A Quotes
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“A significant role, in this tense period of transition, is assigned to the moderates of the white South. Unfortunately today, the leadership of the white South is by and large in the hands of close-minded extremists. These persons gain prominence and power by the dissemination of false ideas, and by appealing to the deepest fears and hates within the human mind. But they do not speak for the South; of that I am convinced. They speak only for a willful and vocal minority.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“A significant woman may have lost her significant other, but she remains significant no matter what.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A significant woman will always make a difference wherever she goes.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A siker a legjobb bosszú, Lucy.”
Source: The Wishing Game
“A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.”
Source: Sleeping with the Sun
“A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like to chatter, you would like to just hold their hand and live and be silent in that moment. If you chatter, that means you are avoiding the person - love is not really there. If you love life, chattering will drop, because every moment is so filled with life that there is no way, no space to chatter. Each moment life is flooding you so vitally - where is the time to gossip and chatter?”
“A silence of cloisters and roses was in our hearts.”
Source: Thus Were Their Faces
“A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the sudden ending of a tragic movie; the curtain closes and the people are still in their seats, numb and sighing their way back into reality.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.”
Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems
“A silence so vast, it consumed gods.”
Source: Trigunaya - The Awakening: The First Echo in the War for Balance
“A silence with an unattractive person implies they are the boring one, a silence with an attractive one leaves you certain it is you who are impossibly dull.”
Source: Essays in Love
“A silence without a reason is to blame and a reason without silence is to lame”
“A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
No more sits listening by his den, but steals
Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
And crops its juicy-blossoms.”
“A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.”
“A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield
“A silent breeze swept away a moment, one that never can be recaptured, never can it be relived. So it is for us to cherish the moments, cherish them with all of our might. For just as an eagle in flight, they are transient, soon vanishing like the moon as day return the light.”
Source: Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
“A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.”
“A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.”
“A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.”
Source: Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
“A silent love is a deadly accident either you die or kill someone”
“A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job.”
“A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.”
“A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“A silent mouth is sweet to hear.”
“a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.”
“A silent road stretched before me, damp with rain and littered with cars. As I watched, pale figures began to slip through the trees or claw their way out of the earth. Rabids edged onto the pavement, filling the road, their hisses and snarls rising into the air. Their empty white eyes blazed with madness and Hunger, and they began to sprint forward . Reaching back, I drew my bladem feeling it rasp free, gleaming as it came into the light. Looking up at the approaching rabids, I smiled.”
Source: The Immortal Rules
“A silent sound of the divine is constantly flowing and passing through every nerve and cell of your being.”
“A silent street always welcome a good music!”
“A silhouette stepped toward us, and another wave of pure power ripped through the throne room. "I'm only going to warn you once, Cronus," said a voice, dark and dangerous. "Get the hell away from my wife.”
Source: Goddess Interrupted
“A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.”
Source: Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
“A silk shawl, as indigo as the midnight heavens, lay draped across the god’s brass thighs.”
Source: Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories
“A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon after it fluttered and died. The other silkworms that struggled out without help suffered, but they came out into full life and beauty, with wings made strong for flight by their battle for fresh existence.”
“A silky rustling sound came from behind him.
He turned, and saw Helen standing there in a white dress made of thin, glimmering layers of silk trimmed with lace. The dress clung to her slender form, the skirts pulled back to outline her hips and cascading gently behind her. She pulled back a filmy white veil sewn with lace and seed pearls, and smiled at him. She was unearthly in her beauty, as light and delicate as a wash of rainbow through morning mist. He held a hand over his hammering heart, as if to keep it from leaping out of his chest.”
Source: Marrying Winterborne
“A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.”
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
“A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.”
Source: The Living Thoughts of Cervantes
“A silly row which got out of hand.”
“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.”
“A silver hairbrush, old and surely precious, with a little leopard's head for London stamped near the bristles. A white dress, small and pretty, the sort of old-fashioned dress Cassandra had never seen, let alone owned- the girls at school would laugh if she wore such a thing. A bundle of papers tied together with a pale blue ribbon. Cassandra let the bow slip loose between her fingertips and brushed the ends aside to see what lay beneath.
A picture, a black-and-white sketch. The most beautiful woman Cassandra had ever seen, standing beneath a garden arch. No, not an arch, a leafy doorway, the entrance to a tunnel of trees. A maze, she thought suddenly. The strange word came into her mind fully formed.
Scores of little black lines combined like magic to form the picture, and Cassandra wondered what it would feel like to create such a thing. The image was oddly familiar and at first she couldn't think how that could be. Then she realized- the woman looked like someone from a children's book. Like an illustration from an olden-days fairy tale, the maiden who turns into a princess when the handsome prince sees beyond her ratty clothing.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“A silver lantern sat before Eanrin, there in the depths of the pit. It was small and delicately wrought, and in its heart glowed a light more potent, more beautiful, more colorful than starlight.
Eanrin recognized it at once: Akilun's lantern, the fabled Asha. A gift from beyond the Final Water, crafted in the realm of the Farthest Shore. Akilun himself had died grasping it in his hands.
"And so I might die," Eanrin whispered. "So I might lose myself.”
Source: Starflower
“A silver lining of being alone is being with someone you can trust, someone you respect and understand. You can let your guard down when you're by yourself. You can give yourself permission to live your authentic life, without apology. You can love yourself in a way that no one else can.”
Source: Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
“A silver Table presents beautiful Cherry Chocolates. Thank you.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“A silver tongue can cut deeper than steel, and they don't leave scars you can see.”
Source: The Forgotten Flame: A Tale of Fire, Forbidden Love, and the Fight for a Kingdom
“A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!”
“A similar argument can be made about the form that the interface takes—with little pictures of folders and pages and trash cans. Those analogies are based in physical forms and so we associate the simplicity of the physical folder with that of the digital one. At best, we have faith in the interface that it is an accurate simplification of a more complex system behind it, and at worse, we don’t even recognize the complexity at all.”
Source: Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
“A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.”
“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”
Source: A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
“A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.”
Source: I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World
“A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.”
“A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it.... That it may be complete, it is required to exhibit, independently of its references, a pleasing image; for a simile is said to be a short episode.”
Source: Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt