A Quotes
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“A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.”
“A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.”
“A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“A less well known impact of immigrant populations is the increase that destination states gain in Congress where apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is calculated on the basis of a state's entire adult population regardless of legal status. And, because each state's electoral college vote is the sum of the number of its representatives in the House and its two senators, high immigration states play a larger role in presidential elections than they might if only adult citizens and legal aliens were counted in population surveys.”
Source: The Struggle for Democracy
“A less-than dream job can help you find your dreams.”
“A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.”
“A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.”
“A lesson any writer can use. Don’t be afraid. That simple; don’t let them scare you. There’s nothing they can do to you. If they kick you out of films, do TV. If they kick you out of TV, write novels. If they won’t buy your novels, sell short stories. Can’t do that, then take a job as a bricklayer. A writer always writes. That’s what he’s for. And if they won’t let you write one kind of thing, if they chop you off at the pockets in the market place, then go to another market place. And if they close of all the bazaars, then by God go and work with your hands till you can write, because the talent is always there. But the first time you say, “Oh, Christ, they’ll kill me!” then you’re done. Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.”
Source: Dangerous Visions
“A lesson any writer can use. Don’t be afraid. That simple; don’t let them scare you. There’s nothing they can do to you. If they kick you out of films, do TV. If they kick you out of TV, write novels. If they won’t buy your novels, sell short stories. Can’t do that, then take a job as a bricklayer. A writer always writes. That’s what he’s for. And if they won’t let you write one kind of thing, if they chop you off at the pockets in the market place, then go to another market place. And if they close off all the bazaars, then by God go and work with your hands till you can write, because the talent is always there. But the first time you say, “Oh, Christ, they’ll kill me!” then you’re done. Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.”
Source: Dangerous Visions
“A lesson church leaders need to learn is that relationships must not be neglected.”
Source: Why They Left: Listening to Those Who Have Left Churches of Christ
“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”
Source: The Assignment
“A lesson for you, Mr. Grim: Intending an action and doing it are far from the same thing. Until you are right there, with the choice in front of you, you can only guess what you might do, and what your character might be. Are you hero or coward? Often you will guess wrong.”
Source: The Secret Prince
“A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.”
Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned”
“A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business”
“A lesson presents itself so that we can know. How you go about knowing is completely up to you. Some of us unconsciously prefer to go through crash and burn wake up calls in order to learn and some of us prefer to take a path where we can, in a healthy manner, peacefully come to know.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
“A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.”
“A lesson to Russia & other Countries ...America runs the MEDIA field. America owns 90% of Broadcasting platforms in the world. Meaning that, like in any relationship, when they Break-Up with you, they take their assets with them.
It's time to build YOUR OWN.”
“A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.”
“A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own...you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.”
“A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return.”
“A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.”
“a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.”
“A letter allows us to travel through time.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“A letter always feels to me like Immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”
Source: Emily Dickinson: Letters
“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”
“A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.”
“A letter does not blush.”
Source: The Letters of Cicero: B.C. 51-49
“A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!”
Source: My Name Is Red
“A letter from 15 year old Sophia - later Catherine the Great - to her father:
My Lord: I beg you to assure yourself that your advice and exhortation will remain forever engraved on my heart, as the seeds of the holy faith will in my soul, to which I pray God to lend all the strength it will need to sustain me through the temptations to which I expect to be exposed... I hope to have the consolation of being worthy of it, and likewise of continuing to receive good news of my dear Papa, and I am, as long as I live, and in an inviolable respect, my lord, your Highness's most humble, most obedient, and faithful daughter and servant, Sophia.”
“A letter from a French cleric to Nicholas of St. Albans, written c. 1178, rehearsed what was already a familiar perception: Your island is surrounded by water, and not unnaturally its inhabitants are affected by the nature of the element in which they live. Unsubstantial fantasies slide easily into their minds. They think their dreams to be visions, and their visions to be divine. We cannot blame them, for such is the nature of their land. I have often noticed that the English are greater dreams than the French.”
Source: Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
“A letter from the great-grandson.” He shakes his head sadly. “Sweet boy, but I don’t know how he’s going to make it through school with that name. Eustace .”
“Maybe he’ll go by a nickname,” I offer, but Ernie isn’t going for it. “What sort of nickname? Eu? Stace?” He folds the letter and gingerly sets it on the coffee table in front of him. “Ah, well. His mother says she labored with him for two and a half days, so he deserves it.”
Source: Some Other Now
“A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.”
Source: Master of the Vineyard
“A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.”
Source: The Black Prince
“A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.”
Source: The Iron Woman
“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.”
“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.”
Source: Educating Alice
“A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“A letter is more than text.”
Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War
“A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.”
“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.”
Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
“A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.”
“A letter is the portrait of the soul.”
“A letter makes ordinary things seem important.”
Source: Lila: A Novel
“A letter remained unsent, for a bud never found its bloom. For those fallen too soon, the lamp went out before the first breath of dawn.”
“A letter?” repeated Professor McGonagall faintly, sitting back down on the wall. “Really Dumbledore, you think you can explain all this in a letter? These people will never understand him! He’ll be famous—a legend—I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future—there will be books written about Harry—every child in our world will know his name! ...”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“a letter that was so beautifully written it caused me to shed my first tear since my father's death.”
Source: Letters in the Attic