A Quotes
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“A partir de cet instant, enfin reconstruite, en pleine possession de tous mes moyens, avec ce choix plein et entier d'être seule, j'arrête d'attendre. Le manque disparaît. C'est le vide qui le remplace. Or le vide, c'est l'attente apaisée sans attendre, la porte entrouverte aux possibles et à la multiplicité des futurs.”
Source: Les corps abstinents
“A partir de entonces, iban a ser mis padres los que tomaran decisiones sobre mi existencia. En aquel universo privado lo de menos eran las razones, las excusas que me dieran para controlarme. Lo importante era la renuncia, la sumisión a un poder ajeno, impuesto y absoluto, que exigía la entrega de lo íntimo en nombre de los sagrados valores de obediencia familiar. Se suponía que yo debía aprender a negarme a mí misma y a amoldarme, a aceptar normas y convenciones por incomprensibles que parecieran. Y aquella exigencia se justificaba en la seguridad de su criterio, tan aplastante que rechazaba la existencia de cualquier otro.”
Source: Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes
“a partir de então seríamos ainda mais velhos a entrar na senilidade, uns babões sem interesse nem valor especial. apenas um amontoado de ossos moles que ia aguentando o tempo sem nenhum glória particular.”
“A partir de la certeza de que en los niños descansaba el futuro del país, se volcó hacia ellos un especial cuidado atendiendo su desarrollo físico y mental a través de la educación. Los niños comenzaron, entonces, a ser un asunto de Estado; es decir, éste asumía la responsabilidad de enriquecer y regular su formación, por medio del control educativo. Para la mentalidad liberal y positivista que permeaba los círculos intelectuales y políticos del Porfiriato, la educación se concebía como el único medio para alcanzar la civilización y el progreso de la sociedad”
Source: Los niños villistas: Una mirada a la historia de la infancia en México, 1900-1920
“A partir de una edad todos somos ya supervivientes.”
Source: Vagalume
“A partir do momento em que há cómicos com um alcance imenso, que chegam a um monte de sítios, não podes ter a responsabilidade de um miúdo que está no recreio e só os amigos é que o ouvem. – Joana Marques”
Source: Com o Humor não se Brinca
“A partir do momento em que você assume a existência do seu sentimento exagerado, ele se torna bem menos ameaçador!”
Source: Como Não Enlouquecer
“A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.”
“A partner in crime to pride is false humility.”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.”
Source: The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
“A partner who rolls her eyes, sighs, turns away, sends a very toxic message.”
“A partner will love you for the relationship they have with you but a friend will love you for who you are”
Source: Dating and Friendship: A New Model For A Lasting Love Relationship
“A partnership is about who takes out the garbage. The two might take turns dumping out the can. One might dump it out every time. It doesn’t work if you both wait for the other to do it. If you can manage that problem, you can figure out the rest.”
Source: Singer Distance
“A partnership is the paramount confederation for creating and nurturing innovation.”
Source: Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions
“A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists] gave permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine.”
“A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.”
“A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.”
Source: Wither
“A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.”
“A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.”
“A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ...”
Source: An Enemy of the People
“A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.”
“A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.”
Source: Mini Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 6)
“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”
“A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.”
“A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.”
“A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.”
“A party who bequeaths a note bequeaths the claim and not merely the material on which the writing appears. This is proved by a sale, for when a note is sold, the debt by which it is evidenced is also considered to be sold.”
Source: The Civil law, including the Twelve tables: the Institutes of Gaius, the Rules of Ulpian, the Opinions of Paulus, the Enactments of Justinian, and the Constitutions of Leo
“A party without cake is really just a meeting.”
“A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.”
“A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?”
“A pas de deux is more than just a partnered dance. Two souls. One body. Entwining together and weaving a story--- evoking a sensation, a memory, a thought. I shut my eyes, remembering how Damien laid me upon the petals and joined his soul with mine. In the heat of summer, he vowed to love me, and we became a part of each other.
We separate, taking our places across the sea.
The tension pent up inside my body slips away as the darkness spills into the water. My dance was always powerful, even when I'm imperfect and fragile and completely surrendered. I know that now.
I fall into my adagio, weightless. Technique no longer matters. Instead, I'm passive to the waves, allowing the current to spin me in pirouettes. The darkness fans out, blooming like a flower.
As I lunge into an arabesque, my fingertips release a nebula. Stars explode across the darkness and create my own galaxy. I fall into a piqué manège, birthing stardust strokes. With quick bourrée steps, constellations sprout across the sea.
The water illuminates as I leap into a grand jeté, sending shooting stars as I fly. The sirens coo, and I welcome them to join me. They spin tendrils of gold into the darkness, using their fish tails like paintbrushes. As they circle me, the ragged dress I wear transforms into a glittering gown, reflecting rainbows when hit by the light. Finally, I embrace the angel I always was.
Filling the distance between me and Damien, I leap into his arms. When he catches me, his darkness feathers into the sea. We entwine, twirling in a whirlpool as the sirens hold us in a glittering lattice.”
Source: Dance of the Starlit Sea
“A pasado tanto tiempo que el viento te a borrado el rostro
eres un recuerdo triste y melancolico con una sombra por cara
la chica triste que me llevo tan alto y despues me dejo caer
esa chica triste que siempre emitio tristezas y desgracias
no te culpo ni me culpo, culpo al tiempo y a la juventud
al tiempo y al espacio, al espacio maldito y fugaz
vivimos rapido y peligrosamente, con orgullo
era un tren que iba rumbo a un abismo
que bueno que nos bajamos a tiempo...”
“A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.”
“A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.”
“A passagem do mundo da celebridade para o mundo da política é mais fácil quando não há necessidade de ingressar num partido político já existente para se ser eleito, quando os níveis de confiança nos partidos e nas elites políticas andam baixos e os cidadãos se sentem afastados ou desiludidos em relação aos partidos tradicionais.”
Source: Política e Entretenimento
“A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.”
Source: Chess Fundamentals
“A passenger isn't supposed to concern himself with the running of the ship; that is being taken care of by the crew, anonymous creatures down in the engine-room or up on deck, whom he never meets. But, in this case, I wasn't really a passenger. I was like a lazy or scared or drunken captain lying shut in his cabin when he ought to be on the bridge, giving orders. Sooner or later, I would have to come out and assume command and decide where we were going.
But not yet, I told the crew. You don't need me yet. Can't you see I'm sick? You're doing all right without me. Sure, I'll come, when we get near land. Just let me lie here a little longer. Leave me alone, can't you? Let me sleep.”
“A passerby discovered a toddler sitting on the chilly concrete on an alley, playing with the wrapper of a cat food container. By the time she was brought to the hospital, her limbs were blue with cold. She was a wizened little thing, too thin, made of sticks.
She knew only one word, her name. Wren.
As she grew, her skin retained a slight bluish cast, resembling skimmed milk. Her foster parents bundled her up in jackets and coats and mittens and gloves, but unlike her sister, she was never cold. Her lip colour changed like a mood ring, staying bluish and purple even in summer, turning pink only when close to a fire. And she could play in the snow for hours, constructing elaborate tunnels and mock-fighting with icicles, coming inside only when called.
Although she appeared bony and anaemic, she was strong. By the time she was eight, she could lift bags of groceries that her adoptive mother struggled with.
By the time she was nine, she was gone.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.”
“A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations”
“A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.”
“A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.”
“A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.”
“A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.”
“A passion for music is in itself an avowal. We know more about a stranger who yields himself up to it than about someone who is deaf to music and whom we see every day.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”
“A passion for something was energy to be exploited, not thwarted.”
Source: Terciel and Elinor
“A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.”
“A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.”