A Quotes
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“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.”
Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary
“A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.”
“A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.”
“A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens,
Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.”
“A poetess is not as selfish
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marriage of words—the bride—
and spaces—the groom,
she knows that as soon
as she has penned the poem,
it’s yours to consume.
So, without giving it a think,
she blows on the ink
and the letters fly away
like dandelions on a windy day,
landing on hands and lips,
on hearts and hips.
But more often than not,
you can easily spot
them trodden and forgotten,
becoming sodden and rotten.
Yet, she will continue to make
what’s others to take
because selfishness
is not the mark of a poetess.”
“A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.”
Source: House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
“A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.”
“A poetry of longing: not for escape, but for a greater reality.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.”
“A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.”
Source: What Students Say to Themselves: Internal Dialogue and School Success
“A point guard is judged by wins and losses. I think I'm doing a good job.”
“A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.”
“A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.”
Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“A point of rest alone explains motion.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
“A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.”
Source: Arguably
“A pointless mind is a careful mind.when you're pointless, you don't know which one is your true goal. It takes time to process what is good and what's not. And when it is all set, it means success is achieved.”
“A points-based system like Australia has zero Islamic racial immigration.”
“A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.”
“A poisoned heart comes from listening to a person insulting you any way they can, and believing them.”
“A poisonous flower displays its bright colors, a cobra flares its hood; predators ought not to shrink from extravagance. And that was what he was being polished and punished into being.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.”
“A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.”
“A police officer can follow me and I can video record them.”
“A police officer is a chronic stress job with the associated detrimental health outcomes.”
“A police officer is a job where you are dressed in riot gear and sent into areas where dangerous projectiles may be thrown at you!”
“A police officer is one of the most dangerous jobs a person can do.”
“A police officer is one of the most hazardous jobs a person can do.”
“A police officer is paid to be attacked by angry people.”
“A police officer oblivious to their errors and shortcomings is no different from the Gestapo.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“A police officer should legally be able to refuse body mounted electronic devices, based on the extensive range of evidence that biological toxicity is known to occur from long term exposure to their electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions.”
“A police officer that is threatening you with arrest is setting you up for your arrest.”
“A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.”
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me.”
Source: The Ministry of Fear
“A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city.”
“A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a great job and all that and takes certain skills. But, you know, they're glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.”
“A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“A police state is a country run by criminals”
Source: Fatherland
“A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
“A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too hot.”
“A policeman's lot is not a happy one”
“A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.”
“A policemans job is only easy in a police state.”
“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.”
“A policy of 'forgive and forget' can produce lasting harm on the political level as well as the personal. Peace without justice is an illusory peace that sets the stage for vengeful behavior later on. The strength to persevere in the struggle is found in knowing that the wounds remaining in human society after great atrocities are the wounds of Christ himself, now risen and reigning but still the Lamb standing yet slain (Rev. 5:6).
The wrath of God, which plays such a large role in both the Old and New Testaments, can be embraced because it comes wrapped in God's mercy. . . . The wrath of God falls upon God himself, by God's own choice, out of God's own love. The 'justice connection' may not be clear to those who are accustomed to privilege, but to oppressed and suffering Christians in the troubled places of the earth, there is no need to spell it out. God in Christ on the cross has become one with those who are despised and outcast in the world. No other method of execution that the world has ever known could have established this so conclusively.”
Source: The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
“A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.”
“A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation.”
“A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.”