A Quotes
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“A place where you no longer look for any other place once you arrive is where you truly wish to stay forever!”
“A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.”
“A place which you can call Home,
is where you are surrounded by people you love,
is where you can talk about your fears, your vulnerabilities,
is where you know you won't be judged for speaking what you think,
is where you are often asked about your opinions,
is where having a strong personality is a boon and not a curse,
is where being independent is encouraged,
Home can be a person miles away or the one sitting next to you,
Choose your home wisely because this where you are either gonna flourish or fade!”
“A place without meaning is no place to be.”
“A place without secrets hardly seems the proper venue for a spymaster... Orlovsky chose to hold court in the demimonde, a milieu in which he seemed to proclaim his presence with characteristic audacity. However, M. Orlovsky was one of those camouflaged insects that blends into its surroundings and thus remains hidden in plain sight.”
Source: The Man Upon the Stair: A Mystery in Fin de Siecle Paris
“A placebo cure is almost always temporary, and we are looking for permanent resolution of the pain. Therefore, we would not be satisfied with a placebo cure. This is all too common. People are administered a large variety of physical treatments, feel better for a few days, and then need another treatment. (And, of course, they never overcome their fear of physical activity.) One of the reasons I know the TMS program does not induce a placebo reaction is the fact that almost all patients have permanent resolution of symptoms.
A second reason is that the placebo effect is based on blind faith; patients know little or nothing about the disorder they have and the rationale for treatment. They simply trust the treating practitioner. The educational program employed in the treatment of TMS is the very opposite. I teach patients literally all I know about the disorder; they are encouraged to ask questions, and they are warned that they must find the diagnosis logical and consistent. Their recovery depends on information, on awareness. They are active participants in the recovery process. This is anything but a placebo process.
Perhaps the most compelling argument that what we do is not a placebo is the fact that on numerous occasions since the publication of the book Mind Over Back Pain, the predecessor of this one, people have reported complete and permanent resolution of pain simply by reading the book. There is no personality influence here, no bedside manner; just plain, solid information. And we have learned that that's what it takes to banish TMS. (page 109)”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.”
“A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.”
“A plague is spread by one
who cannot tell
the truth.”
Source: Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West
“A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.”
“A plague on both your houses.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.”
Source: Dialogues
“A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal's realm. Can't you feel it? The keep is doomed, don't you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There is a disease in there I will not touch.”
Source: The Leopard Mask
“A plain, brown paper-wrapped package came in the mail recently. Upon opening it, I saw that it was a patchwork quilt about four feet by five feet. Many little scraps of cloth, carefully joined by loving hands. Two squares have suggestions of a black cassock and Roman white collar. The maker of the quilt states, “In its variety, I feel it denotes confusion and the world “mixed” up. There are dark spots for the dark times and bright squares, so, hopefully, some good and brightness will come in the future. The other pieces of cloth were of happy times, mothers and children, peaceful settings, happy things.” A note inside stated that she felt we were “scraps,”—the “scraps” that the abusive priests treated us like. They would use us as a scrap is used and then simply toss us aside. I was moved to tears. Holding it in my hands, I could almost feel others' pain and suffering, as I touched each panel. It is a magnificent work, worthy of a prize. I was deeply humbled by the receipt of the quilt. This woman got it; she really got it. This woman got it; she really got it. She has a deeper understanding of what we have gone through. It is rare.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Cross: The True Account of My Childhood Sexual and Ritual Abuse at the Hands of a Roman Catholic Priest
“A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.”
Source: The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition
“A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).”
Source: All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin
“A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.”
Source: The Uplands of Dream
“A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.”
“A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!”
“A plan does not guarantee success, but a good plan will cheer you on to keep doing your best.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.”
“A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”
Source: The Pearl
“A plan is always successful if the plan is good.”
“A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.”
“A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.”
“A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.”
“A plan is only useful if it can survive reality.”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport fees.”
“A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.”
“A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!”
“A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.”
“A plan without proper execution is like fish without water, both can’t survive.”
“A plane in mathematics is not merely a flat surface but a flat surface of infinite thinness and size. Trivial? Not to us. When I say plane, I'm not thinking of a tabletop or sheet of glass or a piece of paper. You might point to any one of these objects; but all of them are precisely that: objects. They exist in the world. And because they do, they are defined by their breadth and reach. To a mathematician, a tabletop is no more a plane than a slice of rum cake is. In the world we know, in fact, the only thing that can actually be called a plane--or a portion of one, anyhow--is a shadow.
You see?
Words fail us. Even the world fails us.
Are there not a thousand forms of sorrow? Is the sorrow of death the same as the sorrow of knowing the pain in a child's future? What about the melancholy of music? Is it the same as the melancholy of a summer dusk? Is the loss I was feeling for my father the same I would have felt for a man better-fit to the world who might have thrown a baseball with me or taken me out in the mornings to fish? Both we call grief. I don't think we have words for our feeling any more than we have words for our thoughts. I don't even believe that we actually do the things we call thinking and feeling. We do something, but it is only out of crudeness that we call it thinking; and when we do the other thing, we call it feeling. But I can tell you, if you asked Archimedes ... or Brahmagupta ... or Hilbert ... when they'd first known that they'd solved their great problem, I suspect they'd all say they had a feeling.”
Source: A Doubter's Almanac
“A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.”
Source: The feminine eye
“A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do. It's not something you can write down as anything other than, "Wow, I can't believe I have this and I'm absolutely spoiled and entitled." On the other hand, I have one and I use it.”
“A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!”
“A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.”
“A planet with no mountains, no storms and no earthquakes will create a planet of weak people!”
“A planet without AIDS is possible, but to create that planet we must
do away with the vestiges of the old planet where testing positive to
the HIV virus effectively relegates an individual to the subclass of
Human society”
Source: The Unseen Terrorist
“A planned life is a dead life.”
“A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation”
“A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead.”
“A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.”
“A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.”
“A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.”
“A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."”