A Quotes
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“A pretty move, for the love of God.”
“A pretty pivotal moment for me was having a songwriting class with Paul McCartney when I was at LIPA, and then being called in a few days later by the headmaster of the school to tell me that Paul McCartney likes what I'm doing.”
“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches
“A pretty slave is still a slave. A prisoner on a yacht is no less bound than a prisoner on a slave ship. Dancing in the middle of a thunderstorm might make you happy, but you are still soaking wet. And, running naked into a blizzard might declare your independence, but it will also be the proof of your insanity and cost you most of your extremities.”
“A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.”
“A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.”
“A pretty woman is a welcome guest.”
Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“A pretty woman's worth some pains to see,
Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown
Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.”
Source: Paracelsus. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. Colombe's birthday
“A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to believe that a god either created or presides over this world, there is equally no good reason to believe that a god created or presides over the next world, on the unlikely supposition that such a thing exists.”
“A prevalent misjudgment among new entrepreneurs is aiming for investor funds without considering the mentorship and experience these financial backers offer. Startup enthusiasts often chase after capital gains while overlooking the rich well of knowledge and connections that come with the right investors”
“A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
“A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.”
“A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.”
“A price drop is not an actual risk. The actual risk is not to know the reason why the price was dropped.”
“A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.”
“A price is something you get.
A cost is something you lose.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.”
“A prickly pear cactus had grown around the base of a rusted water pump next to a dry stock tank. Brilliant yellow flowers smiled at him from atop each teardrop-shaped pad.
“Even in ruin, there is beauty,” Lincoln observed aloud.”
Source: Bullets in the Briar
“A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.”
Source: Hostages to Fortune: A Novel
“A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.”
“A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.”
“A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.”
“A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.”
“A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)
“A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.”
“A priest is someone like whom, we are told, we need to be to get into heaven. A politician is someone for whom, we are told, we need to vote to get heaven.”
“A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.”
“A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”
Source: In My Own Way: An Autobiography
“A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.”
“A priestess is a woman who helps others connect to the divine so they can heal and/or actualize their soul's unique path.”
“A priestess is a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against the backdrop of a vast, timeless reality. Whether or not she is mated to a human partner, she is a woman in love, wedded to being, to life, to love it self. Having offered herself, body and soul, in service of spirit, she mediates between matter and spirit, between human and divine realms. She may or may not be sexually active, but she will always honor sexual energy as a link to the source of life itself.”
Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul
“A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“A priestess of Hetheru said:
‘That which is held in abomination to me is the block of slaughter of the god. [198] That which is abominable, that which is abominable I will not eat. An abominable thing is filth, I will not eat thereof. That which is an abomination unto my Ka shall not enter my body. I will live upon that whereon live the gods and the Spirit-souls. I shall live, and I shall be master of their cakes. I am master of them, and I shall eat them under the trees of the dweller in the house of Hetheru, my Lady, the Mistress of Iken.’ [199]”
[198] Directly quotes from the Book of the Dead Papyrus of Nu, The Chapter of Not Letting the Heart of Nu, Whose Word Is Truth, Be Carried Away From Him in Khert-Neter.
[199] Directly quoted from the Book of the Dead Papyrus of Ani, The Chapter of Making the Transformation Into Ptah
Pages 210-211”
Source: Lament of Hathor
“A priestly colleague of the Society of St. Pius X has just written (or maybe adopted) a parable whereby the Society is the last cartridge of a hunter who must shoot to kill the monster of Neo-modernism entrenched within the structures of the Catholic Church. Since it is the last cartridge, the hunter cannot afford to miss! Well, the "hunter" may be burdened, but let me attempt to assure him that he is not burdened that much! (Eleison Comments letter #47)”
Source: Eleison Comments Volume 1
“A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.”
Source: The Infernal Machine: And Other Plays
“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it`s never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.”
“A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.”
“A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.”
“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”
“A primary function of police for 150 years has been to surveil, infiltrate, and crush progressive social movements seeking to reduce inequality. It's why police spied on, infiltrated, brutally repressed, and continue to crush labor, feminist, civil rights, anti-war, LGBTQ, environmental, reproductive rights, indigenous, and economic social justice movements.”
Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.”
“A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.”
“A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private
“A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.”
Source: You Can Make It Happen Every Day
“A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.”
Source: Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization
“A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.”
“A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.”
Source: The Art of Self-Control