A Quotes
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“A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.”
“A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.”
Source: Modern Times : A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000
“A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.”
“A stalker may vanish from their target's radar, but the target will never disappear from theirs. Out of sight is cold comfort, not safety. The shock or denial that they are now hunted prey in their former life is a potentially fatal illusion. Like a leopard with its unchangeable spots, a stalker's obsessive mindset is always their default pattern.”
“A stall selling cloaks in all the colours of the sky, from the first blush of dawn to deep as midnight and spangled with stars.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.”
“A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.”
“A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.”
“A stand in is a politician who can deliver her constituency to her Wall Street backers. That's what a politician does in America. You get a constituency; you make them believe your promises, and then you turn them over to your financial campaign backers. That's what politics has become and that's as much an art of deception as economics is.”
“A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.”
“A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.”
“A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.”
“A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.”
“A Standard American Diet (SAD) may eventually kill you.”
“A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.”
Source: General Linguistics
“A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.”
Source: THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer
“A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the water's surface on the immature forms of aquatic insects. Some anglers are even more precise, but whatever the exact percentage , it's safe to say that to fully appreciate any tailwater fishery you will have to learn the fine art of nymphing.”
Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters
“A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete
“A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.”
Source: Miscellaneous pieces
“A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.”
Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
“A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.”
“A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.”
“A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.”
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”
Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention
“A: stands for the province of Alberta. Alberta is the home of the Calgary stampede, and Canada’s largest mall, the West Edmonton Mall. Edmonton is its capital. Alberta has beautiful Rocky Mountains to the west and
flat prairie farmland to the east.”
Source: Canada's Kiddie Geography and History in ABC's...
“A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.”
“A star, alone, in the middle of the night.
A man, alone, in the midst of ice.
Staring at her, I feel less lonely.
Staring at him, I feel less lonely.”
Source: Edén
“A star always has a destination you just have to find yours!”
“A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.”
“A star becomes a sun, under the pressure of darkness.”
Source: Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
“A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.”
“A star can only illuminate the world by allowing itself to be set on fire.”
“A star can win any game; a team can win every game.”
“a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.”
Source: Bailey's Cafe: A Novel
“A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines.”
“A star does not need words to tell the world what it can do; it just shines.”
“A star doesn't need a lamp to find its way through the dark.”
“A star doesn’t need words to tell the world what it does; it just shines.”
“A star earns the right to shine the day it is born.”
“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.”
“A star for every State, and a State for every star.”
“A star is a floating diamond; a diamond is a buried star.”
“A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.”
“A star is a rock that could no longer hide its beauty from the world.”
“A star is a rock that never gave up on its dream to rise.”
“A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at”
“A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.”
“A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.”
“A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.”
“A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature”