A Quotes
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“A luz dos meus olhos se foi, saltitando de poça em poça até o meu fosso mais sombrio.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A luz dourada - agora quase uma luz crepuscular - ofuscou-a e ela tornou a fechar os olhos, reparando que ocorriam fluxos e refluxos, vermelhos e pretos, à medida que o coração bombeava sangue em suas pálpebras cerradas. Decorridos alguns instantes, notou que os mesmos padrões dardejantes se repetiam indefinidamente. Era quase o mesmo que observar protozoários ao microscópio, protozoários numa lâmina tinta de vermelho. Achou esse padrão que se repetia tanto curioso quanto calmante. Supunha que não era preciso ser gênio, para compreender a atração que essas formas repetitivas exerciam em determinadas circunstâncias. Quando todos os padrões e rotinas normais da vida desmoronaram - e com chocante subitaneidade - era preciso encontrar alguma coisa a que se agarrar, alguma coisa normal e previsível. Se o espiralamento regular do sangue nas camadas finas da pele, que protegiam os olhos dos últimos raios de sol de um dia de outubro, era a única opção que havia, então a pessoa a aceitava e dizia muitíssimo obrigada. Porque se não conseguisse encontrar alguma coisa a que se agarrar, alguma coisa que fizesse algum sentido, os elementos desconhecidos da nova ordem mundial poderiam levá-la à loucura.”
Source: Gerald's Game
“A luz esculpe a minha forma.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A luz que você tinha nos olhos.
Sua gargalhada radiante.
O equilíbrio perfeito de uma vida.”
Source: La vie secrète des écrivains
“a luz é mais leve que a água, seus reflexos ficam boiando como peixes lunares, algas de fogo.”
Source: A varanda do frangipani
“A luz é uma espécie de olhar sobre nós.”
Source: Homens Imprudentemente Poéticos
“A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.”
“A Lyons skin is never cheape.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.”
“A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.”
Source: The Lyric: An Essay
“A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.”
“A lógica da natureza das coisas, não a encontramos nem no princípio da razão, nem no princípio da fé”
“A lógica económica, ao nível mais sórdido, utiliza a guerra mas tenta racionalizá-la. É obrigada, no decurso de uma experiência que se aprofunda, a reconhecer a irracionalidade radical das destruições guerreiras.”
Source: Economia e Sociedade
“A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.”
“A machete, con los que trajeron del campo cuando llegaron huyendo dizque "de la violencia" y fundaron estas comunas sobre terrenos ajenos, robándoselos, como barrios piratas o de invasión. De "la violencia"... ¡Mentira! La violencia eran ellos. Ellos la trajeron, conlos machetes. De lo que venían huyendo era de sí mismos.”
Source: La virgen de los sicarios
“A machine helps us to annihilate our weaknesses. We don't have a steady hand. We can lose all vigilance. We can be distracted by something that is not that relevant. But we have intuition. We can feel certain things. And with a machine you can check whether it's right or wrong. That's why by bringing the two together, you create a very, very powerful combination.”
“A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!”
Source: Shattered Illusions
“A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.”
“A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.”
“A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.”
“A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.”
“A mad and vengeful cop can be your worst enemy.Think of the movie “Mad Max.”Cops have to play by the law which constantly puts them at a huge disadvantage. However, once he (the cop) decides to ditch the law to gain revenge, he now is playing by the same rules as his enemy. If this becomes the case, you may be in for some serious shit.”
“A mad man sees what he sees.”
“A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet”
“A mad urge came over Henry; the urge to barge upstairs to Mr and Mrs Mifford's bedchamber and inform them that he was taking their eldest daughter for his bride. They could ride to London overnight; secure a special license from the Archbishop, and be married by noon, he thought wildly. Mr Mifford might put up some sort of protest, but his wife would probably pack dry biscuits for their journey and wave them on their way.”
Source: A Death, a Duke and Miss Mifford
“A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!”
“A mad woman came in here, saying you killed Dad.”
Source: Raspberry Chocolate Murder
“A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.”
“A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.”
“A Maddox boy will take you all the way to the edge, but if you go with him, he’ll follow you anywhere…”
Source: A Beautiful Wedding
“A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someone said the other say. 'Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal parted a long, long time ago.”
Source: Strangeland
“A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.”
“A Mademoiselle
Oui, femmes, quoi qu'on puisse dire,
Vous avez le fatal pouvoir
De nous jeter par un sourire Dans l'ivresse ou le désespoir. Oui, deux mots, le silence même,
Un regard distrait ou moqueur,
Peuvent donner à qui vous aime
Un coup de poignard dans le coeur. Oui, votre orgueil doit être immense,
Car, grâce à notre lâcheté,
Rien n'égale votre puissance,
Sinon votre fragilité. Mais toute puissance sur terre
Meurt quand l'abus en est trop grand,
Et qui sait souffrir et se taire
S'éloigne de vous en pleurant. Quel que soit le mal qu'il endure,
Son triste rôle est le plus beau.
J'aime encore mieux notre torture
Que votre métier de bourreau.”
“A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.”
“A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.”
“A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason”
“A madman overcomes it by adapting to his surroundings. You can’t give up. Why die? There is always another mission; it’s the missions that keep you alive.”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“A madman who believes himself to be a king is no more mad than a king who believes himself to be a king”
“A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.”
“A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.”
Source: Three Weeks
“A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.”
Source: The Art Of Black
“A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: "Run your own race, put on your blinders."”
“A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”
“A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.”
“A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!”
“A magazine is so much more beautiful than what's online.”
“A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.”
Source: Practical Agitation
“A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.”
“A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat.”
Source: Other Words for Smoke
“A mage in his ire is a terrible, terrible thing, my lords. But you know what a mage is also? He's human. He has...the same lofty aspirations to die peacefully in his dotage or gloriously on the battlefield...and a mage will keep his sworn word.”
Source: Warmage