A Quotes
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“A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.”
“A part of me tried to fabricate reasons in my mind why it was too dangerous, or why it couldn’t be possible.
But I knew the truth — there was a part of me that was just afraid of change. And another part that was afraid of losing what made me special.
I’d risked my life for that attunement. Was it really fair for others to get them for free? Perhaps even any attunement of their choice?
But that was an inherently selfish line of thinking.”
Source: On the Shoulders of Titans
“A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll be there, for a while, planting seeds, and it will matter.”
Source: And Then She Fell
“A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.”
“A part of me wants to spin around and slam the bottom of my heel into her head. In kick-boxing, we'd call that a Spinning Back Kick. Here, it's called, "how to get my crazy jealous ass fired." There's no way I'd get a thumbs up from Cain on that part.”
Source: Ten Tiny Breaths
“A part of me was glad Monday wasn't named Friday. It would've been too tragic.”
“A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.”
Source: Code Name Verity
“A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be.”
“A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.”
Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
“A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.”
“A part of northern Italy called Val Camonica contains about 350,000 petroglyphs that were created nearly 10,000 years ago. Brescia is a famous town at 75 km from there, it is very popular for Beretta arms industry, the oldest in the world, the Garda
Lake and also because Carl William Brown was born there.”
Source: L'Italia in breve.
“A part of one’s soul remains asleep until one has loved an animal.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.”
“A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France - just think of Le Pen - and even in Finland and Sweden.”
“A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.”
“A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“A part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life.”
“A part of them is given away or dies with every meaningless sexual exploit. And that truth, wrapped with regret, sucks the nectar out of all the names, the faces, the bodies, the women who they thought they conquered.”
Source: Tajrish
“A part of us always remains
when we leave somewhere.
It is a part we can never reclaim
even if we revisit the place
for it was never ours to begin with.
There is so little of ourselves
that belongs to us.
This body is the earth’s.
This heart is yours,
and his and theirs.
The only thing that is our own
is our freedom of will—
our freedom to choose
our attitudes in life.
All else is borrowed.
All else is everyone else’s.”
“A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.”
“A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry was outstanding, yes, but also because he's been passed down by so many by luminaries like Vergil and Ovid, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Margaret Atwood, but also by countless others. I wanted to do my part for these tremendous stories.”
“A part of your soul recognizes a part of my soul. But our souls are not meant to be together.”
“A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.”
Source: As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice
“A parte complicada de falar com religiosos é que quando acha que finalmente estão caminhando na mesma direção, eles dão um cavalo de pau, e temos de recomeçar do zero. Eu nunca consigo seguir argumentos religiosos, são confusos, e nunca entendo onde querem chegar.”
Source: Ciência para não cientistas: como ser mais racional em um mundo cada vez mais irracional, vol. 1 (Bolsonarismo) (Inteligência Artificial, Democracia, e Pensamento Crítico)
“A parte de la vida misma, no veo otropa motivo para seguir viviendo.”
Source: Cries in the Drizzle
“A parte mais difícil de virar adulto é reconhecer que virar adulto é uma merda.”
Source: Mensageira da Sorte
“A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we will not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in a different language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.”
“A partial truth is a non-existent entity.”
“A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.”
“A partial truth. The worst kind of lie because it slides so smoothly down the gullet.
Here is what actually happened that night. Swallow with care. You'll find my version has had none of its sharp edges removed...”
Source: Tumble & Blue
“A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.”
“A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.”
“A particular lethal combo is when culture of victimization -we were wronged last week, last decade, last millennium- is coupled with a culture of honor's ethos of retribution.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.”
“A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.”
“A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active participant in those occurrences. Indeed, by virtue of its underlying and enveloping presence, the place may even be felt to be the source, the primary power that expresses itself through the various events that unfold there.”
Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World
“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”
Source: Thinking about Crime
“A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.”
Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players
“A particular team of world leading male astronomers that I regularly worked with engaged in extensive sordid conversations about their female counterparts that I had not witnessed in the many other astronomy teams. It was unique to their group. What was also unique to their group was the intensive all night long computer work. It was so intense that getting rest room breaks during the night was always a problem.”
“A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.”
“A particular visibilidade do centro-direita deve-se também ao facto de que os partidos mais à esquerda têm, por constrangimentos ideológicos, dificuldade em olhar para a imprensa cor de rosa como um meio legítimo de comunicação e ação política e em abrir as portas da sua vida privada, criando assim valor-notícia para a imprensa de celebridades e entretenimento.”
Source: Política e Entretenimento
“A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”
“A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“A particularly good book has a way of opening new spaces in one's mind. It even invited you to come back later and rummage through what you'd learn.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.”
Source: Lamb in His Bosom
“A partir de 1789, resulta claro que la posición relativa del gobernante y su gobernado ya no será nunca la misma, ni siquiera en el caso de monarquías reincidentes; tampoco puede ser la misma, como es apenase vidente, la palabra que intente nombrar esa relación.La posición del hombre corriente en el mundo es otra: si Cervantes escribe en un mundo donde Dios ya no está donde estaba antes —si escribe precisamente porque Dios ya no está donde estaba antes—, si aquella novela fundadora se impregna de la incertidumbre profunda y el espíritu de duda que invaden nuestra visión de un mundo sin certezas divinas, una convulsión similar ocurre a partir de la Revolución francesa.”
Source: Viajes con un mapa en blanco
“a partir de ahora tendría que moverse entre multitud de seres cuyas úlceras no estaban el apiel o en las entrañas, sino en la mente: individuos llagados en el espíritu, tarados del alma”
Source: Los renglones torcidos de Dios