A Quotes
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“A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.”
“A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.”
Source: The amazing results of positive thinking
“A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions”
Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
“A positive work environment is the foundation for productivity and employee well-being.”
“A possession can't make you happy.”
“A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?”
“A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.”
“A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.”
“A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.”
“A post-movie dance: [You walk out of the theatre. You stretch. You toss your popcorn in the trash bin and wonder if it’s recycling. You pretend to be a slow walker on your way to the exit so you don’t appear too close to the stranger in front of you. You walk to the bathroom. You wait in line. You piss. You hold your fart. You come out. You walk to the parking garage. You walk back to the theatre because you forgot to validate your ticket. You come back to your car. You leave the garage. You get a phone call from mom and talk to her. Then you turn on the radio in traffic. Then you come home and respond to e-mails and go back to sleep. And soon, a movie has died.]”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“A post-petroleum world will necessitate walking long distances and exerting much more physical energy to accomplish even routine tasks than we are now accustomed to. Most of our bodies in current time are not up to the task. Yet preparing the body for living in a collapsing world is one of the most fundamental of preparations. Although we may not be able to store vast quantities of food or water, may not have our homes or property equipped as much as we would prefer in preparation for collapse, and may not have learned all the skills we would like to master, becoming present in our bodies and keeping them healthy and fit are factors over which we have control.”
Source: Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive
“A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.”
“A postanak i život svake velike, lepe i korisne građevine, kao i njen odnos prema naselju u kome je podignuta, često nose u sebi složene i tajanstvene drame i istorije.”
Source: The Bridge on the Drina
“A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear. No date. No name attached.”
“A posted quote is nothing more than a window into a person's soul.”
Source: The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse
“A posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime)”
“A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.”
“A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.”
“A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“A potato may look like a dirty stone, but cutting it and frying it will get you French Fries, a side dish for any burger.”
Source: Andrew Zimmern visits Paris: Chapter 9 from THE BIZARRE TRUTH
“A potent force within me, stronger than the persuasion of my friends, stronger even than the pleadings of my heart, had impelled me to try my strength by the standards of those who see and hear.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“A potent idea, given a name and a face across five millennia, this deity is the incarnation of fear as well as love, of pain as well as pleasure, of the agony and ecstasy of desire”
“A potent poison becomes the best drug on proper administration. On the contrary, even the best drug becomes a potent poison if used badly”
“A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.”
“A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”
“A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.”
“A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.”
“A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart
“A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.”
Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2
“A power is passing from the earth.”
“A power kneaded with goodness does not want you to kneel before it! A power that wants you to kneel is kneaded with arrogance and belittles you!”
“A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you”
“A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.”
“A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love.”
“A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.”
Source: Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms
“A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.”
Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays
“A powerful and inspiring book of courage and healing from the trauma of sexual abuse.”
“A powerful approach is what I call the Golden Triangle of Storytelling—a mental space where curiosity, empathy, and imagination intersect.”
Source: Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career
“A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.”
“A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.”
Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).
“A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.”
“A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.”
Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“A powerful darkness rules our world and we cannot fight against it.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.”
Source: Blade of Tyshalle
“A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.”