashed in an evening, indeed, in a matter of hours. The watertight compartments which the owners had puffed so extensively turned out to be worthless. The pride of twentieth-century technology floundered and plunged like the weakest seventeenth-century pink. Millionaires and immigrants from the third-class shared the common experience of death. Death, it was suddenly recognized, could strike down a Rothschild or a Guggenheim as quickly as it could a stoker. All in all, the sinking of the Titanic was a demonstration of man’s fate in microcosm.”
Source: The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors
“A largo plazo, el carácter es un gran determinante de cómo nos va a ir, simplemente porque son muchas las decisiones que tomamos, y cada decisión está afectada por la anterior. Eso implica que el algoritmo que usemos para elegir buenos o malos caminos resulta crucial”
“A lark, caught in a hunter’s net
Sang sweeter then than ever,
As if the falling melody
Might wing and net dissever
At dusk the hunter took his prey,
The lark his freedom never.
All birds and men are sure to die
But songs may live forever.”
Source: THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
“A las chicas se les ordena que callen desde que son niñas. No montes un numerito. Sé buena. No levantes la mano. No digas lo que piensas. No hagas muecas. No te llenes de barro. No seas tonta. Suelta a esa paloma. No te mojes el pelo. Deja de hacer ruido. Aléjate de ese perro. No se nos anima a expresarnos.”
Source: A Book for Her
“A las gente le gusta inventarse monstruos y monstruosidades, entonces parecen menos monstruosos asi mismos”
Source: The Last Wish
“A las grandes aventuras siempre les sigue el silencio.”
Source: Mecánica de fluidos
“A las mujeres elegantes ¡qué bellas se les ve!”
Source: Nicolás, Antonella y Pablo
“A las musas hay que arrastrarlas de los pelos hasta el escritorio.”
Source: Coaching para escribir un bestseller (Guías + del escritor)
“A las niñas les decimos: Puedes tener ambición, pero no demasiada. Debes intentar tener éxito, pero no
demasiado, porque entonces estarás amenazando a los hombres. Si tú eres el sostén económico en tu relación
con un hombre, finge que no lo eres, sobre todo en público, porque si no lo estarás castrando. [...] ¿Por qué el éxito de una mujer ha de ser una amenaza para un hombre?”
Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“A las personas hay que aceptarlas con sus máscaras; es la única forma de quitárselas.”
Source: Más Allá de los Lenguajes
“A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos.”
Source: Las malas
“A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.”
“A last, despairing thought shot through Aliya’s mind, Is this it? I don’t want to die! I want to live! Then everything went dark.”
Source: First Lessons
“A last note to 2020
A year of silence, isolation, deaths, sorrows and alot of spare time
I don't want to discuss you with anyone ever in my life
But you gave me memories that's gonna stay forever in my life
People say memories vanish with time
So you gave me experiences and lessons on time
I learned from my mistakes, thanks for opening my eyes
You changed my mind
You made me know; who I am
Dear 2020, you were a cruel friend of mine
Thanks for giving me time to spend with permanent people of mine
Saddened for the people, I lost of mine
Happy for the removal of temporary people
That wasted my time, that made me unkind
Dear God, thanks for showing me this time.”
“A lasting beauty, born out of brief destruction.”
Source: A Psalm for the Wild-Built / A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
“A lasting happiness cannot be attained by seeking temporary happiness.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.”
“A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.”
“A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.”
“A late-comer to school, I had uncritically accepted all its standards. I was a conformist: it never occurred to me that because I suffered there was something wrong with the system, or with the human heart.”
Source: The Go- Between.
“A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time”
“A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.”
Source: Poems
“A late shine is a predicted short time.”
“A late shine looks unreliable but a predicted short time.”
“A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.”
“A Late Walk -
A Tree beside the wall stands bare,
But a leaf that lingered brown,
Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
comes softly rattling down.
I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
to carry again to you.”
Source: A Boy's Will
“A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!”
“A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.”
“A latte a day keeps retirement away”
“A latte spurned is a fortune earned.”
Source: The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
“A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.”
“A laugh a day does you more good than an apple – read a humours book ...”
Source: The Unexpected Consequences of Iron Overload
“A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.”
“A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.”
“A laugh here, a smile there … Life is full of treasures. It just depends on what you perceive as gifts.”
“A laugh I'd recognize anywhere”
Source: Better Than Before
“A laugh is a smile out of control.”