A Quotes
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“A lifetime isn’t long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.
Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.”
Source: The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem
“A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.”
Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.”
“A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.”
Source: Words Of Common Sense
“A lifetime of eating at the foot of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had produced a vision of saints and sinners. My heart ached to embark on a journey of liberation and taste of the Tree of Life where saint and sinner are one in love. Every saint has a story, and all sinners have glorious pages yet to be written.”
Source: Incarnate: The Incredible Journey of Edward Mayus
“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.”
Source: Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive
“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
“A lifetime of hard work developed a deceptive amount of strength and power in her. She clearly had hidden muscles. Her dock lines creaked and moaned like that of the reins of a horse trying to sprint but forced to trot. She anxiously chomped upon them, growing ever more restless with the change in the tide. She could see the open pasture from the fuel dock and feel the ocean pulsing through her as the south swell churned the harbor”
Source: Vicious Cycle: Whiskey, Women, and Water
“A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.”
“A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to anyone expect the holder of the memory. Parenting in large part consists of creating positive memories for children. An accumulation of a lifetime of memories does create a musical score that we can assess from an artistic if not scientific perspective. Each happy memory generates a beat of minor joy that when strung together form the musical notes demarking a person’s prosodic inner tune.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A lifetime of question marks had hooked together in a chain and dragged her to this reality.”
Source: The Courting of Bristol Keats
“A lifetime of suffering will never be worth a moment of love.”
“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”
“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.”
Source: Cat's Grin
“A lifetime spent merely enduring your body squanders your power and forfeits your capacity for contentment.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.”
“A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.”
Source: Love In The Afternoon: Number 5 in series
“A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough.”
“A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!”
“A lifetime wouldn't be enough. Eternity wouldn't be enough. Not when I want to map every star in the sky with you in my arms.”
Source: The Inadequate Heir
“A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.”
“A lifevest protects you from drowning and a bulletproof vest protects you from getting shot, and a sweater vest protects you from pretty girls.”
“A ligação estreita entre a morte e a tristeza é uma opinião ingênua. As lágrimas dos vivos, em resposta à sua chegada, têm um sentido nada oposto à alegria. Longe de serem dolorosas, as lágrimas são a expressão de uma consciência aguda da vida em comum captada na sua intimidade. É certo que é no momento em que a ausência segue repentinamente a presença que essa consciência é mais aguda, como na morte ou na simples separação, e nesse caso, o consolo (no sentido profundo que os místicos davam aos «consolos») está amargamente ligado ao facto de não poder durar, mas é precisamente o desaparecimento da duração, e com ela os comportamentos neutros que a acompanham, que destapa um fundo das coisas cujo ofuscamento cega (por outras palavras, é evidente que a necessidade da duração nos rouba a vida, e que só, em principio, a impossibilidade da duração nos liberta). Noutros casos as lágrimas respondem ao triunfo inesperado, à sorte que nos faz exultar, mas sempre de modo insensato, muito além da preocupação com o tempo futuro.”
Source: Theory of religion
“A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.”
“A light brought into a
dark room will necessarily illuminate every portion of it”
Source: An Indian Pilgrim
“A light brown eyebrow rose, followed by a deep, easy chuckle. “You like what you see?”
“Yes. I’m not blind. But I prefer a stronger jaw, someone a little darker.” Furi smirked right back. Where the hell had he gotten all this bravado from? He usually wasn’t so blunt, but it felt good. He was finally coming into his own. The way his dad had urged him to before he’d passed.
“Stronger and darker, huh? No shit.” The man looked behind him into the one-way mirror, smiling broadly, making Furi wonder who was behind it.
“I’m Detective Ronowski. I’m the First Officer of a narcotics task force based in this precinct. Thank you for coming down tonight.”
“Well it wasn’t by choice. I will say your errand boys could use a refresher course in charm and courtesy,” Furi said with little venom.
“Errand boys? Oh, you mean Green and Ruxs.” Ronowski laughed again. It was a melodic sound that had Furi leaning back and enjoying it. “Those errand boys are very skilled men, maybe not in charm, but definitely in hand-to-hand combat. Just in case someone doesn’t want to come willingly. But I’m sure you didn’t give them any trouble.”
“No, I didn’t. Anyway, how long is this going to take?” Furi asked, checking his watch again. Damnit.
“Got a hot date?” Ronowski smiled, looking at the window again.
“Something like that. Who’s behind that glass?”
“My boss.” Ronowski shot him that sexy grin again.
“Well this is fun, but can we move it along?”
“Of course.”
“A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.”
“A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.”
“A light exists in Spring
Not present in the year
at any other period
When March is scarcely here.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period -
When March is scarcely here
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.
It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.
Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay -
A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.”
“A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.”
“A light heart is a magnet for all that you love”
“A light heart lives long.”
“A light-hearted point to consider: Do you know the number one reason a man falls in love with a woman? Because of how she makes him feel about himself. Do you know the number one reason a man falls out of love with a woman? Because of how she makes him feel about himself! It is the same reason! When you inspire and motivate another person through your positive energy, they want you to stick around!”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“A light here required a shadow there.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“A light in the tunnel is worth a thousand at the end of it.”
“A light kiss brings a smile; its encore stirs a flame, a glow not felt in many years... but kindled over time grows strong! It pauses now as if to say, 'Hi. I was never really gone. I've been sheltered here inside and am very much alive and well.”
Source: One Heart's Journey: Lyrics of an Imperfect Life
“A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's unspeakable glory -- that incomprehensible wonder -- the tender caress between God and the soul...the unmingled joy of union, the living love of eternity as it now is and evermore shall be.”
“A light purse is a heavy curse.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“A light rain is about the most discreet and charming of nature's phenomena: it intrudes on tiptoe. p 76”
Source: Chromos
“A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it.”
“A light snow touches her cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses.”
“A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.”
Source: A Sport and a Pastime
“A light stream emanated from the engine’s wheels, and the train gave a final whistle as if the huge frame of metal and wood were sighing in grief over the souls it had to separate.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts:
Ignorant, he forms the All-conscient in his depths,
Human, looks up to superhuman peaks:
A borrower of Supernature’s gold,
He paves his road to Immortality.
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Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.”
“A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.”