A Quotes
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“A purpose-driven woman thrives on supporting others, and not on sabotaging them. She is the bigger person who makes a big difference in the world.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A purpose-driven woman will stop at nothing to pursue what is rightfully hers—her purpose on Earth!”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.”
“A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”
“A purpose led life should aim at touching, connecting, supporting and changing not only our lives but other people's lives as well.”
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
“A purpose statement is, in essence, a written-down reason for being. Jesus' mission helped him decide how to act, what to do, and even what to say when challenging situations arose. Clarity is power: Once you are clear about what you were put here to do then 'jobs' become only a means toward accomplishing your mission, not an end in themselves.”
“A purpose you impart is no longer your own.”
“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.”
“A purposeless and goalless life is meaningless”
“A purposeless life is a meaningless life”
“A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and another. To be good for nothing is just that. If a virtue has been thought a virtue long enough, it must be assumed to have practical justification - though the very longevity that proves its practicality may obscure it. That seems to be what happened with the idea of fidelity...
Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of the practicalities of faith, it has certainly produced massive evidence of the damage and disorder of its absence.
(pg.115-116, "The Body and the Earth")”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“A push-up bra makes it possible for a woman to show off great breasts … she does not have.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.”
“A put together Johnson made her vagina purr. Sloppy Johnson made it roar.”
Source: Fire in the Hole
“A puzzle with all of the difficult pieces discarded is not about the loss of the puzzle. Much like life, it is about the loss of the picture that the puzzle held for us.”
“A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.”
“A pyramid of lumpia rests on the counter of our condo's kitchen, right next to the stove. Carefully, I maneuver one from the bottom of the pile and take a bite. It's a burst of all my favorite flavors: the rich, well-seasoned ground pork, the tender rice noodles, the crispy shredded cabbage and carrots, the even crispier fried flour wrapper holding everything together, and the tangy sweet chili dipping sauce.”
Source: Simmer Down
“A qalyan--a hookah, shisha, nargila, argila, lula, cachimba, chillim, jajeer, hitpipe, guduguda, hubble bubble, basically cancer in a water pipe--and sit and play around on his phone until his thumbs grew thumbs.”
Source: Tajrish
“A quaint conceit, don't you think?”
Source: The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy
“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.”
“A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.”
“A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.”
Source: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce : Edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss: Principles of philosophy and Elements of logic
“A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right”
“A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.”
“A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.”
Source: Million dollar habits
“A qualquer altura, e de maneiras tão cruéis, tão ridículas. Morrer a sangrar dos ouvidos. Morrer de bêbedo. Morrer por saltar de um prédio. Morrer de tristeza. Morrer, morrer. Não havia Ferrabrás para tal sorte, nenhum de nós escapava. E, contudo, existíamos como se a morte fosse um evento distante, anódino, que pertencia aos corredores dos hospitais, aos soturnos enfiamentos dos cemitérios. Vivíamos como se a vida tivesse sentido sem a morte, que nos aguardava a todos, sem excepção. Vivíamos imortais, e depois morríamos, sem apelo nem recurso.”
Source: Ensina-me a Voar Sobre os Telhados
“A quanti uomini, presi nel gorgo d'una passione, oppure oppressi, schiacciati dalla tristezza, dalla miseria, farebbe bene pensare che c'è, sopra il soffitto, il cielo, e che nel cielo ci sono le stelle. [...] Contemplandole, s'inabissa la nostra inferma piccolezza, sparisce nella vacuità degli spazii, e non può non sembrarci misera e vana ogni ragione di tormento. Ma bisognerebbe avere in sé, nel momento della passione, la possibilità di pensare alle stelle.”
Source: Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore
“A quantity is something or nothing: if it is something, it has not yet vanished; if it is nothing, it has literally vanished. The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera.
D'Alembert”
Source: The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
“A quantity which is increased or decreased by an infinitely small quantity is neither increased nor decreased.”
“A quanto pare, i cristalli di neve con le loro forme uniche ostacolano la propagazione del suono e portano la quiete ovunque. Ma io la sento lo stesso... Quella voce che grida di solitudine in mezzo alla bufera.”
Source: 千年の雪 3 [Sennen no Yuki 3]
“A quanto pare, sto imparando la mia lezione. Chiunque può tradire chiunque.”
Source: Red Queen
“A Quarkbeast is a small hyena-shaped creature that is covered in leathery scales and often described as: 'One tenth Labrador, six-tenths velociraptor and three-tenths kitchen food blender.”
Source: The Song of the Quarkbeast
“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.”
“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.”
“A quarreling home is bound for destruction”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.”
“A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“A quart bottle should hold a quart.”
“A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.”
“A quarta-feira amanhecia quando olhei pela janela. Nas pontes, as luzes cintilantes já haviam empalidecido. O sol nascente parecia um pântano de fogo no horizonte. O rio, ainda escuro e misterioso, cortado pelas pontes que tomavam uma coloração cinza e gélida, com um toque cálido do sol que ardia no céu. Ao percorrer com o olhar a multidão de telhados, com as torres e os campanários das igrejas que se elevavam sobre Londres em um céu invulgarmente claro, o sol nasceu e foi como se tivessem retirado um véu do rio, e milhões de fagulhas explodiram na superfície das águas. Também foi como se tivessem tirado o véu que me encobria, e me senti forte e bem-disposto.”
Source: Great Expectations
“A quarter millennium later, Emily Dickinson would write in a poem the central metaphor of which draws on Kepler’s legacy:
Each that we lose takes part of us;
A crescent still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
Is summoned by the tides.”
Source: Figuring
“A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.”
“A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.”
Source: Gossip from Thrush Green
“A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.”
“A quatre-vingts ans, notre avenir est derrière. Devant, il n'y a que le passé.”
Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
“A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply, early"- Queen Clarisse Renaldi”
“A queen is not made by a crown but by the fire in her soul. The Lioness of Bharat is a tribute to the fearless spirit that shapes legends.”
“A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.”