A Quotes
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“A light was flashing on the desktop display when Kira entered. Another message. With a sense of trepidation, she pulled it up.
I am the spark in the center of the void. I am the widdershin scream that cleaves the night. I am your eschatological nightmare. I am the one and the word and the fullness of the light.
Would you like to play a game? Y/N
-Gregorovitch
As a rule, ship minds tended to be eccentric, and the larger they were, the more eccentricities they displayed. Gregorovich was on the outer tail of that bell curve, though. She couldn’t tell if it was just his personality or if his behavior was the result of too much isolation.
Surely, Falconi isn’t crazy enough to fly around with an unstable ship mind… Right?
Either way, best to play it safe:
No. -Kira
An instant later, a reply popped up:
☹️ -Gregorovich”
Source: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
“A light was flashing on the desktop display when Kira entered. Another message. With a sense of trepidation, she pulled it up.
I am the spark in the center of the void. I am the wider shin scream that cleaves the night. I am your eschatological nightmare. I am the one and the word and the fullness of the light.
Would you like to play a game? Y/N
-Gregorovitch
As a rule, ship minds tended to be eccentric, and the larger they were, the more eccentricities they displayed. Gregorovich was on the outer tail of that bell curve, though. She couldn’t tell if it was just his personality or if his behavior was the result of too much isolation.
Surely, Falconi isn’t crazy enough to fly around with an unstable ship mind… Right?
Either way, best to play it safe:
No. -Kira
An instant later, a reply popped up:
☹️ -Gregorovich”
Source: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
“A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and she stared fixatedly at a small stain on the tablecloth. Gregor remembered seeing her that way so many nights after his dad had disappeared. He didn't know what to say. He didn't want to scare her or shock her or ever give her any more pain. So, he stepped into the light of the kitchen and said the one thing he knew she wanted to hear most in the world. "Hey, Mom. We're home.”
“A light wife doth make a heavy husband.”
“A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.”
“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
“A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.”
Source: Mythologies
“A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.”
Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index
“A lighter head can help lift a heavy heart.”
Source: In Limbo
“A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.”
“A lighthouse is more useful than a church.”
“A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!”
“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.”
Source: Poetics
“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.”
“A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.”
“A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!"
"I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; "but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know."
"I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; "but if they do, then they're a kind of serpent: that's all I can say.”
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.”
Source: Collected fiction
“A lillion miles of journey starts with a foot stamp”
“A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.”
“A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.”
Source: Think on these things
“A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.”
Source: The Paradise lost
“A lime tart with pomegranate glaze."
I put the tart on the counter. The crust was the perfect shade of golden brown, and as I cut into it, the bright red glaze contrasted beautifully with the pale green lime custard filling.”
Source: Midsummer's Mayhem
“A lime tree stood by the roadside,
Where I first found peace in sleep!
Under the lime tree
Which snowed its blossom on me,
I was not aware of how life hurts,
And all, all was well once more!
All! All!
Love and sorrow, and world and dream!”
“A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.”
“A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.”
“A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.”
“A limiting belief is practically invisible to us – it hides in habit and custom and mores. It is the way we live. To break out of the limiting belief would almost be like … (gasp) rebellion!”
Source: Mission: Subhero
“A limiting environment can limit your thinking and the size of your future is determined by the size of your thinking.”
“A limpet is a creature without eyes, limbs, without so much as a brain, and yet it creates for itself a spot on the rock that is its home. It leaves its mark on that spot, wearing away the rock until its shell forms a perfect seal. The home scar. Maybe time is like that. Maybe we always move exactly to where and when we belong, even without realizing it. It certainly feels like that for me. As though everything in my whole life has led me to where I am now.”
“A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.”
Source: A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama
“A Line Across the Seine
Whatever I made of you
Surrenders to beauty.
For I am a simple line
That crosses the Seine,
Remembering each wave
Upon the stones of light.
However often the light shines
Towards the blue of morning skies,
I’ll be here.
I’ll write.”
Source: The Willow Song
“A line between white and black had been drawn in my life. I straddled that line with an ache I had no name for. An ache I now understand as identity crisis.”
Source: Wounds
“A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.”
Source: Paul Klee
“A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.”
Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
“A line has no parallel because it is itself the parallel.”
“A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.”
“A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."”
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
“A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.”
“A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.”
“A line is length without breadth.”
“A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.”
“A line of reasoning does not lead but follows us to truth.”
Source: Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew
“A line partakes of the simplicity of a point more than does a surface; and a surface [partakes thereof more] than does a material object-as was evident. From this consideration of a point and a material object elevate yourself unto a likeness of True Being and of the universe; and by means of [this] quite clear symbolism [of a point] make a conjecture about what has been said.”
“A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.”
“A line that reads, 'Died gallantly' would tell a truer story, often, if it read, 'Died screaming'; and instead of the total number of troops who 'sacrificed' their lives, we might simply chisel onto a block of marble the number of limbs left on the battlefield or in hospitals, the number of body parts unaccounted for, missing in action.
Such a memorial would be unthinkable, of course, and I must confess that even I would find it tasteless. But if you want the truth about war, you have to start and end with the screaming.”
“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.”
Source: Later Poems
“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”
“A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.”