A Quotes
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“A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed compulsively, it is because he was extremely frightened. Above all, a justice which might examine itself, & recognize that all of us, a living quagmire, founded in darkness, & for this reason not a man's evil should be cosigned to another man's evil: so that the latter may not shoot to kill without restraint or censure. A justice which will not forget that we are all dangerous, & that at the hour when the executant of justice kills, he is no longer protecting us or seeking to eliminate a criminal; he is committing his own crime, which he has been harboring for a considerable time. At the hour of killing a criminal- at that very moment, an innocent man is being put to death. No, no, I am not asking for the sublime, nor for the things which gradually become the words which help me to sleep peacefully. Those of us who take refuge in the abstract are a mixture of forgiveness & vague charity. What I want is something much harsher & much more difficult: I want the terrestrial.”
Source: The Foreign Legion
“A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.”
Source: Ultima
“A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.”
“A sentimental journey in the night breeze, and my heart roams in the fields of flowers, writing poems to fill my soul. Suddenly, the door opens to friendship with God, for I sense light, unbound. How poetry becomes a prayer to God!”
“A sentimental walk in the night breeze, and my heart roams in the fields of flowers, writing poems in the scent of blossoms. Suddenly, the door opens to friendship with God, for I sense light, unbound. How poetry becomes a prayer to God!”
“A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there.”
Source: What God Said: The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God That Will Change Your Life and th e World
“A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.”
“A Separation Psychology produces a Separation Sociology, a way of socializing with each other that encourages the entire human society to act as separate entities serving their own separate interests.”
Source: What God Said: The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God That Will Change Your Life and th e World
“A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.”
“A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.”
“A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.”
“A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.”
“A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.”
“A serial killer should do a regular hard drive erase and reinstall of their computer operating system.”
“A serial killer should never own a cell phone of any kind!”
“A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.”
“A series is filled with compromises.”
“A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
Source: Cool memories
“A series of altitude tests I had done in a day on Hawaii island damaged my right ulnar nerve. I had been to view the volcano at night at 4,000 feet. It was freezing cold up there!”
“A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.”
Source: If I Resist
“A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life’s concrete jungle.”
“A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.”
“A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone.”
“A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.”
“A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst?”
“A series of women's conventions in various parts of the country followed the one at Seneca Falls. At one of these, in 1851, an aged black woman, who had been born a slave in New York, tall, thin, wearing a gray dress and white turban, listened to some male ministers who had been dominating the discussion. This was Sojourner Truth. She rose to her feet and joined the indignation of her race to the indignation of her sex:
That man over there says that woman needs to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches. . . Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles or gives me any best place. And a'nt I a woman?
Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! and a'nt I a woman?
I would work as much and eat as much as a man, when I could get it, and bear the lash as well. And a'nt I a woman?
I have borne thirteen children and seen em most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'nt I a woman?”
Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
“A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.”
Source: Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“A serious appreciation of cognitive science requires us to rethink philosophy from the beginning, in a way that would put it more in touch with the reality of how we think. ... Unless we know our cognitive unconscious fully and intimately, we can neither know ourselves nor truly understand the basis of our moral judgments, our conscious deliberations, and our philosophy.”
Source: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
“A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.”
“A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.”
“A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”
“A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.”
“A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.”
“A serious political leader cannot simply decide to turn his back on a huge number of his fellow citizens because he personally dislikes their views.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.”
Source: The Red Badge of Courage
“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“A sermon expands to fill the time allotted to complete. it”
“A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.”
“A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.”
“A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith.”
“A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“A sermon preached but yet not practiced will fail to touch the hearts of its listeners and will never bring glory to God rather it will become a loathsome sacrifice that will stink on broken altars. One can be theologically astute but still very immature. One can possibly be biblically literate but still in very much need of wisdom to apply the truth in one's own life.”
“A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.”
Source: The Book of Leviticus: Gospel Sermons
“A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.”