A Quotes
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“A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.”
“A sexual desire holds no interest for me unless it is accompanied by love, and for love I would leave everything.”
“A sexual fantasy should only be something you cannot ever achieve. If it's achievable, then it's nothing more than a reality you avoid making happen for yourself”
Source: The Occasional Swearing Of Passionate Perrin
“A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.”
“A sexualidade é uma ética animal, a primeira e a mais instintiva das éticas.”
Source: Os Portugueses
“A sexually fulfilled husband will do anything for you.”
Source: Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage
“A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.”
“A shack made of ribs.
A house made of out.
A car made of rust.
A smile made of doubt.”
Source: Brown: Poems
“A shade flickered to my left, an eerie shadow balanced even more precariously on the railing than I. Her plimsolls struggled to grip the same rail my fingers now held. I knew her face, just as I knew her death; I’d watched it often enough, those times I’d been unable to avoid crossing here. Nerys was always here, tied to the moment of her death, an echo, forever hurtling down into those waters, only to reappear an instant later, once more wavering on the rails.”
Source: Chasing Azrael
“A SHADE OF CLASS
Benevolence is gift-wrapped in a variety of beautiful skin colors
Kamil Ali”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.”
Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain
“A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.”
“A shadow cannot keep its secrets from light.”
“A shadow darted between me and Kiernan, knocking me backwards.
“I thought I told you to keep your fucking hands off her,” Blake snarled. I hadn’t even seen him arrive. He’d come out of nowhere. “You are not to taste her. She is mine.”
Source: On Wings of Blood
“A shadow does not need the object to which it belongs to move for it to move.”
“A shadow has no relatives
he is universally orphan”
“A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.”
Source: The Novels, Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo: Les misérables
“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“A shadow moved in the street below and my mind became focused on the movement. This shadow caught my attention because it moved so quickly. Usually when people remained in the shadows they moved slowly, unless they were running from something and then the sound of running could be heard. I did”
Source: My Unbeating Heart
“A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.”
Source: Haunted
“A shadow passes over her face, but she shakes it off fast as she leans forward, her bright-blue hair swinging over her shoulder and clashing with her pumpkin-orange shirt. “You think you’re the only one who wants to bring back someone they love? Everyone loses someone. It’s inevitable. Everyone thinks they’re willing to give up everything to get that person back. There aren’t many who are actually capable of it.”
My breath catches in my throat as my brain processes her words. Nowhere in that speech did she say what I wanted was impossible. She just said most people aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifice.
“I’ll do it. Anything. Whatever it takes.”
Source: Doorways to Extra Time
“A shadow slammed into the earth before us, cracking the ice toward every horizon.
Not a shadow.
An Illyrian warrior.
Seven red siphons glinted over his scaled black armour as Cassian tucked in his wings and snared at Eris with five centuries worth of rage.
Not dead. Not hurt. Whole.
His wings repaired and strong.
I loosed a shuddering sob over the burning gag. Cassian's Siphons flickered in response, as if the sight of me, at Eris's hand-
Another impact struck the ice behind us. Shadows skittered in its wake.
Azriel.
I began crying in earnest, some leash I'd kept on myself snapping free as my friends landed. As I saw that Azriel, too, was alive, was healed. As Cassian drew twin Illyrian blades, the sight of them like home, and said to Eris with lethal calm, 'I suggest you drop my lady.'
Eris's grip on my hair only tightened, wringing a whimper from me.
The wrath that twisted Cassian's face was world-ending.
But his hazel eyes slid to mine. A silent command.
He had spent months training me. Not just to attack, but to defend. Had taught me, over and over, how to get free of a captor's grasp. How to manage not only my body, but my mind.
And he'd known that it was a very real possibility that this scenario would one day happen.
...
Towering over me, Eris didn't so much as glance down as I twisted, spinning on the ice, and slammed my bound legs up between his.
He lurched, bending over with a grunt.
Right into the fisted, bound hands I drove into his nose. Bone crunched, and his hand sprang free of my hair.
I rolled, scrambling away. Cassian was already there.
Eris hardly had time to draw his sword as Cassian brought his own down upon him.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“A shadow will always be a servant of light.”
“A Shadowhunter I believe you know send for me—Tatiana Blackthorn? The lady used to be a Lightwood, did she not?" Magnus turned to Will. "And your sister Cecily married her brother. Gilbert. Gaston. I have a shocking memory for Lightwoods." "I begged Cecily not to throw herself away on a Lightworm," Will muttered.”
“A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.”
Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“A shady business never yields a sunny life.”
“A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.”
Source: Dickinson
“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
Source: The Elephant Tree
“A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,” answered Henry. “Correct,” said Stuart. “Those are the important things. You forgot one thing, though. Mary Bendix, what did Henry Rackmeyer forget?” “He forgot ice cream with chocolate sauce on it,” said Mary quickly.”
“A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought.”
“A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.”
Source: Fun in a Chinese Laundry
“A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.”
“A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.”
“A shallow dish the color of clotted cream, a scattering of raspberries, wine-red loganberries, redcurrants on the stem and wild strawberries the size of a child's fingernail, complete with tiny alpine strawberry flowers. Never has there been a prettier dessert, and not a recipe or a creative cook in sight.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“A shallow river with fish is worth more than a deep sea without any.”
“A shallow washi paper box, a gift from its maker, Wataru Hatano, never moves. Artist and craftsman, Hatano works in Kurotani, northern Kyoto, the traditional home of this soft, deeply matte paper, where the mulberry trees that go into washi-making are part of the landscape. The soft charcoal color of the box is achieved with layer upon layer of tannin derived from fermented persimmon. It is a box of treasure, where I keep my folding wooden ruler, brown Yama-guri ink and folding wire-framed spectacles. For some reason it also holds a sprig of dried roses from the garden, their petals faded to the color of belladonna.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past and the present and predicting the future. An inner voice calls to the shaman and an essayistic writer to answer the call that vexes the pernicious spirit of their times. Shamanistic writers induce a trance state of mind where they lose contact with physical reality through a rational disordering of the senses, in an effort to encounter for the umpteenth time the great unknown and the unutterable truths that structure existence. An afflicted person seeking clarification of existence cannot ignore the shamanistic calling of narrative exposition. Thus, I shall continue this longwinded howl – making a personal immortality vessel – into the darkness of night forevermore.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.”
“A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of “killing”.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.”
“A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.”
Source: The Complete Works of Homer: The Iliad
“A shard of glass cut my belly as I slid into the battered SUV, but I managed to keep the family jewels intact. I’d be counting every small victory tonight.”
Source: Ice Moon
“A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.”
“A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.”
“A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.”
“A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.”
“A shared cup of laughter, dear Reader, is the sunbeam that causes the flower of friendship to open its petals and peep out.”
Source: Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
“A shared life is a great life.”
“A shared life is a sacred love.”