A Quotes
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“A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.”
“A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us.”
“A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.”
“A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals.”
Source: The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities
“A ring is a halo on your finger.”
“A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.”
Source: Collected Poems
“A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.”
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
Source: MLK on
“A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL”
“A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“A riqueza é como o sal: só serve para temperar.”
Source: Sleepwalking Land
“A rise in suicidal tendencies is an expected outcome of a 5G irradiated world.”
“A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author
“A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.”
“A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.”
Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
“A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.”
“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“A rising sun died in America and the world on Nov. 22, 1963. Some say that we have never again seen such a rising sun in the sky as we did that morning. Even if it was cloudy or raining that day, the country and world were more innocent and optimistic at that moment than they have been since then. Some say that a piece of all of us – the hope that helps us get through another day - died that day. Others say the act just opened the eyes of many about what the U.S. government and other governments had done in our names for a long time.”
Source: Death of the Rising Sun: A Search for Truth in the JFK Assassination
“A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.”
“A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.”
“A rising tide of desire threatened to swamp her like a tidal wave, washing away fear and doubt and leaving behind it the knowledge that in her topsy turvy life, she was certain of only one thing: she wanted this man, right now, and she'd deal with the consequences later....
"I want to make love to you," he said, his voice low and thrumming through her veins as if it were a music only she could hear.”
Source: Dangerously Charming
“A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?”
“A rising tower of wood and needles and branches and great slabs of bark that has grown for hundreds of years. An impossible castle made from air and sunlight, fixed in place by the power of photosynthesis and chlorophyll. Magic. With lights.”
Source: The Eagle Tree
“A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.”
“A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.”
Source: Joy For Beginners
“A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.”
“A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not enough cars, shoes, cigarettes. Too many people, too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day. That is the theory; hold to the theory and to the comforts of theory. Not human evil, just a vast circulatory system, to whose workings pity and terror are irrelevant. That is how one must see life in this country: in its schematic aspect. Otherwise one could go mad. Cars, shoes; women too. There must be some niche in the system for women and what happens to them.”
Source: Disgrace
“A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not enough shoes, cars, cigarettes. Too many people too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day.”
Source: Disgrace
“A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.”
“A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life. To begin with, the very word "risk" implies worry, and people who worry about every bite of food, sip of water, the air they breathe, the gym sessions they have missed, and the minutiae of vitamin doses are not sending positive signals to their cells. A stressful day sends constant negative messaging to the feedback loop and popping a vitamin pill or choosing whole wheat bread instead of white bread does close to zero to change that.”
“A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.”
Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur
“A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life. I think ritual is terribly important.”
“A ritual provides an allegorical mirror in which the balance created in ceremony can reflect on our inner state.”
Source: The Art of Ritual: Creating and Performing Ceremonies for Growth and Change
“A river can't forgive because it is only capable, in the first place, of love. A river loves the dumpers, the polluters, the slayers, the nest-thieves, the bird-killers, the dammers, the water-stealers. A river loves even the clear-cutters. But I can forgive. I am trying to be like the river.”
Source: Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
“A river can't swallow the ocean's sorrow but can ease its burden.”
Source: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected
“A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.”
Source: The Works of John Owen
“A river does not go looking for water; water comes looking for it instead.”
“A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and resulting strength, nothing can withstand its progress. It carves canyons, moves great boulders, erodes the soil, moving insistently onward in its surging need to reach its final goal - the ocean.”
“A river flow freely from its source.”
“A river full of fish is worth more than an ocean full of weeds.”
“A river is a feeling more than a sound. It makes an animal of you, is what I’m saying: you become the constituent parts, no more, no less. Some people may find relief in that but not me.”
Source: Idle Grounds
“A river is a life-song, rippling through the soul.”
“A river is a life-song, rippling through you.”
“A river is honored for its fish, not its size.”
“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.”
“A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams
“A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.”
“A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart”