A Quotes
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“A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out”
“A sense of urgency will help you make quick decisions, and a sense of patience will give you a boost in life.”
“A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent
“A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.”
“A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.”
“A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.”
“A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.”
“A sensible girl would not have been crying, grieving for the boy with the magic in his voice and the blues in his eyes, mourning the loss of something that was a lie-a lie-from beginning to end.”
Source: The Sorcerer Heir
“A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”
“A sensible man is an incredible resource because he impacts the world courageously. He is a reservoir of wisdom, a wellspring of expediency.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.”
“A sensible man rises to higher levels. Divine guidance directs his ascent. He ascends each step with courage and commitment. When others settle, he rises to the height of impact. His elevation is not a pedestal, but a vantage point to survey the landscape of his assignment. He does not seek summits per se, he seeks alignment.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.”
“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways—by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. When he sees it troubled and unable to discern anything clearly, instead of laughing thoughtlessly, he will ask whether, coming from a brighter existence, its unaccustomed vision is obscured by the darkness, in which case he will think its condition enviable and its life a happy one; or whether, emerging from the depths of ignorance, it is dazzled by excess of light.”
Source: The Republic
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and what happens to them; he sympathizes with their troubles and is gladdened by their joys; he puts himself in their place and, to an extent, lives their lives. Their view of life, their attitude to the great subjects of human speculation, whether stated in words or shown in action, call forth in him a reaction of surprise, of pleasure or of indignation. But he knows instinctively where his interest lies and he follows it as surely as a hound follows the scent of a fox. Sometimes, through the author's failure, he loses the scent. Then he flounders about till he finds it again. He skips.”
Source: Great novelists and their novels: Essays on the ten greatest novels of the world, and the men and women who wrote them
“A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.”
Source: The Works: Being Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects
“A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.”
“A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.”
“a sensitive king… that vulnerable heart underneath all his dirty edges.”
“A sensitive person must find a sensitive life partner otherwise a raw life partner would become a puzzle for his/her entire life”
“A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.”
“A ‘sensitive’ person will not have common sense.”
“A sensory education seems to have the potential to free up a child from many of the old barriers to trying new food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]”
“A sensual feel comes from a loving touch.”
“A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing.”
“A sensual lifestyle is a lifestyle you can have an affair with for the rest of your life.”
“A sensual lifestyle is an expression of your highest sense of self worth.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“A sensual lifestyle is my lifescape.”
“A sensual woman ignites depths in you that lay dormant.”
“A sensual woman is the best escape and emotional cure for a man who's soul is distressed. If women could learn that, they wouldn't even have to spend one sleepless night worrying about the possibility of their men cheating.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“A sensual woman is the only cure to a modern man's instabilities.”
“A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.”
“A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.”
“A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart' (Psalm 101-2, NIV). When God speaks to me about being more loving, this verse reminds me to make application in my family first-and then to others. It forces me to ask, 'Am I more spiritual, more loving, or more fun somewhere else? Who gets my best-my family or others?'”
“A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.”
“A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.”
Source: Outline: A Novel
“A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.”
“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.”
“A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.”
Source: Gertrude Stein: Selections
“A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.”
“A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.”
“A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”
“A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.”
Source: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
“A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.”
Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political