A Quotes
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“A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.”
“A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.”
“A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers bloomed. But it rained so much the boat couldn't cross the river. So the two couldn't meet, even though the camellia flowers had all bloomed. Lets meet again. Before the camellia flowers wilt.”
“A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)”
Source: I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It
“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.”
Source: The Little House Book of Memories
“A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.”
“A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married for security. I thought, 'I finally met a man who loves God and comes from a great family. I'm working, I love God, and I'm out here in California by myself, and I've met this great man.' So, I said yes. And we eloped.”
“A long time elapsed, and the parents had not mentioned the name of their dead child. They never spoke of the little girl they had lost; their sorrow would have become doubly heavy if it had been brought out into clear daylight, and its power acknowledged. Now they tried to push it away, not let it penetrate beyond thought. As long as words didn't help, why use them? Exchanged between two mourning people, they were only a dissonant sound, disturbing the bitter consolation of silence.”
Source: The Emigrants
“A long time passed since you have ventured this far. Deeper layers of his world open up as the Dreamer grows more desperate. Even imagination is limited. You have questions that I can answer. Answers that you have forgotten. I will lay them out for you. If you are curious, you will choose.”
“A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
[A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.”
“A long walk. A very long walk. Sand between my toes. The rough surf at times reaching and washing away my footprints. About a mile down the beach, I sat down and started thinking back through everything Vance had told me so far. Thought about what my next moves would be. Seeing the Asian guy tomorrow and having him snoop would settle one thing in my mind. Did Vance do it or not? Crucial. Until I knew that, I didn’t want to go any further.”
Source: Body In The Woods
“A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.”
“A long walk is a slow remembering of how profound and wonderful life is; God is everywhere and in everything. Wherever I look I am looking at God.”
Source: The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
“A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.”
Source: Democracy in America
“A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.”
“A long way of saying I've seen a lot of kind of more systemic and processed changes. Although we still are providing the kind of material you're still seeing out there now.”
“A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.”
“A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he’s got a magic roll of toilet paper.”
Source: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid
“A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.”
Source: A Writer's Space: Make room to dream, to work, to write
“A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”
Source: Poetical works
“A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out his throat. After that, I ate his liver and his heart. The remaining internal organs weren’t as tasty so I gave them to his other creatures.” Elena’s hand tightened on the handle of the knife, conscious Naasir carried gleaming blades of his own in the sheaths strapped to his arms. “I wouldn’t think a vampire who killed an angel would be permitted to live.” A slow, feral smile. “I didn’t say I killed him.”
Source: Archangel's Legion
“A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.”
Source: This is Orson Welles
“A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.”
“A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.”
“A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.”
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.”
“A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. ... Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; just more tickets on the hell-bound train.”
“A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.”
“A longing endlessly postponed, a dream never realized, leading to a ceaseless echo of regret within me. There are moments when I question it all, when every choice feels like a mistake, and my very existence becomes my greatest remorse.”
“A longing for belonging, a place to call my space. Where once dwelled souls in harmonious affinity, now we find chaotic dissonance, living in antipathy; the heart yearns only for a place to belong.”
“A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were not substitute for love itself.”
Source: Inkdeath
“A longing for eternity is built-in to us all”
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.”
Source: On designing
“A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.”
“A longing to be connected to our Creator,
in these last 10 nights of Ramadan
We prepare for Eid,
celebrating the end of Ramadan.
On Eid, we are grateful to God
for everything.
But what is everything?
It varies day to day, even hour to hour for me.
I’m grateful for 2nd chances: both giving them
and accepting them;”
Source: Purposefully Annoyed & Other Short Stories
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home.”
Source: Wandering
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...”
Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“A longsuffering person will endure where others give up. He always thinks about how God has been longsuffering toward him, and he counts God's longsuffering as salvation. Longsuffering endures where no one else can endure, and it always hopes for a happy result at the end.”
“A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.”
Source: A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial Season
“A look came into his dark eyes, a new expression she could'nt decipher. He stroked her lips with his thumb and stared at her like he had never seen her before.”
Source: Storm's Heart
“A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.”
Source: Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
“A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft”
“A look like thunder after a lightning strike lit on his face. Fear wound around every inch of his body and squeezed, and the feel of his hands on me sent a chill up my spine. There was something knowing in the way he looked at me. Something pulled at the knots in the net of lies we'd both told.”
Source: Fable
“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
Source: Death Leaves a Shadow