A Quotes
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“A lollipop is a cross between hard candy and garbage.”
“A lone man is the strongest fighter in the world.”
“A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.”
“A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“A lone rose is only seen by those who look closely.”
“A lone Taxian-Jun, with no one to turn to, in an endless darkness he could barely breathe, holding Chu Wanning tightly in his arms as if he was holding the last embers of fire in this world.”
Source: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1
“A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“A lone wolf doesn’t tread paths its ilk leaves; it makes its own footprints in the snow. Most of its kind lives in packs, but it is an army in itself.
As quiet as it is fierce, it hones its own skills in the wild - building its lair, hunting its prey, sharpening its claws and facing its predators – no hurdle too big to cross in its passionate pursuit of a quest.
It loves with similar ferocity too, a loyal protector and provider when it crosses paths with its mate for life – a true soulmate.
Above all, however, it is a survivor. When the
conditions get harsh, it will do what it has to, to make it out alive.
No, a lone wolf would not go down without a fight.”
Source: The Broken Lift
“A lone wolf howls and the wind plays tricks with the howling giving the sound a mesmerizing quality...
‘Lone wolf howls at the great north celestial star… I am nothing it sings,
‘With the winds from the east,
‘The ghost army follows in the night,
‘Seen are wraiths, wisps of silvery dust, weaving waves in a sea of silken brocades,
‘And laid down the sleeping dragon is upon the land.”
“A lone wolf sees the wisdom in guarding the sheep and hunting their predators.”
“A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!”
“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
Source: Killosophy
“A lonely face aglow on high.
You mean the moon.
A flower, red, has caught his eye.
A rose in bloom.
He cannot touch her, though he tries.
In darkness glints the tears he cries.
I see mere stars; you boldly lie.
Nay, poetry to draw your sigh.
I am immune.”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“A lonely human we think is lonely.
Freakin thoughts surround it.
A lonely bird we think is lonely.
Damn! Did you see!
The giant nature around it.
Disrespectful of nature if we be,
lonely are only we.”
Source: Panasu The Golden City & The Capasstars
“A lonely impulse of delight”
“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”
“A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.”
“A lonely night is more profound then lonesome nights.”
“A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.”
Source: We Shadows
“A lonely shivering afterward awaits your last sentence, like the wind that blows on the last man standing in a war, heaving on a battlefield no one will remember. Creation isn’t hard. Sleeping in two places at once is hard. Once you create, someone else holds you—on their desk. In the backseat. On their phones. Between their palms. Behold eternal agitation. Writers embark on a revolutionary idea only to be congratulated by katydids. Hearts spill on 8.5x11’s, scratching away their disguise, and then return to lunchtime feeling less than an inch themselves. How do you expect to survive?”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“A lonely soul is the best friend of itself”
“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”
“A loner by nature and an introvert... i am a twinkling star, burning bright amidst a cloudless night. As such, i tend to fade in and out of people's lives. This aspect of me is often misunderstood as rejection or a lack of love and caring. In reality, the only way i can survive as an introvert, is to drop from the sky, from time-to-time, recharging within the energizing landscape of my inner-universe. To love me, is to let me me have the space i need to illuminate the sky. I can't be taken hostage or held captive. Inner-light is what gives my star its twinkle.”
“A loner, by nature, burdens no one with their existence. By avoiding entanglements with others, they cause no harm. We are extremely ecologically friendly, clean, and environmentally aware creatures.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 3
“A loner is a person who has signed up to be banished to a lifetime of solitude.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“A long and happy life stems from being content about the past, optimistic for the future and engaged in the present.”
Source: Glorious Summer: Happy and healthy ageing
“A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?”
Source: Job, a Comedy of Justice
“A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.”
“A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.”
Source: Three plays
“A long, dark shadow was stretching over the valley: the shadow of death and fear, darkness and hatred, which bided its time for the chance to overtake each home, field, and byway until it devoured the last ray of hope in the hearts of the women and men of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“A long decade ago economic growth was the reigning fashion of political economy. It was simultaneously the hottest subject of economic theory and research, a slogan eagerly claimed by politicians of all stripes, and a serious objective of the policies of governments. The climate of opinion has changed dramatically. Disillusioned critics indict both economic science and economic policy for blind obeisance to aggregate material "progress," and for neglect of its costly side effects. Growth, it is charged, distorts national priorities, worsens the distribution of income, and irreparably damages the environment. Paul Erlich speaks for a multitude when he says, "We must acquire a life style which has as its goal maximum freedom and happiness for the individual, not a maximum Gross National Product." [in Nordhaus, William D. and James Tobin., "Is growth obsolete?" Economic Research: Retrospect and Prospect Vol 5: Economic Growth. Nber, 1972. 1-80]”
Source: Economic Research: Retrospect and Prospect : Economic Growth
“A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.”
“A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.”
“A long dispute means both parties are wrong.”
“A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen”
Source: Just One Year
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
Source: Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“A long headline that really says something is more effective than a brief heading that says nothing.”
“A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.”
“A long lasting marriage lives by the word sacrifice, and not convenience!”
“A long-lasting relationship isn't about making love every day. It's about making the relationship work every day, with a little love thrown in for good measure.”
Source: Love’s Hidden Keys: Mastering Relationships in Today’s Chaos
“A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.”
“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“A long life is a life well spent.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.”
“A long line of statues accompany the path, covered in moss and white blotches. But they’re not the angelic forms I had expected. They cower, slight and childlike.”
Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology
“A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument”
Source: Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
“A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.”
“A long, long history of death has made possible the incredible fact that you are alive now.”
Source: Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization