A Quotes
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“A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.”
“A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.”
“A perfeição não é alcançada quando não há mais nada a ser incluído, mas sim quando não há mais nada a ser retirado."
- Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to be added but when there is nothing more to be removed
"Cada um que passa na nossa vida, passa sozinho, pois cada pessoa é única e nenhuma substitui outra. Cada um que passa na nossa vida, passa sozinho, mas não vai só nem nos deixa sós. Leva um pouco de nós mesmos, deixa um pouco de si mesmo. Há os que levam muito, mas há os que não levam nada. Essa é a maior responsabilidade da nossa vida, e a prova de que duas almas não se encontram ao acaso."
- Every one that goes in our life passes alone, because each person is unique and no other substitutes. Every one that goes in our life passes alone, but will just not leave us alone. It takes a bit of ourselves, leaves a bit of himself. There are those who take a lot, but there are those who do not take anything. This is the greatest responsibility of our life, and the proof that two souls do not meet by chance.”
“A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.”
“A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.”
Source: Stage Performance
“A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.”
“A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.”
“A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.”
“A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.”
“A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.”
“A PERFUME SHOULD BE AS IMBUED WITH MEANING AS IT IS LIGHT TO WEAR.”
“A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.”
Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber
“A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.”
“A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence”
“A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance”
Source: Rhetoric
“A period of darkness is essential in order to expand personal awareness. Experiencing sadness and loss makes a person appreciative of life, more tenderhearted, and open to living life as an ecstatic journey of discovery.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.”
Source: The migration of ideas: three lectures delivered on the North Foundation at Franklin and Marshall College on 18 and 19 March 1954
“A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.”
“A period of protracted, repeated, profound, emotional turmoil, beginning sometime in the second or third year of the practice of law, and continuing off and on, mostly on, many times for the rest of the legal career, characterized by a rather significant, continuous, and oftentimes all-consuming, desire to explore alternative possibilities; to explore a change, any change at all, and to effect the change. These periods are typically coupled with a constant search for a new dream to pursue, potentially followed by additional periods of intense regret as dreams are not fulfilled.”
Source: And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law
“A period of silence on your part would be welcome.”
“A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.”
“A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that.”
“A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.”
Source: Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
“A permaculture economy is a resilient system that can continue to thrive through significant hardship and disruption.”
“A permaculture economy is one whereby people are inclusively participating in productivity and equitably sharing in profits.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“A permaculture economy is superior to a circular economy.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“A Permaculture Economy provides the greatest conditions for people and businesses to thrive.”
“A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.”
“A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.”
“A permanent marker of the beauty and good he’d tried to bring into the world.”
“A permanent path
That, once illuminated,
Goes ever onward - a way home.”
“A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.”
“A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.”
“A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.”
“A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.”
“A perpetrator may have hurt someone for a few minutes of his/her life and may even regret it, but the survivor lives with the pain, triggers, shame and fear for a lifetime.”
Source: We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis
“A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.”
“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”
“A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.”
Source: Selected essays
“A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.”
“A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
Into regions yet untrod
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.”
“A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.”
“A persistent liar cannot prosper without a powerful memory.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“a persistent yearning to feel at home in this skin, to feel my soul grounded in these bones”
“A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth) and his Kama (pleasure or sensual gratification), and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. In short, an intelligent and knowing person attending to Dharma and Artha and also to Kama, without becoming the slave of his passions, will obtain success in everything that he may do.”
Source: Kama Sutra
“A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.”
“A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.”