A Quotes
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“A solution is nothing if the problem is not perceived.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“A solution is often a seed of another problem … or other problems.”
“A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.”
“A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!”
“A solução para esse absurdo que se chama "eu existo", a solução é amar um outro ser que, este, nós compreendemos que exista.”
Source: An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.”
Source: All Things Considered
“A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.”
Source: Sombrero Fallout
“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”
“A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.”
“A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.”
Source: Jazz
“A son. An heir. Fragile — born too soon, and yet deeply desired.”
The thought had barely formed when the father took the newborn into his arms and fell in love at first sight. Afraid to harm him, yet unable to resist, he gently kissed the baby’s cheek.
“He is not Alexander, as I once imagined,” he realized suddenly. “He is Peter. My son is Peter.”
When the parents chose the name, they did not know its ancient Greek meaning. Nor could they imagine how precisely it would define the boy’s fate: Peter — a stone, a rock.
From the very moment of his painful birth, he would stand like a rock against suffering and injustice, enduring hardship, surviving cruelty, and emerging stronger — destined to fulfill a mission of goodness, reason, honesty, and justice.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
Born into a turbulent era of war, revolution, repression, and uncertainty, Peter enters the world fragile — yet claimed by history itself. This moment of birth marks the quiet beginning of a life shaped by endurance, moral strength, and resistance to cruelty.”
Source: Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно
“A son and the mother was at a round table discussing how to better their lifes. They both concluded. The conclusion of the son was an act while the conclusion of the mother bring an unending story.”
“A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.”
“A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.”
“A son is a poor substitute for a mother.”
“A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.”
Source: The rule of four
“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”
Source: Love the One You're With
“A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.”
“A son of a poor man is standing in front of you today. This is the strength of a democracy.”
“A son of the Free Church Manse brought up to Calvinism, he adopted at Oxford first rationalist philosophy, and then the social asumptions of the English establishment, and often writes as if he were in fact descended from a long line of Cotswold squires. His last work of fiction, Sick Heart River gives a lucid account of his own development, and seems to me to be a deliberate effort to reconcile himself with life and death throught the charcter of Edward Leithen, of whom he says, 'it is possible to keep your birth-right and live in a new world - many have done it.' But not, I think, without acquiring a permanent inner loneliness and sense of exile.”
Source: The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction
“A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him.”
“A son or daughter can tell their parents, they love them, all the time, and it’s wonderful to hear. That expression of love and appreciation is warm in a parent’s heart. If a son or daughter wants to completely capture their parent’s heart, make them proud. Live every single day with integrity, honor and kindness. Your actions will always take precedence over your words.”
“A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.”
“A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."
His Mother says: "Why did you fight with your friend?"
"Because he demanded something of me, and I would not give it to him."
"Why did you not give it to him?"
"Because it was mine."
"My son, you now have possessions, but you do not have your friend. Which would you rather have?"
"My friend."
"Then give freely, trusting that you will also be given what you need.”
Source: Divergent
“A sonata trazia a sensação da falta absoluta de governo, a anarquia da inocência primitiva naquele recanto do Paraíso que o homem perdeu por desobediente, e um dia ganhará, quando a perfeição trouxer a ordem eterna e única”
Source: Esau and Jacob
“A song, a beautiful song sings in my soul and heart.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle”
“A song, a scent, or a forgotten touch—memory is always waiting to be revived.”
“A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.”
“A song ain't why people kill cops.”
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.”
Source: Hollow City
“A song, and she’d swallowed it.”
Source: Dust
“A song called 'Earth Angel' played in her head all morning—also three trumpets and a piano.”
Source: White Is for Witching
“A song can be a song where somebody thinks you're crazy. A song that gets released has got to be something that everyone can relate to. Most of the songs that I keep are un-relateable for most people - some of the music I make only for myself and the homies.”
“A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.”
Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life
“a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.”
Source: Just Listen
“A song can take you to a special time in your life.”
“A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.”
“A song composed during tears and sorrows of heart; will be sung during celebration and feasting. Do not give up!”
“A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.”
“A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!”
Source: The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
“A song from our throats, a dance in our moves, and a love in our hearts.”
Source: Verti
“A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?”
“A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.”
“A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.”
“A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.”
Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“A Song
I wish you were here, dear,
I wish you were here.
I wish you sat on the sofa
and I sat near.
The handkerchief could be yours,
the tear could be mine, chin-bound.
Though it could be, of course,
the other way around.
I wish you were here, dear,
I wish you were here.
I wish we were in my car
and you'd shift the gear.
We'd find ourselves elsewhere,
on an unknown shore.
Or else we'd repair
to where we've been before.
I wish you were here, dear,
I wish you were here.
I wish I knew no astronomy
when stars appear,
when the moon skims the water
that sighs and shifts in its slumber.
I wish it were still a quarter
to dial your number.
I wish you were here, dear,
in this hemisphere,
as I sit on the porch
sipping a beer.
It's evening, the sun is setting;
boys shout and gulls are crying.
What's the point of forgetting
if it's followed by dying?”
“A song in your soul will erase any sorrow.”
“A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.”
“A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.”