A Quotes
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“A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.”
“A mighty fortress is our God, and in Him we are safe for time and for eternity. Shall we murmur if we have less of time than we expected? The less of time, the more of heaven. The briefer life, earlier mortality.”
“A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.”
Source: Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought
“A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.”
Source: Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought
“A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.”
Source: The complete Tribune primer
“A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.”
“A mighty maze! But not without a plan.”
“A mighty oak doesn’t spend its life living inside of a seed, for if it did it would still be an oak, but it will never be mighty.”
“A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.”
Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley
“A mighty pain to love it is,
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But, of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, but love in vain.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed; and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-street
“A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.”
“A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.”
“A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship.”
“A mighty stream of tendency.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works
“A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.”
Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses
“A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“A migraine coming on. She got them when she was stressed.”
Source: The Cheerleaders
“A migraine is the cockblock of writing.”
“A migraine walked into the bedroom and said to the body aches, " So, we are linking up with anxiety tonight or nah?”
“A Mike no le importaba perder con tal de demostrar que su vino era lo bastante bueno para ser reconocido, y Pratt , por su parte, parecía encontrar un placer solemne y contenido en desplegar sus conocimientos.”
Source: La cata
“A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee.”
“A mile away is not the final destination,
which is why you must look ahead, and keep walking.”
Source: These Words Burn Like Fire
“A miler's kick does the trick...A miler's kick does the trick.”
“A milestone is less date and more definition.”
“A military audience is kind of weird. Pretty much how you would imagine a troop of males that haven't seen a female in a long time and have been stuck in a base camp in the middle of nowhere for too long without any alcohol.”
“A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.”
“A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.”
“A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.”
“A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.”
Source: Memoirs of U. S. Grant: Top Biography
“A military life has ever comported with my inclination.”
“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.”
“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.”
“A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.”
“A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.”
Source: The Art of War
“A military preparedness strategy with specifics yesterday and today rolls out a school of choice plan with monetary specifics. So [Donald Trump] has pivoted over the last, he had a very rough go after the conventions.”
“A military without political training is a potential criminal.”
“A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.”
Source: An Additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican, leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention: to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters. Together with Oberservations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian patriot
“A millenarian fire burned in Oppenheimer’s spirit, fueled by his pride as a world-historical individual, by his fear that the natural force he loosed upon the world would escape all human control, and by a pure-hearted longing to ensure that his discovery of the devastation latent in the elemental substance of the world would serve concord rather than the ultimate discord, perpetual peace rather than permanent self-destruction.”
“A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.”
Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction
“A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.”
“A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship”
Source: Pretties
“A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.”
“A million bloggers in a hundred countries record their
online diaries in the vague hope that someone will be
interested, but of course nobody is.
There are so many messages in bottles on the cyber-
ocean that a digital seagull could walk across the bandwidth Atlantic without wetting its virtual feet.”
Source: Blonde Bombshell
“A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.”
Source: New and selected poems
“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)”
“A million-dollar Bitcoin isn’t a fantasy—it’s a deadline. The only question is whether you RSVP’d.”
Source: One Coin. Two Coin. What Coin? Bitcoin: Crypto for Grownups Made as Easy as Child's Play
“A million dollars isn't what it used to be.”