A Quotes
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“A person’s zip code shouldn’t decide their destiny.”
“A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.”
“A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.”
Source: Northanger Abbey: A Novel
“A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.”
“A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.”
“A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.”
“A pesar de la celeridad en el diagnóstico y tratamiento, combatir el alcoholismo con barbitúricos, la neurosis con meprobamatos, la histeria con choques anfetamínicos intravenosos, la tuberculosis con heroína, la tos con metadona, el catarro con bencedrina y otras originalidades del negocio médico-farmacéutico fueron un buen procedimiento para establecer dependencias intensas e imprevistas.”
Source: Historia general de las drogas
“A pesar de lo rápido que corras, o lo hábil que seas, no podrás huir de tus propios pies”
“A pesar de los chismes, Valentín comprendió que era tiempo de ignorar. Creía que al menos en este país no era gran problema ser gay ni travesti. Eso sí, uno podría ser discriminado, acosado y hasta asesinado. Pero ilegal... Eso sí que no.”
Source: El Depurador
“A pesar de los grandes milagros de Dios para Israel, su pueblo le abandona a las primeras punzadas de hambre acudiendo a ídolos. Filón de Alejandría dijo que Israel no había entendido la Pascua. Dios instituyó el Séder para que llevasen vida virtuosa, en la que sus temores y deseos estuvieran ordenados y todo subordinado a la voluntad divina. El pan pascual debería haberles enseñado a rechazar la levadura del orgullo. Las hierbas amargas a ser indiferentes ante la comodidad y el placer. Era de esperar que el Séder les enseñase a disciplinar sus cuerpos y su voluntad.”
Source: The Fourth Cup: Unveiling the Mystery of the Last Supper and the Cross
“A pesar de que el cristianismo parece en un principio tratar sólo de moralidad, sólo de reglas y deberes y culpa y virtud, nos conduce más allá de todo eso hasta algo que lo trasciende.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“A pesar de que es cierto que se ha ensanchado la tolerancia hacia gays y lesbianas, la homofobia forma parte de un entramado más amplio que tiene que ver con la reproducción de las diferencias y desigualdades de género. Por lo tanto, mientras haya sexismo no podrá haber una igualdad plena.”
Source: Dibujando el género
“A pesar de que poseemos el libre albedrío, el destino absoluto es inmutable. Lo que se supone que debe ocurrir siempre ocurre, de una manera u otra.”
Source: Lover Enshrined
“A pesar de todo lo malo, sin eso que te ha pasado, no serías como eres. Es agradecer cada pieza que te ha llevado a estar donde estás, lo malo te hizo más fuerte, lo bueno te instó a seguir avanzando.”
“A pesar de todo, no quiero caer varias veces en el mismo error. Quiero aprender algo de ese error y aprovechar la lección aprendida para la siguiente ocasión.”
Source: De Que Hablo Cuando Hablo de Correr
“A peso you put in your insurance premium can give you hundreds or thousands of guaranteed benefits.”
“A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.”
“A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.”
“A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
“A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.”
“A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.”
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.”
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
“A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu”
“A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.”
“A pessimist is an optimist in disguise–a disguise that will never work.”
Source: Afterthoughts: Wisdom for the Unreflective
“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
“A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.”
“A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.”
“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
“A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.”
“A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.”
“A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.”
“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.”
“A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
“A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.”
“A pessioptimist is a person who doesn't expect anything to go the way it ought to but will be happy, deliriously so, when anything goes the way it ought to, if it does happen.”
Source: A place of beautiful nonsense
“A pessoa cria uma visão impossível do político ideal, na falta dele, eles criam um. Bolsonaro nasceu dessa idealização do político, e do cansaço coletivo em procurar esse político ideal, romantizado, com a moral acima da média, acima de todos.”
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 pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.”
“A Peste Negra é um exemplo vivo de uma conjuntura crítica, um grande acontecimento ou confluência de fatores que perturbam o equilíbrio económico ou político existente numa sociedade. Uma conjuntura crítica é uma arma de dois gumes, que pode causar uma grande viragem na trajetória de uma nação.”
Source: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
“A PET scan of his brain activity showed diminished capacity on the left side of his brain, hence, planning ahead, strategic thinking is harmed. A positive is that he is less critical of things. He has lost language and gained singing... THAT makes for more fun.
What amazes me is that so many times he returns and talks and seems to think like he used to. His voice and laugh returns to normal. How can that be???”
Source: Alzheimer's Trippin' with George: Diagnosis to Discovery in 10,000 Miles
“A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.”
“A petition to have Justin Bieber deported got over 100,000 signatures, which means the White House now has to legally rule on it. So finally a chance for Obama to issue an executive order that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on.”
“A Petrichor Chaser And Lover
By: Lorena Tamayo Castillo
We grow, glow, learn, and yearn.
Walk, and work for a row and worn.
We go, goes, gone, to get somewhere .
And we know, we are gloomy of the storm.
But nature bloom and blossom on jubilant roar.
So are we? Go, get up and take shower that rain.
For after the withered, there is the great restore.
A Petrichor chaser and lover, is never in vain.
For that very scent of weather is a gain.
Where a wonder land is in reign.”
“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.”
Source: Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader
“A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.”
“A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.”
Source: Collected Poems