A Quotes
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“A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.”
“A stately pleasure-dome decree.”
“A statement can be truthful when it is said or written, but untruthful when it is heard or read.”
“A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth and
sun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you,
like the sunset.”
“A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.”
“A statement of truth, and that is:
Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.”
Source: Floetry: Flowing Like Poetry
“A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and chlalenges people to work for something they do not yet know how to do.”
“A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.”
“A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.”
“A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.”
“A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.”
“A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.”
“A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.”
“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”
“A statesman is mature when he looks at west and speaks about east.”
Source: Plotless
“A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.”
Source: A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston
“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.”
“A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.”
Source: Diplomacy for the Next Century
“A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.”
“A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.”
“A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.”
“A static conformist mind is hardly a creative mind, now a radiating mind, that is something worth gazing into for this is where great ideas leap from. - On Not Being Challenged Enough”
“A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.”
“A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.”
“A stationary stone ship... A granite boat that doesn't pitch... that takes us nowhere... that never docks... Onboard this lighthouse, we'll never get ashore...”
Source: Alone
“A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.”
Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc
“A statue is just a statue until someone comes along and says it is beautiful. Then it starts to enjoy the magnificence of life.”
“A statue isn't built from the ground up -- it's chiseled out of a block of marble -- and I often wonder if we aren't likewise shaped by the qualities we lack, outlined by the empty space where the marble used to be. I'll be sitting on a train. I'll be lying awake in bed. I'll be watching a movie; I'll be laughing. And then, all of a sudden, I'll be struck with the paralyzing truth: It's not what we do that makes us who are. It's what we don't do that defines us.”
Source: Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”
Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd
“A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component ... But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas.”
“A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot”
“A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition”
“A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.”
“A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.”
“A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.”
“A staunch determinist might argue that between a magazine in a democratic country applying financial pressure to its contributors to make them exude what is required by the so-called reading public—between this and the more direct pressure which a police state brings to bear in order to make the author round out his novel with a suitable political message, it may be argued that between the two pressures there is only a difference of degree; but this is not so for the simple reason that there are many different periodicals and philosophies in a free country but only one government in a dictatorship. It is a difference in quality. If I, an American writer, decide to write an unconventional novel about, say, a happy atheist, an independent Bostonian, who marries a beautiful Negro girl, also an atheist, has lots of children, cute little agnostics, and lives a happy, good, and gentle life to the age of 106, when he blissfully dies in his sleep — it is quite possible that despite your brilliant talent, Mr. Nabokov, we feel [in such cases we don't think, we feel] that no American publisher could risk bringing out such a book simply because no bookseller would want to handle it. This is a publisher's opinion, and everybody has the right to have an opinion. Nobody would exile me to the wilds of Alaska for having my happy atheist published after all by some shady experimental firm; and on the other hand, authors in America are never ordered by the government to produce magnificent novels about the joys of free enterprise and of morning prayers.”
Source: Lectures on Russian Literature
“A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.”
“a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.”
Source: For Keeps
“A steady flame unwavering & honest”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.”
“A steady upward trajectory is the only logical path for the stock market because shares are proportionate ownerships in profit-making businesses, and over time profit accumulates.”
“A steak needs fat to taste great.”
“A steaming bowl of conpoy and mustard-green congee revived my senses. Pungent cilantro leaves and golden-fried minced garlic accented the surface of the rice porridge. I dipped my wide ceramic spoon into it and tested the consistency. The rice grains had popped enough to form a silky, creamy texture. The hint of white pepper created a perfectly balanced song on my tongue.”
Source: Celestial Banquet
“A steampunk nation
Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause
Our art's official and only partially artificial
And our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal but
There's not where it settles
Because it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettle
And now we face it, this creation we made to
To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's
Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation
In our steampunk nation
Our steampunk nation”
Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.”
Source: The lightning thief
“A steep hierarchy level can even lead to miscommunication or loss of information.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“A steer may not accelerate the speed of vehicle directly; by navigating the better path, it can shorten the distance or save the energy to reach the right destination.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“A stele was erected as a souvenir. It was written: the mountain is no longer alone; the trees support it. (Une stèle fut érigée en souvenir. Y était inscrit : la montagne n'est plus seule; les arbres la soutiennent.)”
Source: Les Contes de la nuit
“A stellar agent will care enough to read your work, give you critical feedback and kick your butt if that’s what it takes to improve your chances of success.”
Source: Author Straight Talk