A Quotes
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“A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or
“A little taste of peace and harmony. A little taste of liberty and democracy, an act of empathy, solidarity, and unity, that’s all we need to change the bitter taste of reality! Lyrics from the song BLOOD IS ALWAYS RED! Written by Lily Amis”
“A little taste of sweetness and understanding
an act of selfless love and forgiveness
that’s all we need to end this global madness!
Violence, conflicts, and sponsored wars have never been a solution, think twice, anything else is an illusion, a delusion, nothing but confusion! Lyrics from the song BLOOD IS ALWAYS RED! written by Lily Amis”
“A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?”
“A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.”
Source: Thoughts on religion
“A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.”
“A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable.”
Source: Morning by Morning
“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin
“A little thought thought over and over becomes the thought that changes everything. Always choose to believe the best about yourself.”
Source: The Great Brain Cleanse
“A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.”
Source: The Book of Lies
“A little time can help you to make a great impact, therefore you should never despise few minutes. Do it till it's done and done well!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!”
Source: Letters
“A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.”
“A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.”
“A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“A little too much is just enough for me.”
Source: Paris album: 1900-1914
“A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.”
“A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.”
“A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.”
“A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world”
“A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”
Source: Kushiel’s Legacy
“A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.”
“A little warning would’ve been nice. You couldn’t have said, ‘Hey, as part of your training today, I’m going to beat you senseless’?”
Source: The Iron Queen
“A little water clears us of this deed.”
“A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.”
Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers
“A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.”
“A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where rest at last the ashes of that restless man. I leaned over the balustrade and thought about the career of the greatest soldier of the modern world.
I saw him walking upon the banks of the Seine, contemplating suicide. I saw him at Toulon—I saw him putting down the mob in the streets of Paris—I saw him at the head of the army of Italy—I saw him crossing the bridge of Lodi with the tri-color in his hand—I saw him in Egypt in the shadows of the pyramids—I saw him conquer the Alps and mingle the eagles of France with the eagles of the crags. I saw him at Marengo—at Ulm and Austerlitz. I saw him in Russia, where the infantry of the snow and the cavalry of the wild blast scattered his legions like winter's withered leaves. I saw him at Leipsic in defeat and disaster—driven by a million bayonets back upon Paris—clutched like a wild beast—banished to Elba. I saw him escape and retake an empire by the force of his genius. I saw him upon the frightful field of Waterloo, where Chance and Fate combined to wreck the fortunes of their former king. And I saw him at St. Helena, with his hands crossed behind him, gazing out upon the sad and solemn sea.
I thought of the orphans and widows he had made—of the tears that had been shed for his glory, and of the only woman who ever loved him, pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition. And I said I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes. I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky—with my children upon my knees and their arms about me—I would rather have been that man and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder, known as 'Napoleon the Great.”
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”
“A little while ago I was able to wander in a beautiful sublime fantasy world, in Ossian’s half-dark magical world. But the blessed dreams dissolve; they seem like love potions - they intoxicate, exalt and then disappear, that is the misery and wretchedness of all our feelings. With thoughts it is no better: one easily overthinks things to the point of staleness.”
“A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.”
“A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.”
Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis
“A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ.”
Source: The Lives of Mrs. A. H. Judson, Mrs. S. B. Judson, and Mrs. E. C. Judson, Missionaries to Burmah, Etc. Twenty-second Thousand
“A little white girl stares, holding her father's hand tightly. She has dewy eyes, round with wonder. as the Maxwell St. Bluesman voice sounds like the crackle of thunder.
The Lost Culture of Maxwell Street”
Source: Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist
“A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And I don’t know why I’m surprised. You don’t even notice it – you never notice. You think it’s normal. Everywhere we go, I’m alone in this… this sea of white. I barely know any black folk any more, Howie. My whole life is white. I don’t see any black folk unless they be cleaning under my feet in the fucking café in your fucking college. Or pushing a fucking hospital bed through a corridor . . . ‘I gave up my life for you. I don’t even know who I am any more.’ . . . ‘Could you have found anybody less like me if you’d scoured the earth? . . . My leg weighs more than that woman. What have you made me look like in front of everybody in this town? You married a big black bitch and you run off with a fucking leprechaun?”
Source: On Beauty
“A little wild
a little bent
a lot human.
Once broken
but always
a whole.”
“A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.”
“A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
“A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.”
Source: The wisdom of being religious
“A little wolf is present in every one of us.”
Source: All Days Are Night
“A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!”
Source: Trilby
“A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.”
Source: The Breaking Point: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.”
“A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.”
“A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.”
“A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.”
“A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.”