A Quotes
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“A new collection of matter and information to present to the universe and to which it in turn will be presented; different, arguably equal parts of that great ever-repetitive, ever-changing jurisdiction of being.”
Source: Excession
“A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies!”
“A New Comics Publisher Aims to Shake Things Up”
“A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories plus a few other things equaled god. And by that all they meant was that here were a set of exquisitely powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal that was otherwise inexplicable about the universe. Laws of nature…that apply not just locally, not just in Glasgow, but far beyond: Edinburgh, Moscow…Mars…the center of the Milky Way, and out by the most distant quarters known. That the same laws of physics apply everywhere is quite remarkable. Certainly that represents a power greater than any of us.”
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
“A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.”
Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You
“A NEW CONQUEST always had a wonderful effect on Charlie. He became overnight generous, understanding, inexhaustibly good-humored, relaxed, kind to cats, dogs, and strangers, expansive, and compassionate.”
Source: The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
“A new consciousness has been emerging through the age of Aquarius, and a rapid spiritual awakening is occurring, which science, and organized religions have not yet fully tapped into.”
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.”
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.”
“A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.”
“A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, and perhaps that is why they went out in the first place. When the rough edges are worn off the new land, businessmen and lawyers come in to help with the development---to solve problems of ownership, usually by removing the temptations to themselves. And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. And culture can be on any level, and is.
The Church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously.”
Source: East of Eden
“A new crush enters like an angel.”
Source: Notes on Shapeshifting
“A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.”
“A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.”
“A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again. She become sharply herself - bone, wire, antenna - but she was not afraid. She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow - alone in white not unlike being alone in black. She had also sailed a boat safely between land and land.”
Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
“A new dawn always breaks after darkness, but only those who have survived the night live to see it.”
Source: Arale
“A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“A new day brings us a tomorrow.”
“A new day comes with the rays of new hope and lights of new wisdom.”
“A new day is born in gleaming fire, rippling pools of light racing in from the horizon. It is one of the most breathtaking sights you can see. And we miss every second of it.
We only have eyes for each other.”
“A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.”
“A new day might not necessarily bring new things, but it can bring a new way to do them.”
“A new day opens a wide door for new opportunities to come into your life.”
“A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.”
“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.”
“A new dream always causes a feeling frenzy. - The Malwatch”
“A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?”
Source: The Clothes On Their Backs: A Novel
“A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.”
“A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.”
“A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.”
“A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.”
“A new era had arrived, but it would be mine to rule.”
Source: In the Company of Killers
“A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.”
“A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.”
“A new era of responsibility is here.”
“A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.”
Source: Guerrilla Warfare
“A new era! Yes, the cataclysm has done its work well. The greatest population regulator of all does once more for man what he refuses to do for himself, and drives the pitiful few who survive into a new stone age.
Once more the earth has shifted its 60-mile thick shell, with the poles moving almost to the equator in a fraction of a day. Again the atmosphere and oceans, refusing to change direction with the earth's shell, have wiped out almost all life.”
Source: The Adam & Eve Story: The History of Cataclysms
“A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
“A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.”
Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”
Source: Fatherhood
“A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.”
“A new future requires a new past.”
Source: Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
“A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.”
“A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...”
“A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. A new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships.”
“A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.”
“A new grace for a new life is what we need in the coming year.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind