A Quotes
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“A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.”
“A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.”
“A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.”
“A record is a message, timeless.”
“A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.”
“A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.”
“A record is worth 10,000 live shows.”
“A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.”
Source: Endless horizons
“A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.”
“A recording of a moment in time, where I was physically there, and it's now in a song for all eternity, in a way. It's really weird. I had written the song, but I'm also physically there in a way I'm physically inside the song, because I've recorded something that's in there.”
“A recovery friend of mine once belonged to an AA group called “What’s Your Motivation?” She said she’d always ask herself that in situations where she had to say or do something she might regret, and she’d ask others as well. She asked me that once or twice. So, you start out by asking yourself that question when the situation arises, and a lot of time you realize there is no good motive behind the thing you want to do or say, so you don’t say it. You don’t do it. After a while, it becomes second nature.
Unfortunately, however, so many people out there are living their lives while untreated for their afflictions. Whether it’s addiction, including alcoholism, or a type of personality disorder, their behavior often stems from how they feel about themselves based on other people’s words and actions, things they had inadvertently taken on and clung to fiercely. They may have a desperate need for attention, validation, admiration, and respect. Maybe their delusions distort their perception of themselves and how others view them. They are so busy worrying about themselves that they are often oblivious to their motives and may not realize how little regard they have for others. In a genuine sense, they are fighting for themselves, but they’re not winning.
Many of us have lived that way once upon a time and, because of it, spent a copious amount of energy on damage control. Knowing we said something we shouldn’t have said or did something we shouldn’t have done and going into this anxiety-ridden desperation to save our “image”—an image that likely isn’t real but a delusion. When we should be more concerned about apologizing or making amends, we’re more obsessed with not wanting to be seen in a negative light and having to act in order to change the negative perception.
It takes recovery, healing, and time to learn that if you are intent on doing the right thing, doing right by people, and having everyone’s best interests at heart, you’ll know how to react and respond to things. And if you ever say or do something you regret, you simply say you were wrong and apologize.
Empathy for others and for ourselves is what makes it possible. It makes us care about how we treat people and the effect it’s having on not only them but on our lives and the lives of anyone who cares about us. We eventually understand that how we treat people is just as important as catering to our own needs.
I think it’s important to understand what made us a certain way in life and to acknowledge that, but then we have to fix it. It becomes our job and responsibility to heal that so that we grow and change. Too many people never get to a point where they can see it, let alone understand it, so those of us who do are quite fortunate.”
“A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.”
“A recunoscut-o înainte de a se apropia de dânsa, deși nu o mai văzuse niciodată. De câteva zile inima lui o aștepta și o căuta. Și a găsit-o printre miile de oameni indiferenți. I-a zărit mai întâi ochii verzi cu luminile calde și moi. S-a cutremurat până în temeliile ființei lui, ca și când i s-ar fi lămurit fulgerător toate misterele vieții. Apoi li s-au încrucișat privirile și din uimirea ei a înțeles că și ea l-a recunoscut deși nu l-a mai văzut niciodată. Mergea la brațul unui bărbat străin, dar Toma simțea cum inima ei rămânea în urmă langă inima lui.”
Source: Adam și Eva
“A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in Bioy Casares’s novel The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata (1989). The hero Nicolasito Almanza declares: ‘I am convinced that all of photography depends on the moment we press the release […] I believe that you’re a photographer if you know exactly when to press the release.’ In making this declaration he is responding to the opinion expressed by Mr Gruter, owner of a photographic laboratory: ‘[…] sometimes I wonder if the true work of the photographer doesn’t begin in the dark room, amid the trays and the enlarger.”
Source: Spoken Image
“A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.”
“A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.”
“A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.”
Source: Rossetti and His Circle
“A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.”
Source: Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents
“A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.”
“A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.”
Source: Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967
“A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.”
“A red-cape game of retribution is dangerous when a fresh bull with bigger horns waits in the shadows.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“A red carpet and red rope stanchion sets demarcated a runway and seating areas. Silhouettes of prominent action heroes posing on silver and gold LED blocks illuminated the whole area. Black silk covered tables and chairs, with centerpieces of colossal martini glasses containing glowing ice cubes.”
Source: The Watchmaker's Doctor
“A red-gold glow burst suddenly across the enchanted sky above them as an edge of dazzling sun appeared over the sill of the nearest window. The light hit both of their faces at the same time, so that Voldemort's was suddenly a flaming blur. Harry heard the high voice shriek as he too yelled his best hope to the heavens, pointing Draco's wand:
"Avada Kedavra!"
"Expelliarmus!"
The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead center of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided. Harry saw Voldemort's green jet meet his own spell, saw the Elder Wand fly high, dark against the sunrise, spinning across the enchanted ceiling, spinning through the air toward the master it would not kill, who had come to take full possession of it at last.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“A red ink is spilled from an imitation heart. In my dream I am late. I am sentenced to death. I am not the ruler of my dream. It is a great crime to seal up two humans who cannot even shake hands.”
Source: Yi Sang: Selected Works
“A red light is less about our need to stop. Rather, it’s more about the fact that someone at that intersection has a green one.”
“A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.”
“A red neon sign flickered dimly, buzzed like a dying insect, as they passed.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.”
“A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism”
Source: The Patriots
“A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
Source: Aphorisms
“A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.”
“A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.”
“A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.”
“A red veil covers the room as walls, which flow but do not stand. Screams echo from every stone. Incense I smell of sandalwood and lavender, and lavender I taste as well. A tea, a brew, or a liquid I sip. Calm I feel. Gyfu shows a great sacrifice will be made. I feel tied in knots as light reflects from crystals found in rock. All is not what it seems. Choices are made, the white handled bolline swings, the steps slide, gates swing open, memories flow like rain—betrayal and it is done. --A quote by Gannon reciting his vision”
Source: Strigoi
“A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.”
Source: Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit
“A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.”
Source: Survival
“A redeemed man is more perfect than
a perfect man never needing to be redeemed.”
Source: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy's Demise
“A redeemed woman leaves regrets behind.”
“A redhead lied in a hospital like a vegetable, eyes pure white and limbs unmoving.
An ex-basketball player gripped her hand as he sobbed uncontrollably, despite knowing full well she couldn’t feel a thing. He waited for the monster to take him too as the clock chimed.
A man they’d grown to know as their babysitter lied still on the ground, limbs twisted up like a pretzel.
A beautiful girl with a brilliant mind had her eyes rolled back into her skull, her body bent in various ways.
A man who got lost along the way sat against the wall, waiting for the drugs to finish him off.
A friend with hair longer than anyone else’s joined him, cause he wouldn’t let him be alone.
A curly haired boy soon meets the same fate as his brother; bats rip into his body until nothing is left.
A boy with a heart too big for his body lies still until he bleeds out; he’d rather take himself off the board then let the villain have his way.
A boy, once so sweet and gentle, got overwhelmed with his rage and joined the other side.
A town got corrupted, and everything began to die.”
“A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.”
“A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it.”
“A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.”
“A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!”
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“A reduction of the hours of labor to the point where all can have employment is worth a General Strike, because upon this point all efforts can be focused, and if carried, its beneficial effects would be felt immediately by the whole working class, men, women and children.”
“A referred brand is a preferred brand; and a preferred brand is a referred brand”
“A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.”
“A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“A refined scone-tasting palate does not develop overnight."
Max narrowed her eyes. "Scones are muffins that got confused.”
Source: Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection
“A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.”