A Quotes
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“A round of applause for circles.”
Source: The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
“A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.”
“A round plate with a red tangled mess in the center was placed before her. Her nasal slits contracted as repulsive fumes rose from the steaming heap. For some reason, Skyler’s sibling was nudging her arm with a round wooden bowl filled with shreds of green material covered by an oily sheen. Tarantula immediately passed it on to Skyler. How could humans have such problems with obesity? The greasy loaf of sliced bread festering in a basket in the middle of the table required evasive action as well. She pretended to take a sip of her water.
“Well, Tula, tell us all about yourself,” Skyler’s mother chirped as she jabbed her fork into the mound on her plate and began twisting away.
“My parents died in a car crash and I’m here living with my uncle.”
There was a silence around the table. Had she said something wrong? Skyler’s sister raised her eyebrows while staring at her plate. Skyler glared at her mother.
“Yes, Skyler shared that with me, I am so sorry for your loss,” her mother said uncomfortably, “but tell me, what are your plans?”
“To get my GED.”
“Yes, dear, but what are your hopes and dreams?”
How satisfying it would be to explain to this prying human the true intentions she harbored for her precious daughter while throwing the contents of her plate across the table and into her face.”
Source: The Temptation Project
“A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.”
“A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.”
“A routine annual sleep study should really be required as part of their job description for astronomers and their nighttime support staff for early detection of sleep disorders and blood oxygenation issues.”
“A row of daffodils and red tulips nestled against the walkway beneath my feet. Stray weeds peeked up through the cracks in the concrete, a reminder that that nature had the final say. No matter how much mankind bulldozed or built, all was vulnerable to Mother Nature's whims.”
Source: A Secondhand Life
“A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.
But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.
Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.”
Source: The Keeper of Sheep
“A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.”
Source: The Dud Avocado
“A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.”
“A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!”
“A royal seal for her and a wide-open starscape for me. Nothing between me and the rest of the galaxy but time and cruiser fuel. I raise my glass high and drink it all down. That’s a toast I can get behind.”
Source: Crownchasers
“A rua pode ser um espaço que não está vivo nem morto, mas cuja vida ou morte, amor ou ódio depende de um olhar. A realidade é iluminada pela atenção. Há um cobertor abstrato à nossa volta que se torna palpável se o observarmos, se o sentirmos ou se ele nos forçar a que o testemunhemos. A beleza, o medo, o terror, o inesperado, a harmonia são maneiras de a realidade engordar, de surgirem figuras do seu espaço abstrato, de se revelarem objetos e entidades nomeáveis que, por milagre, saem do caos e ganham carne. É como se alguma coisa nos tocasse fisicamente, nos beijasse, nos magoasse, nos ferisse. Sem qualquer emoção ou sentimento, o mundo é fugaz e volúvel, é frágil e friável.”
Source: O Vício dos Livros
“A rua se afunilava até perder-se de vista numa curva íngreme rumo às profundezas proféticas onde a luz diurna já não abria caminho.”
Source: Asfixia
“A Rubik's cube is equal to a drag queen. It's really colorful, but I don't wanna do it.”
“A ruby-encrusted orb popped its top and helicopter blades unfolded. Leo was glad Buford the table wasn't here-he would've fallen in love.”
“A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely; but be sure you get to where you are going with your words.”
“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.”
“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
Source: The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“A ruffly strip of well-seethed bacon delivers a clean crack that in Japan is called kari kari, as opposed to shaki shaki (a gushy bite, as of an apple right off the tree), saku saku (a fracture cushioned by richness, as found in buttery cookies and chicharrón--- pork skins dropped in hot oil, where they expand like clouds), gari gari (a hard crunch, like ice, that taxes the jaw), bari bari (the kind of delicate shattering epitomized by a rice cracker), and pari pari (the even more evanescent shattering achieved by the sheerest-cut potato chips).”
Source: The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
“A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!”
“A rugged-looking fellow with long, curly black hair loosened his jaw by repeating the phrase, “red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.” I wondered if that was a secret exercise actors did before kissing scenes [Cram, Cusi, "‘One Life to Live’ and 14 Beautiful Boys to Kiss," Cafe, January 14, 2015].”
“A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.”
“A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.”
“A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.”
“A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.”
“A rule is any guiding principle or creative criterion. It might exist within the artist, the genre, or the culture. Rules, by their nature, are limitations.”
Source: The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
Birds without trees can never feel free.”
Source: Harmony Letters
“A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.”
Source: Tales of Power
“A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“A rule should suit the purpose.”
“A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.”
“A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.”
“A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.”
“A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.”
Source: Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester
“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.”
Source: DUNE
“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.”
“A ruler needs a good head and a true heart,” she famously told the king. “A cock is not essential.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
“A ruler will try to attach people with him but a leader will try to attach him with people”
“A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.”
“A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.”
“A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.”
“A rumble gurgled through the space between them.
"Was that you?"
She looked down. "Was that me?"
"That noise. It sounded like a growl."
Well according to you, I am a ferocious car burglar.”
Source: Anything but Sweet
“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.”
Source: Killosophy
“A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.”
“A rumor is like a prostitute;
it will go with whoever embraces it.”
“A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.”
“A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.”