A Quotes
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“A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.”
“A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”
“A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.”
“A live debate or interview with politicians is like entering a courtroom. Never flippantly throw out a question without understanding the background, and be prepared to offer more details.”
Source: Front Row Seat at the Circus: One Journalist's Journey Through Two Presidential Elections
“A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.”
“A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.”
“A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.”
“A live well-lived is not judged on a post-mortem stocktake of material acquisitions. It is based on the number and depth of the laugh lines on the face of the person lying in repose in their coffin.”
“A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.”
“A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“A lively imagination is one of the best things a cub can have. It's imagination that lets us paint pictures, make up poems, invent inventions!”
“A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.”
“A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.”
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
“A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.”
“A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.”
Source: Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
“A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.”
Source: Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality
“A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.”
“A living cell that stole living soul." -Post 2020”
“A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve”
“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.”
“A living dog is better than a dead lion”
“A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk. . . .
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.”
“A living entity becomes aware of his Spiritual Identity and becomes aware of the Supreme Personality of Godhead only when he comes accross a Sprititual Teacher.”
“A living faith, a glorious hope.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.”
Source: Gandhigrams
“A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?”
“A living gale is better than a dead calm.”
“A living god - Mala's heir and conqueror of the known world. She would bring music and books and culture, wipe out the corruption festering in corners of the earth...”
Source: Empire of Storms
“A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.”
“A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.”
“A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
What matter if the ditches are impure?
What matter if I live it all once more?”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.”
“A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.”
“A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?”
“A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.”
“A living thing is born.”
Source: The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson
“A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.”
“A living together becomes a living apart, when the pineal gland has not been able to create a luster of spiritual togetherness and emotional attachment. (“I wonder what went wrong.” )”
“A living wage provides the basics of food, clothing, and shelter along with access to transportation and basic health care without further government assistance.”
Source: A More Perfect Union: Unifying Ideas for a Divided America
“A living wage should be high enough that two parents working full time could support a family of four above the poverty line.”
Source: A More Perfect Union: Unifying Ideas for a Divided America
“A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances in which the trigger was pulled. Way back when, the Landlord believed a second brain would endow some of his lower life forms with the capacity for emotional connections. By adding the third brain, he probably planned on having his... higher forms empowered with the ability to not only think before acting, but to feel regret afterwards when their actions were wrong. But that’s not what happened, is it?”
Source: DEMON DAYS - Angel of Light
“A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.”
Source: Cold Mountain
“A lição é clara: enquanto nós arquitetos rebeldes não conhecermos a coragem de nossa mente e estivermos preparados para dar um mergulho igualmente especulativo em algum desconhecido, também nós continuaremos a ser objetos da geografia histórica (como abelhas operárias) em vez de sujeitos ativos que levem conscientemente ao limite as possibilidades humanas.”
Source: Spaces of Hope
“A LLEGADO LA HORA DE CRECER, MADURAR Y DARME CUENTA QUE LA VIDA NO ESPERA POR TI.
LA VIDA TIENE UN RITMO, NO PUEDES SENTARTE Y VERLA PASAR, SOLO PUEDES SONREIRLE Y DEJARTE LLEVAR... VIVE CADA SEGUNDO COMO SI FUERA EL ULTIMO, VIVE DE TAL FORMA QUE DESEES VOLVER A VIVIR, NO TE DETENGAS ENTRE LOS MOMENTOS DIFICILES, TE AYUDARAN A CUMPLIR TU MISION DE SER Y HACER FELIZ. HA LLEGADO LA HORA DE PENSAR EN LOS DEMAS, DE SOÑAR, PERDONAR Y DEJAR TU EGO ATRÁS. TU VIDA TIENE UN RITMO, NO TIENE MAPAS NI DIRECCION, SOLO SE PACIENTE Y SIGUE EL RITMO DE TU CORAZON...”
“A lo largo de esos meses pensé a menudo en lo que yo intentaba hacer, en lo duro que es mantener con vida a alguien que no quiere vivir. Primero pruebas con la lógica («Tienes tantos motivos para vivir»), luego con la culpabilidad («Me lo debes»), con la cólera, las amenazas y los ruegos («Ya tengo una edad. No le hagas esto a un anciano»). Pero una vez que él accede, es necesario que tú, que le has engatusado, sepas bien a qué te enfrentas, porque ves cómo le cuesta, ves cuánto desea irse, ves que el solo acto de existir le resulta agotador, y tienes que repetirte cada día: «Estoy haciendo lo que debo. Permitir que haga lo que quiere hacer es contrario a las leyes de la naturaleza, a las leyes del amor». Y te abalanzas sobre los buenos momentos, te aferras a ellos como si fueran una prueba —«¿Ves? Por eso vale la pena vivir. Por eso quiero que lo intente»—, aunque esos momentos únicos no pueden compensar todos los demás, que son la mayoría. Piensas, como pensé con respecto a Jacob: «¿Para qué está aquí este niño? ¿Para darme consuelo? ¿Para que yo le dé consuelo a él? Y si un niño ya no puede ser consolado, ¿es mi deber darle permiso para que se vaya?». Y entonces vuelves a decirte: «Pero eso es abominable. No puedo».”
Source: A Little Life