A Quotes
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“A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.”
“A passion-driven exultant man sings out
Sentences that he has never thought.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America
“A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.”
“A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.”
“A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life”
“A passionate person creates, not to gain admiration, but for the sheer joy of creating.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“A passionate person says “over my dead body, I will never give up” and you ask him why, he answers “because I have found something not only to live on, but something to die for”!”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“A passionate prayer with a burning desire, pushed from within, Hannah kind of prayer, is the prayer that opens heavens.”
“A passionate tumultuous age will overthrow everything, pull everything down; but a revolutionary age, that is at the same time reflective and passionless, transforms that expression of strength into a feat of dialectics: it leaves everything standing but cunningly empties it of significance. Instead of culminating in a rebellion it reduces the inward reality of all relationships to a reflective tension which leaves everything standing but makes the whole of life ambiguous: so that everything continues to exist factually whilst by a dialectical deceit, privatissime, it supplies a secret interpretation- that it does not exist.”
Source: The Present Age
“A passionate woman is worth the chaos.”
“A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.”
“A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.”
“A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.”
“A passive observer of life permits disappointment to permeate their mind, and gives up on the desire to achieve altogether.”
“A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.”
“A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.”
“A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.”
“A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.”
“A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.”
“A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“A pastor from another church approached me and said, “Well, you got to remember one thing: Don’t become friends with those you minister to. Staff are employees and you just want to keep a professional relationship.” This left me in a dilemma.”
“A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.”
Source: Life Together
“A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.”
“A pastor without anointing is just a religious professor”
“A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.”
“A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes!”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.”
“A pat on the back is six inches away from a kick up the ass.”
“A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.”
“A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention”
“A path always makes so much more sense in retrospect.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“A Path Appears is an insightful book focused on how individuals can contribute to positive change and the remarkable people behind the organizations that make it happen. The authors' desire to motivate people to support good causes, learn about the situation in other countries, and find the best way to help their fellow men and women is inspiring.”
“A path doesn’t appear on its own. We’ve to make it and we can make it.”
“A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“A path is made by walking on it.”
“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.”
“A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is.”
“A path once taken is easily taken again.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.”
“A path without obstacles, leads nowhere.”
“A path without perils is a path without glory.”
Source: 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
“A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.”
“A patient complains of feeling nervous or fearful. These feelings and behaviors suggest that the patient has an anxiety disorder, and the doctor prescribes whatever drug will most probably work for an anxiety disorder. However, there's no conclusive way to tell that this patient definitely has an anxiety disorder. Even if the doctor did get the diagnosis correct, there's a great deal of variation regarding which drug class (for example, anti-anxiety drugs versus antidepressants) a particular individual will respond to and which drug within a class (for example, Prozac versus Zoloft) will work best. If the drug doesn't work, the doctor will try the next one on the list and so on, thus delaying treatment success and complicating the process with the mix-and-match type of treatment.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.”
“A patient dog will have no bone to eat because other dogs have eaten”
“A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.”
“A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.”