A Quotes
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“A spouse will protect the gamblers' parents, a friend will protect the gamblers' spouse, a spouse will protect the children, a sibling will protect other family members and loved ones, an adult child will protect a parent, and a parent will protect the other parent or the gambler's spouse. The gamblers rely on the protective nature of these relationships. What these non-gamblers often don't realize is that the people they are trying to protect may already know about the compulsive gambling, and could have given money to the gamblers recently or in the past. Perhaps one of these people has already confronted the gamblers, refused to give money, or threatened to expose the gamblers' lies that the gamblers are no longer gambling. The gamblers create this conspiracy of silence among non-gamblers because it is to their advantage. All these personal credit lines remain open because no one talks about the gambling, no one knows how much is being borrowed from anyone else, and those who think the gambling has stopped remain ignorant of the truth. What everyone is doing is providing money for the gamblers to gamble and, by their silence, enabling the gamblers to get away with the lies and quite possibly bankrupt those they are trying to protect.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.”
“A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume
“A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.”
Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots To burst into bloom: A simplehearted person Faces the simplehearted flowers.”
“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”
Source: Slade House
“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”
Source: Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered
“A spy for a spy just makes for another lie.”
Source: A Cold Night in Marseilles: Kat Tessen Thriller File #1
“A spy novel?” Dagmar asked. “You two are talking about a spy novel?”
Annwyl threw her hands up in the air. “Not just a spy novel!”
“It’s much more than that,” Ragnar argued, and when Dagmar gawked at him in disgust, he added, “I can’t read deep, meaningful, thought-provoking philosophy all the time.”
“Exactly. Sometimes you have to read about a completely amoral hero whoring and killing his way across an unnamed land in the name of the queen that he’ll always love—”
“—but never have.” Then both Ragnar and Annwyl sighed a little.”
Source: Last Dragon Standing
“A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.”
“A squalid phantasmagoria of breath”
Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi
“A square between planets that are friends is nothing to worry about. It simply indicates that partners should be willing to sacrifice and compromise to make the relationship work. It's simply two best friends who are having a disagreement about something and a compromise is required.”
“A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.”
“a square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].”
Source: City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
“a square is not just about light, air, proportion, and people. It must also give form to some shared notion of civic identity. [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].”
Source: City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
“A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.”
“A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“A squatter of unfathomable terror lurks upstairs in that deserted bedroom, nothing but plywood and joists separating hell on Earth from the kitchen table below.”
Source: Drive: An Old Castle Novel
“A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!”
“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.”
“A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window open for this very reason, even in the winter. We did it because we believed something wonderful might make its way to us through the open window. Did wonderful things find us? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But tonight it has happened! Something wonderful!" Dr. Meescham clapped her hands. "A window has been left open. A squirrel flies in the window. The heart of an old woman rejoices!”
Source: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
“A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!”
“A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions... and comparisons.”
“A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.”
Source: The Missing Collection by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Found; Sent; Sabotaged; Torn
“A stab from a friend cuts deeper than a stab from a foe.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn’t see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.”
Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics”
“A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born.”
“A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate”
“A stable inner visualisation fosters clarity of mind and tranquility in our reactions to the world. By shifting our perception and thought patterns, we purify our experiences, paving the way for positive outcomes that reshape our entire world.”
“A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.”
“A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“A stable mind is not the absence of chaos, but the ability to remain calm, focused, and clear no matter what surrounds you.”
“A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.”
“A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.”
“A staff can be no better than the man it serves.”
Source: The Best and the Brightest
“A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.”
“A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. More recently an opera has been composed and performed. And soon there will be a film. Does The Giver have the same effect when it is presented in a different way: It's hard to know. A book, to me is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat. The important thing is that another medium--stage, film, music--doesn't obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and costumes and a score. But the book hasn't gone away. It has simply grown up, grown larger, and begun to glisten in a new way.”
Source: The Giver
“A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.”
“A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.”
“A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.”
“A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.”
Source: Shakespearian Production
“A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.”
Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre
“A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.”
“A stage when you realize that you are going in the right way in your meditation, is a falsehood because it is a continuous process internally towards the divine life cycle and it has no end.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;
And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly.
That’s human action on the outside world.
We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pass by and we forget;
And the sun is always punctual every day.
(5/7/14)”
Source: The Keeper of Sheep
“A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.”
“A stained and wrinkled lab coat, no doubt, hid an even worse choice of clothing. Rolled-up sleeves displayed beefy forearms covered in tattoos. Frank grimaced at Mario’s shameless immaturity. Cartoon tats?”
“A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.”
Source: The house of the seven gables