A Quotes
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“A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.”
“A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.”
“A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits.”
Source: Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“A rock sits on the ground while a flower sits on a thin stem a few inches above the ground. Both are stable in their positions. If the flower tries to mimic the stone’s stability and falls on the ground, it will die. You have to find your own stability in life. What is stablility for someone else may cause pain and fear in your life.”
“A rock star does not age!”
“A rock star never gets old!”
“A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond.”
“A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed.”
“A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.”
“A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.”
“A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.”
“A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!”
Source: Rocket Boys
“A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.”
“A rogue AI system could flood the internet with misleading content, influencing elections, destabilizing governments, or spreading panic in crises.”
Source: The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall
“A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”
Source: ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)
“A rogue is a roundabout fool.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.”
“A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.”
“A role model for me is somebody who is really empathetic and has a calm strength to them. Sometimes you meet random people and they're really inspiring because they seem wise; they've gone through things.”
“A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, "Yes, someone like me can do this."”
Source: My Beloved World
“A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.”
“A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.”
“A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.”
Source: Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories
“A roll of five condoms unfurled from her hand. "I found these in your bathroom."
"Did you check the expiration date?" God knew it had been a while since he'd needed one of those.
She nodded. "We're okay, if you're okay."
"Baby," he growled. "We're headed for something exponentially better than just okay.”
Source: The Bear Who Loved Me
“A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a fresh, new voice in the genre. THE HUNTER is a fun-filled ride through a world of demons, vampires, and things that go bump in the night, and kept me turning pages until the very end.”
“A rolling loan gathers no loss.”
“A rolling stone can gather no moss.”
“A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.”
Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays
“A rolling stone gathers no moss ......but it sure gathers momentum...”
“A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.”
“A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.”
“A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''”
Source: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.”
“A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.”
“A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.”
“A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.”
“A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.”
“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“A romantic relationship is one of the most important emotional decisions we make in our lifetime. It is also one of the most important financial decisions of our lives.”
Source: Coupleship Inc: From Financial Conflict to Financial Intimacy
“A romantic relationship might very well have been initiated by God, but the moment our focus moves from our Prince to a human love story is the moment we cease to guard our sanctuary, and our entire foundation for success crumbles into ashes. A relationship that leads us closer to our Prince and carefully protects our inner sanctuary is the key to discovering romance as it was truly intended to be...a little taste of heaven on earth.”
Source: Authentic Beauty: The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman
“A romantic," said Nightingale much, much later. "The most dangerous people on Earth.”
“A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.”
“A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.”
Source: Self-portrait
“A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.”
“A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.”
“A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.”
Source: Love Me
“A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.”
Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions
“A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live human being has moved out of these bodies long ago. But something moved in when the original tenant moved out.”
Source: Junky
“A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.”