A Quotes
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“A non-disabled person who pretends to be one, only to rely on begging, has unwittingly allowed poverty to monopolise his destiny.”
“A non-GMO Mom is an avid researcher, a conscientious protector, and the most effective teacher of natural health.”
Source: EAT! Empower. Adjust. Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!
“A non handicapped person who pretends to be one just to rely on begging, has ignorantly allowed poverty to monopolise his destiny.”
“A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny.”
“A non-religious man today ignores what he considers sacred but, in the structure of his consciousness, could not be without the ideas of being and the meaningful. He may consider these purely human aspects of the structure of consciousness. What we see today is that man considers himself to have nothing sacred, no god; but still his life has a meaning, because without it he could not live; he would be in chaos. He looks for being and does not immediately call it being, but meaning or goals; he behaves in his existence as if he had a kind of center. He is going somewhere, he is doing something. We do not see anything religious here; we just see man behaving as a human being. But as a historian of religion, I am not certain that there is nothing religious here…
I cannot consider exclusively what that man tells me when he consciously says, ‘I don’t believe in God; I believe in history,’ and so on. For example, I do not think that Jean-Paul Sartre gives all of himself in his philosophy, because I know that Sartre sleeps and dreams and likes music and goes to the theater. And in the theater he gets into a temporal dimension in which he no longer lives his ‘moment historique.’ There he lives in quite another dimension. We live in another dimension when we listen to Bach. Another experience of time is given in drama. We spend two hours at a play, and yet the time represented in the play occupies years and years. We also dream. This is the complete man. I cannot cut this complete man off and believe someone immediately when he consciously says that he is not a religious man. I think that unconsciously, this man still behaves as the ‘homo religiosus,’ has some source of value and meaning, some images, is nourished by his unconscious, by the imaginary universe of the poems he reads, of the plays he sees; he still lives in different universes. I cannot limit his universe to that purely self-conscious, rationalistic universe which he pretends to inhabit, since that universe is not human.”
“A non-sustainable company is unsustainable.”
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
“A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.”
“A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.”
“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”
Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.”
Source: Bluebeard's Egg
“A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.”
“A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie.”
“A non-Muslim is a second-class citizen called a Kafir. You and I are Kafirs. Much of the Koran concerns itself with the Kafir - how to control us, to subjugate us and to kill us. “Islam has the mind of a psychopathic rapist and because its founder, the “prophet” Mohammed was in fact a psychopathic rapist himself.”
“A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard”
Source: English in Australia and New Zealand: an introduction to its history, structure and use
“A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.”
“A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.”
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”
“A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.”
“A Nonstandard Graph, Elements and Operations, a Card Game Dialect A combination of the Mold dialects and Sandwich graphs, backed by axiomatic math, creates a unique space of science and fantasy.”
Source: Naturalistic Fantasy
“A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.”
Source: The Indian States' Problem
“A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.”
Source: Collected Works
“A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.”
“A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.”
Source: Socialism of My Conception
“A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.”
“A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.”
Source: Collected Works
“A norma d'Universo le grandi stragi non son neppure un brivido, sebbene l'Universo della umana memoria protesti. E s'erano affidati alla carta, al legno, alle pietre, queste materie più salde di un corpo umano, perché l'umanità civile continuasse. Ma ecco scritture, intagli, colori, violentemente sbaragliati e inceneriti, mentre l'ingegnoso che li concepì è ridotto un meschino senza volto, scacciato dal sasso dove univa i piedi tremando, all'orlo di una voragine.”
Source: Artemisia
“A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent
if he acts normal.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.”
Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers
“A normal fight is thirty seconds of rolling around on the floor, scrapping, that's what it is. It's not rolling over boxes or getting punched through windows.”
“a normal human being ... does not exist.”
Source: The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time
“A normal human life consists of 500 million breaths for three billion heartbeats. That sounds a lot, but it’s not enough.
You are searching: for a moment that feels better than the last. For a spark that lights a fire in your heart. For things that make you want to keep breathing: those your heart will want to keep beating for. For as long as you are living you are looking for them. Constantly and continuously, regardless of what you find. And here there’s us who we have become eternal. We will have to keep searching for the unbearable rest of eternity: aim- und pointlessly, since everything there is to find is, at some stage, found.
You get tired. So tired of searching, so tired of life. There is nothing in the world that a heart wants to keep beating for forever: no single spark that can outlast eternity and no moment that can feel good enough to make up for the countless ones which will forever be in front of us.”
Source: Tomorrow death died out: What if the future were past?
“A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some.”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
“A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale." From UNDER MY SKIN”
“A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.”
“A normal modeling job consists of hair and makeup starting at 5:30 a.m. On location, we shoot until theres no light, then drive home. If were lucky, well have a hotel close to the location, which takes out the driving time. Otherwise, its pretty brutal, from airplane, to car, to job, and back again.”
“A normal person is someone that you don't know very well.”
“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”
“A normal person sees a failed experiment, a scientist sees progress.”
“A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.”
“A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?”
Source: Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
“A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.”
“A nosotros nos castiga el sistema cuando dejamos de ser correctos! Pero quién castiga al sistema cuando no deja de ser corrupto?”
“A nossa cultura recompensa o sacrifício pessoal em vez de felicidade pessoal. Somos levados a acreditar que o dinheiro é uma fim, mas não. O dinheiro é apenas um meio. Um meio para nos fazer felizes e para fazermos os outros felizes. Até hoje, o que ganhaste em seres tão responsável e cumprires os sonhos que alguém desenhou para ti?”
Source: Estou Nua, e Agora?