A Quotes
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“A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.”
“A Psychosis in a Human is a Fight between the Brain and the Heart – sometimes even between the two Hemispheres of the Brain – and sometimes all together.”
“A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“A public debt is a public curse.”
“A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?”
“A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.”
Source: Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture
“A public is a necessary fiction.”
“A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”
“A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.”
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.”
Source: Mark Twain Speaks for Himself
“A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.”
“A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.”
“A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.”
“A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.”
“A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.”
“a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.”
“A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.”
“A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument of tyranny which has yet been devised.”
“A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.”
“A public servant doesn't moves with compassion, comments or criticism, what moves him is a written complaint spoiling his service record.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.”
Source: Anatomy of Criticism
“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”
“A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)”
Source: Christianity and Liberalism
“A publicidade nos faz perseguir carros e roupas, trabalhar em empregos que odiamos para poder comprar coisas que não precisamos.”
Source: Fight Club
“A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.”
“A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.”
“A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.”
“A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.”
“A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.”
“A pulse of surprise, of wicked delight against my mental shields, at the dark, membranous wings I knew were now poking over my shoulders. Every icy kiss of rain sent jolts of cold through me. Sensitive-so sensitive, these Illyrian wings.
Lucien backed up at step. "What did you do to yourself?" I gave him a little smile. "The human girl you knew died Under the Mountain. I have no interest in spending immortality as a High Lord's pet”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“A pumpkin lives but once a year
when someone sets its soul afire
and on that night it stirs up fear
until its flame is snuffed.
But e'en one night of eerie light is fright enough.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.”
“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
“A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
“A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.”
“A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.”
“A punch of erotic adrenaline took the breath right out of him …”
Source: The Emerald Lily
“A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscrimately.”
“A punching bag. The guy was pounding on a punching bag. That realization took about a nanosecond to register in her brain before the real important information came to the forefront: LoriSue, God bless her slutty little soul, had been absolutely correct. He was male-stripper material, and he’d been thoughtful enough to strip to a pair of athletic shorts on his very first night in the neighborhood.”
Source: Public Displays of Affection
“A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.”
“A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn't play anything - he just sings and screams and jumps around; his body is his instrument.”
“A Punta Penìa, [...] ho conosciuto le persone più diverse. [...] Ne ho visto il volto più vero, perché in certi contesti ti liberi da tutti i condizionamenti e dalle sovrastrutture della vita ordinaria. Forse, se ritrovassi altrove alcune di quelle persone, magari in posta o in ufficio, non sarei in grado di riconoscerle né soprattutto di stringere un legame con loro. [...] Mi dava gioia accogliere soprattutto quelli che, si vedeva, avevano lottato per farcela. Partecipavo alla loro soddisfazione.”
Source: La Sentinella delle Dolomiti: La mia vita sulla Marmolada a 3343 metri d'altitudine
“A puny body weakens the soul.”
“A pupil is a great resource.”
Source: Ascent of Denali
“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”
“A puppet of manipulative politicians has always his own self-destructive hubris. ~ Angelica Hopes, The F. Trilogy”
“A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that's improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that's sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets.”
“A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.”
Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
“A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.”