A Quotes
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“A streak of bare flesh darted past our door.
Mason grinned at me. "It's like we didn't even miss Fisher's party tonight."
My nurse sprinted past our door, followed by another two.”
Source: Fallen Crest Public
“A stream cannot rise higher than its source.”
Source: A Voice from the South
“A stream of thoughts flows through one’s mind at a sacred-time.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!”
“A street full of trees must always be preferred to a street made of gold!”
“A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad
“A street of houses is a library of untold lives—each door hiding choices, sacrifices, and the quiet weight of circumstance.”
“A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!”
“A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.”
Source: The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice
“A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!”
“A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.”
“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.”
“A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the national system.
The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people... To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino.”
“A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.”
“A strenuous soul hates cheap success.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.”
“A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.”
“a stressed human helps no one not even himself.”
Source: Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
“A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.”
Source: A Kind of Magic
“A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.”
“A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.”
“A strict master will not have understanding sons.”
“A strict materialist worldview that rejects anything beyond the physical and measurable is also making a faith-based assumption – that the material realm is all that exists.”
“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”
“A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.”
“A striking colour is just another way of saying I am here!”
“A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.”
Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century
“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
Source: A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century
“A strikingly beautiful shit-storm of trouble––Ana attracted trouble like no one else.”
Source: The Nightlife: Las Vegas
“A strikingly large number of our settlements are oriented to the west and, where circumstances permit, relocate in a westward direction. The east stands for lost causes. Especially at the time that the continent of America was being colonized, it was noticeable that the townships spread to the west even was their eastern districts were falling apart.”
Source: The Rings of Saturn
“A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean.”
“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
Source: The Middle Span
“A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.”
Source: Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
“A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.”
“A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.”
“A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.”
“A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick”
“A stroke. Robert has never been kind to his body . . . It is only the carrier of that wonderful mind, after all. A case for the crown. And Robert has cared for that mind like a tiger with her young: he has given up drinking and drugs, kept a strict schedule of sleep. He is good, he is careful. And to steal that--to steal his mind--burglar Life!Like cutting a Rembrandt from its frame.”
Source: Less
“A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.”
“A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!”
Source: A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
“A strong and capable leader can stand on their own two feet. A wimpy puppet of a leader needs to have their father, their father-in-law, mother, mother-in-law, sister, nursemaid, paid 'yes' people, etc. prop him up. That's fine if he is a baby, but not fine when he is a grown man. If he is capable of leading a company without the help of nepotism, then his workers will respect him and naturally get motivated to support him as a leader. - Strong by Kailin Gow”
“A strong and healthy mind is the foundation of strength needed to conquer all things.”
Source: Unlocking The Power Of Your Value
“A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.”
Source: Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)
“a strong arm kills but a cunning mind keeps you alive”
“A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.”
“A strong body is a good asset. A strong mind is a very good asset.”
“A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.”
“A strong body makes the mind strong.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States