A Quotes
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“A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.”
Source: Green Tea Living: A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness
“A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.”
Source: People and Performance
“A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.”
“A primavera chegou durante a noite, como se o inverno fosse um hóspede indesejado que de repente resolveu vestir seu casaco e desaparecer sem se despedir. Tudo ficou mais verde, as ruas foram banhadas por um sol fraco, o ar agora perfumado. O dia tinha sinais florais e acolhedores, com trinados primaveris como fundo musical.
Jojo Moyes - Como eu era antes de você”
Source: Me Before You
“A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.”
“A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.”
“A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.”
“A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.”
“A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.”
Source: My Own Words
“A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH
(Name of chapter)”
Source: Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
“A primeira ignorância é a do analfabeto, isto é, do sujeito incapaz de ler. A segunda ignorância é a do sujeito que leu muitos livros, mas os leu de maneira incorreta.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“A Primeira Lei Fundamental da Estupidez Humana afirma, sem ambiguidade, que «inevitavelmente, toda a gente subestima sempre o número de indivíduos estúpidos em circulação.»”
Source: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
“A primeira parte do plano, já posta em movimento, fazia do corpo do vampiro uma arma de guerra, de destruição em massa, funcionando como engenhosa forma de bioterrorismo capaz de converter o “inimigo” em “aliado”, simultaneamente espalhando o medo na medida em que se propaga.
Cria-se, assim, um verdadeiro exército de corpos infectados, inteiramente subjugados à vontade totalitária do Mestre. O plano previa, em um segundo momento, “uma fórmula para a matemática do poder. O perfeito equilíbrio
entre vampiros, gado e guardas”.
A nova sociedade, dominada pela classe vampiresca, instaurar-se-ia com a consciência de que os recursos naturais disponíveis são esgotáveis, e para que ela fosse sustentável, a praga não poderia espalhar-se descontroladamente.”
Source: À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
“A primera la hora de la tarde, las calles de Puenteviejo bullían de actividad y de sonidos. Por encima de los gritos, por encima del ruido de los motores y de las máquinas de la constructora Collins Corp que copaba casi todas las obras de Horizonte, el sonido de un saxo voluptuoso acariciaba a los viandantes. Alguien tocaba escondido entre las estatuas de la plaza Mussart y su música alcanzaba todos los rincones del barrio.”
Source: Ópalo y Estramonio: La magia de las piedras en una fantasía urbana de #Horizonte (Susurros de Piedra nº 2)
“A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.”
“A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!”
“A Primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him
And it was something more.”
“A prince and a witch, willing to kill each other for you," she rasped in her scratchy voice. "If it was me, I'd feel flattered." She watched the rodents disembowel the lizard and lifted her hooded red eyes. "Thankfully I don't have feelings.”
Source: A World Without Princes
“A prince before his enemies is still greater than a slave before his friends.”
“A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.”
“A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.”
Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With Dr. Currie's Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay on His Genius and Character
“A prince indebted is a fortune made.”
Source: The Brothers: A Tragedy
“A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.”
“A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.”
Source: The Portable Machiavelli
“A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering and discipline; because it is the only art that pertains to him who commands. And it is of such virtue that not only does it maintain those who were born princes, but many times makes men rise to that rank from private station.”
“A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.”
“A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.”
Source: The Prince
“A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.”
Source: The Prince
“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”
Source: The Portable Machiavelli
“A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.”
Source: On War
“A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.”
“A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.”
Source: The Prince
“A prince should suspect everything.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.”
“A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.”
“A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
“A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign power,
Like other baubles in the Tower:
Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,
And so continues till he dies.”
“A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.”
“A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.”
“A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.”
Source: The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the
“A princely mind will undo a private family.”
“a princesa eu nasci meio louca por livros. podiam me encontrar acariciando as lombadas dos meus livros sozinha, trancada dentro da minha torre do meu quarto.”
Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them”
“A princess born of blood and betrayal. Every bit as beautiful as her mother and every bit as doomed to be hated.”
Source: Winter Cursed
“A princess liked the sour taste of raw mangoes. She was very happy to find a tree laden with raw mangoes. But soon mangoes became ripe. She became very sad. She started blaming the tree and the gods for her sorrow.”
“A princess once carefully kissed a porcupine to be kind, upon which he began to think himself a prince. He then dressed like a prince, behaved like a prince, and announced himself to be a prince. The world, therefore, saw him as such, and so a porcupine prince he was. (Of course, most were reluctant to argue with him otherwise.)”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“A princess was known as “Beauty without Soul”. No prince was ready to marry her because she didn’t have a soul. She went to the Temple of Souls to get a soul. The head monk of temple was very ugly. She said to him, “if an ugly person like you is in charge of souls, I am better without a soul.” When she came out of the temple, many princes were standing in line with marriage proposal because she had accepted herself the way she was, she had accepted that she was alright without a soul. In other words, she now had a soul.”
“A princess who was to live for a Thousand years. Longer. That had been her gift. It was now her curse.”
Source: Kingdom of Ash